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 ...
Scottish Cup
The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,East Fife
* Turkey: Güneş SK
* Soviet Union:
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* FC Spartak Moscow, an association football club
* HC Spartak Moscow, a professional ice hockey team
* Spartak GM Moscow, a semi-professional rugby club
* WB ...
Manchester City F.C.
Manchester City Football Club are an English football club based in Manchester that competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. Founded in 1880 as St. Mark's (West Gorton), they became Ardwick Association Football ...
become the only team in history to be relegated the year after being champions of England.
FIFA World Cup
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in
France
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Árpád Orbán
Árpád Orbán (14 March 1938 – 26 April 2008) was a Hungarian Olympic champion Association football, football player.
Career
Orbán, born in Győr, Győr-Moson-Sopron, Hungary, was Hungarian. He was Jewish.
He played for Győri ETO FC, Győ ...
, Hungarian footballer (died 2008)
* 17 March: Adolf Knoll, Austrian football player (died 2018)
* 19 April: Stanko Poklepović, Croatian football player and manager (died 2018)
* 7 June: Armando Tobar, Chilean international footballer (died 2016)
* 25 June: Enver Yulgushov, Russian professional footballer and coach (died 2022)
* 26 June: Gene Gaines, American football (soccer) player
* 29 June:
** József Gelei, Hungarian football player and manager
** Giampaolo Menichelli, Italian winger
* 2 July: Marcel Artelesa, French international footballer (died 2016)
* 3 July: Sjaak Swart, Dutch footballer
* 6 July:
** Uli Maslo, German football player and manager
** Oleh Bazylevych, Ukrainian footballer, coach, and sport administrator (died 2018)
* 8 July: Vojtech Masný, Slovak football player
* 12 July: Lin Shllaku, Albanian footballer (died 2016)
* 28 July: Luis Aragonés, Spanish international football player and manager (died 2014)
* 28 August: Đorđe Pavlić, Yugoslavian international footballer (died 2015)
* 2 December: Luis Artime, Argentine internationalfootballer
* 9 December: Nikola Kotkov, Bulgarian international footballer (died 1971)
Deaths
References
{{Football (soccer) chronology
1938 in association football,
Association football by year