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football (soccer)
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events of the year 1947 throughout the world.
Events
Winners club national championship
Argentina
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River Plate
Austria
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SC Wacker Wien
Chile
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Colo-Colo
Club Social y Deportivo Colo-Colo () is a Chilean professional football club based in Macul, Santiago. Founded in 1925 by David Arellano they play in the Chilean Primera División, from which they have never been relegated. The team has pla ...
Costa Rica
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C.S. Herediano
Club Sport Herediano (), commonly known as Herediano and nicknamed El Team, is a Costa Rican multisport club based in Heredia, Heredia province. Although they compete in a number of different sports, Herediano is mostly known for its association ...
England
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1946–47 in English football
The 1946–47 season was the 67th season of competitive football in England.
Overview
The 1946–47 season was the first to feature a full football programme since the 1938–39 campaign. Eighty-eight teams competed over four divisions.The Time ...
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*First Division:
Liverpool
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*Second Division:
Manchester City
* Third Division:
Doncaster Rovers
Doncaster Rovers Football Club is a professional association football club based in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. The team compete in League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system. The club play their home games at ...
*Fourth Division:
Cardiff City
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FA Cup
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Charlton Athletic
Charlton Athletic Football Club is an English professional football club based in Charlton, south-east London, which compete in . Their home ground is The Valley, where the club have played since 1919. They have also played at The Mount in ...
France
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CO Roubaix-Tourcoing
Club Olympique de Roubaix-Tourcoing was a football club based in Roubaix, France. The team was founded in 1945 in a merge of three clubs: Excelsior AC Roubaix, RC Roubaix
Racing Club de Roubaix was a French association football team tha ...
Hungary
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Újpest FC
Újpest Football Club () is a Hungarian professional football club, based in Újpest, Budapest, that competes in Nemzeti Bajnokság I.
Formed in 1885, Újpest reached the first division of the Hungarian League in 1905 and has been relegat ...
Italy
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Torino
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Ireland
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Shelbourne
Mexico
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Atlante
Netherlands
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Ajax Amsterdam
Paraguay
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Olimpia Asunción
Romania
Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and ...
*Divizia A:
ITA Arad
Asociația Fotbal Club UTA Arad (), commonly known as UTA Arad or simply UTA, is a Romanian professional football club based in the city of Arad, Arad County, which competes in the Liga I. The UTA acronym stands for ''Uzina Textilă Arad'' ("Text ...
*Divizia B:
Unirea Tricolor București
Unirea Tricolor București was a Romanian football club from Bucharest, south-east Romania, founded in 1914 as Tricolor București. It was one of the most famous inter-war clubs in Romania.
History
Tricolor București
Tricolor, first named Tei ...
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Ploiești
Ploiești ( , , ), formerly spelled Ploești, is a city and county seat in Prahova County, Romania. Part of the historical region of Muntenia, it is located north of Bucharest.
The area of Ploiești is around , and it borders the Blejoi commune ...
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Dermata Cluj
Dermata Cluj was a football club from Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, dissolved in 1967.
History
The shoes factory from Cluj-Napoca called Echo Cluj created the team and was the main sponsor of the team until 1948. Notable players from that time was Da ...
*Divizia C:
Concordia Ploiești,
BNR București,
Astra Română Câmpina,
PCA Constanța,
Ripensia Timișoara,
Sanitas Satu Mare,
CFR Cluj
Fotbal Club CFR 1907 Cluj, commonly known as CFR Cluj ( or ), is a Romanian professional football club based in the city of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, which competes in the Liga I. It was founded in 1907 as ''Kolozsvári Vasutas Sport Club'', whe ...
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Șoimii Sibiu
Șoimii Sibiu (Falcons Sibiu) was a football team from Sibiu. They were founded in 1913 and disappeared in 2001.
They were a main team in Sibiu, being four times regional champions of Sibiu. Their best pre-war performance was defeating the 6-tim ...
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Doljul Craiova,
Aninoasa
Aninoasa ( hu, Aninósza or ''Aninószabányatelep'') is a town in Hunedoara County in the Transylvania region of Romania. The town is located in Jiu Valley, which is a coal basin, and many of the towns residents are coal miners. Most of the ...
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Danubiana Roman,
Astra Română Moreni
Scotland
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1946–47 in Scottish football
The 1946–47 season was the 74th season of competitive football in Scotland and the 50th season of the Scottish Football League.
Scottish League Division A
Champions: Rangers
Scottish League Division B
Scottish League Division C
Cup hon ...
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*League Division A:
Rangers
*League Division B:
Dundee
*League Division C:
Stirling Albion
Stirling Albion Football Club is a Scottish football club based in the city of Stirling. The club was founded in 1945 following the demise of King's Park after World War II. The club currently competes in Scottish League Two as a member of the ...
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Scottish Cup
The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,[Aberdeen
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Scottish League Cup
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Spain
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Valencia
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Sweden
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IFK Norrköping
Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Norrköping, more commonly known as IFK Norrköping or simply Norrköping, is a Swedish professional football club based in Norrköping. The club is affiliated to Östergötlands Fotbollförbund and play thei ...
Switzerland
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FC Biel-Bienne
Fussballclub Biel-Bienne is a Swiss association football club based in Biel/Bienne. The currently play in the 2. Liga Interregional.
Honours
Swiss championship
*Champions: 1946–47
*Runners-up: 1947–48, 1959–60
Swiss Cup
*Runner ...
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...
*Ankara Demirspor
Uruguay
*Club Nacional de Football, Nacional
USSR
*First Group: PFC CSKA Moscow, CDKA Moscow
*Second Group: FC Lokomotiv Moscow, Lokomotiv Moscow
*Soviet Cup: FC Spartak Moscow, Spartak Moscow
Yugoslavia
*JSD Partizan, Partizan Beograd
International tournaments
*1947 British Home Championship (28 September 1946 – 12 April 1947)
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Births
* 15 January – Peter Nogly, German international Footballer
* 25 January – Tostão, Brazilian international footballer
* 20 February – Peter Osgood, English international footballer (died 2006)
* 24 February – Fernando Barrachina, Spanish international footballer (died 2016)
* 3 March – Óscar Tabárez, Uruguayan football player and manager
* 24 March – Archie Gemmill, Scottish international footballer
* 3 April – Ladislav Kuna, Slovak football player and manager (died 2012)
* 25 April – Johan Cruijff, Dutch international footballer and manager (died 2016)
* 8 May – Sef Vergoossen, Dutch football manager
* 3 July – Rob Rensenbrink, Dutch international footballer (died 2020)
* 10 August – Laurent Pokou, Ivorian international footballer (died 2016)
* 28 August – Emlyn Hughes, English international footballer (died 2004)
* 15 October – Laszlo Fazekas, Hungarian international footballer
* 23 October – Kazimierz Deyna, Polish international footballer (died 1989)
* 2 November – Allan Michaelsen, Danish international footballer (died 2016)
* 26 December – Dominique Baratelli, French international footballer
Deaths
May
* 8 May – Attilio Ferraris, Italian midfielder, winner of the 1934 FIFA World Cup. (43, heart attack during a friendly match between former stars in Montecatini Terme)
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