The following are the

football (soccer) Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

events of the year 1950 throughout the world.

Events

Olympique Lyon Olympique Lyonnais (), commonly referred to as simply Lyon () or OL, is a men and women's French professional football club based in Lyon in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. The men play in France's highest football division, Ligue 1. Founded in 1950, ...

is founded * RoPS Rovaniemi is founded

Winners club national championship

* : Racing Club * :

Bordeaux Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefect ...

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VfB Stuttgart Verein für Bewegungsspiele Stuttgart 1893 e. V., commonly known as VfB Stuttgart (), is a German sports club based in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg. The club's football team is currently part of Germany's first division, the Bundesliga. VfB S ...

* : KR * : Juventus * : Flamura Roșie Arad * : Atlético Madrid * : Fenerbahçe, Göztepe

International tournaments

1950 British Home Championship Year 195 ( CXCV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Scrapula and Clemens (or, less frequently, year 948 ''Ab urbe cond ...

(October 1, 1949 – May 25, 1950) :: *

FIFA World Cup The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the ' ( FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The tournament ha ...

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

(June 24 – July 16, 1950) ** ** ** **

Births

* January 1 – Tony Currie, English footballer * January 2 – Anatoli Ushanov, Russian footballer and coach (died 2017) * January 13 – Gholam Hossein Mazloumi, Iranian international footballer and manager (died 2014) * February 28 – Gerdo Hazelhekke, Dutch footballer * April 3 – Petar Nikezić, Yugoslavian-Serbian international footballer (died 2014) * April 8 –

Grzegorz Lato Grzegorz Bolesław Lato (Polish pronunciation: ; born 8 April 1950) is a Polish former professional football player and manager who played as a winger. He was a member of Poland's golden generation of football players who rose to fame in the ...

, Polish international footballer * April 20 –

Tommy Berggren Stig Arne Tommy "Baloo" Berggren (20 April 1950 – 3 December 2012) was a Swedish footballer. Berggren played 13 seasons (291 games), and scored 55 goals for Djurgårdens IF. In 1978, Berggren was the top scorer in Allsvenskan, with a total of ...

, Swedish footballer (died 2012) * May 1 –

Danny McGrain Daniel Fergus McGrain (born 1 May 1950) is a Scottish former professional footballer, who played for Celtic, Hamilton Academical and the Scotland national team as a right back. McGrain is regarded as one of Scotland's greatest players and th ...

, Scottish international footballer * May 5 – Brian Alderson, Scottish footballer (died 1997) * May 23 –

Ken Tiler Kenneth David Tiler (born 23 May 1950) is an English former professional footballer who played in the Football League The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional association football, football clubs from England and Wale ...

, English former professional footballer * July 5 –

Carlos Caszely Carlos Humberto Caszely Garrido (born 5 July 1950 in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean former footballer, nicknamed "Rey del metro cuadrado" ( en, King of the square meter, pt, O Rei do Metro Quadrado), who played as a forward. Regarded as one o ...

, Chilean international footballer * September 7 – Mário Sérgio Pontes de Paiva, Brazilian international footballer and manager (died 2016) * October 3 – Luděk Macela, Czech international footballer (died 2016) * October 24 –

Asa Hartford Richard Asa Hartford (born 24 October 1950) is a Scottish former football player and coach. He started his professional career with West Bromwich Albion. His early progress led to a proposed transfer to Leeds United in November 1971, but this co ...

, Scottish international footballer * November 29 –

Dietmar Danner Dietmar Danner (born 29 November 1950) is a German former professional footballer. Club career Danner won three German championships and one DFB-Pokal title, as well as two UEFA Cup titles with Borussia Mönchengladbach, with whom he spent t ...

, German international footballer

Deaths

October

* October 5 – Juan Botasso, Argentine Goalkeeper, runner-up of the 1930 FIFA World Cup. (41)

References

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