Year | Events |
1924 | International football referee Gyula Emsberger from Hungary was born on this day. He refereed matches of European national football teams (12 games in total). Passed away on March 6, 2011. |
1925 | Birthday of the Belgium football referee Vital Loraux, who was an official at 13 international games of European association football teams. The referee died on February 27, 2013. |
1927 | 95 years ago today, KTP Kotka were formed. They were winners of Finland football championship 2 times. |
1934 | Foundation day of FC Jazz Pori. The club from Finland have won 2 domestic championship titles. |
1936 | Denmark referee Torben Månsson is born 86 years ago. He is known to have officiated 6 international matches of European teams during the period from 1976 to 1982. |
1941 | Birthday of the international referee Jakob Baumann from Switzerland, who refereed 8 football games of European national teams |
1946 | The 1st ever international game of the Albania national team was held in Shkodër vs Montenegro*. |
1957 | Finland national team played their 200th international match in Solna against Sweden. International football venue Leimbachstadion was inaugurated in Siegen. Since opening, 1 game of European national football teams was played on the stadium. |
1970 | Emmanuel Petit, France national football team player (63 caps and 6 goals), born this day. 52 years ago, the Andorra football player Toni Lima is born. He appeared for 64 matches in total and scored 1 international goal for Andorra. |
1972 | Birthday of Manuel Cardoni, who played for Luxembourg national team in period 1993-2004 (69 caps and 5 goals). |
1982 | Netherlands footballer Maarten Stekelenburg is born today. He made his debut for national team in 2004 and earned 63 caps. |
1987 | International footballer Zdravko Kuzmanović is born 35 years ago. He played 50 matches for Serbia national team and scored 6 goals. |
1993 | Tigran Barseghyan, Armenia national football team player (52 caps and 8 goals), born this day. |
1994 | Igor Chislenko passed away at the age of 55. He played for Soviet Union national team in period from 1959 to 1968 (53 caps and 20 goals). Date of his birth: January 4, 1939. |
2013 | Allianz Riviera was opened in Nice. The venue hosted 9 football matches of European national teams. |
2020 | Former Sweden national team player Agne Simonsson died on this day aged 84. He earned 51 caps and scored 27 goals in total. Born on October 19, 1935. Jean Tricot passed away aged 99. He was a well-known international football referee from France. Date of his birth: November 19, 1920. |