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2025 in association football |
The following are the football (soccer) events in the year 2025 around the world.
Men's tournament winners[change]
International[change]
Youth international[change]
Other international[change]
Continental[change]
Youth Continental[change]
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League
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Cup
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Winner
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Runner-Up
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Runner-Up
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Women's tournament winners[change]
International[change]
Youth international[change]
Other international[change]
Continental[change]
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League
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Champion
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Cup
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Winner
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Runner-Up
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Clubs founded[change]
Women's teams[change]
Clubs folded[change]
Births and deaths[change]
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Player
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Nationality
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Played For
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Managed
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Notable For
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| January 2 |
Cristóbal Ortega (68) |
File:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico |
Mexico Club América |
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6-time Primera División de México winner
3-time Campeón de Campeones winner (1976, 1988, 1989)
3-time CONCACAF Champions' Cup winner (1977, 1987, 1990)
2-time Copa Interamericana winner (1978, 1991)
1977 CONCACAF Championship winner
1982–83 Balón de Oro winner
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| January 3 |
Gilbert Van Binst (73) |
File:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Belgium |
Belgium Anderlecht
France Toulouse
Belgium Club Brugge |
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2-time Belgian First Division winner (1971–72, 1973–74)
4-time Belgian Cup winner
2-time Belgian League Cup winner (1973, 1974)
2-time European Cup Winners' Cup winner (1975–76, 1977–78)
1976–77 European Cup Winners' Cup runner-up
2-time European Super Cup winner (1976, 1978)
1969–70 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup runner-up
Finished third at UEFA Euro 1972
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| January 6 |
Dušan Maravić (85) |
File:Flag of Yugoslavia.svg Yugoslavia
File:Flag of Serbia.svg Serbia |
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Spartak Subotica
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Red Star Belgrade
France Racing Paris
France Entente BFN
France Béziers
Venezuela Deportivo Italia |
France Gap FC |
3-time Yugoslav First League winner (1958–59, 1959–60, 1963–64)
2-time Yugoslav Cup winner (1958–59, 1963–64)
1972 Venezuelan Primera División winner
1970 Copa Venezuela winner
Gold medalist at the 1960 Summer Olympics
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| January 13 |
Tony Book (90) |
File:Flag of England.svg England |
England Bath City
Canada Toronto City
England Plymouth Argyle
England Manchester City |
England Manchester City |
1967–68 Football League First Division winner
1968–69 FA Cup winner
2-time Football League Cup winner (1969–70, 1975–76)
2-time FA Charity Shield winner (1968, 1972)
1969–70 European Cup Winners' Cup winner
1970 Anglo-Italian League Cup runner-up
Joint-winner of the 1968–69 FWA Footballer of the Year
Brother of former English footballer Kim Book
Father of former English footballer Steve Book
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| January 17 |
Denis Law (84) |
File:Flag of Scotland.svg Scotland |
England Huddersfield Town
England Manchester City
Italy Torino
England Manchester United |
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2-time Football League First Division winner (1964–65, 1966–67)
