The following are the association football events of the year 1978 throughout the world.
Events
Winners club national championship
Africa
Asia
Europe
North America
Oceania
South America
International tournaments
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Births
January
- January 1 – Philip Mulryne, Northern Irish footballer
- January 2 – Aimo Diana, Italian footballer and manager
- January 6 РC̩dric Roussel, Belgian footballer (d. 2023)
- January 9
- Gennaro Gattuso, Italian footballer and manager
- Hamlet Barrientos, Bolivian footballer
- January 10
- Gavin McCann, English footballer
- Facundo Quiroga, Argentine footballer
- January 11
- Emile Heskey, English footballer
- Michael Duff, Northern Irish footballer and manager
- January 12 – Bonaventure Kalou, Ivorian footballer
- January 13
- Chérif Touré Mamam, Togolese footballer
- Tinga, Brazilian footballer
- January 17
- Frode Kippe, Norwegian footballer
- Patrick Suffo, Cameroonian footballer
- January 18 – Bogdan LobonÃÂ, Romanian footballer and manager
- January 20
- Salvatore Aronica, Italian footballer and manager
- Luciano Zauri, Italian footballer and manager
- January 24 – Tomokazu Myojin, Japanese footballer
- January 25
- Jason Roberts, English-Grenadian footballer
- Robin Nelisse, Dutch Antillean international footballer
- January 26 – Nastja ÃÂeh, Slovenian footballer
- January 27 РGustavo Mun̼a, Uruguayan footballer and manager
- January 28
- Gianluigi Buffon, Italian international goalkeeper
- Jamie Carragher, English footballer
- Papa Bouba Diop, Senegalese footballer (d. 2020)
February
- February 2
- Barry Ferguson, Scottish footballer and manager
- Claudio Morel, Paraguayan footballer and manager
- February 3 – Joan Capdevila, Spanish footballer
- February 5
- Jairon Zamora, Ecuadorian footballer
- Anvarjon Soliev, Uzbekistani footballer
- February 6 – Jacek Kuranty, Polish footballer
- February 7
- Ivan Leko, Croatian footballer and manager
- Daniel Van Buyten, Belgian footballer
- February 12 – Alain Masudi, Congolese footballer
- February 15 – Alejandro Lembo, Uruguayan footballer
- February 18 – Josip Ã
 imuniÃÂ, Croatian footballer
- February 19
- Alioum Saidou, Cameroonian footballer
- Michalis Konstantinou, Cypriot footballer
- February 24 – Leon Constantine, English footballer
- February 25
- Yazid Mansouri, French-Algerian footballer
- Yuji Nakazawa, Japanese footballer
- February 26
- Abdoulaye Faye, Senegalese footballer
- Mohammed Noor, Saudi Arabian footballer
- February 27
- James Beattie, English footballer and manager
- Kakha Kaladze, Georgian footballer
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
- September 6
- ÃÂric Kossingou, French former professional footballer
- Homare Sawa, Japanese footballer
- September 11
- Dejan StankoviÃÂ, Serbian footballer and manager
- Pablo Contreras, Chilean footballer
- September 15
- Eiður Guðjohnsen, Icelandic footballer and manager
- Marko PanteliÃÂ, Serbian footballer
- September 17 – Arne Slot, Dutch football player and manager
- September 18
- Ryan Lowe, English footballer and manager
- Augustine Simo, Cameroonian footballer
- September 22 – Harry Kewell, Australian footballer and manager
- September 25 – Hakim Bouchouari, Belgian former professional footballer
October
- October 3
- Gerald Asamoah, German footballer
- Claudio Pizarro, Peruvian footballer
- Ricardo Rocha, Portuguese footballer
- October 6
- Ankyofna Encada, Bissau-Guinean former footballer
- Carl Hoefkens, Belgian footballer and manager
- October 9 – Oscar Ewolo, Congolese footballer
- October 11 – Kali, Angolan footballer
- October 13 – Markus Heikkinen, Finnish footballer
- October 15 – BoÃ
¡ko Balaban, Croatian footballer
- October 17
- Lars Hirschfeld, Canadian soccer player
- Kevin Lisbie, English-Jamaican footballer
- October 18 – Igor Lebedev, Russian professional football coach and former player
- October 22 – Chaswe Nsofwa, Zambian footballer (d. 2007)
- October 23
- Jimmy Bullard, English footballer and manager
- Archie Thompson, Australian footballer
- October 24 – Carlos Edwards, Trinidadian footballer
- October 30 – Gerardo Seoane, Swiss footballer and manager
- October 31 – Marek Saganowski, Polish footballer and manager
November
- November 4 – Roman Hupf, Austrian footballer
- November 7
- Mohamed Aboutrika, Egyptian footballer
- Rio Ferdinand, English footballer
- Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, Dutch footballer
- November 8
- Tim de Cler, Dutch footballer
- Ali Karimi, Iranian footballer and manager
- November 10 – Nadine Angerer, German footballer
- November 11 – Erik Edman, Swedish footballer
- November 12
- Eric Addo, Ghanaian footballer
- Mista, Spanish footballer
- November 18 – Damien Johnson, Northern Irish footballer
- November 26 – Andrejs Rubins, Latvian footballer and manager (d. 2022)
- November 28 – Mehdi Nafti, Tunisian footballer and manager
- November 29
- Dimitrios Konstantopoulos, Greek footballer
- Andriy Vorobey, Ukrainian footballer
December
Deaths
January
May
June
July
August
September
November
December
References