- 1978 in association football
yearbox
in?=in football (soccer)
cp=19th Century
c=20th Century
cf=21st Centuryyp1=1975
yp2=1976
yp3=1977
year=1978
ya1=1979
ya2=1980
ya3=1981
dp3=1940s
dp2=1950s
dp1=1960s
d=1970s
dn1=1980s
dn2=1990s
dn3=2000sThe following are the
football (soccer) events of the year1978 throughout the world.Events
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Copa Libertadores 1978 : Won byBoca Juniors after defeatingDeportivo Cali on an aggregate score of 4-0.
*England : Ipswich Town win the FA cup beatingArsenal F.C. 1-0 with the winning goal scored byRoger Osbourne Winners club national championship
Europe
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England –Nottingham Forest
*Italy –Juventus
*Netherlands
**Eredivisie –PSV Eindhoven
**Eerste Divisie – PEC Zwolle
*Spain –Real Madrid outh America
*
Argentina
**Metropolitano – Quilmes
**Nacional – Independiente
*Brazil – Guarani
*Paraguay –Olimpia Asunción International tournaments
* African Cup of Nations in
Ghana (March 5 – 16,1978 ):# fb|GHA:# fb|UGA:# fb|NGA*
1978 British Home Championship (May 13 –May 20 ,1978 )::fb|ENG* FIFA World Cup in
Argentina (June 1 – 25,1978 ):# fb|ARG:# fb|NED:# fb|BRABirths
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January 28 –Gianluigi Buffon , Italian footballer
*January 28 –Jamie Carragher , English footballer
*March 9 –Lucas Neill , Australian footballer
*March 24 –Tomáš Ujfaluši , Czech footballer
*April 30 –Simone Barone , Italian footballer
*June 21 –Hatem Aqel , Jordanian footballer
*July 22 –Dennis Rommedahl , Danish footballer
*November 7 –Rio Ferdinand , English footballer
*November 7 –Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink , Dutch footballer
*November 8 –Ali Karimi , Iranian footballer
*November 11 –Erik Edman , Swedish footballer
*December 29 –Victor Agali , Nigerian footballer
*December 29 –Kieron Dyer , English footballerDeaths
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July 13 –George Reader (81), English football referee
*August 5 –Ernst Melchior , Austrian footballer
*September 15 –Ricardo Zamora , Spanish footballer
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