1962–63 FA Cup winner
2-time FA Charity Shield winner (1965, 1967)
6-time British Home Championship winner
1964 Ballon d'Or winner
1968–69 European Cup top goalscorer
Member of the Football League 100 Legends
Member of the English and Scottish Football Hall of Fames
Awarded as Scotland's Golden Player in 2003
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| January 24 |
Mimis Domazos (83) |
File:Flag of Greece.svg Greece |
GreeceGreeceGreece Panathinaikos
Greece AEK Athens |
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9-time Alpha Ethniki winner
3-time Greek Cup winner (1966–67, 1968–69, 1976–77)
1970–71 European Cup runner-up
1977 Balkans Cup winner
Most appearances in the Super League Greece (535)
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| Ellert Schram (85) |
File:Flag of Iceland.svg Iceland |
Iceland KR |
Iceland KR |
5-time Úrvalsdeild winner
7-time Icelandic Football Cup winner
6th Chairman of the KSÍ (1973–1989)
5th President of the ÍSÍ (1991–2006)
Father of Icelandic journalist Arna Schram
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| February 3 |
Lima (83) |
File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil |
Brazil Juventus-SP
BrazilBrazil Santos
Mexico Jalisco
Brazil Fluminense
United States Tampa Bay Rowdies |
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7-time Campeonato Paulista winner
3-time Torneio Rio–São Paulo winner (1963, 1964, 1966)
5-time Taça Brasil winner
2-time Copa Libertadores winner (1962, 1963)
2-time Intercontinental Cup winner (1962, 1963)
1968 Intercontinental Supercup winner
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| February 10 |
Takis Ikonomopoulos (81) |
File:Flag of Greece.svg Greece |
GreeceGreece Apollon Smyrnis
Greece Proodeftiki
GreeceGreece Panathinaikos
Greece Panachaiki |
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5-time Alpha Ethniki winner
2-time Greek Cup winner (1966–67, 1968–69)
4-time Greek Cup finalist
1970–71 European Cup runner-up
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| February 12 |
Ali Gagarin (75) |
File:Flag of Sudan.svg Sudan |
SudanSudan Al-Hilal Club
Saudi Arabia Al Nassr
Ivory Coast Stade d'Abidjan |
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3-time Sudan Premier League winner (1966, 1969, 1973)
1976 Saudi King's Cup winner
1970 African Cup of Nations winner
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- January 1:
- South Korea Noh Haeng-seok (36), footballer (Gwangju FC, Daegu FC, Busan IPark).
- France Jean-Louis Lalanne (70), footballer (UA Cognac, Girondins de Bordeaux, Libourne).
- Soviet UnionUkraine Viktor Nastashevskyi (67), footballer (Dynamo Kyiv, Shakhtar Donetsk, SKA Kyiv, Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih) and assistant manager.
- Socialist Federal Republic of YugoslaviaSlovenia Igor Poznič (57), footballer (Maribor, Grazer AK, Mura, Slovenia).
- January 2:
- Italy Aldo Agroppi (80), footballer (Torino, Perugia, Italy) and manager (Pescara, Pisa, Perugia, Fiorentina, Como).
- Switzerland Werner Leimgruber (90), footballer (FC Zürich, Switzerland).
- Mexico Cristóbal Ortega (68), footballer (Club América, Mexico).
- January 3:
- Socialist Federal Republic of YugoslaviaBosnia and Herzegovina Zlatko Dupovac (72), footballer (Radnik Hadžići, Sarajevo, Borac Banja Luka, St. Gallen, Wettingen).
- ArgentinaFrance Ernesto Gianella (83), footballer (OGC Nice, AS Béziers, Stade de Reims, AS Monaco, Nîmes, Pays d'Aix, Châteauroux).
- England Brian Usher (80), footballer (Sunderland, Sheffield Wednesday, Doncaster Rovers).
- Belgium Gilbert Van Binst (73), footballer (Anderlecht, Toulouse, Club Brugge, Belgium), assistant manager (Club Brugge), and manager.
- January 4:
- Uruguay Mathías Acuña (32), footballer (El Tanque Sisley, Fénix, Liverpool Montevideo, Montevideo Wanderers, AEL, Lamia, Boston River).
- Socialist Federal Republic of YugoslaviaBosnia and Herzegovina Franjo Džidić (85), footballer (Velež Mostar, Borac Čapljina), player-manager (Mladost Lištica), and manager (Borac Čapljina, Leotar, Velež Mostar, Šibenik, Široki Brijeg, Zrinjski Mostar).
- Tunisia Mohsen Habacha (82), footballer (ES Sahel, Ajaccio, Tunisia).
