1956 in association football
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The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1956 throughout the world.
Events
- November 3 – Dutch club Rapid JC makes its European debut with a defeat (3-4) on home soil against Yugoslavia's Red Star Belgrade in the second round of the European Cup.
- Foundation of Royal Thai Navy F.C.
Winners club national championship
Argentina: River Plate
England: Manchester United
France: Nice
Italy: ACF Fiorentina
Paraguay: Olimpia Asunción
Soviet Union: FC Spartak Moscow
Spain: Atlético Bilbao
Sweden: IFK Norrköping
West Germany: Borussia Dortmund
International tournaments
- Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia (November 24 – December 8, 1956)[1]
- 1956 British Home Championship (October 22, 1955 – April 14, 1956)
- Shared by England,
Scotland, 
Wales & 
Northern Ireland
- Shared by
Births
January
- January 16: Martin Jol (Dutch footballer and manager)
- January 17: Faouzi Mansouri (Algerian footballer)
- January 31: Stefan Majewski (Polish footballer)
February
- February 14: Reinhold Hintermaier (Austrian footballer)
- February 18: Rüdiger Abramczik (German footballer)
- February 28: Jimmy Nicholl (Northern Irish footballer)
March
- March 3: Zbigniew Boniek, Polish international footballer
- March 4: Philippe Mahut, French international footballer (died 2014)
- March 12: László Kiss, Hungarian footballer
- March 12: Pim Verbeek, Dutch footballer and manager
- March 15: Gilberto Yearwood, Honduran footballer
- March 24: Włodzimierz Ciołek, Polish footballer
- March 29: Ferenc Csongrádi, Hungarian footballer
- March 29: Dick Jol, Dutch football referee
April
- April 12: František Jakubec; Czech international footballer (died 2016)
May
- May 3: Bernd Förster (German international footballer)
- May 19: Jan Fiala (Czech footballer)
June
- June 5: Martin Koopman (Dutch footballer)
- June 12: David Narey (Scottish footballer)
- June 26: Maxime Bossis (French footballer)
July
- July 15: Emmanuel Kunde (Cameroonian footballer)
- July 20: Thomas N'Kono (Cameroonian footballer)
- July 29: Jean-Luc Ettori (French footballer)
August
- August 16: Patricio Hernández (Argentinian footballer)
- August 27: Jean-François Larios (French footballer)
- August 29: Viv Anderson (English footballer)
September
- September 8: Jacky Munaron (Belgian footballer)
- September 14: Béla Bödönyi (Hungarian footballer)
- September 14: Ray Wilkins (English footballer)
- September 23: Paolo Rossi (Italian footballer)
- September 30: Frank Arnesen (Danish footballer)
October
- October 10: Raúl Gorriti, Peruvian international footballer (died 2015)
- October 28: Frank Vercauteren (Belgian international footballer)
November
- November 4: Jan Korte (Dutch footballer and manager)
- November 16: Max Hagmayr (Austrian footballer)
- November 18: Noel Brotherston (Northern Irish footballer)
December
- December 6: Klaus Allofs (German footballer)
- December 9: Oscar Garré (Argentine footballer)
- December 10: Jan van Dijk (Dutch footballer and manager)
- December 11: Ricardo Giusti (Argentine footballer)
Deaths
August
- August 12 – Gianpiero Combi, 53, Italian goalkeeper, captaining winner of the 1934 FIFA World Cup and one of Italy's greatest goalkeepers of all-time.
October
- October 16 - Jules Rimet, 83, 3rd president of FIFA.
- October 24 - Tom Whittaker, 58, Arsenal manager, heart attack