Log in. 1985/86 Season. At the time, Belgium already had a large Italian community, and many expatriate Juventus fans from Brussels, Liège and Charleroi fans bought the section Z tickets. Again they would face Italian opposition, Juventus, who had won, unbeaten, the 1983–84 Cup Winners' Cup. Gaetano Scirea, Juventus Player Captain, on public address system, speaking to crowd and appealing for calm. It concluded that blame should rest solely with the Liverpool fans. 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. Juventus v Liverpool, 1985: analysis of a tragedy This article is more than 35 years old In this report from the Guardian archives, David Lacey reports on the immediate aftermath of … The stadium was, at the time, 55 years old and in need of redevelopment. This meant the Juventus fans had more sections than the Liverpool fans with the Z section nominally reserved for neutrals. 39 supporters died when rioting Liverpool fans charged Juventus fans before the 1985 European Cup Final at the Heysel stadium. [13], The stadium was crammed with 58,000–60,000 supporters, with more than 25,000 for each team. La storia della tragedia della finale Juventus-Liverpool del 1985 in Belgio e dei 39 tifosi che non sono tornati a casa. The usual reasons and excuses will be offered. Despite its status as Belgium's national stadium, the Heysel Stadium was in a poor state of repair by the time of the 1985 European Final. The idea of the large neutral area was opposed by both Liverpool and Juventus,[14] as it would provide an opportunity for fans of both clubs to obtain tickets from agencies or from ticket touts outside the ground and thus create a dangerous mix of fans.[12]. Again they would face Italian opposition, Juventus, who had won, unbeaten, the 1983–84 Cup Winners' Cup. A memorial service for those killed in the disaster was held before Liverpool's match with Arsenal at Anfield on 18 August 1985, their first fixture after the disaster. In the end, all English clubs served a five-year-ban, while Liverpool were excluded for six years. Ludovic. The history of Liverpool Football Club from 1959 to 1985 covers the period from the appointment of Bill Shankly as manager of the then-Second Division club, to the Heysel Stadium disaster and its aftermath. On an international stage that English clubs had dominated, they were now enfeebled. Evans, R., & Rowe, M. (2002). Second leg Agg: 3-2. UEFA, the organiser of the event, the owners of Heysel Stadium and the Belgian police were investigated for culpability. A number of Liverpool fans were attacked in the city by Juventus ultras.[40]. [4], The tragedy resulted in all English football clubs being placed under an indefinite ban by Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) from all European competitions (lifted in 1990–91), with Liverpool being excluded for an additional three years, later reduced to one,[5] and fourteen Liverpool fans found guilty of manslaughter and each sentenced to three years' imprisonment. Association Football (FIFA) extended this ban to all worldwide matches, but this was modified a week later to allow friendly matches outside of Europe to take place. In September 1987 they were extradited and formally charged with manslaughter applying to all 39 deaths and further charges of assault. Pressure mounted to ban English clubs from European competition. Due to collective hysteria generated by the massive invasion of the pitch by journalists and fans at the end of the match,[21] and the chants of fans of both teams in the stands,[22] some Italian club players celebrated the title in the middle of the pitch among them and in front of their fans in the M section, while some Liverpool players applauded their fans between the X and Z sections, the stadium's section affected. Soccer ; Comments User. By the time of the re-admittance of all English clubs except Liverpool in 1990–91, England was only granted one UEFA Cup entrant (awarded to the league runners-up); prior to the ban, they had four entry slots, a number not awarded to England again under regular means. While it is premature to lay the blame wholly at the door of the Liverpool supporters it must be said that before the disturbances there had been little, if any, sign of trouble on the terraces occupied by the Juventus fans. He concluded that the deaths were "...Attributable very, very largely to the appalling state of [the] stadium. This page was last edited on 31 December 2020, at 02:06. As a result, Aston Villa missed out