2010 in association football

The following are the association football events of the year 2010 throughout the world.

Events

Men's national teams

FIFA

• 11 June – 11 July: 2010 FIFA World Cup in
• 4th:
• 14 August – 22 August: 2010 IBSA World Blind Football Championship in
• 4th:

CAF

• 10 January – 31 January: 2010 African Cup of Nations in
• 4th:

AFC

• December 1–29: 2010 AFF Suzuki Cup in and
• Winners:
• Runners-up:
• Third place: ,

Women's national teams

• 24 February – 3 March: 2010 Algarve Cup in
• 4th:
• 4–21 November 2010: 2010 South American Women's Football Championship in
• 4th:

Women's youth

• July 13 – August 1: 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in
• 4th:
• 5 September - 25 September: 2010 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in
• 4th:
• March 3 - March 17: 2010 South American U-20 Women Championship in
• 4th:

Multi-sports events

Men

• August 12–25: 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in
• 4th:
• November 7–25: 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou,
• 4th:

Women

• August 12–24: 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in
• 4th:
• November 14–22: 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou,
• 4th:

Club football

Women

National champions

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AFC

CAF

CONCACAF

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• Saint Kitts: Newtown United
• Saint Lucia: Roots Alley Ballers
• Saint-Martin: Orleans Attackers
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Avenues United
• Sint Maarten: D & P Connection
• Turks and Caicos Islands: AFC Academy

CONMEBOL

OFC

UEFA

• Albania: Dinamo Tirana
• Andorra: FC Santa Coloma
• Armenia: Pyunik Yerevan
• Austria: Red Bull Salzburg
• Azerbaijan: Inter Baku
• Belarus: FC BATE Borisov
• Belgium: Anderlecht
• Bosnia and Herzegovina: FK Željezničar Sarajevo
• Bulgaria: Litex Lovech
• Croatia: Dinamo Zagreb
• Cyprus: Omonia
• Czech Republic: Sparta Prague
• Denmark: Copenhagen
• England: Chelsea
• Estonia: FC Flora Tallinn
• Faroe Islands: HB Thorshavn
• Finland: HJK Helsinki
• France: Marseille
• Georgia: Olimpi Rustavi
• Germany: Bayern Munich
• Greece: Panathinaikos
• Hungary: Debreceni VSC
• Iceland: Breiðablik UBK
• Republic of Ireland: Shamrock Rovers
• Israel: Hapoel Tel Aviv
• Italy: Internazionale
• Kazakhstan: Tobol Kostanay
• Latvia: Skonto Riga
• Lithuania: Ekranas Panevezys
• Luxembourg: Jeunesse Esch
• Macedonia: Renova
• Malta: Birkirkara
• Moldova: Sheriff Tiraspol
• Montenegro: Rudar Pljevlja
• Netherlands: Twente
• Northern Ireland: Linfield
• Norway: Rosenborg Trondheim
• Poland: Lech Poznań
• Portugal: Benfica
• Romania: Cluj
• Russia: FC Zenit Saint Petersburg
• San Marino: Tre Fiori
• Scotland: Rangers
• Serbia: Partizan
• Slovakia: MÅ K Žilina
• Slovenia: Koper
• Spain: Barcelona
• Sweden: Malmö FF
• Switzerland: Basel
• Turkey: Bursaspor
• Ukraine: Shakhtar Donetsk
• Wales: The New Saints

