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2025 in association football |
The following are the football (soccer) events in the year 2025 around the world.
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| Date of Death
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Player
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Nationality
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Played For
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Managed
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Notable For
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| January 2 |
Cristóbal Ortega (68) |
 Mexico |
Club América |
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6-time Primera División de México winner
3-time Campeón de Campeones winner (1976, 1988, 1989)
3-time CONCACAF Champions' Cup winner (1977, 1987, 1990)
2-time Copa Interamericana winner (1978, 1991)
1977 CONCACAF Championship winner
1982–83 Balón de Oro winner
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| January 3 |
Gilbert Van Binst (73) |
 Belgium |
Anderlecht
 Toulouse
Club Brugge |
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2-time Belgian First Division winner (1971–72, 1973–74)
4-time Belgian Cup winner
2-time Belgian League Cup winner (1973, 1974)
2-time European Cup Winners' Cup winner (1975–76, 1977–78)
1976–77 European Cup Winners' Cup runner-up
2-time European Super Cup winner (1976, 1978)
1969–70 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup runner-up
Finished third at UEFA Euro 1972
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| January 6 |
Dušan Maravić (85) |
 Yugoslavia
 Serbia |
Spartak Subotica
Red Star Belgrade
Racing Paris
Entente BFN
Béziers
 Deportivo Italia |
 Gap FC |
3-time Yugoslav First League winner (1958–59, 1959–60, 1963–64)
2-time Yugoslav Cup winner (1958–59, 1963–64)
1972 Venezuelan Primera División winner
1970 Copa Venezuela winner
Gold medalist at the 1960 Summer Olympics
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| January 13 |
Tony Book (90) |
 England |
Bath City
 Toronto City
Plymouth Argyle
Manchester City |
Manchester City |
1967–68 Football League First Division winner
1968–69 FA Cup winner
2-time Football League Cup winner (1969–70, 1975–76)
2-time FA Charity Shield winner (1968, 1972)
1969–70 European Cup Winners' Cup winner
1970 Anglo-Italian League Cup runner-up
Joint-winner of the 1968–69 FWA Footballer of the Year
Brother of former English footballer Kim Book
Father of former English footballer Steve Book
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| January 17 |
Denis Law (84) |
 Scotland |
Huddersfield Town
Manchester City
 Torino
Manchester United |
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2-time Football League First Division winner (1964–65, 1966–67)
1962–63 FA Cup winner
2-time FA Charity Shield winner (1965, 1967)
6-time British Home Championship winner
1964 Ballon d'Or winner
1968–69 European Cup top goalscorer
Member of the Football League 100 Legends
Member of the English and Scottish Football Hall of Fames
Awarded as Scotland's Golden Player in 2003
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| January 24 |
Mimis Domazos (83) |
 Greece |
  Panathinaikos
AEK Athens |
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9-time Alpha Ethniki winner
3-time Greek Cup winner (1966–67, 1968–69, 1976–77)
1970–71 European Cup runner-up
1977 Balkans Cup winner
Most appearances in the Super League Greece (535)
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| Ellert Schram (85) |
 Iceland |
KR |
KR |
5-time Úrvalsdeild winner
7-time Icelandic Football Cup winner
6th Chairman of the KSÍ (1973–1989)
5th President of the ÍSÍ (1991–2006)
Father of Icelandic journalist Arna Schram
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- January 1:
Noh Haeng-seok (36), footballer (Gwangju FC, Daegu FC, Busan IPark).- Jean-Louis Lalanne (70), footballer (UA Cognac, Girondins de Bordeaux, Libourne).
Viktor Nastashevskyi (67), footballer (Dynamo Kyiv, Shakhtar Donetsk, SKA Kyiv, Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih) and assistant manager.
Igor Poznič (57), footballer (Maribor, Grazer AK, Mura, Slovenia).
- January 2:
- Aldo Agroppi (80), footballer (Torino, Perugia, Italy) and manager (Pescara, Pisa, Perugia, Fiorentina, Como).
Werner Leimgruber (90), footballer (FC Zürich, Switzerland).- Cristóbal Ortega (68), footballer (Club América, Mexico).
