The following are the scheduled events of association football for the calendar year 2022 throughout the world. This includes the following:
- In countries whose league seasons fall within a single calendar year, the 2022 season.
- In countries which crown one champion in a season that spans two calendar years, the 2021âÂÂ22 season.
- In countries which split their league season into two championships, a system often known in Latin America as Apertura and Clausura, all championships awarded in calendar 2022.
Events
Men's national teams
FIFA
AFC
AFF
CAFA
EAFF
SAFF
WAFF
UAFA
CAF
UNAF
COSAFA
CONCACAF
OFC
UEFA
Friendly tournaments
Senior
Youth
Women's national teams
FIFA
AFC
AFF
CAFA
EAFF
SAFF
WAFF
CAF
CECAFA
CONCACAF
CONMEBOL
OFC
UEFA
Friendly tournaments
Senior
Youth
Club continental champions
Men
Women
National leagues
UEFA
AFC
CAF
CONCACAF
CONMEBOL
OFC
Non-FIFA
Domestic cups
UEFA
AFC
CAF
CONCACAF
CONMEBOL
OFC
Non-FIFA
Women's leagues
UEFA
AFC
CAF
CONCACAF
CONMEBOL
OFC
Non-FIFA
Women's domestic cups
UEFA
AFC
CAF
CONCACAF
CONMEBOL
OFC
Non-FIFA
Second, third, fourth, and fifth leagues
UEFA
AFC
CAF
CONCACAF
CONMEBOL
OFC
Non-FIFA
Women's second, third and fourth leagues
UEFA
AFC
CAF
CONCACAF
CONMEBOL
OFC
Non-FIFA
Men's university leagues
CONCACAF
Women's university leagues
CONCACAF
Youth leagues
UEFA
AFC
CAF
CONCACAF
CONMEBOL
OFC
Non-FIFA
Deaths
January
- 3 January âÂÂ
- Oussou Konan Anicet, 32, Ivorian footballer (Makkasa, HJK, Nam Dinh), poisoned.
- Ulysses Kokkinos, 73, Turkish-born Australian footballer (South Melbourne Hellas, Melbourne Juventus).
- 4 January âÂÂ
- Javier Astúa, 53, Costa Rican footballer (Puntarenas, Palestino, national team), heart disease.
- Andreas Michalopoulos, 73, Greek footballer (Panachaiki, national team).
- 5 January âÂÂ
- Valeriy Gorbach, 53, Tajik footballer (Fakel Voronezh, Lokomotiv Liski, national team), heart failure.
- Marian Machowski, 89, Polish footballer (WisÃ
Âa Kraków, national team).
- Shahid Uddin Ahmed Selim, 68, Bangladeshi footballer (Brothers Union, national team), oral cancer.
- Mircea Stoenescu, 78, Romanian footballer (Dinamo BucureÃÂti) and referee.
- 7 January â Jimmy Smith, 91, English footballer (Chelsea, Leyton Orient).
- 8 January â Keith Todd, 80, Welsh footballer (Swansea Town, Pembroke Borough).
- 9 January âÂÂ
- Viktor Chakrygin, 37, Russian footballer (Dynamo Makhachkala, Zenit Penza, Anzhi Makhachkala).
- Abdelkrim Kerroum, 85, Algerian footballer (FC Sète 34, Troyes, national team).
- 10 January âÂÂ
- Alfred Gager, 79, Austrian footballer (Austria Wien, Wacker Wien, national team).
- Glyn Jones, 85, English footballer (Sheffield United, Rotherham United, Mansfield Town). (death announced on this date)
- 11 January â Ahmet Yñlmaz ÃÂalñk, 27, Turkish footballer (Galatasaray, Konyaspor, national team), traffic collision.
- 12 January âÂÂ
- Stjepan Lamza, 81, Croatian footballer (Dinamo Zagreb, Châteauroux, Yugoslavia national team).
