1903 in football (soccer)
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The following are the football (soccer)
events of the year 1903 throughout the world.
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
events of the year 1903 throughout the world.
Winners club national championship
- HungaryHungaryHungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
:- Hungarian National Championship I: Ferencvárosi TC, first-time champions
- ScotlandScotlandScotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
:- Scottish Division One – HibernianHibernian F.C.Hibernian Football Club are a Scottish professional football club based in Leith, in the north of Edinburgh. They are one of two Scottish Premier League clubs in the city, the other being their Edinburgh derby rivals, Hearts...
- Scottish Division Two – AirdrieAirdrieonians F.C.Airdrieonians Football Club, more commonly known as Airdrie, were a Scottish professional football team from the town of Airdrie, in the Monklands area of Lanarkshire....
- Scottish CupScottish CupThe Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,, commonly known as the Scottish Cup or the William Hill Scottish Cup for sponsorship purposes, is the main national cup competition in Scottish football. It is a knockout cup competition run by and named after the Scottish Football Association.The...
– RangersRangers F.C.Rangers Football Club are an association football club based in Glasgow, Scotland, who play in the Scottish Premier League. The club are nicknamed the Gers, Teddy Bears and the Light Blues, and the fans are known to each other as bluenoses...
- Scottish Division One – Hibernian
International tournaments
- 1903 British Home Championship1903 British Home ChampionshipThe 1903 British Home Championship was an international football tournament between the British Home Nations.Unusually, the trophy was shared by three of the Home Nations all of whom scored four points. At the time, goal difference was not used to differentiate teams...
(February 14 – April 4, 1903)
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Births
- 10 January – Matthias SindelarMatthias SindelarMatthias Sindelar was an Austrian footballer.He played centre-forward for the celebrated Austria national team of the early 1930s known as the Wunderteam, which he captained at the 1934 World Cup....
, Austrian footballer - 10 April – Hugh AdcockHugh AdcockHugh "Hughie" Adcock was an English footballer.-Career:-Club:Adcock played for Ravenstone United, Coalville Town, Loughborough Corinthians Bristol Rovers, Folkestone and Ibstock Penistone Rovers and most famously Leicester City.He made his debut for Leicester on the same day as club record...
, British footballer - 8 May – Manuel AnatolManuel AnatolManuel Anatol Aristegi was a naturalized French professional football player.- Career :Anatol was born in Irun, a town in the Basque Country of Spain. He played for three clubs in the country; hometown club Real Unión, Athletic Bilbao and Real Madrid. In 1929, Anatol ventured to France and joined...
, French footballer - 22 June – George Brown, English footballer
- 28 June – André MaschinotAndré MaschinotAndré Maschinot was a French footballer. He played for FC Sochaux, and played for the France national football team in the 1930 FIFA World Cup. He scored two goals in one of the two first ever World Cup matches, against Mexico.-External links:*...
, French footballer - 12 October – Hervé Marc, French footballer
- 11 November – Albert BarrettAlbert BarrettAlbert Frank Barrett was an English football player who played for Leytonstone, Southampton and Fulham, as well as the English national side. He was born in West Ham.-External links:**...
, British footballer - November 17 – Wim AnderiesenWim AnderiesenWillem Gerardus "Wim" Anderiesen was a Dutch footballer. He was born in Amsterdam.He played for Ajax Amsterdam from 1925 to 1940, and earned 46 caps for the Netherlands national football team, and participated in the 1934 and 1938 World Cups. He died in 1944 from pneumonia...
, Dutch footballer (d. 1944) - 18 November – Luigi AllemandiLuigi AllemandiLuigi Allemandi was an Italian footballer who played as a defender.Born in San Damiano Macra, province of Cuneo, he debuted in 1921 with A.C. Legnano. Later, he played with Juventus F.C., F.C. Internazionale Milano, A.S. Roma, S.S.C. Venezia and S.S. Lazio. He was a member of the Italian national...
, Italian footballer - 21 November – John Bruton, British footballer