- Ukraine Oleksandr Humenyuk (48), footballer (Boryspil, CSKA Kyiv, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, Chornomorets Odesa, Volyn Lutsk, Metalist Kharkiv), goalkeeping coach (Vorskla Poltava, Bukovyna Chernivtsi), and manager (Dynamo Kyiv Academy, Bukovyna Chernivtsi, Dinaz Vyshhorod).
- Turkey Yılmaz Urul (82), footballer (İstanbulspor, Fenerbahçe, Mersin İdmanyurdu, Turkey).
- January 5:
- Germany Gerd Achterberg (84), footballer (Spandauer BC) and manager (Spandauer BC, BFC Südring, BFC Preussen, Tennis Borussia Berlin).
- Spain Juan Manuel Villa (86), footballer (Plus Ultra, Real Sociedad, Real Zaragoza, Spain).
- France Freddy Zix (89), footballer (Strasbourg, Mulhouse, Mutzig, France). Played at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
- January 6:
- January 8:
- January 9:
- January 10:
- UruguayColombia Nelson Silva Pacheco (80), footballer (Danubio, Liverpool, Sportivo Italiano, Tigre, Rosario Central, Atlético Nacional, Deportes Quindío, Cúcuta Deportivo, Atlético Junior, Deportivo Táchira, América de Cali, Colombia) and manager (Deportivo Táchira, Deportes Tolima).
- Soviet UnionRussia Anatoli Pata (66), footballer (Mashuk Pyatigorsk, Rotor Volgograd, Dynamo Stavropol, Kuban Krasnodar, Dynamo Izobilny), assistant manager (Dynamo Stavropol), manager (Dynamo Stavropol), and scout (Dynamo Stavropol).
- January 11:
- Scotland Bobby Kennedy (87), footballer (Kilmarnock, Manchester City, Grimsby Town) and manager (Grimsby Town, Bradford City).
- Netherlands Tiny Ruys (67), footballer (NEC, Fortuna Sittard) and manager (United Arab Emirates, Al Ain, Fortuna Sittard, MVV, SV Meerssen, EVV Echt). - [Death announced on this date]
- January 13:
- England Tony Book (90), footballer (Bath City, Plymouth Argyle, Manchester City) and manager (Manchester City).
- Barbados Keith Griffith (77), footballer (Barbados), manager (Barbados, Joe Public, US Virgin Islands), and technical director (Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, Cayman Islands, US Virgin Islands).
- Soviet UnionUkraine Mykhaylo Stelmakh (58), footballer (Dynamo Irpin, Dynamo Kyiv, Shakhtar Donetsk, Karpaty Lviv, Vorskla Poltava, CSKA Kyiv), assistant manager (Arsenal Kyiv, Kharkiv, Poltava, Skala Stryi 1911), and manager (Kharkiv, Dinaz Vyshhorod).
- Venezuela Vicente Vega (69), footballer (Deportivo Táchira, Portuguesa, Deportivo Italia, Venezuela).
- January 14:
- January 15:
- January 16:
- Romania Vasile Ardeleanu (50), footballer (FCM Bacău, CSM Focșani, FC Onești).
- Sweden Harry Bild (88), footballer (IFK Norrköping, FC Zürich, Feyenoord, Östers IF, Sweden).
- Albania Sabah Bizi (78), footballer (Vllaznia, Partizani, Albania) and manager (Veleçiku, Vllaznia).
- January 17:
- January 18:
- England Garry Brooke (64), footballer (Tottenham Hotspur, GAIS, Norwich City, Groningen, Wimbledon, Brentford).
- Romania Nicolae Oaidă (91), footballer (Dinamo Brașov, Dinamo Bacău, Progresul București, Romania) and mannager (Libya, Al-Ahly Benghazi, Mureșul Deva, Progresul București, Tractorul Brașov, Jiul Petroșani, Autobuzul București, Hassania Agadir, Homenetmen Beirut).
