On November 29 , 2016 , Chapecoense team members and staff boarded LaMia Flight 2933 to play the first leg of the 2016 Copa Sudamericana Finals against Atlético Nacional in Medellín , Colombia . The plane crashed in the mountains a few miles south of the city . Seventy-one of the seventy-seven people on board died , including all of the club 's coaching staff and all but three of the players . A wave of commotion abated in the football world in the days and weeks after , playing tribute to the club ; Atlético Nacional requested that CONMEBOL , the governing football association for South America , award the 2016 title to Chapecoense , which was granted
LaMia Flight 2933
LaMia Flight 2933
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