Events

• April 19 – The Dutch national team
  Netherlands national football team
  The Netherlands National Football Team represents the Netherlands in association football and is controlled by the Royal Dutch Football Association , the governing body for football in the Netherlands...
  
   plays its 200th official match in history, losing 0-2 in a friendly against neighbouring Belgium.
• May 2 – Blackpool
  Blackpool F.C.
  Blackpool Football Club are an English football club founded in 1887 from the Lancashire seaside town of Blackpool. They are competing in the 2011–12 season of the The Championship, the second tier of professional football in England, having been relegated from the Premier League at the end of the...
  
   win the FA Cup Final, their only major silverware to date, beating Bolton Wanderers
  Bolton Wanderers F.C.
  Bolton Wanderers Football Club is an English professional association football club based in the area of Horwich in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester. They began their current spell in the Premier League in 2001....
  
   4–3, despite being the score being 1–3 with only a few minutes remaining.
• November 25 – England v Hungary (1953)
  England v Hungary (1953)
  England v Hungary was an international football game played on November 25, 1953. The game was played between Hungary - then the world's number one ranked team, the Olympic champions and on a run of 24 unbeaten games - and England, then the world's number three ranked team, the inventors of the...
  
  . It was the first time England had lost at their Wembley Stadium home to a nation outside the British Isles
  British Isles
  The British Isles are a group of islands off the northwest coast of continental Europe that include the islands of Great Britain and Ireland and over six thousand smaller isles. There are two sovereign states located on the islands: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and...
  
  .

Winners club national championship

International tournaments

• 1953 British Home Championship
  1953 British Home Championship
  The 1953 British Home Championship was a football tournament played between the British Home Nations throughout the 1952–53 football season. The tournament saw a last minute goal by Lawrie Reilly in the final game at Wembley which salvaged a draw and thus a share in the trophy for Scotland...
  
   (October 4, 1952 – April 18, 1953)

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Births

• January 6 – Manfred Kaltz, German footballer
• March 3 – Zico
  Zico
  Arthur Antunes Coimbra , better known as Zico , is a Brazilian coach and former footballer. He is the current head coach of the Iraq national football team. Often called the "White Pelé", he is commonly considered one of the most skilled finishers and one of the best passers ever and possibly the...
  
  , Brazilian footballer and manager
• March 11 – László Bölöni, Romanian footballer
• April 10 – Søren Busk
  Søren Busk
  Søren Thomas Busk is a former Danish football defender, who played professionally for a number of European clubs, and helped K.A.A. Gent win the Belgian Cup. He played 61 games and scored two goals for the Denmark national football team, and represented Denmark at the Euro 1984, 1986 World Cup,...
  
  , Danish footballer
• April 21 – Hans Verèl
  Hans Verèl
  Hans Verèl is a former football defender and midfielder from the Netherlands, who played for Sparta Rotterdam, SVV and FC Den Bosch...
  
  , Dutch footballer and manager
• May 22 – Paul Mariner
  Paul Mariner
  Paul Mariner is an English football coach, manager, and retired player, who is currently with Toronto FC.A striker during his playing days, Mariner began his career with Chorley. He became a professional player in 1973 with Plymouth Argyle, where he scored 61 goals in 155 appearances and is...
  
  , English footballer
• May 25 – Gaetano Scirea
  Gaetano Scirea
  Gaetano Scirea was an Italian football player who is considered one of the greatest defenders of all-time.Scirea is one of only five players in European football history to have won all international trophies for football clubs recognized by UEFA and FIFA...
  
  , Italian footballer
• June 19 – Jan van Deinsen
  Jan van Deinsen
  Jan van Deinsen is a retired football midfielder and forward from the Netherlands, who played for NEC Nijmegen, Go Ahead Eagles and Feyenoord Rotterdam during his professional career. He obtained one cap for the Dutch national team, when the Netherlands lost to the Republic of Ireland on September...
  
  , Dutch footballer
• July 20 – Ladislav Jurkemik
  Ladislav Jurkemik
  Ladislav Jurkemik is a former Slovak football player and later a football manager. He played for Czechoslovakia, for which he played 57 matches and scored 3 goals....
  
  , Slovak footballer
• July 22 – René Vandereycken, Belgian footballer
• July 26 – Felix Magath
  Felix Magath
  Wolfgang-Felix Magath is a former German football central midfielder and current manager of VfL Wolfsburg.-Playing career:...
  
  , German footballer and manager
• September 15 – Gerrie Kleton
  Gerrie Kleton
  Gerrie Kleton was a football midfielder from the Netherlands, who played for Ajax Amsterdam, AZ Alkmaar, HFC Haarlem, RKC Waalwijk and Cercle Brugge. He was a member of the Haarlem team, that competed in the UEFA Cup in the 1982-1983 season, for the first time in the club's history...
  
  , Dutch footballer (d. 2006)
• September 27 – Claudio Gentile
  Claudio Gentile
  Claudio Gentile is an Italian football coach and former defender of the 1970s and 1980s. Gentile appeared for Italy in two World Cup tournaments, including playing in the winning Italian team in the 1982 final. His club career was notably spent with Juventus for whom he made almost 300 league...
  
  , Italian footballer
• October 14 – Aldo Maldera
  Aldo Maldera
  Aldo Maldera is an Italian former footballer.The third son of a family of Apulian immigrants in Milan, he spent a large part of his career with A.C. Milan. He played also for Bologna F.C. 1909, Internazionale, A.S. Roma and A.C...
  
  , Italian footballer
• October 16 – Paulo Roberto Falcão
  Paulo Roberto Falcão
  Paulo Roberto Falcão is a Brazilian head coach and former footballer, currently managing Sport Club Internacional. He is widely considered one of the best players in Internacional and Roma history, and one of the most talented midfielders of all time, especially at his peak in the mid 1980s...
  
  , Brazilian footballer and manager
• November 29 – Huub Stevens
  Huub Stevens
  Hubertus "Huub" Jozef Margaretha Stevens is a Dutch football manager and former defender.- Playing career :...
  
  , Dutch footballer and manager
• December 4 – Jean-Marie Pfaff
  Jean-Marie Pfaff
  Jean-Marie Pfaff is a Belgian former football goalkeeper.-Biography:At the age of 16, Pfaff joined K.S.K. Beveren with whom he won a Belgian champions title and a Belgian Cup . The same year, he received the Belgian Golden Shoe...
  
  , Belgian footballer