| Date | Team | Sport | Airline | Aircraft | Location | Fatalities | Description | Ref. |
| Total | Team |
| 31 March 1931 | Notre Dame | American football | Transcontinental & Western Air | Fokker F-10 | Bazaar, Kansas, United States | 8 | 1 | Famed football coach Knute Rockne killed, when a wooden wing failed. | |
| 31 March 1933 | Winnipeg Toilers | Basketball | Private plane | Ford Tri-Motor | Neodesha, Kansas, United States | 6 | 2 | Crashed into a field attempting a forced landing on a flight from Tulsa. | |
| 13 January 1946 | Army swimming team | Swimming | US Army Air Forces | Curtiss C-46 Commando | Pacific Ocean near Majuro, Marshall Islands | 12 | 0006 c. 6 | Crashed on a flight to Johnston Island; 17 passengers swam to shore; 6 passengers and 6 crew missing. | |
| 6 August 1947 | Army-Navy softball team | Softball | US Navy | Consolidated PBY Catalina | Alaska, United States | 20 | 13 | Disappeared flying from Kodiak to Dutch Harbor (Unalaska). | |
| 11 January 1948 | BBC Santiago | Baseball | Dominicana de Aviación | Douglas C-47 | Yamasa, Dominican Republic | 32 | 0020 c. 20 | Team was returning from matches in Barahona and encountered severe weather, crashing into a mountain trying to divert to Ciudad Trujillo. | |
| 8 November 1948 | Czechoslovak national ice hockey team | Ice hockey | Escadrille Mercure Taxis Aeriens | Beechcraft C18S | English Channel | 8 | 6 | Six players of Czechoslovak national ice hockey team including Ladislav Troják were killed on their way to Great Britain. | |
| 4 May 1949 | Torino FC | Association football | Avio Linee Italiane | Fiat G212CP | Superga, Turin, Italy | 31 | 23 | 18 players of the Grande Torino and five club officials were killed when the plane crashed on its landing approach to the Turin airport. | |
| 7 January 1950 | VVS Moscow | Ice hockey | Soviet Air Force | Lisunov Li-2 | Sverdlovsk, Soviet Union | 19 | 13 | Almost the entire team was killed in a fifth attempt to land at Koltsovo Airport in Sverdlovsk (modern-day Yekaterinburg), during a heavy snowstorm with strong winds. Some sources give the crash date as 5 January. | |
| 24 November 1956 | TJ Baník Chomutov | Ice hockey | Czechoslovak Airlines | Ilyushin Il-12B | Eglisau, Switzerland | 23 | 5 | Three players, two top club officials and a reporter were among others on the scheduled flight from Zurich to Prague, which crashed in fields after an engine failure. All on board perished. | |
| 9 December 1956 | Saskatchewan Roughriders,Winnipeg Blue Bombers | Canadian football | Trans-Canada Air Lines | Canadair North Star | Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada | 62 | 5 | Five players were killed returning from that year's all-star game in Vancouver. The plane crashed into Mount Slesse near Chilliwack after encountering severe icing and turbulence over the mountains. | |
| 6 February 1958 | Manchester United | Association football | British European Airways | Airspeed AS-57 Ambassador | Munich, West Germany | 23 | 11 | Eight players and three club staff members were killed when their plane's takeoff failed during a snowstorm, after a Munich stopover from a match in Belgrade. Manager Matt Busby and nine players survived, including two with career-ending injuries. | |
| 14 August 1958 | Egypt national fencing team | Fencing | KLM | Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation | Atlantic Ocean off Ireland | 99 | 6 | Six players killed; possible propeller failure. | |
| 16 July 1960 | Danish Olympic football triallists | Association football | Zone-Redningskorpset | De Havilland Dragon Rapide | Copenhagen, Denmark | 8 | 8 | Eight players killed in a botched takeoff. | |
| 29 October 1960 | California Polytechnic State University | American football | Arctic Pacific | Curtiss C-46 Commando | Toledo, Ohio, United States | 22 | 17 | 16 players and a student manager were killed, when their plane crashed shortly after takeoff. | |
| 15 February 1961 | US Figure Skating | Figure skating | Sabena | Boeing 707 | Brussels, Belgium | 73 | 25 | Entire team killed while en route to the World Figure Skating Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Likely mechanical failure during the plane's landing approach. | |
| 3 April 1961 | Green Cross | Association football | LAN Chile | Douglas C-47 | Andes Mountains, Chile | 24 | 8 | Eight members of the team killed in unexplained crash. | |
| 6 February 1965 | Antonio Varas (Santiago) | Association football | LAN Chile | Douglas DC-6 | Andes Mountains, Chile | 87 | 22 | 22 players and staff of team killed, from pilot error in the Andes. | |
