1978 in association football

The following are the association football events of the year 1978 throughout the world.

Events

• Copa Libertadores 1978: Won by Boca Juniors after defeating Deportivo Cali on an aggregate score of 4–0.
• England: Ipswich Town win the cup beating Arsenal F.C. 1–0 with the winning goal scored by Roger Osborne

Winners club national championship

Asia

•   Israel: Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C.
•   Qatar: Al-Rayyan SC

Europe

•   England: Nottingham Forest
•   France: AS Monaco
•   Hungary: Újpest FC
•   Italy: Juventus
•   Netherlands:
  • Eredivisie – PSV Eindhoven
  • Eerste Divisie – PEC Zwolle
•   Romania: Steaua București
•   Spain: Real Madrid
•   Scotland: Rangers
•   Turkey: Fenerbahçe

North America

•   Mexico: Tigres UANL
•   United States /   Canada:
  • New York Cosmos (NASL)

Oceania

•   Australia: West Adelaide

South America

•   Argentina
  • Metropolitano – Quilmes
  • Nacional – Independiente
•   Brazil: Guarani
•   Paraguay: Olimpia Asunción

International tournaments

• African Cup of Nations in Ghana (March 5 – 16 1978)
  1.   Ghana
  2.   Uganda
  3.   Nigeria
• 1978 British Home Championship (May 13 – May 20, 1978)

  England

• FIFA World Cup in Argentina (June 1 – 25 1978)
  1.   Argentina
  2.   Netherlands
  3.   Brazil

Births

Main article: Births in 1978

January

• January 1 – Philip Mulryne, Northern Irish footballer ^[1]
• January 2 – Aimo Diana, Italian footballer and manager ^[2]
• January 6 – Cédric Roussel, Belgian footballer (d. 2023) ^[3]
• January 9
  • Gennaro Gattuso, Italian footballer and manager ^[4]
  • Hamlet Barrientos, Bolivian footballer ^[5]
• January 10
  • Gavin McCann, English footballer ^[6]
  • Facundo Quiroga, Argentine footballer ^[7]
• January 11
  • Emile Heskey, English footballer ^[8]
  • Michael Duff, Northern Irish footballer and manager ^[9]
• January 12 – Bonaventure Kalou, Ivorian footballer ^[10]
• January 13
  • Chérif Touré Mamam, Togolese footballer ^[11]
  • Tinga, Brazilian footballer ^[12]
• January 17
  • Frode Kippe, Norwegian footballer ^[13]
  • Patrick Suffo, Cameroonian footballer ^[14]
• January 18 – Bogdan Lobonț, Romanian footballer and manager ^[15]
• January 20
  • Salvatore Aronica, Italian footballer and manager ^[16]
  • Luciano Zauri, Italian footballer and manager ^[17]
• January 25
  • Jason Roberts, English-Grenadian footballer ^[18]
  • Robin Nelisse, Dutch Antillean international footballer ^[19]
• January 26 – Nastja Čeh, Slovenian footballer ^[20]
• January 27 – Gustavo Munúa, Uruguayan footballer and manager ^[21]
• January 28
  • Gianluigi Buffon, Italian international goalkeeper ^[22]
  • Jamie Carragher, English footballer ^[23]
  • Papa Bouba Diop, Senegalese footballer (d. 2020) ^[24]

February

• February 2
  • Barry Ferguson, Scottish footballer and manager ^[25]
  • Claudio Morel, Paraguayan footballer and manager ^[26]
• February 3 – Joan Capdevila, Spanish footballer ^[27]
• February 5
  • Jairon Zamora, Ecuadorian footballer ^[28]
  • Anvarjon Soliev, Uzbekistani footballer ^[29]
• February 6 – Jacek Kuranty, Polish footballer ^[30]
• February 7
  • Ivan Leko, Croatian footballer and manager ^[31]
  • Daniel Van Buyten, Belgian footballer ^[32]
• February 12 – Alain Masudi, Congolese footballer ^[33]
• February 15 – Alejandro Lembo, Uruguayan footballer ^[34]
• February 18 – Josip Šimunić, Croatian footballer ^[35]
• February 19
  • Alioum Saidou, Cameroonian footballer ^[36]
  • Michalis Konstantinou, Cypriot footballer ^[37]
• February 24 – Leon Constantine, English footballer ^[38]
• February 25
  • Yazid Mansouri, French-Algerian footballer ^[39]
  • Yuji Nakazawa, Japanese footballer ^[40]
• February 26
  • Abdoulaye Faye, Senegalese footballer ^[41]
  • Mohammed Noor, Saudi Arabian footballer ^[42]
• February 27
  • James Beattie, English footballer and manager ^[43]
  • Kakha Kaladze, Georgian footballer ^[44]

March

• March 9 – Lucas Neill, Australian footballer
• March 11 – Didier Drogba, Ivorian international
• March 14 – Antti-Jussi Karnio Finnish footballer ^[45]
• March 15 – Ramalho (Edson Ramalho dos Santos), Brazilian footballer ^[46]
• March 24 – Tomáš Ujfaluši, Czech footballer
• March 30 – Mauricio Rojas, Chilean footballer
• March 31
  • Stephen Clemence, English footballer and coach
  • Jérôme Rothen, French international

April

• April 1 – Antonio de Nigris, Mexican international striker (d. 2009) ^[47]
• April 18 – Stéphane Lucas, French former professional footballer ^[48]
• April 30 – Simone Barone, Italian footballer

