The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1956 throughout the world.
Events
*November 3 – Dutch club
Rapid JC makes its
Europe
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an debut with a defeat (3-4) on home soil against Yugoslavia's
Red Star Belgrade
Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda ( sr-Cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Црвена звезда, lit=Red Star Football Club, ), commonly known as Red Star Belgrade in English-language media, is a Serbian professional football club based in Bel ...
in the second round of the
European Cup.
*Foundation of
Royal Thai Navy F.C.
Winners club national championship
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River Plate
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Manchester United
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Nice
Nice ( , ; Niçard dialect, Niçard: , classical norm, or , nonstandard, ; it, Nizza ; lij, Nissa; grc, Νίκαια; la, Nicaea) is the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes departments of France, department in France. The Nice urban unit, agg ...
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Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C.
Maccabi Tel Aviv Football Club ( he, מועדון כדורגל מכבי תל אביב; ''Moadon Kaduregel Maccabi Tel Aviv'') is an Israeli football club from Tel Aviv and part of the Maccabi Tel Aviv Sport Club.
Founded in 1906 in Jaffa as ...
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ACF Fiorentina
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León
* Paraguay:
Olimpia Asunción
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FC Spartak Moscow
FC Spartak Moscow (russian: Футбольный клуб «Спартак» Москва, Futbolʹnyy klub «Spartak» Moskva, ) is a Russian professional football club based in Moscow. Having won 12 Soviet championships (second only to Dyn ...
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Spain
, image_flag = Bandera de España.svg
, image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg
, national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
, national_anthem = (English: "Royal March")
, i ...
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Atlético Bilbao
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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 ...
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Borussia Dortmund
Ballspielverein Borussia 09 e. V. Dortmund, commonly known as Borussia Dortmund (), BVB (), or simply Dortmund (), is a German professional sports club based in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is best known for its men's professional fo ...
International tournaments
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Olympic Games
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in
Melbourne, Australia (November 24 – December 8, 1956)
[Olympic Football Tournament Melbourne 1956](_blank)
FIFA
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1956 British Home Championship
Events
January
* January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan.
* January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, are ...
(October 22, 1955 – April 14, 1956)
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Births
January
* January 16:
Martin Jol (Dutch footballer and manager)
* January 17:
Faouzi Mansouri
Faouzi Mansouri ( ar, فوزي منصوري; 17 January 1956 – 18 May 2022) was an Algerian professional footballer who played as a defender. He played mostly in France with Montpellier. For the Algeria national team he participated at two e ...
(Algerian footballer) (died 2022)
* January 31:
Stefan Majewski (Polish footballer)
February
* February 14:
Reinhold Hintermaier (Austrian footballer)
* February 18:
Rüdiger Abramczik
Rüdiger Abramczik (born 18 February 1956) is a former German association football, football player and coach, best known for his ability to cross the ball (''"Flankengott"'').
Club career
Abramczik was born in Gelsenkirchen-Erle. He, whose y ...
(German footballer)
* February 25:
Davie Cooper
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It can refer to:
Surname
* Alan Davie (1920-2014), Scottish painter and musician
* Alexander Edmund Batson Davie (1847-1889), Canadian politician and eighth Premier of British Col ...
(Scottish footballer) (died 1995)
* February 28:
Jimmy Nicholl
James Michael Nicholl (born 28 December 1956) is a Northern Irish former professional footballer who played for several clubs, including Manchester United and Rangers. He was mainly a right-back but could also play in other defensive roles. N ...
(Northern Irish footballer)
March
* March 3:
Zbigniew Boniek
Zbigniew Boniek (; born 3 March 1956) is a Polish former footballer and manager as well as current UEFA vice-president. A former midfielder, who was also capable of playing mostly as a right winger and second striker, he is considered one of t ...
, Polish international footballer
* March 4:
Philippe Mahut, French international footballer (died 2014)
* March 12:
László Kiss, Hungarian footballer
* March 12:
Pim Verbeek
Peter Tim Dirk "Pim" Verbeek (12 March 1956 – 28 November 2019) was a Dutch football manager who last coached the Oman national football team.
