Overview

• Juventus’s Verso Altrove installation opened near the Allianz Stadium on May 29, featuring Ginkgo trees, lavender beds and a 65-metre spiral platform lit by neon to honor the 39 victims.
• Liverpool FC’s Jonathan Bamber and former striker John Aldridge laid a floral wreath at Anfield’s existing Heysel plaque on Thursday morning as club executives attended the Turin unveiling.
• The upcoming 'Forever Bound' memorial will replace the Sir Kenny Dalglish Stand plaque and depict two knotted scarves symbolizing unity, listing the names of all 39 supporters who died.
• On May 29, 1985, a surge by Liverpool fans into a Juventus-filled stand at Heysel Stadium caused a retaining wall collapse that killed 39 people and injured around 600.
• The disaster prompted English clubs’ ban from European competition until 1990 (with Liverpool suspended an extra year) and drove UEFA to overhaul stadium safety and security standards.