Oppenheimer Stadium disaster

The Oppenheimer Stadium disaster, or Orkney Disaster, at the Oppenheimer Stadium in the city of Orkney (200 kilometres (120 mi) from Johannesburg) in South Africa's North West province was the second-worst sporting incident in South African history, with 42 deaths.

On 13 January 1991, there was a preseason "friendly" association football match between Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates. The stadium had a capacity of 23,000, but about 30,000 fans were admitted and were not separated according to the team they supported. The referee upheld a goal scored by the Chiefs, and supporters of the Pirates objected. Pirates fans threw cans and fruit at Chiefs fans, and allegedly some knife-wielding Pirates fans attacked Chiefs fans. In the stampede, panicking fans trying to escape the brawls were trampled or crushed to death against riot-control fences.

The worst sporting incident in South Africa, the Ellis Park Stadium disaster in 2001, involved fans of the same two teams.

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(see No 12, Orkney Disaster)

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19th century	1823 Convent of the Minori Osservanti 1876 Brooklyn Theatre 1883 Victoria Hall 1896 Khodynka

20th century	1902 Shiloh Baptist Church 1903 Iroquois Theatre 1908 Barnsley Public Hall 1913 Italian Hall 1927 Laurier Palace Theatre 1943 Bethnal Green tube station 1946 Burnden Park 1954 Kumbh Mela 1967 Kayseri Atatürk Stadium 1968 Monumental Stadium 1971 Ibrox 1974 Zamalek 1979 The Who concert 1981 Karaiskakis Stadium 1982 Luzhniki 1985 Heysel Stadium 1987 Shanghai Lujiazui 1988 Kathmandu stadium 1989 Tbilisi 1989 Hillsborough 1990 Mecca 1991 Oppenheimer Stadium 1992 Mahamaham 1993 Camp Randall Stadium 1993 Lan Kwai Fong 1994 Mecca 1994 Gowari 1996 Ujjain and Haridwar 1996 Estadio Mateo Flores 1997 Uphaar Cinema 1998 Mecca 1999 Sabarimala 1999 Nyamiha 2000 Roskilde Festival

21st century	2001 Mecca 2001 Ellis Park Stadium 2001 Accra Sports Stadium 2001 Akashi pedestrian bridge 2003 E2 nightclub 2003 The Station nightclub 2004 Mecca 2005 Mandher Devi temple 2005 Al-Aaimmah bridge 2005 Chennai November 2005 Chennai December 2006 Mecca 2006 PhilSports Stadium 2008 Naina Devi temple 2008 Jodhpur 2009 Houphouët-Boigny 2009 Mawazine 2010 Kor Royal Cup 2010 Pratapgarh 2010 Love Parade 2010 Phnom Penh 2011 Sabarimala 2012 Port Said Stadium 2012 Satsanga Deoghar 2013 Houphouët-Boigny 2013 Kiss nightclub 2013 Kumbh Mela 2013 Madhya Pradesh 2014 Mumbai 2014 Stade Tata Raphaël 2014 Patna 2014 Multan 2014 Kwekwe 2014 Shanghai Bund 2015 30 June Stadium 2015 Haiti 2015 Mina 2015 Colectiv nightclub

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Oppenheimer Stadium disaster

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