Playing career
As a player, Verbeek was a defender or a midfielder and spent his entire career at S ...
, Dutch footballer and manager (died 2019)
* March 15:
Gilberto Yearwood
Gilberto Jerónimo Yearwood (born 15 March 1956) is a Honduran former football player who currently is an Assistant coach of the El Salvador national football team. He is by many regarded as one of Honduras' best players of all time.
Club care ...
, Honduran footballer
* March 24:
Włodzimierz Ciołek
Włodzimierz Ciołek (born 24 March 1956 in Wałbrzych) is a retired Polish football player.
He played for clubs such as Górnik Wałbrzych and Stal Mielec. In season 1983/84 he was a topscorer of Polish League, playing for Górnik Wałbrzych ...
, Polish footballer
* March 29:
Ferenc Csongrádi, Hungarian footballer
* March 29:
Dick Jol
Dick Jol (born 29 March 1956) is a Dutch former football referee, best known for supervising three matches during the 2000 UEFA European Football Championship held in Belgium and the Netherlands.
Early life
Born in Scheveningen, South Holla ...
, Dutch football referee
April
* April 12:
František Jakubec; Czech international footballer (died 2016)
May
* May 3:
Bernd Förster
Bernhard "Bernd" Georg Josef Förster (born 3 May 1956) is a former German footballer who played as a defender and midfielder.
His younger brother, Karlheinz, was also a footballer, and a defender. Both played extensively at VfB Stuttgart, an ...
(German international footballer)
* May 19:
Jan Fiala (Czech footballer)
June
* June 5:
Martin Koopman
Martin Koopman (born 5 June 1956 in Wezep) is a Dutch former football defender, who played for Go Ahead Eagles, FC Twente and Cambuur Leeuwarden. He could also play as a midfielder. After 2 years as a youth coach then 8 as an assistant coach ( ...
(Dutch footballer)
* June 12:
David Narey
David Narey (born 12 June 1956) is a former Scottish international footballer who spent 21 years with Dundee United. With Narey United were Scottish champions once and league cup winners twice. He also played in numerous cup runs in Europe inc ...
(Scottish footballer)
* June 26:
Maxime Bossis
Maxime Jean Marcel Bossis (; born 26 June 1955) is a French retired professional footballer who played as a defender.
Bossis spent most of his career playing for Nantes, a club he helped win three Ligue 1 titles and one Coupe de France. He ...
(French footballer)
July
* July 15:
Emmanuel Kunde
Immanuel ( he, עִמָּנוּאֵל, 'Īmmānū'ēl, meaning, "God is with us"; also romanized: , ; and or in Koine Greek of the New Testament) is a Hebrew name that appears in the Book of Isaiah (7:14) as a sign that God will protect the ...
(Cameroonian footballer)
* July 20:
Thomas N'Kono
Thomas N'Kono (born 20 July 1956) is a Cameroonian former professional footballer. One of the greatest goalkeepers from the continent of Africa, he was mainly associated with Espanyol, whom he represented for almost a decade playing more than 30 ...
(Cameroonian footballer)
* July 29:
Jean-Luc Ettori
Jean-Luc Ettori (born 29 July 1955) is a French former professional footballer who played as goalkeeper. He spent his entire career with AS Monaco, and had held the record for the most appearances by any player in Ligue 1 or Division 1 with 602 ...
(French footballer)
August
* August 16:
Patricio Hernández (Argentinian footballer)
* August 27:
Jean-François Larios
Jean-François Larios (born 27 August 1956) is a French former professional football midfielder. He earned seventeen international caps (five goals) for the French national team during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
A player of Saint-Étienne, ...
(French footballer)
* August 29:
Viv Anderson
Vivian Alexander Anderson, MBE (born 29 July 1956) is an English former professional footballer and coach. He won five senior trophies including the 1977–78 Football League title, and both the 1978–79 European Cup and the 1979–80 Euro ...
