Year | Events |
1903 | 117 years ago today, SK Freidig Trondheim were formed. The club from Norway have won 1 domestic championship title. |
1913 | 107 years ago, the former Poland football player Leonard Piątek was born. He appeared for 17 matches in total and scored 11 international goals for Poland. Date of his death: July 1, 1967. |
1918 | Stade de l'Abbé-Deschamps was opened in Auxerre. The venue hosted 2 football matches of European national teams. |
1923 | Birthday of Faas Wilkes, who played for Netherlands national team in period 1946-1961 (38 caps and 35 goals). Died on August 15, 2006, aged 82 years. |
1931 | Former France footballer Raymond Kopa was born today. He made his debut for national team in 1952 and earned 45 caps, scoring 18 goals. Date of his death: March 3, 2017. |
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1952 | Former Italy football referee Giuseppe Scarpi died this day at the age of 51. He officiated in matches of national football teams. Born on December 25, 1900. |
1962 | International football venue Bloomfield Stadium, Jaffa was inaugurated in Tel Aviv. Since opening, 51 games of European national football teams were played on the stadium. |
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1975 | Birthday of the Wales football referee Lee Evans, who was an official at 15 international games of European association football teams. |
1976 | Carl Robinson, Wales national football team player (52 caps and 1 goal), born this day. Ukraine referee Yevhen Aranovskyi is born 44 years ago. He is known to have officiated 10 international matches of European teams during the period from 2012 to 2019. |
1977 | 43 years ago, the Italy football player Antonio Di Natale is born. He appeared for 42 matches in total and scored 11 international goals for Italy. István Avar passed away at the age of 72. He played for Hungary and Romania national teams in period from 1926 to 1927 (23 caps and 27 goals). Born on May 30, 1905. |
1978 | Birthday of Markus Heikkinen, who played for Finland national team in period 2002-2011 (61 caps). |
1982 | Iceland footballer Kári Árnason is born today. He made his debut for national team in 2005 and earned 87 caps, scoring 6 goals. |
1983 | Former Northern Ireland national team player Joe Bambrick died on this day aged 77. He earned 11 caps and scored 11 goals in total. Date of his birth: November 3, 1905. |
1993 | The 1st ever international game of the Macedonia national team was held in Kranj vs Slovenia. The first international goal of Macedonia was scored by Zoran Boškovski in football match vs Slovenia. |
2004 | Macedonia national team played their 100th international match in Andorra la Vella against Andorra. The 200th ever game of the Albania national football team was held in Almaty vs Kazakhstan. |
2016 | Henri Faucheux passed away aged 97. He was a well-known international football referee from France. Date of his birth: September 1, 1919. |