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This day in European football history - April 26

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What happened on April 26
YearEvents
1876
Foundation day of KB Frederiksberg. They were winners of Denmark football championship 17 times.
1890
International football referee Gustaf Ekberg from Sweden was born on this day. He refereed matches of European national football teams (8 games in total). He was also a national team player. Passed away on September 28, 1963.
1903
Club Atlético de Madrid were established on this day. The club from Spain have won 11 domestic championship titles. Also they where winners of UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1961/62; UEFA Europa League in 2009/10, 2011/12 and 2017/18.
1911
113 years ago today, GNK Dinamo Zagreb were formed. They were winners of Croatia and Yugoslavia football championship 34 times.
1917
Foundation day of Silkeborg IF. The club from Denmark have won 1 domestic championship title.
1926
PAOK Thessaloniki were established on this day. They were winners of Greece football championship 3 times.
1952
Marcel Slawik passed away aged 60. He was a well-known international football referee from France. Date of his birth: February 22, 1892.
1962
International footballer Nasko Sirakov is born 62 years ago. He played 82 matches for Bulgaria national team and scored 24 goals.
1965
Birthday of the Portugal football referee Lucílio Batista, who was an official at 23 international games of European association football teams.
1972
Avi Nimni, Israel national football team player (80 caps and 17 goals), born this day.
52 years ago, the Iceland football player Ríkharður Daðason is born. He appeared for 44 matches in total and scored 14 international goals for Iceland.
Northern Ireland referee Mark Courtney is born 52 years ago. He is known to have officiated 6 international matches of European teams during the period from 2004 to 2012.
1977
Birthday of Raphael Wicky, who played for Switzerland national team in period 1996-2007 (75 caps and 1 goal).
1985
Ukraine footballer Artem Fedetskyi is born today. He made his debut for national team in 2010 and earned 53 caps, scoring 2 goals.
1991
33 years ago today, F91 Diddeleng were formed. The club from Luxembourg have won 16 domestic championship titles.
2000
Switzerland national team played their 600th international match in Kaiserslautern against Germany.
The 500th ever game of the Romania national football team was held in Constanţa vs Cyprus.
2007
Former Romania national team player Florea Dumitrache died on this day aged 58. He earned 31 caps and scored 15 goals in total. Date of his birth: May 22, 1948.
Former France football referee Marcel Lequesne died this day at the age of 96. He officiated in matches of national football teams. Born on January 31, 1911.
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