The following are the
association football events of the year 1955 throughout the world.
Events
*March 13 – For the first time in history of Dutch football the professionals are allowed to play for the
Netherlands national football team. Against
Denmark,
Faas Wilkes
Servaas "Faas" Wilkes (, 13 October 1923 – 15 August 2006) was a Dutch football forward, who earned a total of 38 caps for the Dutch national team, in which he scored 35 goals (average 0.92 goals per game). However, for a prolonged period of ...
plays his first international match for the Dutch in six years, after signing in
Italy in 1949.
*
England - FA Cup:
Newcastle United
Newcastle United Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Newcastle upon Tyne, that plays in the Premier League – the top flight of English football. The club was founded in 1892 by the merger of Newcastle East End ...
win 3-1 over
Manchester City
Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The tw ...
*September 21 – Dutch club
PSV Eindhoven makes its
European debut with a defeat (6-1) against Austria's
Rapid Wien in the first round of the
European Cup
The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL, or sometimes, UEFA CL) is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competit ...
.
Winners club national championship
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Primera –
River Plate
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Division 1 –
Chelsea
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**
French Division 1
Ligue 1, officially known as Ligue 1 Uber Eats for sponsorship reasons, is a French professional league for men's association football clubs. At the top of the French football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. A ...
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Stade de Reims
Stade de Reims () is a French professional association football, football club based in Reims. The club was formed in 1910 and plays in Ligue 1, the top level of Football in France, having been promoted from Ligue 2 in 2017–18 Ligue 2, 2018. ...
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1. Deild
1. deild is the second tier league of football in the Faroe Islands. It was founded in 1943. The league is organised by the Faroe Islands Football Association. It was originally the top level of Faroe Islands football but was replaced by the Faro ...
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KR
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Liga Leumit –
Hapoel Petah Tikva F.C.
Hapoel Petah Tikva F.C. ( he, הפועל פתח תקווה) is an Israeli football club based in the city of Petah Tikva, currently playing in the Liga Leumit.
Its most successful period was throughout the 1950s and 1960s, in which the club won ...
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Serie A –
A.C. Milan
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Division A
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Aberdeen
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La Liga –
Real Madrid
Real Madrid Club de Fútbol (, meaning ''Royal Madrid Football Club''), commonly referred to as Real Madrid, is a Spanish professional football club based in Madrid.
Founded in 1902 as Madrid Football Club, the club has traditionally wor ...
**
Copa del Rey – Athletic Bilbao
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West-Germany
West Germany is the colloquial term used to indicate the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; german: Bundesrepublik Deutschland , BRD) between its formation on 23 May 1949 and the German reunification through the accession of East Germany on 3 ...
**League –
Rot-Weiß Essen
Rot-Weiss Essen is a German association football club based in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club currently plays in the 3. Liga, at the Stadion an der Hafenstraße.
The team won the DFB-Pokal in 1953, and the German championship in 195 ...
Domestic cups
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England
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FA Cup –
Newcastle
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Scotland
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Scottish Cup -
Clyde
International tournaments
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1955 British Home Championship (October 2, 1954 – April 20, 1955)
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Pan American Games
The Pan American Games (also known colloquially as the Pan Am Games) is a continental multi-sport event in the Americas featuring summer sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The competition is held ...
in
Mexico City,
Mexico (March 13 – April 22, 1955)
**Gold Medal:
**Silver Medal:
**Bronze Medal:
Births
*January 10 —
Franco Tancredi
Franco Tancredi (; born 10 January 1955) is an Italian former footballer who played as a goalkeeper for several Italian clubs, in particular Roma, and the Italy national team. He is a member of the A.S. Roma Hall of Fame.
Club career
Tancredi b ...
, Italian footballer and manager
*January 18 —
Tibor Nyilasi, Hungarian international footballer
*February 8 —
Bruno Pezzey, Austrian international footballer (died 1994)
*February 15 —
Ordan Aguirre, Venezuelan international footballer
*March 6 —
Ray Tumbridge, English former professional footballer
*March 13 —
Bruno Conti, Italian international footballer
*April 1 —
Roberto Pruzzo
Roberto Pruzzo (; born 1 April 1955) is an Italian former football player and coach who played as a forward. He represented Italy at UEFA Euro 1980. A prolific goalscorer, Pruzzo was considered one of the best Italian forwards of his generation ...
, Italian international footballer
*May 1 —
Bobby Lenarduzzi, Canadian international footballer
*June 21 —
Michel Platini, French international footballer, 6th president of UEFA
*June 28 —
Heribert Weber, Austrian international footballer
*July 25 —
Milan Ružić, Yugoslavian international footballer (died 2014)
*August 8 —
Herbert Prohaska, Austrian international footballer
*September 1 —
Gerhard Strack
Gerhard Strack (1 September 1955 – 21 May 2020) was a German footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s.
Club career
Strack played his youth football ba locals clubs Glückauf Habbelrath-Grefrath (until 1966) und SpVg Frechen 20 (until 197 ...
, German international footballer (died 2020)
*September 22 —
Ludo Coeck, Belgian international footballer (died 1985)
*September 25 —
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
Karl-Heinz "Kalle" Rummenigge (; born 25 September 1955) is a German football executive and former professional player. He was the longtime Chairman of Executive Board of FC Bayern München AG, a daughter company of German Bundesliga team Bayern ...
, German international footballer
*October 11 —
Hans-Peter Briegel, German international footballer
*October 12 —
Einar Jan Aas
Einar Jan Aas (born 12 October 1955) is a Norwegian former footballer who played as a central defender. He was the first Norwegian to play professionally in England and Germany.
Club career
Aas started his career in Moss FK in 1973. In 1976, they ...
, Norwegian international footballer
*November 28 —
Alessandro Altobelli, Italian international footballer
*December 24 —
Cees Schapendonk
Cees Schapendonk (born 24 December 1955 in Den Bosch, North Brabant) is a former football striker from the Netherlands. In his sole appearance for the Netherlands national football team on 22 February 1981, he scored in a three-nil victory over C ...
, Dutch international footballer
Deaths
January
* November 11 –
Ramón Muttis, Argentine defender, runner-up of the
1930 FIFA World Cup
The 1930 FIFA World Cup was the inaugural FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national football teams. It took place in Uruguay from 13 to 30 July 1930. FIFA, football's international governing body, selected Uruguay as host nation ...
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