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Liverpool have urged UEFA to implement the recommendations made by the independent report into the chaos at last year's Champions League final.

Our thoughts go out to all our fans who have suffered as a result of Paris and we would remind them of the mental health support we put in place in the days following the disaster that was the UEFA Champions League final in Paris. Tiago Brandao Rodrigues, found that UEFA and the French authorities must take "primary responsibility" for the chaos, which could have led to the event becoming a "mass fatality catastrophe". The independent French Senate report published in July 2022 found Liverpool supporters were unfairly and wrongly blamed for the chaotic scenes to divert attention from the real organisational failures.

An independent review panel commissioned by UEFA to investigate the 2022 Champions League Final has found that European soccer's governing body bears ...

Our thoughts go out to all our fans who have suffered as a result of Paris and we would remind them of the mental health support we put in place in the days following the disaster that was the UEFA Champions League final in Paris.” UEFA should have retained a monitoring and oversight role, to ensure it all worked,” the report said. “As a football club with (a) proud history in Europe, we call on UEFA to do the right thing and implement the 21 recommendations to ensure the safety of all football supporters attending any future UEFA football match,” the Premier League club added. The panel was headed by Dr. [admitted](https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/09/football/champions-league-liverpool-madrid-chaos-police-intl-spt/index.html) that the chaos at the Stade de France was “obviously a failure” and said he took “full responsibility for police management” of the event. [UEFA](http://www.cnn.com/2023/02/09/football/european-super-league-organizers-revamped-competition-spt-intl/index.html) to investigate the 2022 Champions League Final has found that European soccer’s governing body bears “primary responsibility” for the failures of organization that [caused chaos and safety risks](https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/04/football/champions-league-final-liverpool-real-madrid-fans-spt-intl/index.html) outside the Stade de France in Paris, the [report released](https://editorial.uefa.com/resources/027e-174e23083d46-84d25c2e6e55-1000/uclf22_independent_review_report_20230213194627.pdf) on Monday said.

An investigation into the security failures at the 2022 Champions League final in Paris said the event nearly became a “mass fatality catastrophe.”

European football's governing body apologises to Liverpool fans after it is heavily criticised for last year's fiasco.

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UEFA itself bears "primary responsibility" for failures which "almost led to disaster" at the 2022 Champions League final in Paris between Liverpool and ...

"In particular, I would like to apologise to the supporters of Liverpool FC.... "It's been over eight months of work by the independent panel and it is only right and proper to publish the contents of the report to our supporters appropriately," a Liverpool statement said. The report also claimed the policing model was influenced by a view of Liverpool based on the deadly 1989 Hillsborough disaster on incorrect assumptions that the city's supporters were a threat to public order.

UEFA-appointed investigators said the football body bears the "primary responsibility" for security failures at the 2022 Champions League final.

"While we have not seen a full copy of the report, early indications suggest that its conclusion echoes what Leigh Day have said all along, fans were seriously let down by UEFA. French police were blamed in the report for wrongly assuming that Liverpool fans posed a threat to public order, and for using "weaponry'' like tear gas and pepper spray. "Institutional defensiveness, putting reputation and self-interest above truth and responsibility, prevents progressive change,'' the report said. But even more concerning is the realisation that for families, friends and survivors of Hillsborough, Paris has only exacerbated their suffering." The independent French Senate report published in July 2022 found Liverpool supporters were unfairly and wrongly blamed for the chaotic scenes to divert attention from the real organisational failures. "We knew that it was critical to understand why both Liverpool and Real Madrid supporters found ourselves in the situation where supporters' safety was put at risk.