LONDON — One of the world’s oldest soccer teams is in big trouble. When Sheffield Wednesday FC kicks off the new season on Sunday — away at Leicester City in the Championship, the second tier of ...

Facts On April 15, 1989, more than 50,000 people gathered at the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England, for the FA Cup Semi-Final football (soccer) match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.

Liverpool fell silent Monday to mark the 30th anniversary of the Hillsborough stadium disaster – where 96 fans lost their lives. The city came to a standstill at 3.06pm – the exact time that ...

Twenty-five years on from Britain’s worst sporting tragedy, and we’re still searching for answers. The question being: How could the Hillsborough disaster ever have been allowed to happen?

Hillsborough’s past as a football ground is long and dark. It was the scene of the worst tragedy in the English game, a disaster that claimed the lives of 97 Liverpool fans.

On April 15, 1989, 96 Liverpool soccer fans were crushed and trampled to death during an English soccer game when a large number of people were admitted into the stadium through a small gate, causi… ...

At precisely 3:06 p.m. on Wednesday, a metropolitan area of 800,000 strived to sound like a small town, even inside a stadium renowned as one of the loudest on Earth, where organizers of a ...

Facts On April 15, 1989, more than 50,000 people gathered at the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England, for the FA Cup Semi-Final football (soccer) match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.