Overview

• On May 29, 1985, clashes and a crumbling retaining wall at Brussels’s Heysel Stadium during the European Cup final left 39 fans dead and nearly 500 wounded.
• Investigations cited insufficient security, a flourishing black-market in tickets and violence by Liverpool supporters as catalysts for the fatal panic in Block Z.
• UEFA opted to play on to prevent wider disorder, awarding Juventus a 1-0 victory and triggering a five-year European ban for English clubs and a seven-year ban for Liverpool.
• After extensive renovation, the venue reopened in 1995 as King Baudouin Stadium, with early memorials including a simple Anfield plaque.
• For the 40th anniversary, Juventus unveiled a monument near its stadium, Brussels installed a 60-square-metre sundial sculpture at the former site, and Liverpool revealed its “Forever Bound” plaque listing all 39 victims.