At approximately 7 p.m. local time, an hour before kick-off, the trouble started. The Heysel stadium disaster. Unknown The 1987–88 saw Portugal, Austria, and Sweden gain an additional place, with Sweden and Yugoslavia gaining the places for the 1988–89 competition. Thirty-nine people died and 600 were injured when fans were crushed against a wall that then collapsed during the European Cup final between Liverpool and Juventus, after crowd trouble culminated in a surge by Liverpool supporters towards the Italian team's fans. Some attributes One of the darkest days in Liverpool FC’s history, the Heysel Stadium disaster in 1985. In May 1985, Liverpool were the defending European Champions' Cup winners, having won the competition after defeating Roma in the penalty shootout in the final of the previous season. Rival fans' chants By this point England's coefficient was no longer directly affected by the ban due to it being outside of the five-year window, their coefficient continued to be affected by years of under-representation in the competition. Welsh clubs playing in the English league system, who could qualify for the European Cup Winners' Cup via the Welsh Cup, were unaffected by the ban. Soccer & Society, 3(1), 37. View gallery. 39 people—mostly Italians and Juventus fans—were killed and 600 were injured in the confrontation. It's not something that's spoken about here, and may well be discussed more frequently in Turin. [32], In May 2015, during a Serie A match between Juventus and Napoli at Turin, Juventus fans held up placards to form a banner saying "+39 Rispetto" ("respect +39" in Italian) including the names of the victims of the disaster. It transpired that the 'neutral' section was filled by mostly Italians who had bought tickets from the neutral Belgium's. Liverpool's additional year of exclusion from Europe meant that there was no English representation in the 1990-91 European Cup, as they were defending league champions that season. In 2005 Liverpool and Juventus were drawn together in the quarter finals of the Champions League, the first time the two teams had met since the disaster. The 55-year-old stadium had not been sufficiently maintained for several years, and large parts of the facility were literally crumbling. The boundary between the two was marked by temporary chain link fencing and a central thinly policed no-man's land. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. The teams who missed out on the 1991-92 UEFA Cup for the same reason were Sheffield Wednesday, Crystal Palace, Leeds United and Manchester United. An extradition hearing in London in February–March 1987 ruled all 26 were to be extradited to stand trial in Belgium for the death of Juventus fan Mario Ronchi. Remaining outside the top three of the coefficient rankings, England retained its three UEFA Cup berths instead of four. [16], Despite the scale of the disaster, UEFA officials, Belgian Prime Minister Wilfried Martens, Brussels Mayor Hervé Brouhon, and the city's police force felt that abandoning the match would have risked inciting further trouble and violence, and the match eventually kicked off after the captains of both sides spoke to the crowd and appealed for calm. The following clubs were denied entry to European competitions during this period: The number of places available to English clubs in the UEFA Cup would however have been reduced had English teams been eliminated early in the competition. Leeds United missed out in 1994–95 and initially 1995–96, though they qualified for the latter via the new UEFA Fair Play ranking. Overcrowding in the stands led to the deaths of 96 fans. However, according to The Sydney Morning Herald, it was "drowned out" by chanting. The British police undertook a thorough investigation to bring to justice the perpetrators. Guilt and blame festered between the two sets of supporters for years, and emotions were still palpable in 2005 when the two clubs met for the first time since the disaster in a Champions League quarter-final at Anfield.
39 people—mostly Italians and Juventus fans—were killed and 600 were injured in the confrontation. Several groups of Liverpool hooligans broke through the boundary between section X and Z, overpowered the police, and charged at the Juventus fans. In 1985, a memorial was presented to the victims at the Juventus headquarters in Piazza Crimea, Turin. Box 95.8, Liverpool, L69 1ZJ. "Liverpool have worked hard to mend their relationship, but for a lot of people it's something that can never be forgotten," added Del Piero.
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