The Hillsborough disaster was a human crush at Hillsborough football stadium in Sheffield, England, on 15 April 1989; with 96 dead and 766 injured it is the worst disaster in British sporting history. It remains one of the world’s worst football disasters.It happened during the 1988–89 FA Cup semi-final game between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest, being played at the neutral venue of Hillsborough, home ground of Sheffield Wednesday. The disaster resulted in a number of safety improvements in the largest football grounds, notably the elimination of standing terraces in favour of all-seater stadia, and the removal of spectator fencing, introduced to prevent pitch invasions. Initial investigations attached most of the blame to the police, but the coroner’s inquest ruled the deaths as accidental and no prosecutions followed. Aggrieved relatives launched a campaign for truth and justice, initially rebuffed, but eventually succeeding in gaining a new inquest verdict in 2016, exonerating fans of any blame and recording a verdict of unlawful killing.