Domestic cup winners

AFC

• Japan

: Emperor's Cup: Kashima Antlers

• Qatar

: Emir of Qatar Cup: Al-Rayyan

• Singapore

: Singapore Cup: Bangkok Glass

• Thailand

: Thai FA Cup: Chonburi FC

CAF

• South Africa

:Nedbank Cup: Bidvest Wits

CONCACAF

• Canada

: Canadian Championship: Toronto FC

• Suriname

:Beker van Suriname: Excelsior

• United States

: U.S. Open Cup: Seattle Sounders FC

CONMEBOL

• Brazil

: Copa do Brasil: Santos

OFC

• New Zealand

: Chatham Cup: Miramar Rangers

UEFA

• England

:FA Cup: Chelsea

: League Cup: Manchester United

• France

: Coupe de France: Paris Saint-Germain

: Coupe de la Ligue: Marseille

• Germany

: DFB-Pokal: Bayern Munich

• Greece

: Greek Cup: Panathinaikos

• Italy

: Coppa Italia: Internazionale

• Netherlands

: KNVB Cup: Ajax

• Portugal

:Taça de Portugal: Porto

:Taça da Liga: Benfica

• Russia

: Russian Cup: Zenit St. Petersburg

• Scotland

: Scottish Cup: Dundee United

: Scottish League Cup: Rangers

• Slovenia

: Slovenian Cup: Maribor

• Spain

: Copa del Rey: Sevilla

• Turkey

: Turkish Cup: Trabzonspor

Deaths

January

• 1 January – Sergio Messen, Chilean midfielder (60)
• 1 January – Jean-Pierre Posca, French defender (57)
• 3 January - Gus Alexander, Scottish footballer (75)
• 7 January – Alex Parker, Scottish defender (74)
• 9 January - Améleté Abalo, Togolese football manager (47)
• 11 January - Johnny King, English footballer (83)
• 13 January - Tommy Sloan, Scottish footballer (84)
• 15 January – Detlev Lauscher, German striker (57)
• 18 January – Lino Grava, Italian defender (82)
• 19 January – Nils Jensen, Danish goalkeeper (74)
• 19 January – Panajot Pano, Albanian striker (70)
• 19 January - Christos Hatziskoulidis, Greek footballer (57)
• 20 January - Jack Parry, Welsh footballer (86)
• 21 January – Marino Bergamasco, Italian midfielder (84)
• 26 January – Lars Larsson, Swedish defender (76)

February

• 1 February - Bobby Kirk, Scottish footballer (82)
• 3 February – Gil Merrick, English goalkeeper (88)
• 5 February – Galimzyan Khusainov, Russian striker (72)
• 7 February - Bobby Dougan, Scottish footballer (83)
• 8 February – Angelo Franzosi, Italian goalkeeper (88)
• 9 February – Constant de Backer, Belgian midfielder (81)
• 10 February – Orlando, Brazilian defender (74)
• 11 February – Brian Godfrey, Welsh striker (69)
• 11 February – Yury Sevidov, Russian striker (67)
• 12 February – Werner Krämer, German striker (70)
• 12 February – Petar Borota, Serbian goalkeeper (57)
• 12 February – Luis Molowny, Spanish midfielder and manager (84)
• 13 February – Marian Parse, Romanian striker (23, cancer)
• 14 February – Zhang Yalin, Chinese midfielder (28, lymphoma)
• February 15 – Juan Carlos González, Uruguayan defender, winner of the 1950 FIFA World Cup. (85)
• 16 February – Wan Chi Keung, Hong Kong striker (53)
• 18 February - Alan Gordon, Scottish footballer (65)
• 20 February - Bobby Cox, Scottish footballer (76)
• 22 February - Bobby Smith, Scottish footballer (56)
• 23 February – Gerhard Neef, German goalkeeper (63)
• 27 February - Charlie Crowe, English footballer (85)
• 28 February - Adam Blacklaw, Scottish footballer (72)

March

• 3 March - Keith Alexander, English footballer (53)
• 4 March - Tony Richards, English footballer (75)
• 6 March - Mansour Amirasefi, Iranian footballer (76)
• 6 March - Endurance Idahor, Nigerian footballer (25)
• 9 March - Gheorghe Constantin, Romanian footballer (77)
• 11 March - Wille MacFarlane, Scottish footballer (79)
• 12 March - Aleksandr Minayev, Russian footballer (51)
• 12 March - Hugh Robertson, Scottish footballer (70)
• 13 March - Édouard Kargu, French footballer (84)
• 13 March - Charlie Ashcroft, English footballer (83)
• 17 March - Abdellah Blinda, Moroccan footballer (58)
• 18 March - Júlio Correia da Silva, Portuguese footballer (90)
• 19 March - Bob Curtis, English footballer (60)
• 20 March - Naim Kryeziu, Albanian footballer (92)
• 27 March - Zbigniew Gut, Polish footballer (60)
• 28 March - Derlis Florentín, Paraguayan footballer (26)

