The death of 74 people in violence at a football match in the northern Egyptian city of Port Said on Wednesday is the latest in a long line of stadium tragedies.
PERU
May 1964: 320 people were killed and more than 1,000 injured during a stampede at a Peru-Argentina match at Lima's National Stadium. Fans could not escape the crush and were trampled or asphyxiated.
GHANA
May 2001: 126 people died in Accra at the end of a match between Hearts of Oaks and Kumasi, when Kumasi supporters, angered by their team's defeat, threw missiles and broke chairs. Police threw tear-gas grenades, triggering a stampede.
ENGLAND
April 1989: 96 Liverpool supporters died in a stampede in the stands at Sheffield's Hillsborough Stadium during an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.
May 1985: 56 people were killed when a fire broke out in wooden stands during a match between Bradford City and Lincoln City.
SCOTLAND
January 1971: 66 people were killed in a crush at the Ibrox Stadium during a Rangers-Celtic Old Firm match. It was the stadium's second disaster, after a stand collapsed in 1902, killing 26 people.
EGYPT
February 1974: 48 people died and 47 were injured when 80,000 people crammed into a stadium with a capacity of 40,000.
SOUTH AFRICA
April 2001: 43 people died during a stampede at Ellis Park stadium in Johannesburg during a match between the Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs.
January 1991: 40 people died during a melee in an Orlando Pirates-Kaizer Chiefs match.
BELGIUM
May 1985: 39 killed at Heysel Stadium in Brussels when Juventus fans tried to flee Liverpool fans.
FRANCE
May 1992: 18 people were killed and more than 2,300 injured when a terrace collapsed in Furiani stadium in Corsica.
RUSSIA
October 1982: Official accounts say that 66 people were crushed at a UEFA Cup tie between Spartak Moscow and Dutch side HFC Haarlem at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow.
But the official account is disputed and the death toll could be over 300.
