The following are the
football (soccer) events of the year 1942 throughout the world.
Winners club national championship
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Argentina:
River Plate
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Austria:
Vienna
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Chile:
Santiago Morning
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Costa Rica
Costa Rica (, ; ; literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica ( es, República de Costa Rica), is a country in the Central American region of North America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the no ...
:
CS La Libertad
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Croatia:
Concordia Zagreb
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Germany:
FC Schalke 04
Fußballclub Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04 e. V., commonly known as FC Schalke 04 (), Schalke 04 (), or abbreviated as S04 (), is a professional German football and multi-sports club originally from the Schalke district of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhi ...
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Italy:
A.S. Roma
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Mexico:
Spain (Mexican football team)
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Netherlands:
ADO Den Haag
Alles Door Oefening Den Haag (), commonly known by the abbreviated name ADO Den Haag (), is a Dutch association football club from the city of The Hague. They play in the Eerste Divisie, the second tier of Dutch football, following relegation f ...
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Scotland:
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Scottish Cup: No competition
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Spain:
Valencia C.F.
Valencia Club de Fútbol (, ca-valencia, València Club de Futbol ), commonly referred to as Valencia CF (or simply Valencia) is a professional football club based in Valencia, Spain, that currently plays in La Liga, the top flight of the Sp ...
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Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
:
Grasshoppers
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Turkey:
Harb Okulu Harb may refer to
* Harb (surname)
* Harb tribe
Harb ( ar, حرب) is a predominantly Arabian tribe in the Arabian peninsula. It is originally a Qahtanite tribe. Several authentic sources on Arab tribes genealogy state that the great-grandfather ...
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Uruguay:
Nacional
Nacional, the Portuguese and Spanish word for "national", may refer to:
Airlines
* Nacional Transportes Aéreos, a Brazilian airline defunct in 2002
* Transportes Aéreos Nacional, a Brazilian airline defunct in 1961
Bank
* Banco Nacional, a ...
Births
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January 25
Events Pre-1600
* 41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate.
* 750 – In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to the overthrow of the dynasty ...
:
Eusébio, Portuguese international footballer (died 2014)
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February 27
Events Pre-1600
* 380 – Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I and his co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to Nicene Christianity.
* 425 – The University of Constantinople ...
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Klaus-Dieter Sieloff, German international footballer (died 2011)
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February 28
Events Pre-1600
*202 BC – Liu Bang is enthroned as the Emperor of China, beginning four centuries of rule by the Han dynasty.
* 870 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes.
*1525 – Aztec king Cuauhtémoc is executed on ...
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Dino Zoff, Italian international footballer and coach
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April 19:
Javier Fragoso
Javier Gonzalo Fragoso Rodríguez (19 April 1942 – 28 December 2014) was a Mexican football player and manager.
Club career
Born in Mexico City in 1942, he was a forward for Club América, for whom he made his debut in 1962.
International ca ...
, Mexican international footballer (died 2014)
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May 18
Events Pre-1600
* 332 – Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople.
* 872 – Louis II of Italy is crowned for the second time as Holy Roman Emperor at Rome, at the age of 4 ...
:
Nobby Stiles, English international footballer (died 2020)
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July 5:
Hannes Löhr
Johannes Löhr (5 July 1942 – 29 February 2016) was a German international football player and manager.
The striker scored 166 top division goals for 1. FC Köln, more than any other Köln player. He made his debut for the team in August 196 ...
, German international footballer and coach (died 2016)
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July 18:
Giacinto Facchetti, Italian international footballer (died 2006)
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August 2
Events Pre-1600
*338 BC – A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.
*216 BC – The Carthaginian arm ...
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Ilija Pantelić
Ilija Pantelić (; 2 August 1942 – 17 November 2014) was a Serbian footballer who played as a goalkeeper, primarily for Serbian side Vojvodina and French sides Bastia and Paris Saint-Germain, as well as the Yugoslavia national team.
Club care ...
, Serbian Yugoslav international footballer (died 2014)
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August 7:
Sigfried Held, German international footballer and coach
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October 1:
Constantin Frățilă
Constantin Frățilă (1 October 1942 – 21 October 2016) was a Romanian football striker and coach.
Club career
Constantin Frățilă was born on 1 October 1942 in Bucharest, Romania and started to play football in 1957, at junior level at Re ...
, Romanian international footballer (died 2016)
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October 3:
Roberto Perfumo
Roberto Alfredo Perfumo (3 October 1942 – 10 March 2016) was an Argentine association football, footballer and sports commentator. Nicknamed ''El Mariscal'', Perfumo is considered one of the best Argentine Defender (association football), defe ...
, Argentine international footballer (died 2016)
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December 3:
Pedro Rocha, Uruguayan international footballer and manager (died 2013)
References
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Association football by year