April

• 3 April - Oleg Kopayev, Russian footballer (72)
• 6 April - Sid Storey, English footballer (90)
• 9 April - Zoltán Varga, Hungarian footballer (65)
• 10 April - Manfred Reichert, German footballer (69)
• 11 April - Hans-Joachim Göring, German footballer (86)
• 11 April - Theodor Homann, German footballer (61)
• 12 April - Alper Balaban, Turkish footballer (22)
• 13 April - Jorge Bontemps, Argentine footballer (32)
• 13 April - Charlie Timmins, English footballer (87)
• 15 April - Wilhelm Huxhorn, German footballer (54)
• 17 April - Alexandru Neagu, Romanian footballer (61)
• 21 April - Sammy Baird, Scottish footballer (79)
• 21 April - Tony Ingham, English footballer (85)
• 21 April - Manfred Kallenbach, German footballer (68)
• 22 April - Emilio Álvarez, Uruguayan footballer (71)
• 22 April - Victor Nurenberg, Luxembourgian footballer (79)
• 22 April - Piet Steenbergen, Dutch footballer (81)
• 25 April - Ian Lawther, Northern Irish footballer (70)
• 26 April – Alberto Vitoria, Spanish midfielder (54)
• 26 April - Yuri Vshivtsev, Russian footballer (70)

May

• May - Bert Padden, Scottish football referee (born 1932)
• 3 May - Denis Obua, Ugandan footballer (62)
• 6 May - Guillermo Meza, Mexican footballer (21)
• 6 May - Giacomo Neri, Italian footballer (94)
• 7 May – Denovan Morales, Honduran midfielder (22)
• 11 May
• Brian Gibson, English footballer (82)
• Emmanuel Ngobese, South African footballer (29; tuberculosis)
• 13 May - Walter Klimmek, German football defender (91)
• 15 May - Besian Idrizaj, Austrian footballer (22)
• 19 May - Harry Vos, Dutch footballer (63)
• 24 May - Kambozia Jamali, Iranian midfielder (71)
• 26 May - Leo Canjels, Dutch footballer (77)

June

• 1 June - John Hagart, Scottish footballer (72)
• 4 June - Hennadiy Popovych, Ukrainian footballer (37)
• 6 June - Mabi de Almeida, Angolan football manager (46)
• 7 June - Jorge Ginarte, Argentine footballer (70)
• 9 June - Mohamed Sylla, Guinean footballer (39)
• 12 June – Mao Mengsuo, Chinese midfielder (20)
• 20 June – Lai Sun Cheung, Hong Kong defender (59)
• 20 June - Roberto Rosato, Italian footballer (66)
• 22 June - Amokrane Oualiken, Algerian footballer (77)
• 23 June - Jörg Berger, German footballer (65)
• 27 June - Édgar García de Dios, Mexican footballer (32)

July

• July 1 - Eddie Moussa, Swedish footballer (26)
• July 3 - Colin Gardner, British football manager
• July 3 – Herbert Erhardt, West-German defender, winner of the 1954 FIFA World Cup, listed by the DFB in the top 20 best German defenders of all time. (79)
• July 6 - Alekos Sofianidis, Greek footballer (76)
• July 8 - Guillermo León, Costa Rican footballer
• July 11 - Rudi Strittich, Austrian footballer (88)
• July 13 - Ken Barnes, British footballer (81)
• July 17 - Shaun Mawer, English footballer (50)
• July 17 - Ioannis Stefas, Greek footballer (61)
• July 17 - Gunārs Ulmanis, Latvian footballer (71)
• July 19 - Joseph Aghoghovbia, Nigerian footballer (69)
• July 19 - Daiki Sato, Japanese footballer (21)
• July 28 - Daniel Pettit, English footballer (95)
• July 29 - Alex Wilson, Polish footballer (76)
• July 30 - Stanley Milburn, English footballer (83)
• July 31 - Pedro Dellacha, Argentine footballer (84)

August

• August 2 - José María Silvero, Argentine footballer (78)
• August 3 - Edmund Zientara, Polish footballer (81)
• August 5 - Yuri Shishlov, Russian footballer (65)
• August 8 - Ken Boyes, English footballer (75)
• August 8 - Massamasso Tchangai, Togolese footballer (32)
• August 10 - Brian Clark, English footballer (67)
• August 10 - Adam Stansfield, English footballer (31)
• August 13 - Panagiotis Bachramis, Greek footballer (34)
• August 22 - Raúl Belén, Argentine footballer (79)
• August 22 – Juan Carlos González, Uruguayan defender, winner of the 1950 FIFA World Cup. (85)
• August 22 - Stjepan Bobek, Yugoslav footballer (86)
• August 27 - Oscar Ntwagae, South African footballer (33)
• August 28 - Isa Bakar, Malaysian footballer (57)
• August 30 - Francisco Varallo, Argentine striker and the last surviving player of the 1930 FIFA World Cup and the final. (100)
• August 30 - Henryk Czapczyk, Polish footballer (88)
• August 30 - Philip Tisson, Saint Lucian footballer (24)

