The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1959 throughout the world.

Events

*October 25 – Sparta Rotterdam makes a winning

Europe Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a subcontinent of Eurasia and it is located entirel ...

an debut by defeating Sweden's

IFK Göteborg Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Göteborg (officially IFK Göteborg Fotboll), commonly known as IFK Göteborg, IFK (especially locally) or simply Göteborg, is a Swedish professional football club based in Gothenburg. Founded in 1904, it is the ...

in the second round of the European Cup. All three goals for the Dutch side are scored by Joop Daniëls.

Winners club national championship

* : San Lorenzo * :

Bahia Bahia ( , , ; meaning "bay") is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the Northeast Region of the country. It is the fourth-largest Brazilian state by population (after São Paulo, Minas Gerais, and Rio de Janeiro) and the 5th-largest b ...

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Universidad de Chile The University of Chile ( es, Universidad de Chile) is a public research university in Santiago, Chile. It was founded on November 19, 1842, and inaugurated on September 17, 1843.

* : OGC Nice * : Hapoel Petah Tikva F.C. * : KR * :

A.C. Milan Associazione Calcio Milan (), commonly referred to as AC Milan or simply Milan, is a professional Association football, football club in Milan, Italy, founded in 1899. The club has spent its entire history, with the exception of the 1980–81 ...

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Chivas Guadalajara Club Deportivo Guadalajara (); often simply known as Guadalajara () and their nickname ''Chivas'' (), is a Mexican professional football club based in Zapopan, Jalisco. Guadalajara is one of the ten founding members of the Mexican First Divisi ...

* : Sparta Rotterdam * : Olimpia Asunción * :

FC Dynamo Moscow FC Dynamo Moscow (''FC Dynamo Moskva'', russian: Дина́мо Москва́ ) is a Russian football club based in Moscow. Dynamo returned to the Russian Premier League for the 2017–18 season after one season in the second-tier Russian Foot ...

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Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...

* : Fenerbahçe * :

Eintracht Frankfurt Eintracht Frankfurt e.V. () is a professional sports club based in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany. It is best known for its football club, which was founded on 8 March 1899. The team is currently playing in the Bundesliga, the top tier of the Germa ...

International tournaments

1959 British Home Championship Events January * January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of ...

(October 4, 1958 – April 11, 1959) Shared by and * African Cup of Nations in

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Medit ...

(May 22 – 29 1959) *# *# *# * Pan American Games in

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(August 21 – September 5, 1959) *# *# *#

Births

* January 23 —

Eustorgio Sánchez Eustorgio Sánchez (born January 23, 1959) is a retired Venezuelan football goalkeeper. He competed for his native South American country at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Sov ...

, Venezuelan football goalkeeper * February 7 —

Sammy Lee (footballer) Samuel Lee (born 7 February 1959) is an English professional football coach and former player. Lee played most of his career for hometown club Liverpool during the 1970s and 1980s as a midfielder, and also represented England fourteen times. H ...

, English international footballer and manager * March 4 — Romeo Zondervan, Dutch international footballer * March 20 —

Roland Sikinger Roland Sikinger is a retired American soccer goalkeeper who played professionally in the North American Soccer League, United Soccer League, American Soccer League and Major Indoor Soccer League. Player Club career Sikinger graduated from Ja ...

, American professional soccer player * May 20 — Juan Carlos Letelier, Chilean international footballer * May 26 — Róger Flores, Costa Rican international footballer * July 25 — Fyodor Cherenkov; Soviet and Russian international footballer and manager (died 2014) * July 31 — Wilmar Cabrera, Uruguayan international footballer * September 4 — Fernando Alvez, Uruguayan international footballer * November 11 — Mauricio Peña, Mexican footballer (died 2010) * November 14 —

José Figueroa José Figueroa (1792 – 29 September 1835), was a General and the Mexican Governor of Alta California from 1833 to 1835. He wrote the first book to be published in California. Background and governorship Figueroa was a Mestizo of Spanish ...

, Honduran international footballer * November 17 —

Thomas Allofs Thomas Allofs (born 17 November 1959) is a German former professional footballer who played as a striker. The younger brother of another footballer, Klaus Allofs, he was a prolific goalscorer, scoring nearly 200 overall goals as a professional ...

, German international footballer * November 22 — Marek Ostrowski, Polish international footballer (died 2017) * November 28 — Pedro Acosta, Venezuelan international footballer * December 11 — Thandwa Moreki, Botswana footballer * December 19 —

Edward Metgod Edward Metgod (born 19 December 1959 in Amsterdam, Netherlands) is a former Dutch football (soccer) goalkeeper, and current coach of Team VVCS. He made his debut in Dutch professional football on 13 April 1980 for HFC Haarlem in a competition g ...

, Dutch football goalkeeper and manager

Deaths

May

* May 18 –

Enrique Guaita Enrique Guaita (; 11 July 1910 – 18 May 1959), also known as Enrico Guaita (), was an Italian Argentine footballer who played for both Argentina and Italy as a forward. He helped win the 1933-35 Central European International Cup & the Worl ...

, Argentine/Italian striker, 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 topscorer of the 1934-35 Serie A. (48)

November

* November 8 –

Heleno de Freitas Heleno de Freitas (12 February 1920 – 8 November 1959) was a Brazilian footballer who played as a forward. Early life De Freitas was born into a rich Brazilian family in São João de Nepomuceno, in the state of Minas Gerais, on 12 Febru ...

, Brazilian striker, topscorer at the

South American Championship 1945 The eighteenth edition of the South American Championship was held in Santiago, Chile, Santiago, Chile from 14 January to 28 February. This tournament was an ''extra'' edition, with no trophy handed to the winners, but considered official by CO ...

. (39)

December

References

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