- Shebby Singh, 61, Malaysian footballer (Johor, Kuala Lumpur, national team), heart attack.
- Joseph Zangerle, 72, Luxembourgish footballer (Union Luxembourg, national team).
- 13 January â Giacomo Vianello, 74, Italian footballer (Como).
- 14 January â Lol Morgan, 90, English footballer (Rotherham United, Darlington) and manager (Norwich City).
- 15 January âÂÂ
- Paul Hinshelwood, 65, English footballer (Crystal Palace).
- Robert Péri, 80, French footballer (Bordeaux, FC Metz, Toulon).
- 16 January â Jamie Vincent, 46, English footballer (Bournemouth, Portsmouth, Swindon Town), heart attack.
- 17 January â Jackie Fisher, 96, English footballer (Millwall, Bournemouth).
- 18 January â Paco Gento, 88, Spanish footballer (Real Madrid).
- 19 January â Hans-Jürgen Dörner, 70, East German football player (Dynamo Dresden) and manager (Werder Bremen)
- 20 January â Eduardo Flores, 77, Argentine footballer (Estudiantes), cancer.
- 21 January âÂÂ
- Marcel Mauron, 92, Swiss footballer (FC La Chaux-de-Fonds, national team).
- Howard Radford, 91, Welsh footballer (Bristol Rovers).
- 22 January â António Lima Pereira, 69, Portuguese footballer (Porto, Maia, national team).
- 24 January â Borislav StevanoviÃÂ, 46, Serbian footballer (RadniÃÂki NiÃ
¡, Rad, BASK).
- 25 January âÂÂ
- DojÃÂin PeraziÃÂ, 76, Montenegrin footballer (Red Star Belgrade, Vojvodina, FC Den Haag).
- Wim Jansen, 75, Dutch football player (Feyenoord) and manager (Feyenoord, Celtic)
- 27 January â Salih Ã
 ehoviÃÂ, 85, Bosnian footballer (Leotar, Sarajevo, Dinamo Zagreb).
February
- 1 February âÂÂ
- Sergei Anashkin, 60, Kazakh footballer (national team).
- 2 February âÂÂ
- Djilali Abdi, 78, Algerian footballer (national team).
- Ivano Comba, 61, Italian footballer (Sant'Angelo, Piacenza, Rondinella).
- 3 February â Alex Ingram, 77, Scottish footballer (Queen's Park, Ayr United, Nottingham Forest), complications from dementia.
- 4 February âÂÂ
- Davie Cattanach, 75, Scottish footballer (Falkirk, Celtic, Stirling Albion).
- Steve Finney, 48, English footballer (Swindon Town, Carlisle United, Chester City).
- Rolando Gonçalves, 77, Portuguese footballer (Porto, national team).
March
- 3 March â Otto Schweizer, 97, German footballer (Bayern Munich)
- 6 March â Frank O'Farrell, 94, Irish football player (West Ham United, Preston North End) and manager (Manchester United)
- 8 March â Tomás Boy, 70, Mexican football player (Tigres UANL) and manager (Morelia, Atlas, Cruz Azul)
- 31 March â Bob Todd, 72, English footballer (Wigan Athletic, Scarborough)
April
May
- 1 May - Ivica Osim, 80, Bosnian football player (Ã
½eljezniÃÂar) and manager (Ã
½eljezniÃÂar, Yugoslavia national team, Partizan, Panathinaikos, Sturm Graz, Japan national team)
- 5 May
- José Luis Violeta, 81, Spanish footballer (Zaragoza)
- Leo Wilden, 85, German footballer (1. FC Köln)
June
- 1 June â Geoff Hunter, 62, English footballer (Crewe Alexandra, Port Vale, Wrexham)
- 5 June â Haidar Abdul-Razzaq, 39, Iraqi footballer (Al-Talaba)
- 9 June â Billy Bingham, 90, Northern Irish football player (Sunderland) and manager (national team, Plymouth Argyle)
- 19 June â Colin Grainger, 89, English footballer (Sheffield United, Sunderland)
July
- 2 July â Andy Goram, 58, Scottish footballer (Oldham Athletic, Hibernian, Rangers)
- 4 July â Janusz Kupcewicz, 66, Polish footballer (Arka Gdynia, Lech PoznaÃ
Â)
- 7 July â Phil Walker, 67, English footballer (Millwall, Boavista)
- 11 July â VÃÂctor BenÃÂtez, 86, Peruvian footballer (Boca Juniors, AC Milan, Roma, Inter Milan)
- 15 July â Georgi Yartsev, 74, Russian football player (Spartak Moscow) and coach (Spartak Moscow, national team)
- 21 July â Uwe Seeler, 85, German footballer (Hamburger SV)
August
- 1 August âÂÂ
- Milan ÃÂuriÃÂiÃÂ, 60, Serbian football manager (Vojvodina, InÃÂija, RadniÃÂki NiÃ
¡).
