In 1989 during a Football Association Cup semifinal match at the Hillsborough stadium in Sheffield, a crush of people resulted in 97 deaths and hundreds of injuries. (A total of 95 people died in 1989; two others died later as a result of their injuries, in 1993 and 2021.) It was England’s deadliest sporting disaster.
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