1939 in association football
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The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1939 throughout the world.
Events[edit]
Many football leagues throughout Europe are suspended or abandoned following the start of the Second World War.[1][2]
Winners club national championship[edit]
- Argentina: Independiente
- France: FC Sète
- Germany: FC Schalke 04
- Hungary: Újpest FC
- Iceland: Fram
- Italy: Bologna F.C.
- Netherlands: Ajax Amsterdam
- Poland - not finished due to Second World War. As for August 31, 1939, the leading team was Ruch Chorzów
- Romania: Venus București
- Scotland:
- Soviet Union: see 1939 in Soviet football
International tournaments[edit]
- 1939 British Home Championship (October 8, 1938 – April 15, 1939)
- 1939 South American Championship (January 15, 1939 – February 12, 1939)
Movies[edit]
Births[edit]
- January 6: Valeri Lobanovsky, Soviet/Ukrainian international footballer and coach (died 2002)
- January 25: Horst Nemec, Austrian international footballer (died 1984)
- January 29: Peter Laverick, English professional footballer (died 2013)[4]
- January 30: Jovan Miladinović, Serbian footballer (died 1982)
- February 3: Dezső Novák, Hungarian international footballer (died 2014)
- February 10: Emilio Álvarez, Uruguayan footballer (died 2010)
- February 12: Walter Glechner, Austrian international footballer (died 2015)
- February 22: Leif Iwarsson, Swedish footballer[5]
- February 27: José Cardona, Honduran international footballer (died 2013)
- March 8: Paride Tumburus, Italian international footballer (died 2015)
- March 17: Giovanni Trapattoni, Italian international footballer and coach
- March 31: Karl-Heinz Schnellinger, German footballer
- April 23: Fritz Pott, German international footballer and coach (died 2015)
- April 25
- Ahmad Basri Akil, Malaysian football manager (died 2008)
- Tarcisio Burgnich, Italian international footballer (died 2021)
- April 30: Tony Bratley, English retired professional footballer[6]
- June 23: Syed Shahid Hakim, Indian former Olympic footballer and manager (died 2021)
- June 24: John Burnett, English professional footballer (died 2021)[7]
- June 27: Ilija Dimovski, Macedonian footballer and manager
- July 1: Graham Beighton, English former professional footballer[8]
- July 3: Brian Bades, English footballer
- July 4: Kim Bong-hwan, North Korean footballer
- July 7: Armand Sahadewsing, Surinamese football player and manager
- July 10: Reg Stratton, English footballer (died 2018)
- July 11: Mick Brown, England football scout
- July 13: John Danielsen, Danish midfielder
- July 18: Eduard Mudrik, Soviet Russian international footballer (died 2017)
- July 21
- Helmut Haller, German international footballer (died 2012)
- Bogusław Hajdas, Polish footballer, coach
- August 7: Willie Penman, Scottish footballer (died 2017)
- September 7: Clive Bircham, English professional footballer (died 2020)[9]
- October 14: Ramón Barreto, Uruguayan football referee (died 2015)
- October 27: Marino Perani, Italian international footballer (died 2017)
- November 3: Frits Flinkevleugel, Dutch international footballer (died 2020)
- December 26: Malcolm Bogie, Scottish professional footballer[10]
Deaths[edit]
- February 13 - Caius Welcker, Dutch international footballer (born 1885)
- March 29 – Fausto dos Santos, Brazilian midfielder, Brazilian squad member at the 1930 FIFA World Cup and active player of Flamengo . (34 ; tuberculosis)
- October 20 - Otto Siffling, German international footballer (born 1912)
References[edit]
- ^ Hawkins, Billy (2020-03-28). "Liverpool win title and monkey testicle injections: When WWII cancelled football". talkSPORT. Retrieved 2021-08-08.
- ^ Taylor, Matthew (2015). "The People's Game and the People's War: Football, Class and Nation in Wartime Britain, 1939-1945". Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung. 40 (4 (154)): 270–297. ISSN 0172-6404. JSTOR 24583257.
- ^ "Scottish Cup Past Winners | Scottish Cup | Scottish FA". www.scottishfa.co.uk. Retrieved 17 December 2022.
- ^ "Peter Laverick". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
- ^ "Leif Iwarsson". worldfootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL Medien GmbH & Co. KG. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
- ^ Lamming, Douglas (1985). A who's who of Grimsby Town AFC : 1890–1985. Beverley: Hutton. p. 18. ISBN 0-907033-34-2.
- ^ Lamming, Douglas (1985). A who's who of Grimsby Town AFC : 1890-1985. Beverley: Hutton. p. 28. ISBN 0-907033-34-2.
- ^ "Graham Beighton". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
- ^ "Clive Bircham". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
- ^ "Malcolm Bogie". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 18 February 2017.