| 28 January 1966 | Italy national swimming team | Swimming | Lufthansa | Convair CV-440 | Bremen, West Germany | 46 | 8 | Eight members of team were killed, in a failed landing. | |
| 28 April 1968 | Lamar Tech track team | Athletics | Private plane | Beechcraft Model 65 Queen Air | Beaumont, Texas, United States | 7 | 6 | Failed landing killed 5 team members, the coach, and the pilot after a possible heart attack. | |
| 26 September 1969 | The Strongest | Association football | Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano | Douglas DC-6 | Viloco, Bolivia | 74 | 20 | 17 players and three team staff members were killed, in a crash attributed to pilot error. | |
| 15 February 1970 | Puerto Rico women's national volleyball team | Volleyball | Dominicana de Aviación | McDonnell Douglas DC-9 | Caribbean Sea near Las Américas Int'l Airport | 102 | 12 | The head coach and eleven players were killed when the plane crashed shortly after takeoff, likely due to water-contaminated fuel. | |
| 1 April 1970 | Novosibirsk youth ice hockey team | Ice hockey | Aeroflot | Antonov An-24B | Toguchin vicinity, Soviet Union | 45 | 0020 c. 20 | Caused by a nighttime collision with a weather balloon. The team was on its way to the Golden Puck tournament. There were no survivors. | |
| 2 October 1970 | Wichita State University | American football | Golden Eagle Aviation | Martin 4-0-4 | Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States | 31 | 15 | 14 players and coach Ben Wilson were killed by a mountainside crash, in one of two planes en route to a game vs. Utah State University. Another plane with reserve players and assistant coaches landed safely in Utah. | |
| 14 November 1970 | Marshall University | American football | Southern Airways | McDonnell Douglas DC-9 | Wayne County, West Virginia, United States | 75 | 42 | 37 team members, 5 coaches, and 7 staff members were among the passengers killed as their plane hit the tree line and exploded during final approach to Huntington/Tri-State Airport. The team was returning to campus after a game at East Carolina University. | |
| 13 October 1972 | Old Christians Club | Rugby union | Uruguayan Air Force | Fairchild FH-227 | Andes Mountains, Argentina | 29 | 12 | Plane crashed from navigation error, high in the remote Andes. 29 deaths included 11 rugby players and the team physician. 16 starving survivors cannibalized the dead, until rescue on 21–23 December. | |
| 28 February 1973 | Kyzylorda Region women's basketball team | Basketball | Aeroflot | Yakovlev Yak-40 | Semipalatinsk Airport, Soviet Union | 32 | 13 | 11 players, coach, referee; plane crashed shortly after takeoff. | |
| 3 March 1974 | Bury St Edmunds Rugby Club | Rugby union | Turkish Airlines | McDonnell Douglas DC-10 | Ermenonville Forest, France | 346 | 18 | 18 rugby players and an Olympic track medalist were among the 346 occupants killed shortly after takeoff from Paris, when a faulty cargo door blew out, decompressed the plane, and severed control of the tail section. | |
| 13 February 1975 | Västra Frölunda IF | Ice hockey | Baron Air | Cessna 402 | Gävle, Sweden | 0 | 0 | Frölunda chartered three planes to carry the team. Seven players were injured when Baron Air SE-GGN crashed. | |
| 29 November 1975 | Embassy Racing With Graham Hill | Auto racing | Grand Prix (Bahamas) Ltd | Piper PA-23 | North London, England | 6 | 6 | Six team members were killed while returning from a test session at Circuit Paul Ricard in France. The dead included recently-retired double Formula One champion Graham Hill (who piloted the plane) and driver Tony Brise. | |
| 6 October 1976 | Cuba national fencing team | Fencing | Cubana de Aviación | Douglas DC-8 | Atlantic Ocean off Barbados | 73 | 24 | 24 members of the 1975 Cuban national fencing team were all killed as a result of a pair of bombs on board. | |
| 13 December 1977 | University of Evansville | Basketball | Air Indiana | DC-3 | Evansville, Indiana, United States | 29 | 19 | Entire team (save one player) and coaching staff, along with members of the press, boosters, and plane crew, were all killed in a crash shortly after takeoff from Evansville en route to a game against Middle Tennessee State University. The sole team member who did not board the plane died in a car crash two weeks later. | |
| 16 March 1978 | Bulgarian rhythmic gymnastics team; Polish track cycling team | Rhythmic gymnastics; Cycle racing | Balkan Bulgarian Airlines | Tupolev Tu-134 | Gabare, Bulgaria | 73 | 11 | 5 Bulgarian gymnasts with coach; 5 Polish cyclists; suspected military responsibility | |
