1954 in association football

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Years in association football
← 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 →
1954 in sports
Air sports American football Aquatic sports Association football Athletics Australian rules football Badminton Baseball Basketball Canadian football Chess Climbing Combat sports Sumo Cricket 1953–54 1954 1954–55 Cycling Dance sports Darts Equestrianism Esports Field hockey Flying disc Golf Gymnastics Handball Ice hockey Ice sports Korfball Lumberjack sports Mind sports Modern pentathlon Motorsport Orienteering Paralympic sports Precision sports Shooting Racquetball Roller sports Sailing Skiing Speedway Rugby league‎ Rugby union Snooker 1953–54 1954–55 Strength sports Weightlifting Squash Table tennis Tennis Triathlon Volleyball

The following are the

events of the year 1954 throughout the world.

Events

• May 8 – The Asian Football Confederation is founded in Manila, Philippines.
• June 15 – UEFA is founded in Basel, Switzerland.

Winners club national championship

•  
  KF Partizani Tirana
•  
  Boca Juniors
•  Austria: Rapid Vienna
•  Belgium: R.S.C. Anderlecht
• Bulgaria: CSKA Sofia
•  
  Spartak Prague Sokolovo
• Køge BK
• East Germany: BSG Turbine Erfurt
• England: Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.
• KÍ Klaksvík
• Finland: Pyrkivä Turku
•  France: Lille OSC
• Greece: Olympiacos F.C.
• Hungary: Budapest Honvéd FC
•  Iceland: ÍA
•  Ireland: Shamrock Rovers F.C.
•  
  Internazionale Milano F.C.
•  Luxembourg: Jeunesse Esch
•  Netherlands: FC Eindhoven
•  Northern Ireland: Linfield F.C.
•  Norway: Skeid
•  Poland: Polonia Bytom
•  
  Sporting CP
• Romania: Flamura Roșie Arad
•  Scotland: Celtic F.C.
• Real Madrid
•  Sweden: GAIS
• Switzerland: FC La Chaux-de-Fonds
• USSR: Dynamo Moscow
•  West Germany: Hannover 96
•  
  Dinamo Zagreb

International tournaments

• 1954 British Home Championship
  (October 10, 1953 – April 2, 1954)

 England

• FIFA World Cup in Switzerland (June 16 – July 4, 1954)
  1.  West Germany
  2.  Hungary
  3.  Austria

Births

• January 5 — Jan Everse, Dutch footballer and manager
• January 20 — Daniela Sogliani
• February 7 —
  Jimmy Bailey
  , Honduran international footballer
• February 13 — Dominique Bathenay, French international footballer
• February 19 — Sócrates, Brazilian international footballer (died 2011)
• April 1 — Giancarlo Antognoni, Italian international footballer
• April 14 — László Fekete, Hungarian international footballer (died 2014)
• April 19 — Trevor Francis, English international footballer and manager
• May 18 — Eric Gerets, Belgian international footballer and manager
• May 12 — Wolfgang Dremmler, German international footballer
• June 26 — Luis Arconada, Spanish international footballer
• July 15 — Mario Kempes, Argentinian international footballer
• August 18 — Jan Peters, Dutch international footballer
• August 22 — Emilio Campos, Venezuelan international footballer
• August 24 — Heini Otto, Dutch footballer and manager
• October 30 — Ramón Maradiaga, Honduran footballer and manager
• November 18 — Adrie Koster, Dutch footballer and manager
• December 1 — François Van der Elst, Belgian international footballer (died 2017)

Deaths

• January 31 – Vivian Woodward, English footballer (born 1879)^[1]

References