via their league position for 1997–98 and 1998–99 but qualified for both through Fair Play. Mark Lawrenson has recalled spending the night in a hospital ward alongside dying football fans after the Heysel Stadium disaster that killed 39 fans in 1985. Match Action. For example, the outer wall had been made of cinder block, and fans who did not have tickets were seen kicking holes in the wall to get in. Juventus president Giampiero Boniperti and Liverpool CEO Peter Robinson urged the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) to choose another venue, claiming that Heysel was not in any condition to host a European Final, especially a European Final involving two of the largest and most powerful clubs in Europe. Contact. [9] In some areas of the stadium, there was only one turnstile, and some fans attending the game claimed they were never searched or asked for their tickets. 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. Juve Liverpool - 29 maggio 1985 - tragedia Heysel. [19] The players took the field knowing that people had died. [28] Throughout the ban, England's points were kept in the ranking until they would have naturally been replaced. [45][46][47], Coordinates: 50°53′42″N 4°20′2″E / 50.89500°N 4.33389°E / 50.89500; 4.33389, Spectator riot in Brussels, Belgium on 29 May 1985, Bangor City finished runners-up of the 1984–85 Welsh Cup to English side. Professional football as a spectator sport lay mortally wounded in Brussels last night. [16] The Liverpool and Juventus supporters in sections X and Z stood merely yards apart. [8] Both teams had contested the 1984 European Super Cup four months before, finishing with victory for the Italian side by 2–0. The European Cup final on May 29, 1985 saw Liverpool travel to Belgium to face Juventus. Photograph: Eamonn Mccabe/The Observer Serious progress on legal banning orders preventing foreign travel to matches was arguably not made until the violence involving England fans (allegedly mainly involving neo-Nazi groups, such as Combat 18) at a match against Ireland on 15 February 1995 and violent scenes at the 1998 FIFA World Cup. Overview Matches ... Juventus 1-1-Barcelona 19 Mar Agg: 3-2. In this report from the Guardian archives, David Lacey reports on the immediate aftermath of the Heysel tragedy. In February 2014, an exhibition in Turin was dedicated both to the Heysel tragedy and Superga air disaster. Heysel: May 29th 1985. A total of 34 people were arrested and questioned with 26 Liverpool fans being charged with manslaughter—the only extraditable offence applicable to events at Heysel. The name of the exhibition was "Settanta angeli in un unico cielo – Superga e Heysel tragedie sorelle" (70 angels in the one same heaven – Superga and Heysel sister tragedies) and gathered material from 4 May 1949 and 29 May 1985. [38], Juventus and Liverpool were drawn together in the quarter-finals of the 2005 Champions League, their first meeting since Heysel. 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. About an hour before kick off at the 1985 European Cup final, a group of Liverpool fans crossed a fence separating them from a neutral area containing mostly Juventus fans. May 29, 1985 is remembered as one of the darkest days of modern football, as that is the date that the Heysel Stadium disaster occurred before Liverpool met Juventus in the final of the European Cup. The Juventus end was O, N, and M and the Liverpool end was X, Y, and Z as deemed by the Belgian court after the disaster. The places vacated by English clubs in the UEFA Cup were reallocated to the best countries who would usually only have two spots in the competition—countries ranked between ninth and twenty-first. The teams who missed out on the 1991–92 UEFA Cup, for the same reason were Sheffield Wednesday, Crystal Palace and Leeds United. Belgian riot police stand in front of a terrace at the Heysel Stadium in Brussels on 29 May 1985, when 39 people were killed at the European Cup final. In April 1990, following years of campaigning from the English football authorities, UEFA confirmed the reintroduction of English clubs (with the exception of Liverpool) into its competitions from the 1990–91 season onward; in April 1991 UEFA's Executive Committee voted to allow Liverpool back into European competition from the 1991–92 season onward, a year later than their compatriots, but two years earlier than initially foreseen. Super Sport. It is the first time in 21 years of competition that Liverpool has been involved in