1956 in association football

The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1956 throughout the world.

Events

• November 3 – Dutch club Rapid JC makes its European debut with a defeat (3-4) on home soil against Yugoslavia's Red Star Belgrade in the second round of the European Cup.
• Foundation of Royal Thai Navy F.C.

Winners club national championship

•   Argentina: River Plate
•   England: Manchester United
•   France: Nice
•   Israel: Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C.
•   Italy: ACF Fiorentina
•   Mexico: León
• Paraguay: Olimpia Asunción
•   Soviet Union: FC Spartak Moscow
• Spain: Atlético Bilbao
•   Sweden: IFK Norrköping
•   West Germany: Borussia Dortmund

International tournaments

• Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia (November 24 – December 8, 1956) ^[1]
  1.   Soviet Union
  2.   Yugoslavia
  3.   Bulgaria
• 1956 British Home Championship (October 22, 1955 – April 14, 1956)

Shared by   England ,   Scotland ,   Wales &   Northern Ireland

Births

January

• January 16: Martin Jol (Dutch footballer and manager)
• January 17: Faouzi Mansouri (Algerian footballer) (died 2022)
• January 31: Stefan Majewski (Polish footballer)

February

• February 14: Reinhold Hintermaier (Austrian footballer)
• February 18: Rüdiger Abramczik (German footballer)
• February 21: Alan Hart, English former professional footballer ^[2]
• February 25: Davie Cooper (Scottish footballer) (died 1995)
• February 28: Jimmy Nicholl (Northern Irish footballer)
• February 29: Allan Marley (English former professional footballer) ^[3]

March

• March 3: Zbigniew Boniek, Polish international footballer
• March 4: Philippe Mahut, French international footballer (died 2014)
• March 12: László Kiss, Hungarian footballer
• March 12: Pim Verbeek, Dutch footballer and manager (died 2019)
• March 15: Gilberto Yearwood, Honduran footballer
• March 24: Włodzimierz Ciołek, Polish footballer
• March 29: Ferenc Csongrádi, Hungarian footballer
• March 29: Dick Jol, Dutch football referee

April

• April 12: František Jakubec; Czech international footballer (died 2016)

May

• May 3: Bernd Förster (German international footballer)
• May 15: Ken Ayres (English former professional footballer) ^[4]
• May 19: Jan Fiala (Czech footballer)

June

• June 5: Martin Koopman (Dutch footballer)
• June 12: David Narey (Scottish footballer)
• June 22: Jean-Paul Defrang (Luxembourgian footballer) ^[5]
• June 26: Maxime Bossis (French footballer)

July

• July 15: Emmanuel Kunde (Cameroonian footballer)
• July 20: Thomas N'Kono (Cameroonian footballer)
• July 29: Jean-Luc Ettori (French footballer)

August

• August 16: Patricio Hernández (Argentinian footballer)
• August 27: Jean-François Larios (French footballer)
• August 29: Viv Anderson (English footballer)

September

• September 7: Tony Mitchell, English former professional footballer ^[6]
• September 8: Jacky Munaron (Belgian footballer)
• September 14
  • Béla Bodonyi (Hungarian footballer)
  • Ray Wilkins (English footballer) (died 2018)
• September 23: Paolo Rossi (Italian footballer) (died 2020)
• September 30: Frank Arnesen (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 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 (German footballer)
• December 9: Oscar Garré (Argentine footballer)
• December 10: Jan van Dijk (Dutch footballer and manager)
• December 11: Ricardo Giusti (Argentine footballer)

Deaths

August

• August 12 – Gianpiero Combi, 53, Italian goalkeeper, captaining winner of the 1934 FIFA World Cup and one of Italy's greatest goalkeepers of all-time.

October

• October 16 - Jules Rimet, 83, 3rd president of FIFA.
• October 24 - Tom Whittaker, 58, Arsenal manager, heart attack

References

1. Olympic Football Tournament Melbourne 1956 FIFA
2. "1956 in association football". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
3. "Allan Marley". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
4. Purkiss, Mike; Sands, Nigel (1989). Crystal Palace: A Complete Record 1905–1989. The Breedon Books Publishing Company. p. 316. ISBN   0907969542.
5. "Jean-Paul Defrang". worldfootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL Medien GmbH & Co. KG. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
6. "Tony Mitchell". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 20 February 2024.

External links

• Olympic Football Tournament Melbourne 1956, FIFA.com
• RSSSF Archive