List of accidents involving sports teams

This is a list of accidents where all or part of a major sports team had been killed or seriously injured.

Aviation accidents

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Date	Team	Sport	Airline	Aircraft	Location	Fatalities		Description	Ref
						Total	Team
31 March 1931	Notre Dame	American football	Transcontinental & Western Air	Fokker F.10	Bazaar, Kansas, United States	8	1	Famed football coach Knute Rockne killed.
8 November 1948	Czechoslovakia national ice hockey team	Ice hockey	Mercure	Beechcraft Model 18	English Channel off Dieppe, France	8	6	Six players on the way to an exhibition tour in the UK were killed in the crash of a charter flight from Paris to London while eight other players were opening the tour at Wembley having flown a day earlier. The dead included Ladislav Troják, posthumously to become a member of the Slovak Hall of Fame.	[1][2][3]
4 May 1949	Torino F.C.	Association football	Avio Linee Italiane	Fiat G212CP	Turin, Italy	31	23	Eighteen players and five club officials were killed when the plane crashed on its landing approach to the Turin airport.
5 January 1950	VVS Moscow	Ice hockey	Soviet Air Force	Lisunov Li-2	Sverdlovsk, Soviet Union	19	13	Almost the entire team was killed in a crash during a fifth attempt to land at Koltsovo Airport at Sverdlovsk (modern day Yekaterinburg) in extremely adverse weather conditions involving a heavy snowstorm with strong winds.
24 November 1956	TJ Baník Chomutov	Ice hockey	Czechoslovak Airlines	Ilyushin Il-12B	Eglisau, Switzerland	23	5	Three players, two top club officials and a reporter were among others on board the scheduled flight from Zurich to Prague, which crashed in fields after an engine failure. All on board perished.	[4][5]
9 December 1956	Saskatchewan Roughriders Winnipeg Blue Bombers	Canadian football	Trans-Canada Air Lines	Canadair North Star	Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada	62	5	Five players were killed returning home from that year's all-star game held in Vancouver, BC. The plane crashed into Mount Slesse near Chilliwack after encountering severe icing and turbulence over the mountains.
6 February 1958	Manchester United	Association football	British European Airways	Airspeed AS-57 Ambassador	Munich, West Germany	23	11	Eight players and three club staff members killed when their plane failed to take off on its third attempt. Of the remaining team, two players received career-ending injuries.	[6]
14 August 1958	Egypt national fencing team	Fencing	KLM	Lockheed L-1049H-01-06-162 Super Constellation	Atlantic Ocean off Ireland	99	6	Six players killed.
16 July 1960	Danish Olympic football triallists	Association football	Zone-Redningskorpset	De Havilland Dragon Rapide	Copenhagen, Denmark	8	8	Eight players killed.
29 October 1960	California Polytechnic State University	American football	Arctic Pacific	Curtiss C-46F-1-CU Commando	Toledo, Ohio, United States	22	17	Sixteen players killed.
15 February 1961	US figure skating team	Figure skating	Sabena	Boeing 707	Brussels, Belgium	73	25	Entire team killed while en route to the World Figure Skating Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
3 April 1961	C.D. Green Cross	Association football	LAN Chile	Douglas C-47A-35-DL	Llico, Chile	24	8	Eight members of the team killed.	[7]
6 February 1965	Antonio Varas	Association football	LAN Chile	Douglas DC-6B-404	Andes Mountains, Chile	87	22	Twenty-two players and staff of team killed.
28 January 1966	Italy national swimming team	Swimming	Lufthansa	Convair CV-440	Bremen, West Germany	46	8	Eight members of team were killed.
26 September 1969	The Strongest	Association football	Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano	Douglas DC-6	Viloco, Bolivia	74	20	Seventeen players and three team staff members were killed.
15 February 1970	Puerto Rico women's national volleyball team	Volleyball	Dominicana de Aviación	McDonnell Douglas DC-9	Caribbean Sea near Las Américas Int'l Airport	102	12	The head coach and eleven players were killed.	[8]
2 October 1970	Wichita State University	American football	Golden Eagle Aviation	Martin 4-0-4	Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States	31	15	14 players and coach Ben Wilson killed. One of two planes en route to game vs. Utah State University. Other plane with reserve players and assistant coaches landed safely at Logan, Utah.
