1926 in association football

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The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1926 throughout the world.

Events

PAOK FC was founded in Thessaloniki, Greece. SC Lourinhanense was founded in Lisbon, Portugal.

November 8 – APOEL FC is founded in Cyprus.

Winners club national championship

Denmark: B1903
England: Huddersfield Town
Greece: Regional Championships:

EPSA (Athens) Panathinaikos

EPSP (Pireas)Olympiacos

EPSM (Thessaloniki) Aris

EPSP (Patras) A.P.S. Olympiakos Patras

International tournaments

1926 British Home Championship (October 24, 1925 – April 17, 1926)

1924-28 Nordic Football Championship (June 15, 1924 – October 7, 1928) 1926: (June 9 - October 3, 1926)

Denmark (1926)

Denmark (1924-1928)

South American Championship 1926 in Chile (October 12, 1926 – November 3, 1926)

Births

January 22 – Otto Hemele, Czech international footballer (died 2001)
February 4 – Gyula Grosics, Hungarian international football player and manager (died 2014)
May 1 – Doug Cowie, Scottish international footballer (died 2021)
May 5 – Víctor Ugarte, Bolivian international footballer (died 1995)
May 27 – Kees Rijvers, Dutch football player and manager (died 2024)
June 2 – Pat Hewson, English former footballer (died 2017)^[2]
June 19 – Juan Hohberg, Uruguayan international footballer (died 1996)
June 19 – Julio Pérez, Uruguayan international footballer (died 2002)
July 4 – Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentine-Spanish international footballer and coach (died 2014)
September 29 – Harry Hart, English professional footballer^[3] (died 2012)
December 19 – René Pascucci, Luxembourgian footballer (died 2018)^[4]
December 22 – Alcides Ghiggia, Uruguayan international footballer (died 2015)

Deaths

Clubs founded

References

^ "Scottish Cup Past Winners | Scottish Cup | Scottish FA". www.scottishfa.co.uk. Retrieved 17 December 2022.
^ "Pat Hewson". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
^ "Harry Hart". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
^ "René Pascucci". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 24 October 2021.

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