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1981 in association football
Overview of the events of 1981 in association football
The following are the association football events of the year 1981 throughout the world.
Events
Winners club national championship
Asia
Europe
North America
Oceania
South America
International tournaments
- Abandoned following severe civil unrest in Northern Ireland.
National teams
Movies
Births
- January 1 – Mladen Petrić, Croatian international[1]
- January 2
- January 9 – Ebi Smolarek, Polish international
- January 10 – James Coppinger, English club footballer
- January 15 – El Hadji Diouf, Senegalese international
- January 19 – Lucho González, Argentine international
- January 20 – Owen Hargreaves, Canadian-born English footballer
- January 21
- January 23 – Lee Dong-geun, South Korean former footballer[2]
- January 25
- January 26 – Fernando Curcio, Uruguayan footballer[5]
- January 28 – Thomas Schlieter, German footballer[6]
- January 30
- February 13
- February 18 – Ivan Sproule, Northern Ireland international
- February 21 – Nery Fernández, Paraguayan former professional footballer[8]
- February 23 – Gareth Barry, English footballer
- February 24
- February 25 – Park Ji Sung, South Korea footballer
- February 27 – Alessandro Rottoli, Italian professional footballer[9]
- March 9 – Didi Longuet, former professional footballer[10]
- March 10 – Samuel Eto'o, Cameroonian international[11]
- March 15 – Aymen Mnafeg, Tunisian footballer[12]
- March 16 – Johannes Aigner, Austrian footballer
- March 18 – Cristián Basaure, Chilean former footballer[13]
- March 19
- March 27 – Terry McFlynn, British footballer
- March 29 – Jlloyd Samuel, Trinidadian footballer (d. 2018)
- March 31 – Wolfgang Bubenik, Austrian footballer[16]
- April 8 – Cédric Faivre, French professional football[17]
- April 9 – Ireneusz Jeleń, Polish international
- April 12 – Nicolás Burdisso, Argentinian footballer
- April 29 – George McCartney, Northern Ireland international
- May 7 – Azrine Effendy Sa'duddin, Malaysian footballer[18]
- May 8
- May 13 – Carciano, Brazilian footballer[20]
- May 15 – Patrice Evra, Senegalese-born French international
- May 27 – Johan Elmander, Swedish footballer
- May 31
- June 4 – Giourkas Seitaridis, Greek international[23]
- June 10 – Burton O'Brien, Scottish footballer
- June 13 – Danny Curran, English former footballer[24]
- June 16 – David Buxo, Andorran footballer[25]
- June 17 – Doddy Édouard, Mauritian footballer[26]
- June 18 – Denis Shevelev, former Russian professional footballer[27]
- June 21 – İbrahim Öztürk, Turkish club footballer
- June 22
- June 23 – Björn Schlicke, German youth international
- June 27
- June 30 – Irakli Toçi, Albanian retired footballer[30]
- July 2 – Baptiste Lafleuriel, former French professional footballer[31]
- July 10 – Aleksandar Tunchev, Bulgarian international
- July 14 – Khaled Aziz, Saudi Arabian midfielder
- July 16 – Paulo (Gideon Paulo da Silva), Brazilian footballer[32]
- July 19 – Anderson Luiz de Carvalho, Brazilian club footballer
- July 20 – Damien Delaney, Irish footballer
- July 28 – Michael Carrick, English footballer
- July 30 – Bruno Parente, retired Portuguese footballer[33]
- August 4 – Hadson da Silva Nery, Brazilian midfielder
- August 8 – Witold Sabela, Polish former professional footballer[34]
- August 10 – Malek Mouath, Saudi Arabian footballer
- August 12 – Oliver Đokić, Serbian footballer[35]
- August 21 – Benjamín Ruiz, Chilean footballer[36]
- August 24 – Mickaël Germain, Guadelopean former professional footballer[37]
- September 1
- September 9 – Pacheta (Héctor Carrasco Rojo), Spanish professional footballer[40]
- September 11 – Victor Kros, Dutch footballer
- September 22 – Alma Martinéz, Mexican female footballer
- September 23 – Jay Murray, English footballer[41]
- October 1 – Ivan Semenets, former Russian professional footballer[42]
- October 3
- October 6 – Mikael Dorsin, Swedish footballer
- October 8 – Chris Killen, New Zealand international[44]
- October 9 – Ryoichi Maeda, Japanese international[45]
- October 12 - Shola Ameobi, Nigerian international
- October 13 - Koen Brack, Dutch footballer[46]
- October 21 - Yohan Viola, Dominican Republic footballer[47]
- October 23
- October 24 – Soeris Baidjoe, Dutch footballer[49]
- October 28 – Milan Baroš, Czech footballer[50]
- November 8 – Joe Cole, English footballer
- November 20
- November 21 – Martin van Leeuwen, Dutch footballer
- November 22 – Seweryn Gancarczyk, Polish international
- November 25 – Xabi Alonso, Spanish international
- December 3 – David Villa, Spanish footballer[51]
- December 3
- December 6 – Gil Ferreira, Brazilian footballer[53]
- December 12 – Federico Tafani, Italian footballer[54]
- December 20 – Leo Bertos, New Zealand international[55]
- December 21 – Cristian Zaccardo, Italian international defender
- December 28 – Khalid Boulahrouz, Dutch footballer
- December 30 – Umar Karsanov, former Russian professional footballer[56]
- December 31 – Dadi Mayuma, Congolese former footballer[57]
Deaths
January
May
June
August
September
- September 22 – Néstor Carballo, Uruguayan international footballer (born 1929)
October
November
December
References
External links
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