14 November 1970	Marshall University	American football	Southern Airways	McDonnell Douglas DC-9	Wayne County, West Virginia, United States	75	46	Most of the team killed as plane hit tree line and exploded upon impact as it made final approach to Tri-State Airport in Ceredo, West Virginia. Plane was flying team back to campus after game at East Carolina University. Among those killed were 37 players and 9 coaching staff members.
13 October 1972	Old Christians Club	Rugby union	Uruguayan Air Force	Fairchild FH-227	Argentina	29	12	Eleven players were killed.
13 February 1975	Västra Frölunda IF	Ice hockey	Baron Air	Cessna 402	Gävle, Sweden	0	0[note]	Seven players injured when Baron Air SE-GGN crashed.	[9][10]
29 November 1975	Embassy Racing With Graham Hill	Formula 1	N/A	Piper PA-23	North London, England	6	6	Six team members killed while returning from a test session at Circuit Paul Ricard in France. The dead included both of the team's drivers, Graham Hill (who piloted the plane) and Tony Brise.
6 October 1976	Cuban National Fencing Team	Fencing	Cubana de Aviación	Douglas DC-8	Seawell Airport, Bridgetown, Barbados	73	24	24 members of the 1975 national Cuban fencing team were all killed as a result of a bomb on board.
13 December 1977	University of Evansville	Men's basketball	Charter	DC-3	Evansville, Indiana, United States	29	19	Entire team and coaching staff, along with members of the press, boosters, and plane crew, are all killed in crash shortly after take-off from Evansville en route to a game against Middle Tennessee State University.
11 August 1979	FC Pakhtakor Tashkent	Association football	Aeroflot	Tupolev Tu-134	Dniprodzerzhynsk, Soviet Union	178	17	Entire team killed in mid-air collision
10 January 1980	Louisiana State University	American football	Private	Cessna 441 Conquest II	Atlantic Ocean off Virginia	2	1	Coach Bo Rein and pilot killed when plane flew well off course and crashed after running out of fuel
14 March 1980	US amateur boxing team	Boxing	LOT Polish Airlines	Ilyushin Il-62	Warsaw, Poland	87	14	Killed a 14-man American boxing team
25 November 1985	Iowa State Cyclones women's cross country team	Cross country running	Private	Aero Commander twin-engine	Des Moines, Iowa, United States	7	6	All killed on the return trip from the 1985 Championships. 15 other members of the men's team and coaching staff were aboard 2 other planes which successfully made the trip the same night.	[11]
8 December 1987	Alianza Lima	Association football	Peruvian Navy	Fokker F27	Lima, Peru	43	23	Entire team killed
7 June 1989	Colourful 11	Association football	Surinam Airways	Douglas DC-8	Paramaribo, Suriname	176	15	15 players died, 3 survived with career-ending injuries
27 April 1993	Zambia national football team	Association football	Zambian Air Force	De Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo	Atlantic Ocean off Gabon	30	22	All killed. Their captain and star player Kalusha Bwalya was slated to travel separately from his European club and so was the only player left of the entire squad
27 January 2001	Oklahoma State University	Men's basketball	Charter flight	Beechcraft Super King Air	Strasburg, Colorado, United States	10	8	Two players killed, as well as some team staff and media	[12]
1 June 2002	South African Cricket	Cricket	Private Flight	Hawker Siddeley HS 748	Outeniqua Mountains, George, South Africa	3	1	Cronje, aged 32, and the two pilots were killed instantly.	[13]
24 October 2004	Hendrick Motorsports	NASCAR	Charter flight	Beechcraft Super King Air	Martinsville, Virginia, United States	10	3	Flight featured race team president John Hendrick, chief engine builder Randy Dorton, and former driver Ricky Hendrick among the victims. All aboard were killed.
30 March 2008	Apex Motorsports	Sportscar racing	Charter flight	Cessna Citation 501	Farnborough, London, England	5	3	All killed (one team manager, driver and a data engineer).
15 July 2009	Iran's national youth judo team	Judo	Caspian Airlines	Tupolev Tu-154	Qazvin, Iran	168	10	All killed, eight athletes and two coaches
7 September 2011	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl	Ice hockey	Yak-Service	Yakovlev Yak-42	Yaroslavl, Russia	44	37	All killed, one player died in hospital	[14]
17 November 2011	Oklahoma State University	Women's basketball	Charter flight	Piper PA-28 Cherokee	Perryville, Arkansas, United States	4	2	Head coach, assistant coach, and others	[15]
28 November 2016	Chapecoense	Association football	LaMia Bolivia, CA Charter Flight	Avro RJ85 (BAe 146)	La Unión, Antioquia, Colombia	71	42	Crashed at Medellín, Colombia en route to attend the 2016 Copa Sudamericana Finals against Atletico Nacional.[16] Among those killed were: 19 players, 14 club staff members, 9 club board members and 4 Fox Sports Brazil journalists. Three players survived the crash.

