1951 in association football explained

The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1951 throughout the world.

Winners club national championship

• : Racing Club
• : Tottenham Hotspur F.C.
• : OGC Nice
• : A.C. Milan
• : PSV Eindhoven
• : CCA București
• : Atlético Madrid
• : 1. FC Kaiserslautern

International tournaments

• Pan American Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina (25 February  - 8 March 1951)
  • Gold Medal:
  • Silver Medal:
  • Bronze Medal:
• 1951 Asian Games in New Delhi, India (5 – 10 March 1951)
  • :
  • :
  • :
• 1950–51 British Home Championship (7 October 1950  - 14 April 1951)

Births

• 1 January  - Dante Garro, Argentine club footballer and manager (died 2008)
• 2 January  - Terry Stanley, English former professional footballer
• 18 January  - Renato Zaccarelli, Italian international footballer and manager.^[1]
• 14 February  - Kevin Keegan, English international footballer and manager.^[2]
• 21 February  - Wolfgang Frank, German footballer and manager (died 2013)
• 4 March  - Kenny Dalglish, Scottish international footballer and manager
• 11 April  - Jim Holton, Scottish international footballer (died 1993)
• 2 June  - Antonio Benítez, Spanish international footballer (died 2014)
• 21 September  - Bruce Arena, American soccer player and coach.^[3]
• 23 September  - Harry Lubse, Dutch international footballer
• 12 October  - István Halász, Hungarian international footballer (died 2016)
• 3 November  - François Bracci, French international footballer
• 9 December  - Dominique Dropsy, French international footballer (died 2015)
• 17 December  - Jed Reilly, Scottish former footballer^[4]

Deaths

January

• 26 January - Henri Bard, French footballer (born 1892)

May

• 9 May - Leo Bosschart, Dutch footballer (born 1888)

July

• 14 July - Ben Verweij (55), Dutch footballer (born 1895)

November

• 13 November – Walter de Souza Goulart, Brazilian goalkeeper, semi-finalist at the 1938 FIFA World Cup (born 1912)

Reference

1. Web site: 2008-07-21 . FIFA.com - FIFA Player Statistics: Renato ZACCARELLI . 2023-06-01 . 2015-02-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150225073739/http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/statisticsandrecords/players/player=44773/index.html . dead .
2. Web site: BBC SPORT FOOTBALL Kevin Keegan factfile . 2023-06-01 . news.bbc.co.uk.
3. Book: Current Biography Yearbook 2010 . H.W. Wilson . 2010 . 9780824211134 . Ipswich, MA . 15–19 . Arena, Bruce . https://archive.org/details/currentbiography2010unse/page/15.
4. Web site: Jed Reilly . worldfootball.net . HEIM:SPIEL Medien GmbH & Co. KG . 8 June 2024 . en.