- January 3:
Zlatko Dupovac (72), footballer (Radnik Hadžići, Sarajevo, Borac Banja Luka, St. Gallen, Wettingen).
Ernesto Gianella (83), footballer (OGC Nice, AS Béziers, Stade de Reims, AS Monaco, Nîmes, Pays d'Aix, Châteauroux).- Brian Usher (80), footballer (Sunderland, Sheffield Wednesday, Doncaster Rovers).
- Gilbert Van Binst (73), footballer (Anderlecht, Toulouse, Club Brugge, Belgium), assistant manager (Club Brugge), and manager.
- January 4:
Mathías Acuña (32), footballer (El Tanque Sisley, Fénix, Liverpool Montevideo, Montevideo Wanderers, AEL, Lamia, Boston River).- Franjo Džidić (85), footballer (Velež Mostar, Borac Čapljina), player-manager (Mladost Lištica), and manager (Borac Čapljina, Leotar, Velež Mostar, Šibenik, Široki Brijeg, Zrinjski Mostar).
Mohsen Habacha (82), footballer (ES Sahel, Ajaccio, Tunisia).- Oleksandr Humenyuk (48), footballer (Boryspil, CSKA Kyiv, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, Chornomorets Odesa, Volyn Lutsk, Metalist Kharkiv), goalkeeping coach (Vorskla Poltava, Bukovyna Chernivtsi), and manager (Dynamo Kyiv Academy, Bukovyna Chernivtsi, Dinaz Vyshhorod).
Yılmaz Urul (82), footballer (İstanbulspor, Fenerbahçe, Mersin İdmanyurdu, Turkey).
- January 5:
Gerd Achterberg (84), footballer (Spandauer BC) and manager (Spandauer BC, BFC Südring, BFC Preussen, Tennis Borussia Berlin).
Juan Manuel Villa (86), footballer (Plus Ultra, Real Sociedad, Real Zaragoza, Spain).- Freddy Zix (89), footballer (Strasbourg, Mulhouse, Mutzig, France). Played at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
- January 6:
- January 8:
- January 9:
- January 10:
Nelson Silva Pacheco (80), footballer (Danubio, Liverpool, Sportivo Italiano, Tigre, Rosario Central, Atlético Nacional, Deportes Quindío, Cúcuta Deportivo, Atlético Junior, Deportivo Táchira, América de Cali, Colombia) and manager (Deportivo Táchira, Deportes Tolima).- Anatoli Pata (66), footballer (Mashuk Pyatigorsk, Rotor Volgograd, Dynamo Stavropol, Kuban Krasnodar, Dynamo Izobilny), assistant manager (Dynamo Stavropol), manager (Dynamo Stavropol), and scout (Dynamo Stavropol).
- January 11:
- Bobby Kennedy (87), footballer (Kilmarnock, Manchester City, Grimsby Town) and manager (Grimsby Town, Bradford City).
Tiny Ruys (67), footballer (NEC, Fortuna Sittard) and manager (United Arab Emirates, Al Ain, Fortuna Sittard, MVV, SV Meerssen, EVV Echt). - [Death announced on this date]
- January 13:
- Tony Book (90), footballer (Bath City, Plymouth Argyle, Manchester City) and manager (Manchester City).
Keith Griffith (77), footballer (Barbados), manager (Barbados, Joe Public, US Virgin Islands), and technical director (Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, Cayman Islands, US Virgin Islands).- Mykhaylo Stelmakh (58), footballer (Dynamo Irpin, Dynamo Kyiv, Shakhtar Donetsk, Karpaty Lviv, Vorskla Poltava, CSKA Kyiv), assistant manager (Arsenal Kyiv, Kharkiv, Poltava, Skala Stryi 1911), and manager (Kharkiv, Dinaz Vyshhorod).
Vicente Vega (69), footballer (Deportivo Táchira, Portuguesa, Deportivo Italia, Venezuela).
- January 14:
- January 16:
Vasile Ardeleanu (50), footballer (FCM Bacău, CSM Focșani, FC Onești).
