Barcelona: Champions League '09

Worst Championship Riots

Police in Barcelona made more than 100 arrests as victory celebrations after the Champions League final degenerated into riots, with 153 people injured and dozens needing hospital treatment. Riot police had to fire rubber bullets into the crowd of about 100,000 people. (AP Photo/ David Ramos)

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Los Angeles: NBA... In the third Lakers championship riot of the decade, hundreds celebrated in the streets outside the Staples Center after the Lakers won their 15th NBA title. Five officers were injured and 25 people were arrested after damaging police cruisers, throwing rocks and bottles at officers and setting bonfires in the street. (AP Photo/Jae Hong)
Philadelphia: Wo... More than 100,000 fans flooded the streets of Philadelphia with their first sports championship in 25 years thanks to the 2008 Phillies. However, the festive crowd soon turned into a destructive mob and took 25 years worth of aggression out on South Broad Street. At the end of the night, 76 fans were arrested and all that was left of the mob scene were a few overturned cars, numerous bonfires, broken windows, tear-gas canisters, and a busload of riot cops. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)
Chicago: NBA Cha... In 1992, after the Bulls won their first NBA title, rowdy fans caused $10 million in property damage during post-championship festivities. Until recently, this victory celebration was the most expensive in U.S. sports history. (AP Photo/Beth Keiser)
Athens: Greek Cu... The Greek government suspended play in all professional team sports for two weeks after a fan was killed and seven others were hospitalized in a riot before a women's volleyball match. Police raided the clubs of the two teams and seized dozens of makeshift weapons including pick axes, iron bars and baseball bats. The suspension followed a similar move in Italy after the killing of a policeman in a riot at a match between Sicilian rivals Catania and Palermo. (AP Photo/Newsports, Alexandros Maropoulos)
Denver: Super Bo... After the Denver Broncos defeated the Green Bay Packers to win Super Bowl XXXII, 10,000 fans went a little overboard and tears of joy became tear-gas-induced tears when people began flipping cars, looting and destroying the Mile High City. The Broncos' victory and the following riot were selected as top news stories of 1998 by newspaper and broadcast members of the Associated Press. (AP Photo/file/David Zalubowski)
Barcelona: Champ... Police in Barcelona made more than 100 arrests as victory celebrations after the Champions League final degenerated into riots, with 153 people injured and dozens needing hospital treatment. Riot police had to fire rubber bullets into the crowd of about 100,000 people. (AP Photo/ David Ramos)
Pittsburgh: Supe... Pittsburgh Steeler fans celebrated the Steelers' Super Bowl XLIII win by flipping cars, climbing telephone poles and statues, throwing street signs and mailboxes and lighting small fires. (AP Photo/John Heller)
Boston: World Se... Police in riot gear arrested 37 people as crowds celebrated the Red Sox's World Series win against the Colorado Rockies by burning cars and attacking police with a barrage of glass bottles. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
Italy:The Sicili... A 40-year-old police officer was killed after a homemade bomb was thrown into his patrol car as rival fans of Catania & Palermo clashed before, during and after their team's meeting in February 2007. (AP Photo/Italian Police, HO)
Brussels: Europe... Thirty-nine people died in a riot that would later be coined the Heysel Stadium Disaster. The incident, which occurred before the '85 Europena Cup final, is one of the worst cases of soccer fan rioting in history. It was the first of two stadium related disasters of which Liverpool was a part; the other was the Hillsborough Disaster which resulted in the deaths of 96 people in 1989. (AP Photo)