Red Star Belgrade Spartak Moscow Nottingham Forest The history of the Karaiskakis Stadium and Olympiacos was marked by the worst tragedy that ever hit Greek sports , known as the Karaiskakis Stadium disaster . On 8 February 1981 , Olympiacos hosted AEK Athens for a league match , which ended 6 – 0 , in an unprecedented triumph for the host team of Piraeus . During the last minutes of the game , thousands of Olympiacos fans at the Gate 7 rushed to the exit , to get to the stadium 's main entrance and celebrate with the players , but the doors were almost closed and the turnstiles still in place , making the exit almost impossible . As people continued to come down from the stands , unable to see what happened , the stairs of Gate 7 became a death trap ; people were crushed , tens of fans were seriously injured and twenty-one young people died , most of them by suffocation
Karaiskakis Stadium disaster
Karaiskakis Stadium disaster
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