The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1959 throughout the world.
Events
Winners club national championship
International tournaments
Shared by and
Births
- January 23 — Eustorgio Sánchez, Venezuelan football goalkeeper
- February 7
- Sammy Lee (footballer), English international footballer and manager
- Vlastimil Opálek, Slovak footballer
- February 17 — Phil Dudley, English former footballer
- February 27 — Angelo Paolanti, Italian former footballer
- March 4 — Romeo Zondervan, Dutch international footballer
- March 20 — Roland Sikinger, American professional soccer player
- March 28 — Paolo Agabitini, Italian retired footballer
- April 2 — Badou Ezzaki, Moroccan football player and manager
- May 20 — Juan Carlos Letelier, Chilean international footballer
- May 26 — Róger Flores, Costa Rican international footballer
- July 25 — Fyodor Cherenkov; Soviet and Russian international footballer and manager (died 2014)
- July 31 — Wilmar Cabrera, Uruguayan international footballer
- August 18 — Leszek Walankiewicz, retired Polish footballer
- September 4 — Fernando Alvez, Uruguayan international footballer
- October 23 — Uriah Rennie, Jamaican-born British referee (died 2025)
- November 8 — Selçuk Yula, Turkish international
- November 11 — Mauricio Peña, Mexican footballer (died 2010)
- November 14 — José Figueroa, Honduran international footballer
- November 17 — Thomas Allofs, German international footballer
- November 22 — Marek Ostrowski, Polish international footballer (died 2017)
- November 28 — Pedro Acosta, Venezuelan international footballer
- December 11 — Thandwa Moreki, Botswana footballer
- December 19 — Edward Metgod, Dutch football goalkeeper and manager
- Full date unknown
- Vasilije KaleziÃÂ, Montenegrin retired footballer
Deaths
May
July
November
References