serious violence. "[26][10] Clarkson discovered that the crush barriers were unable to contain the weight of the crowd and had the reinforcement in the concrete exposed, the wall's piers had been built the wrong way around and that there was a small building at the top of the terrace that contained long plastic tubing underneath. il y a 14 ans | 767 vues. The European Cup final between Liverpool and Juventus will forever be remembered for violent clashes that led to the death of 39 fans. The final year of the English ban, 1989–90 saw Austria receive a spot, while a play-off round was played between a French and a Yugoslav side for the final space—due to the two countries having the same number of points in the ranking. We look at times when teams were denied their crowning glory. Sixth-placed Everton were denied a Fair Play berth for 1996–97 by UEFA, as punishment for the FA due to Tottenham Hotspur and Wimbledon fielding weakened teams in the 1995 UEFA Intertoto Cup.[32]. Rioting at UEFA Euro 2000 saw introduction of new legislation and wider use of police powers—by 2004, 2,000 banning orders were in place, compared to fewer than 100 before Euro 2000.[33][34]. Reportedly, Liverpool fans were still smarting from being attacked by Roma ultras at the 1984 European Final, and being placed next to what amounted to another Juventus section heightened prematch tensions. Many of the Juventus fans applauded the gesture, although a significant number chose to turn their backs on it. Overhauling the team during his first year at Liverpool, Shankly released 24 players and converted a boot storage room into a meeting place where he and his coaches discussed strategy. Ehelyett az európai klubfutball egyik legsúlyosabb tragédiája zajlott le a brüsszeli Heysel-stadionban május 29-én, pontosan 30 évvel ezelőtt. 1985/86 Season. Of that there is no doubt." Fermer. Heysel stadium disaster, Brussels, 1985: a wall collapses, crushing Juventus fans seeking to escape trouble with Liverpool supporters. Peristiwa ini merupakan sejarah buram dunia sepak bola Inggris pada tahun itu, karena saat itu klub-klub Inggris sedang jaya-jayanya. But worse was to come just a month later, and on the biggest of stages as well. La tragedia dell'heysel 1985 - Coppa dei Campioni - Liverpool-Juventus. [39] In the return leg in Turin, Juventus fans displayed banners reading Easy to speak, difficult to pardon: Murders and 15-4-89. I have never seen a second of the game on video ever and have no inclination to do so. The Heysel Stadium disaster (pronounced: [ˈɦɛizəl]; Dutch: Heizeldrama; French: Drame du Heysel) occurred on 29 May 1985 when escaping fans were pressed against a collapsing wall in the Heysel Stadium in Brussels, Belgium, before the start of the 1985 European Cup Final between Juventus of Italy and Liverpool of England. Photograph: AP I n May 1985 … The blame for the incident was laid on the fans of Liverpool. 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. [17] Hooligans began to throw flares, bottles and stones across the divide. The Heysel Stadium was a controversial selection for host of the European Cup final. About an hour before kick off at the 1985 European Cup final, a group of Liverpool fans crossed a fence separating them from a neutral area containing mostly Juventus fans The Heysel Stadium disaster was a human disaster that occurred on 29 May 1985 at the Heysel Stadium, Brussels prior to the 1985 European Cup final between Liverpool and Juventus. [10] A small percentage of the tickets ended up in the hands of Liverpool fans. For the 1985–86 UEFA Cup, the Soviet Union, France, Czechoslovakia, and the Netherlands were granted an additional spot each, while in 1986–87, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, France, and East Germany were the recipients. [24] One man who was acquitted was Ronnie Jepson, who would go on to make 414 appearances over a thirteen year career in the English Football League. The trouble started with a minority of Liverpool fans throwing missiles towards Juventus supporters and drifting towards their part of the terraces. Liverpool beat Bayer Leverkusen and Juventus to reach the semi-finals, ... Liverpool progressed from the group stages and beat holders Barcelona, PSV and Chelsea to face Milan in a rematch of the 2005 final. [29], England was removed from the rankings in 1990 due to having no points. [12], Juventus won the match 1–0 thanks to a penalty scored by Platini, awarded by Swiss referee Daina for a foul against