The following are the
football events of 1937 throughout the world.
Events
*May 2 –
Puck van Heel becomes Holland's most capped player when he plays his 57th match for the
Netherlands national football team against Belgium. Van Heel earned 64 caps during his career.
*Foundation of
Air Force Central F.C.
*
Sunderland AFC win the
FA cup final
The FA Cup Final is the last match in the FA Cup, Football Association Challenge Cup. It has regularly been one of the List of sports attendance figures, most attended domestic football events in the world, with an official attendance of 89,472 ...
.
Winners club national championship
* Argentina:
River Plate
* France:
Olympique de Marseille
* Italy:
Bologna
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* Netherlands:
Ajax Amsterdam
* Paraguay:
Olimpia Asunción
* Poland:
Cracovia
* Romania:
Venus București
* Scotland:
**
Scottish Cup:
Celtic
* Soviet Union: see
1937 in Soviet football
* Turkey:
Fenerbahçe
* Kingdom of Yugoslavia:
Građanski Zagreb
International tournaments
*
1937 British Home Championship (October 31, 1936 – April 17, 1937)
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1937 South American Championship (December 27, 1936 – February 1, 1937)
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Births
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January 1
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Events ...
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Vlatko Marković, Yugoslavian international footballer (died 2013)
*
February 3
Events Pre-1600
* 1047 – Drogo of Hauteville is elected as count of the Apulian Normans during the Norman conquest of Southern Italy.
* 1112 – Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, u ...
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Alex Young Scottish international footballer (died 2017)
*
March 13 –
Antonio Betancort, Spanish international footballer (died 2015)
*
May 16 –
Antonio Rattín, Argentine international footballer
*
June 1
Events Pre-1600
* 1252 – Alfonso X is proclaimed king of Castile and León.
* 1298 – Residents of Riga and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida.
* 1495 – A monk, John Cor, rec ...
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Ezio Pascutti, Italian international footballer (died 2017)
*
June 27 –
Jules Accorsi, French football player and manager
*
June 29 –
Yair Nossovsky, Israeli footballer
*
July 6 –
Ernesto Figueiredo, Portuguese footballer
*
July 9 –
Josef Vacenovský, Czech forward
*
July 12
**
Fritz Kehl, Swiss football defender
**
František Valošek, Czech football player
*
July 20 –
Ilie Datcu, Romanian goalkeeper and coach
*
August 9 –
Hans Nowak, German international footballer (died 2012)
*
August 19 –
Richard Møller Nielsen, Danish international footballer and manager (died 2014)
*
August 22 –
Gennadi Matveyev, Soviet international footballer (died 2014)
*
October 14 –
Ron Routledge, English professional footballer
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November 8
**
Peter Brabrook, English international footballer (died 2016)
**
Dragoslav Šekularac, Serbian footballer and manager (d.
2019)
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November 10 –
Zdeněk Zikán, Czech football player (d.
2013
2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years).
2013 was designated as:
*International Year of Water Cooperation
*International Year of Quinoa
Events
January
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*
November 20 –
Pim van de Meent, Dutch footballer and manager
*
December 6 –
Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorian-Uruguayan footballer (died 2006)
*
December 20 –
Gordon Banks, English international footballer (died 2019)
References
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Association football by year