- John Hughes, 79, Scottish football player (Celtic, national team) and manager (Stranraer).
- Andrejs Rubins, 43, Latvian footballer (Skonto, Crystal Palace, national team).
- Hans Weilbächer, 88, German footballer (Eintracht Frankfurt, West Germany national team).
- 15 August â Lenny Johnrose, 52, English footballer (Blackburn Rovers, Bury, Burnley, Swansea City)
- 28 August â Sammy Chung, 90, English football player (Watford) and manager Wolverhampton Wanderers)
September
October
- 6 October - Gian Piero Ventrone, 62, Italian athletic trainer (Juventus, national team, Guangzhou, Tottenham Hotspur)
- 8 October - John Duncan, 73, Scottish football player (Dundee, Tottenham Hotspur) and manager (Chesterfield, Ipswich Town)
- 9 October - Yuriy Dehteryov, 74, Ukrainian footballer (Shakhtar Donetsk)
- 10 October - Keith Eddy, 77, English footballer (Watford, Sheffield United, New York Cosmos)
- 13 October - Stavros Sarafis, 72, Greek footballer (PAOK)
- 19 October - Omar Borrás, 93, Uruguayan football manager (national team)
- 20 October - Jimmy Millar, 87, Scottish footballer (Rangers)
- 21 October - Masato Kudo, 32, Japanese footballer (Kashiwa Reysol, Sanfrecce Hiroshima)
November
- 2 November - Ronnie Radford, 79, English footballer (Hereford United)
- 12 November - Cor van der Gijp, 91, Dutch footballer (Feyenoord)
- 15 November - Jimmy O'Rourke, 76, Scottish footballer (Hibernian)
- 23 November - David Johnson, 71, English footballer (Everton, Ipswich Town, Liverpool)
- 24 November - Neil Robinson, 65, English footballer (Swansea City, Grimsby Town)
- 26 November - Fernando Gomes, 66, Portuguese footballer (Porto, Sporting Gijón, Sporting CP)
- 27 November - Maurice Norman, 88, English footballer (Norwich City, Tottenham Hotspur)
December
- 2 December - Assem Allam, 83, Egyptian football owner (Hull City)
- 8 December - Miodrag JeÃ
¡iÃÂ, 64, Serbian football player (Partizan, Altay) and manager (Partizan, CSKA Sofia, Al-Ittihad Tripoli)
- 16 December - SiniÃ
¡a MihajloviÃÂ, 53, Serbian football player (Red Star Belgrade, Sampdoria, Lazio, Inter Milan) and manager (Bologna, Fiorentina, Serbia national team, Sampdoria, A.C. Milan, Sporting CP)
- 23 December - George Cohen, 83, English footballer (Fulham, national team)
- 29 December -
- Pelé, 82, Brazilian footballer (Santos, New York Cosmos, national team)
- John Jackson, 80, English footballer, (Crystal Palace, Leyton Orient)
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