- 1979 in association football
yearbox
in?=in football (soccer)
cp=19th Century
c=20th Century
cf=21st Centuryyp1=1976
yp2=1977
yp3=1978
year=1979
ya1=1980
ya2=1981
ya3=1982
dp3=1940s
dp2=1950s
dp1=1960s
d=1970s
dn1=1980s
dn2=1990s
dn3=2000sThe following are the
football (soccer) events of the year1979 throughout the world.Events
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Copa Libertadores 1979 : Won byOlimpia Asunción after defeatingBoca Juniors on an aggregate score of 2-0.
*European Cup1979 : Won byNottingham Forest after defeatingMalmö FF 1-0 in the Final.
*Intercontinental Cup1979 : Won byOlimpia Asunción after defeatingMalmö FF by an aggregate score of 3-1. This was the last time the Intercontinental Cup was played in two legs (South America and Europe).
*May 22 –Ruud Krol becomes Holland's most capped player in history when he plays his 65th match for theNetherlands national football team against Argentina.Winners club national championship
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Belgium –K.S.K. Beveren
*Bulgaria –PFC Levski Sofia
*Cyprus –Omonia Nicosia
*Denmark –Esbjerg Fb
*England –Liverpool F.C.
*France –RC Strasbourg
*Italy –AC Milan
*Netherlands
**Eredivisie –Ajax Amsterdam
**Eerste Divisie –Excelsior Rotterdam
*Poland –Ruch Chorzów
*Portugal –FC Porto
*Scotland –Celtic F.C.
*Spain –Real Madrid
*West Germany –Hamburger SV
*USSR –FC Spartak Moscow North and Central America
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North America – Vancouver Whitecapsouth America
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Argentina
**Metropolitano – River Plate
**Nacional – River Plate
*Brazil – Internacional
*Colombia –América de Cali
*Paraguay –Olimpia Asunción International tournaments
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August 26 –September 7 1979 ):# fb|ARG:# fb|USSR:# fb|URUBirths
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January 12 –Grzegorz Rasiak , Polish footballer
*January 15 –Martin Petrov , Bulgarian footballer
*January 26 –Maksym Kalynychenko , Ukrainian footballer
*February 2 –Daniel Bierofka , German footballer
*February 19 –Steve Cherundolo , American footballer
*March 2 –Damien Duff , Irish footballer
*March 4 –Vyacheslav Malafeev , Russian footballer
*March 22 –Aldo Duscher , Argentine footballer
*April 5 –Timo Hildebrand , German footballer
*April 12 –Tobias Linderoth , Swedish footballer
*April 20 –Ludovic Magnin , Swiss footballer
*April 26 –Fereydoon Zandi , Iranian-German footballer
*May 19 –Diego Forlán , Uruguayan footballer
*May 29 –Arne Friedrich , German footballer
*May 30 –Fabian Ernst , German footballer
*June 4 –Naohiro Takahara , Japanese footballer
*June 7 –Kevin Hofland , Dutch footballer
*June 19 –José Kleberson , Brazilian footballer
*July 14 –Sergei Ignashevich , Russian footballer
*July 26 –Paul Freier , German footballer
*October 15 – Paul Robinson, English footballer
*October 18 – Jaroslav Drobny, Czech footballer
*October 23 – Simon Davies, Welsh footballer
*November 5 –Patrick Owomoyela , German fotballer
*November 20 –Dmitri Bulykin , Russian fotballer
*December 14 –Jean-Alain Boumsong , French footballer
*December 14 –Michael Owen , English footballer
*December 20 –Ashley Cole , English footballer
*February 13 –Rafael Marquez , Mexican footballerDeaths
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February 16 –Henk Steeman (85), Dutch footballer (b.1894 )
*April 19 –August Sackenheim (73), German footballer
*April 30 –Jaap Bulder (82), Dutch footballer (b.1896 )
*December 12 –Hans Rohde (65), German footballer
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