Zbigniew Boniek. In May 2012, a Heysel Memorial was unveiled in the J-Museum at Turin. The police, who seemed to have learned nothing from the excellent way their Dutch counterparts handled the Everton supporters in Rotterdam for the Cup-Winners Cup final a fortnight ago, weighed in with riot shields and batons cracking any head they came across. In the meantime, many other clubs missed out on a place in the UEFA Cup due to the return of English clubs to European competitions only being gradual—in 1990, the league had no UEFA coefficient points used to calculate the number of teams, and even though Manchester United won the Cup Winners' Cup in the first season of returning in 1990–91, it took several more years for England to build up the points to the previous level, due to the coefficient being calculated over a five-year period and there being a one-year delay between the publication of the rankings and their impact on club allocation. For 1993–94, Blackburn Rovers and Queens Park Rangers would have qualified. [25], Gerry Clarkson, Deputy Chief of the London Fire Brigade (LFB), was sent by the British Government to report on the condition of the stadium. Due to the weak coefficient, Football League Cup winners Nottingham Forest also missed out on UEFA Cup places in 1990–91, along with Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal. On 28 August 1995 the new stadium welcomed the return of football to Heysel in the form of a friendly match between Belgium and Germany. I actually ended the night in hospital after lasting only three minutes of the game itself because of a dislocated shoulder. Steaua stun Barcelona with spot-kick masterclass. Photograph: David Cannon/Getty Images Juve Liverpool è la finale di Coppa dei Campioni 1984-1985. Juventus had a team consisting of many of Italy's 1982 World Cup winning team—who played for Juventus for many years—and their playmaker Michel Platini was considered the best footballer in Europe, being named Footballer of Th… 1985 májusában futballünnepre készült Európa: a kor két meghatározó csapata, a világ legjobb játékosait felvonultató Juventus és Liverpool jutott be a Bajnokcsapatok Európa Kupája döntőjébe. Since 2001 it has been situated in front of the current club's headquarters in Corso Galileo Ferraris.[35]. The 1985 European Cup final was the eighth in nine years to … The 1987–88 saw Portugal, Austria, and Sweden gain an additional place, with Sweden and Yugoslavia gaining the places for the 1988–89 competition. Liverpool FC against Italian clubs - all matches in Europe (UEFA Europa League, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup, UEFA Super Cup, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, European Cup) Watch fullscreen. 1:52. In 1986, the band Revolting Cocks, founded in part by Al Jourgensen of Ministry, released a song by the name of "38" on the album Big Sexy Land, in commemoration of the deaths. This provoked a violent reaction from the Liverpool fans and it was when the police, heavily outnumbered, lost control of the situation for a minute or two that panic set in among the Juventus supporters who thought they were about to be attacked. [11][12] It was later discovered that UEFA's inspection of the stadium lasted just thirty minutes. 1985 European Cup final: Juventus, Liverpool and the ‘Cup of Death’ Date: 31st May 2015 at 10:00am Written by: Kevin Pogorzelski. Liverpool face a date with destiny on Tuesday when they host Napoli at Anfield in their final game of the Champions League group stages, needing to win 1-0 or by a wider margin to reach the last 16. [44], Of the 39 people killed, 32 were Italian (including two minors), four Belgian, two French, and one from Northern Ireland. En 1985, une heure avant le début de la finale de la coupe d'Europe des clubs champions entre la Juventus de Turin et Liverpool, au stade du Heysel à Bruxelles, des supporters anglais avaient chargé des Italiens qui se trouvaient dans une partie voisine d'une des tribunes. juve-liverpool. La tragedia dell'heysel 1985 - Coppa dei Campioni - Liverpool-Juventus. There is also a tribute to the disaster's victims in the club's Walk of Fame in front of the Juventus Stadium. [2] Juventus fans ran back on the terraces and away from the threat into a concrete retaining wall. Several groups of Liverpool hooligans broke through the boundary between section X and Z, overpowered the police, and charged at the Juventus fans. Leeds United missed out in 1994–95 and initially 1995–96, though they