May

• May 13 – Ilya Kazakov, former Russian football player ^[49]
• May 16 – Edu, Brazilian football player and manager
• May 17 – Paddy Kenny, Irish footballer
• May 30 – Nicolás Olivera, Uruguayan footballer

June

• June 9 – Miroslav Klose, German football player forward
• June 13 – Aleksei Brikov, former Russian footballer ^[50]
• June 17 – Vladimir Buss, former Russian footballer ^[51]
• June 20 – Frank Lampard, English football player midfielder
• June 21 – Hatem Aqel, Jordanian footballer

July

• July 4 – Manfred Razenböck, Austrian former footballer ^[52]
• July 22 – Dennis Rommedahl, Danish footballer

August

• August 4 – Talinda Nyathi, Motswana former footballer ^[53]
• August 5 – Walid Chattaoui, Tunisian retired footballer and manager ^[54]

September

• September 6 – Homare Sawa, Japanese footballer ^[55]
• September 11
  • Dejan Stanković, Serbian footballer and manager ^[56]
  • Pablo Contreras, Chilean footballer ^[57]
• September 15
  • Eiður Guðjohnsen, Icelandic footballer and manager ^[58]
  • Marko Pantelić, Serbian footballer ^[59]
• September 17 – Arne Slot, Dutch football player and manager ^[60]
• September 18
  • Ryan Lowe, English footballer and manager ^[61]
  • Augustine Simo, Cameroonian footballer ^[62]
• September 22 – Harry Kewell, Australian footballer and manager ^[63]
• September 25 – Hakim Bouchouari, Belgian former professional footballer ^[64]

October

• October 3
  • Gerald Asamoah, German footballer ^[65]
  • Claudio Pizarro, Peruvian footballer ^[66]
  • Ricardo Rocha, Portuguese footballer ^[67]
• October 6 – Carl Hoefkens, Belgian footballer and manager ^[68]
• October 9 – Oscar Ewolo, Congolese footballer ^[69]
• October 11 – Kali, Angolan footballer ^[70]
• October 13 – Markus Heikkinen, Finnish footballer ^[71]
• October 15 – Boško Balaban, Croatian footballer ^[72]
• October 17
  • Lars Hirschfeld, Canadian footballer ^[73]
  • Kevin Lisbie, English-Jamaican footballer ^[74]
• October 18 – Igor Lebedev, Russian professional football coach and former player ^[75]
• October 22 – Chaswe Nsofwa, Zambian footballer (d. 2007) ^[76]
• October 23
  • Jimmy Bullard, English footballer and manager ^[77]
  • Archie Thompson, Australian footballer ^[78]
• October 24 – Carlos Edwards, Trinidadian footballer ^[79]
• October 30 – Gerardo Seoane, Swiss footballer and manager ^[80]
• October 31 – Marek Saganowski, Polish footballer and manager ^[81]

November

• November 7
  • Mohamed Aboutrika, Egyptian footballer ^[82]
  • Rio Ferdinand, English footballer ^[83]
  • Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, Dutch footballer ^[84]
• November 8
  • Tim de Cler, Dutch footballer ^[85]
  • Ali Karimi, Iranian footballer and manager ^[86]
• November 10 – Nadine Angerer, German footballer ^[87]
• November 11 – Erik Edman, Swedish footballer ^[88]
• November 12
  • Eric Addo, Ghanaian footballer ^[89]
  • Mista, Spanish footballer ^[90]
• November 18 – Damien Johnson, Northern Irish footballer ^[91]
• November 26 – Andrejs Rubins, Latvian footballer and manager (d. 2022) ^[92]
• November 28 – Mehdi Nafti, Tunisian footballer and manager ^[93]
• November 29
  • Dimitrios Konstantopoulos, Greek footballer ^[94]
  • Andriy Vorobey, Ukrainian footballer ^[95]

December

• December 4 – Michael Ricketts, English footballer ^[96]
• December 5 – Marcelo Zalayeta, Uruguayan footballer ^[97]
• December 8 – John Oster, English-Welsh footballer ^[98]
• December 17 – Patricia Pérez, Mexican female footballer ^[99]
• December 23 – Nicolás Suárez, Bolivian footballer ^[100]
• December 24 – Ghislain Bagnon, French former professional footballer ^[101]
• December 29
  • Victor Agali, Nigerian footballer ^[102]
  • Kieron Dyer, English footballer ^[103]

Deaths

January

• January 3 – Rubén Morán, Uruguayan striker, winner of the 1950 FIFA World Cup. (47)

May

• May 8 – Juan Evaristo, Argentine midfielder, runner up of the 1930 FIFA World Cup, part of the first sibling to ever play a World Cup Final. (75)

June

• June 2 – Santiago Bernabéu (82), Spanish footballer, coach and president.

July

• July 13 – George Reader (81), English football referee

August

• August 5 – Ernst Melchior, Austrian footballer
• August 11 – Mario Varglien, Italian midfielder, winner of the 1934 FIFA World Cup. (72)
• August 15 – Leo Lemešić, Croatian football player and manager
• August 31 – Ángel Bossio, Argentine Goalkeeper, runner-up of the 1930 FIFA World Cup. (73)

September

• September 15 – Ricardo Zamora, Spanish footballer
• September 25 – Luigi Allemandi, Italian defender, winner of the 1934 FIFA World Cup. (74)

November

• November 18 – Pablo Dorado, Uruguayan striker, winner of the 1930 FIFA World Cup and first player ever to score in a World Cup Final. (70)

December

• December 5 – Carlos Riolfo, Uruguayan midfielder, winner of the 1930 FIFA World Cup. (73)

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