1. ^ Frölunda chartered three planes to carry the entire team's roster, one of which carried seven team members and crashed.

Accidents involving other modes of transport

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Date	Team	Sport	Transportation	Location	Fatalities	Description	Ref
31 October 1903	Purdue University	American football	Train	Indiana, United States	17	14 members of team killed
22 January 1927	Baylor University	Basketball	Bus	Texas, United States	10	10 members of team killed
3 October 1936	L'Aquila Calcio	Association football	Train	Lazio, Italy	15	Coach dead and all players forced to quit professional football due to injuries in a train crash in Contigliano, on the Terni–Sulmona railway. Team was relegated never managed to recover the second-tier Serie B league. 15 or more were killed.	[17]
5 July 1951	Þór Akureyri	Association football & Athletics	Bus	Óshlíð, Iceland	2	2 members of club killed, one was part of the football team the other was part of the Athletic team	[18]
24 November 1974	Sherbrooke Castors	Ice hockey	Bus	Quebec, Canada	1	1 member of team killed, 29 injured
30 December 1986	Swift Current Broncos	Ice hockey	Bus	Saskatchewan, Canada	4	4 members of team killed	[19]
10 May 1987	Querétaro F.C.	Association football	Bus	San Luis Potosí, Mexico	3	3 members of team killed	[20]
20 January 1989	Samsunspor	Association football	Bus	Samsun, Turkey	5	3 players and coach Nuri Asan killed	[21]
24 January 1992	Notre Dame University	Swimming	Bus	Indiana, United States	2	2 members of the women's swim team killed	[22]
21 May 1992	California Angels	Baseball	Bus	New Jersey, United States	0	manager Buck Rodgers, three coaches, four players and four others injured when bus ran off the New Jersey Turnpike	[23]
29 January 2005	Windsor Wildcats U-21 Female Hockey	Ice hockey	Bus	New York, United States	4	Team coach, 2 passengers, and truck driver killed, 19 others injured when the team bus veered off the road and hit an illegally parked semi-trailer truck.	[24][25][26]
2 March 2007	Bluffton University	Baseball	Bus	Georgia, United States	7	5 members of team killed, 2 bus drivers
12 January 2008	Bathurst High School	Basketball	Bus	New Brunswick, Canada	8	7 members of team killed, 1 teacher
15 January 2009	Brasil de Pelotas	Association football	Bus	Canguçu, Brazil	3	2 players and one member of staff killed	[27]
28 February 2014	Carleton Ultimate Team	Ultimate	Car	Minnesota, United States	3	3 members of team killed, 2 seriously injured	[28]
26 September 2014	North Central Texas College	Softball	Bus	Oklahoma, United States	4	4 members of team killed
6 April 2018	Humboldt Broncos	Ice hockey	Bus	Saskatchewan, Canada	16	10 players, 2 coaches, statistician, radio announcer, athletic trainer, and bus driver killed; 13 injured	[29]

See also

• 1972 Munich massacre
• 2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team
• 2010 Togo national football team attack

References