qualified for the latter via the new UEFA Fair Play ranking, which at the time gave their three top-ranking associations' highest-placed team who've not already qualified for Europe a UEFA Cup spot. During Euro 2000, members of the Italian team left flowers on the site, in honour of the victims. Liverpool's additional year of exclusion from Europe meant that there was no English representation in the 1990–91 European Cup, as they were 1989–90 Football League First Division champions. La tragedia dell'heysel 1985 - Coppa dei Campioni - Liverpool-Juventus . In April 1989, fourteen fans were convicted and given three-year sentences, half of which were suspended for five years, allowing them to return to the UK. Shop with confidence. The monument is a sundial designed by French artist Patrick Rimoux and includes Italian and Belgian stone and the poem "Funeral Blues" by Englishman W. H. Auden to symbolise the sorrow of the three countries. Suivre. However, according to The Sydney Morning Herald, it was "drowned out" by chanting. [15][10] Added to this, many tickets were bought up and sold by travel agents, mainly to Juventus fans. Full match of the final of the European Cup of the year 1985 between Juventus and Liverpool. Years later, Liverpool captain Phil Neal said that in hindsight, it would have been "a better decision" to call off the game. Browse more videos. On 6 June, the International Federation of Fans already standing near the wall were crushed; eventually the wall collapsed, allowing others to escape. [20], At the end of the game the trophy was given in front of the stadium's Honor Stand by UEFA president Jacques Georges to Juventus captain Gaetano Scirea. The two ends behind the goals comprised all-standing terraces, each end split into three zones. It's probably because I don't want anything to do with it. 5 years ago | 85 views. Personal … Alessandro Del Piero has revealed that the memories of the Heysel drama prevented him from joining Liverpool this summer British composer Michael Nyman wrote a piece called "Memorial" which was originally part of a larger work of the same name written in 1985 in memory of the Juventus fans who died at Heysel Stadium. In 1994, the stadium was almost completely rebuilt as the King Baudouin Stadium. God exists, the latter a reference to the Hillsborough disaster, in which 96 Liverpool fans were killed in a crush. The Heysel Stadium itself continued to be used for some matches of the Belgian national team until 1990, when UEFA banned Belgium from hosting a European final until at least 2000. Two years later Juventus' officials announced a memorial in the Continassa headquarter. Both teams were placed in the two first positions in the UEFA club ranking at the end of the previous season[7] and were regarded by the specialist press as the best two sides on the continent at the time. Report this video. The 55-year-old stadium had not been sufficiently maintained for several years, and large parts of the facility were literally crumbling. Liverpool, having won the 1984 tournament, returned to defend the trophy at Brussels a year later.But the 1–0 defeat by Juventus was overshadowed by the death of 39 mostly Juventus fans in the Heysel Stadium.The consequence was a five-year ban from European competition for English clubs, with a six-year ban on Liverpool. Much of the stadium's structures were weak, fans without tickets could even be seen kicking holes in the cinderblock walls to gain access to matches. Juventus fans are crushed against a wall after rioting on the terraces amid the Heysel stadium disaster on 29 May 1985. Some seventeen minutes of film and many still photographs were examined. 1985-05-29; Association football controversies; Disasters and accidents in sports; Disasters and accidents in Belgium; History of Juventus FC; History of Liverpool FC; King Baudouin Stadium; May 1985 in Brussels; 1985 in association football; Violence in sports; Non-topical/index: Uses of Wikidata Infobox; Uses of Wikidata Infobox with maps ; Pages with maps; Navigation menu. Date: 15 November 2014: Source: Own work: Author: Zotteteen1: Licensing. La strage dell'Heysel (pron. Sheffield. The main reforms to English stadiums came after the Taylor Report into the Hillsborough disaster in which 96 people died in 1989. 39 people—mostly Italians and Juventus fans—were killed and 600 were injured in the confrontation. However, the tickets for the Z section were reserved for neutral Belgian fans in addition to the rest of the stadium.