Pacaembu StadiumCrowd Incident
A violent confrontation after the Palmeiras v São Paulo junior final at Estádio do Pacaembu, involving pitch invasion, rival supporter disorder, improvised weapons, serious injuries and one later fatality.
Incident Overview
What happened
After the Palmeiras v São Paulo junior final, Palmeiras won with a golden goal. Supporters invaded the pitch and a violent fight between rival fans followed.
Sources describe fans using sticks, stones, pieces of iron and construction debris from works at the stadium. This was not a crowd crush. It was a football fan disorder and mass-violence incident.
The incident is widely referred to as the “Batalha Campal do Pacaembu.”
Location and classification
Estádio do Pacaembu
Location: Estádio do Pacaembu, São Paulo, São Paulo state, Brazil.
Incident type: football supporter disorder, pitch invasion and mass violence.
Fatality: Márcio Gasparin da Silva, a 16-year-old São Paulo supporter, was injured during the confrontation and died eight days later on 28 August 1995.
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Conflicting or unresolved points
The core event, fatality and broad injury scale are well supported. The main conflicts concern the exact injury number in some later sources and the sentence length reported for Adalberto Benedito dos Santos.
Most stronger sources report 102 injured. Some later secondary sources give 101, 110 or “about 102.”
Folha and Revista Piauí report 102 injured, with later Folha reporting 80 fans and 22 police officers.
Some later summaries use slightly different totals, but these were not better supported in the source file.
Best-supported wording: 102 injured, commonly broken down as 80 fans and 22 police officers.
Sources conflict on the sentence length reported after conviction.
Folha’s 1998 report and UOL’s 2022 retrospective state 12 years.
A later Folha article states 14 years for double-qualified homicide.
The contemporary court-reporting source supports 12 years. The later 14-year reference was not reconciled.
The event occurred on 20 August 1995. The fatality occurred later.
20 August 1995 — confrontation at Pacaembu.
28 August 1995 — Márcio Gasparin da Silva died eight days later.
For incident coding, use 20 August 1995 as the event date.
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