| 11 August 1979 | Pakhtakor Tashkent | Association football | Aeroflot | Tupolev Tu-134 | Dniprodzerzhynsk, Soviet Union | 178 | 17 | Team killed in mid-air collision. Two air traffic controllers received long prison sentences. | |
| 10 January 1980 | Louisiana State University | American football | Private plane | Cessna 441 Conquest II | Atlantic Ocean off Virginia, United States | 2 | 1 | Coach Bo Rein and the pilot, most likely incapacitated by a loss of cabin pressure and oxygen, were killed when the plane flew far off-course and crashed after running out of fuel. | |
| 14 March 1980 | USA Boxing team | Boxing | LOT Polish Airlines | Ilyushin Il-62 | Warsaw, Poland | 87 | 14 | Killed 14 American boxers and 8 staff members; engine shattered during landing approach. | |
| 25 November 1985 | Iowa State Cyclones women's cross country team | Cross country running | Private plane | Aero Commander twin-engine | Des Moines, Iowa, United States | 7 | 6 | All aboard were killed, returning from the NCAA Championships. Other cross-country team members and coaching staff were aboard two other planes, which safely made the trip the same night. | |
| 8 December 1987 | Alianza Lima | Association football | Peruvian Navy | Fokker F27 | Pacific Ocean near Lima, Peru | 42 | 17 | 16 players, coach Marcos Calderón, 12 team staff, and 8 cheerleaders among the dead, due to pilot errors on landing approach. | |
| 7 June 1989 | Colourful 11 | Association football | Surinam Airways | Douglas DC-8 | Paramaribo, Suriname | 176 | 15 | Pilot errors on landing approach; 14 players and their coach died; 3 players survived with career-ending injuries. | |
| 1 April 1993 | Alan Kulwicki Racing | Auto racing | Private plane | Swearingen Merlin III | Blountville, Tennessee, United States | 4 | 1 | NASCAR driver Alan Kulwicki, two executives of his corporate sponsor Hooters, and the pilot were killed while on approach to Tri-Cities Regional Airport. | |
| 27 April 1993 | Zambia national football team | Association football | Zambian Air Force | De Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo | Atlantic Ocean off Gabon | 30 | 20 | All aboard were killed when the plane crashed shortly after takeoff, including 18 players and 2 coaches. Several team members were not on the flight. | |
| 18 September 1994 | Iwuanyanwu Nationale | Association football | Oriental Airways | BAC One-Eleven | Tamanrasset, Algeria | 5 | 2 | Two players on the Nigerian team Iwuanyanwu Nationale (now Heartland FC) and three crew members were killed, when their charter aircraft crashed on landing in Algeria for a stopover on their return flight from Tunisia to Nigeria. | |
| 25 October 1999 | PGA Tour | Golf | SunJet Aviation | Learjet 35 | Mina, South Dakota, United States | 6 | 1 | Golfer Payne Stewart, two agents, a golf architect, and the two pilots were incapacitated by a loss of cabin pressure and oxygen. The plane flew far off-course and crashed after running out of fuel. | |
| 27 January 2001 | Oklahoma State University | Basketball | Charter flight | Beechcraft Super King Air | Strasburg, Colorado, United States | 10 | 2 | Two players killed, as well as some team staff and media | |
| 24 October 2004 | Hendrick Motorsports | Auto racing | Charter flight | Beechcraft Super King Air | Martinsville, Virginia, United States | 10 | 3 | All aboard were killed, including race team president John Hendrick, chief engine builder Randy Dorton, and former driver Ricky Hendrick. | |
| 30 March 2008 | Apex Motorsports | Auto racing | Charter flight | Cessna Citation 501 | Farnborough, London, England | 5 | 3 | All killed including team manager (Richard Lloyd), driver (David Leslie) and their data engineer. | |
| 24 August 2008 | Kyrgyzstan junior men's volleyball team | Volleyball | Iran Aseman Airlines | Boeing 737-200 | Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan | 65 | 10 | 10 players killed when the pilot unsuccessfully tried to return to the airport after finding a door improperly sealed. | |
| 15 July 2009 | Iran national youth judo team | Judo | Caspian Airlines | Tupolev Tu-154M | Qazvin, Iran | 168 | 10 | Killed all aboard, including 8 athletes and 2 coaches; engine shattered after takeoff. | |
| 7 September 2011 | Lokomotiv Yaroslavl | Ice hockey | Yak-Service | Yakovlev Yak-42 | Yaroslavl, Russia | 44 | 29 | 26 players and 3 coaches killed in a botched takeoff. | |
