Year | Events |
1903 | International football venue Harvard Stadium, Allston was inaugurated in Boston. Since opening, 3 games of European national football teams were played on the stadium. |
1916 | International football referee Dries van Leeuwen from Netherlands was born on this day. He refereed matches of European national football teams (9 games in total). Passed away on January 28, 1985. |
1919 | Birthday of the West Germany football referee Rudolf Kreitlein, who was an official at 7 international games of European association football teams. The referee died on July 31, 2012. |
1949 | Former Northern Ireland and Rep. of Ireland national teams player Jimmy Dunne died on this day aged 44. He earned 22 caps and scored 17 goals in total. Date of his birth: September 4, 1905. |
1956 | Birthday of Avi Cohen, who played for Israel national team in period 1976-1988 (64 caps and 3 goals). Died on December 28, 2010, aged 54 years. |
1963 | Sweden referee Peter Fröjdfeldt is born 60 years ago. He is known to have officiated 27 international matches of European teams during the period from 2002 to 2008. |
1979 | Armenia footballer Artavazd Karamyan is born today. He made his debut for national team in 2000 and earned 50 caps, scoring 2 goals. |
1985 | International footballer Thomas Vermaelen is born 38 years ago. He played 85 matches for Belgium national team and scored 2 goals. |
1989 | Vlad Chiricheş, Romania national football team player (76 caps), born this day. |
1992 | Ernst Happel died at the age of 66. He appeared in 51 international football gamesand scored 5 goals for Austria team. He was also known as a national team manager. Born on November 29, 1925. |
2001 | Latvia national team played their 200th international match in Rīga against Russia. |
2006 | Ferdinand Marschall passed away aged 82. He was a well-known international football referee from Austria. Date of his birth: February 19, 1924. |
2012 | The 500th ever game of the Turkey national football team was held in Istanbul vs Denmark. |
2013 | Former Scotland football referee Jim McCluskey died this day at the age of 63. He officiated in matches of national football teams. Born on November 1, 1950. |
2019 | The match England vs Montenegro in London was the 1000th ever international match of England. |