- January 19:
- Scotland Jimmy Calderwood (69), footballer (Birmingham City, Sparta Rotterdam, Willem II, Roda JC, Heracles Almelo) and manager (Willem II, NEC Nijmegen, Dunfermline Athletic, Aberdeen, Kilmarnock, Ross County, Go Ahead Eagles, De Graafschap).
- January 20:
- January 21:
- Romania Ion Diaconescu (), footballer (Steaua București, Oțelul Galați, Dunărea Galați).
- January 22:
- Spain Juan Antonio Román (82), footballer (Granada, Sevilla, Real Valladolid) and manager (San Fernando, Poli Almería, Linense, Almería).
- Finland Kimmo Tauriainen (52), footballer (RoPS, Kontu, Atlantis, IK Start).
- January 23:
- Chile Eduardo de la Barra (65), footballer (Ñublense, Deportes Temuco, Avaí, Deportes Concepción, Naval), assistant manager (Naval), and manager (Deportes Concepción, Naval, Everton, Ñublense, Universidad de Concepción youth, Universidad de Concepción Femenino).
- France Anthony Basso (45), footballer (Udinese, Viking, Heart of Midlothian).
- Greece Andreas Stamatiadis (89), footballer (AEK Athens, Greece), assistant manager (AEK Athens), and manager (Rodos, Lamia, Anagennisi Karditsa, AEK Athens, Atromitos, Egaleo, Acharnaikos, Greece U21).
- January 24:
- Algeria Lakhdar Bouyahi (79), footballer (NA Hussein Dey, Algeria).
- Greece Mimis Domazos (83), footballer (Panathinaikos, AEK Athens, Greece).
- England David Gaskell (84), footballer (Manchester United, Wigan Athletic, Wrexham).
- Iceland Ellert Schram (85), footballer (KR, Iceland), manager (KR), and politician. President of the KSÍ (1973–1989) and the ÍSÍ (1991–2006).
- Belgium Eddy Wauters (91), footballer (Royal Antwerp, Belgium) and manager (Royal Antwerp).
- January 26:
- January 27:
- January 28:
- January 29:
- Romania Dinu Gheorghe (68), club president (Rapid București, FC Brașov, Astra Giurgiu, Dinamo București, ASA Târgu Mureș
- Switzerland Gianfranco de Taddeo (96), footballer (La Chaux-de-Fonds, Young Boys, FC Basel, Neuchâtel Xamax, Old Boys, Young Fellows Zürich).
- January 31:
- February 1:
- February 2:
- England Alan Shoulder (71), footballer (Bishop Auckland, Newcastle United, Carlisle United, Hartlepool United) and manager.
- Scotland Billy Pirie (75), footballer (Arbroath, Aberdeen, Dundee, Sydney Olympic).
- Iceland Björgólfur Guðmundsson (84), businessman, chairman, and club owner (West Ham United). Father of Icelandic businessman and billionaire Björgólfur Thor.
- Turkey Ogün Altıparmak (86), footballer (Karşıyaka, Fenerbahçe, Washington Whips, Turkey). Father of former Turkish footballer Batur Altıparmak.
- February 3:
- February 5:
- February 6:
- EnglandScotland Gordon Marshall (85), footballer (Heart of Midlothian, Newcastle United, Nottingham Forest, Hibernian, Aberdeen, Arbroath). - [Death announced on this date]
- Poland Andrzej Marchel (60), footballer (Lechia Gdańsk).
- Wales Ernie Walley (91), footballer (Tottenham Hotspur, Middlesbrough) and manager (Crystal Palace, Barking, Bangor City).
- February 7:
- February 9:
- Italy Giorgio Pellizzaro (77), footballer (Mantova, Sampdoria, Catanzaro, Foggia, Brescia).
- England John Tudor (78), footballer (Coventry City, Sheffield United, Newcastle United, Stoke City, Gent).
- February 10:
- February 11:
- February 12:
- ↑ Hosts are Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
- ↑ Hosts are Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
- ↑ Hosts include Czech Republic, England, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, and Turkey.
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