Harry Bild (88), footballer (IFK Norrköping, FC Zürich, Feyenoord, Östers IF, Sweden).
Sabah Bizi (78), footballer (Vllaznia, Partizani, Albania) and manager (Veleçiku, Vllaznia).
- January 17:
- January 18:
- Garry Brooke (64), footballer (Tottenham Hotspur, GAIS, Norwich City, Groningen, Wimbledon, Brentford).
- Nicolae Oaidă (91), footballer (Dinamo Brașov, Dinamo Bacău, Progresul București, Romania) and mannager (Libya, Al-Ahly Benghazi, Mureșul Deva, Progresul București, Tractorul Brașov, Jiul Petroșani, Autobuzul București, Hassania Agadir, Homenetmen Beirut).
- January 19:
- Jimmy Calderwood (69), footballer (Birmingham City, Sparta Rotterdam, Willem II, Roda JC, Heracles Almelo) and manager (Willem II, NEC Nijmegen, Dunfermline Athletic, Aberdeen, Kilmarnock, Ross County, Go Ahead Eagles, De Graafschap).
- January 20:
- January 21:
- January 22:
- Juan Antonio Román (82), footballer (Granada, Sevilla, Real Valladolid) and manager (San Fernando, Poli Almería, Linense, Almería).
Kimmo Tauriainen (52), footballer (RoPS, Kontu, Atlantis, IK Start).
- January 23:
Eduardo de la Barra (65), footballer (Ñublense, Deportes Temuco, Avaí, Deportes Concepción, Naval), assistant manager (Naval), and manager (Deportes Concepción, Naval, Everton, Ñublense, Universidad de Concepción youth, Universidad de Concepción Femenino).- Anthony Basso (45), footballer (Udinese, Viking, Heart of Midlothian).
- Andreas Stamatiadis (89), footballer (AEK Athens, Greece), assistant manager (AEK Athens), and manager (Rodos, Lamia, Anagennisi Karditsa, AEK Athens, Atromitos, Egaleo, Acharnaikos, Greece U21).
- January 24:
Lakhdar Bouyahi (79), footballer (NA Hussein Dey, Algeria).- Mimis Domazos (83), footballer (Panathinaikos, AEK Athens, Greece).
- David Gaskell (84), footballer (Manchester United, Wigan Athletic, Wrexham).
- Ellert Schram (85), footballer (KR, Iceland), manager (KR), and politician. President of the KSÍ (1973–1989) and the ÍSÍ (1991–2006).
- Eddy Wauters (91), footballer (Royal Antwerp, Belgium) and manager (Royal Antwerp).
- January 26:
- ↑ Hosts are Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
- ↑ Hosts are Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
- ↑ Hosts include Czech Republic, England, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, and Turkey.
Kuwait
Bahrain
Oman
Saudi Arabia
Vietnam
Thailand
Singapore
Philippines
Kenya
Tanzania
Uganda
TBD
Zanzibar
Burkina Faso
Canada
United States
Germany or
Italy
Qatar
Chile
Morocco
Ivory Coast
China
Colombia
Venezuela
Albania
Romania
Slovakia
Bahamas
Seychelles
Libya
Flamengo (2024)
TBD
Olympiacos (2023–24)
Colovray Stadium, Nyon
Crystal Palace (2023–24)
South Korea
Bangladesh
Faroe Islands
Poland
TP Mazembe (2024)
Estadio Universitario, Nuevo León
Santa Fé (2024)
TBD
Auckland United (2024)
Barcelona (2023–24)
Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon
Indonesia
Wales
Japan
Pat Goggin (84), footballer (Cork Hibernians, Tramore Athletic).
Mimi El-Sherbini (86), footballer (Al Ahly, United Arab Republic) and manager (Al-Nasr Dubai, United Arab Emirates). Played at the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics.
Abdul Salam Al-Mukhaini (36), footballer (Al-Orouba, Al-Raed, Dhofar Club, Oman).
Robert Choe (85), footballer (Malacca FA, Malaya/Malaysia).
Moses Effiong (65), footballer (Sharks FC, Shooting Stars, Nigeria national football team). Played at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