(English footballer)
September
* September 8:
Jacky Munaron
Jacques "Jacky" Munaron (born 8 September 1956) is a Belgian former football goalkeeper and the goalkeeper coach of FP Halle-Gooik since 2017.
As a young player, Munaron started as the keeper of the youth team of FC Dinant, and Munaron stayed ...
(Belgian footballer)
* September 14:
Béla Bodonyi
Béla Bodonyi (born 14 December 1956) is a Hungarian former footballer who played at both professional and international levels as a striker.
Career
Born in Jászdózsa, Bodonyi played club football in both Hungary and Switzerland for Debr ...
(Hungarian footballer)
* September 14:
Ray Wilkins
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* Ray (gra ...
(English footballer) (died 2018)
* September 23:
Paolo Rossi
Paolo Rossi (; 23 September 1956 – 9 December 2020) was an Italian professional footballer who played as a forward. He led Italy to the 1982 FIFA World Cup title, scoring six goals to win the Golden Boot as top goalscorer, and the Golden ...
(Italian footballer) (died 2020)
* September 30:
Frank Arnesen
Frank Arnesen (born 30 September 1956) is a former Danish footballer and sporting director at Dutch football club Feyenoord. Arnesen was the Director of Football at English football clubs Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea, and was Sporting Director a ...
(Danish footballer)
October
* October 10:
Raúl Gorriti, Peruvian international footballer (died 2015)
* October 28:
Frank Vercauteren (Belgian international footballer)
November
* November 4:
Jan Korte (Dutch footballer and manager)
* November 10:
José Luis Brown
José Luis Brown (10 January 1956 – 12 August 2019) was an Argentine football central defender and coach.
Most of his 14-year professional career was spent with Estudiantes, for which he appeared in more than 300 official matches and won two ...
Argentine international footballer, (died 2019)
* November 16:
Max Hagmayr (Austrian footballer)
* November 18:
Noel Brotherston (Northern Irish footballer) (died 1995)
December
* December 6:
Klaus Allofs
Klaus Allofs (born 5 December 1956) is a German former professional football player, manager, and executive.
A striker, Allofs was a prolific goalscorer for club and country. He amassed Bundesliga totals of 424 games and 177 goals over the co ...
(German footballer)
* December 9:
Oscar Garré
Oscar Alfredo Garré (born 9 December 1956) is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a defender.
Career
Garré played most of his career (1974–88 and 1989–94) as a defender for Ferro Carril Oeste, and was part of the te ...
(Argentine footballer)
* December 10:
Jan van Dijk (Dutch footballer and manager)
* December 11:
Ricardo Giusti
Ricardo Omar Giusti (born 11 December 1956) is an Argentine former footballer. A midfielder, he played most of his career with Argentine side Independiente. At international level, he won the FIFA World Cup with Argentina in 1986 and was also ...
(Argentine footballer)
Deaths
August
* August 12 –
Gianpiero Combi
Gianpiero Combi (; 20 November 1902 – 12 August 1956) was an Italian footballer who played as a goalkeeper. , 53, Italian goalkeeper, captaining winner of the
1934 FIFA World Cup
The 1934 FIFA World Cup was the second edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football championship for senior men's national teams. It took place in Italy from 27 May to 10 June 1934.
The 1934 World Cup was the first in w ...
and one of Italy's greatest goalkeepers of all-time.
October
* October 16 -
Jules Rimet
Jules Rimet (; 14 October 1873 – 16 October 1956) was a French football administrator who was the 3rd President of FIFA, serving from 1921 to 1954. He is FIFA's longest-serving president, in office for 33 years. He also served as the presid ...
, 83, 3rd president of
FIFA.
* October 24 -
Tom Whittaker, 58,
Arsenal manager, heart attack
References
External links
Olympic Football Tournament Melbourne 1956 FIFA.com
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