September

• 2 September - Jackie Sinclair, Scottish midfielder (67, cancer)
• 3 September - Jose Augusto Torres, Portuguese striker and manager (71, heart failure)
• 10 September - Andrei Timoshenko, Russian striker (41)
• 10 September - Fridrikh Maryutin, Soviet striker (85)
• 11 September - Diego Rodríguez Cano, Uruguayan defender (22, car accident)
• 18 September - Bobby Smith, English striker (77, after a short illness)
• 18 September - Øystein GÃ¥re, Norwegian manager (56, after a short illness)
• 22 September - Vyacheslav Tsaryov, Russian defender (39, after a short illness)
• 23 September - Fernando Riera, Chilean striker and manager (90)
• 28 September - Orvin Cabrera, Honduran striker (33, liver cancer)

October

• 1 October - Ian Buxton, English striker (72)
• 1 October - Bobby Craig, Scottish footballer (75)
• 1 October - Dezső Bundzsák, Hungarian midfielder and manager (82)
• 6 October - Norman Christie, Scottish footballer (85)
• 9 October - Les Fell, English midfielder (89)
• 12 October - José Casas 'Pepín', Spanish goalkeeper (78)
• 13 October - Juan Carlos Arteche, Spanish midfielder (53, cancer)
• 13 October - Eddie Baily, English striker (85)
• 14 October - Malcolm Allison, English defender and manager (83, after a long illness)
• 18 October - Mel Hopkins, Welsh defender (75)
• 18 October - Hans Hägele, German striker and football agent (70, suicide)
• 21 October - Mustapha Anane, Algerian striker (60, after a long illness)
• 22 October - Franz Raschid, German midfielder (56, pancreatic cancer)
• 24 October - Fritz Grösche, German midfielder and manager (69, cancer)
• 26 October - Paul the Octopus, 2010 FIFA World Cup "oracle" (2, natural causes)
• 29 October - Ronnie Clayton, English midfielder (76)
• 30 October - John Benson, Scottish defender and manager (67, after a short illness)

November

• 3 November - Ron Cockerill, English defender (75)
• 8 November - Fred Blankemeijer, Dutch defender (84)
• 8 November - Tim Womack, English footballer (76)
• 12 November - Jim Farry, Former Chief Executive of the Scottish FA (56, heart attack)
• 15 November -Ángel Cabrera, Uruguayan footballer (71)
• 16 November - Ilie Savu, Romanian goalkeeper and manager (90)
• November 17 - Olavo Rodrigues Barbosa, Brazilian defender, runner-up at the 1950 FIFA World Cup. (87)
• 18 November - Jim Cruickshank, Scottish goalkeeper (69)
• 24 November - Valentin Ivakin, Soviet goalkeeper and manager (80)
• 26 November - Mohammad Anwar Elahee, Mauritian defender and manager (81)
• 27 November - Steve Hill, English footballer (70)
• 28 November - Vladimir Maslachenko, Soviet European Nation's Cup winning goalkeeper (74)

December

• 3 December - Jose Ramos Delgado, Argentine defender (75, Alzheimer disease)
• 5 December - Shamil Burziyev, Russian defender (25, car accident)
• 6 December - Imre Mathesz, Hungarian midfielder (73)
• 6 December - Rene Hauss, French defender and manager (82)
• 7 December - Federico Vairo, Argentine defender (80, stomach cancer)
• 10 December - Marcel Domingo, French goalkeeper and manager (86)
• 11 December - Peter Risi, Swiss striker (60, after a long illness)
• 12 December - Emmanuel Ogoli, Nigerian defender (21, collapsed on the pitch)
• 14 December - Dale Roberts, English goalkeeper (24, suicide)
• 17 December - Ralph Coates, English midfielder (64, stroke)
• 21 December - Oleksandr Kovalenko, Ukrainian midfielder and referee (34, suicide)
• 21 December - Enzo Bearzot, Italian defender and World Cup winning manager (83)
• 24 December - Frans de Munck, Dutch goalkeeper (88)
• 26 December - Bill Jones, English defender (89)
• 27 December - Walter Balmer, Swiss international footballer (born 1948)
• 28 December - Jeff Taylor, English footballer (80)
• 29 December - Ramón Montesinos, Spanish midfielder (67)
• 29 December - Avi Cohen, Israeli defender (54, motorcycle accident)

References