1956 in association football

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The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1956 throughout the world.

Events

*November 3 – Dutch club Rapid JC makes its European debut with a defeat (3-4) on home soil against Yugoslavia's Red Star Belgrade in the second round of the European Cup.

Winners club national championship

* Argentina: River Plate
* England: Manchester United
* Italy: ACF Fiorentina
* Paraguay: Olimpia Asunción
* Sweden: IFK Norrköping
* West-Germany: Borussia Dortmund

International tournaments

*Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia (November 24 – December 8, 1956)
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Births

January

* January 16: Martin Jol (Dutch footballer and manager)
* January 17: Faouzi Mansouri (Algerian footballer)
* January 31: Stefan Majewski (Polish footballer)

February

* February 14: Reinhold Hintermaier (Austrian footballer)
* February 18: Rüdiger Abramczik (German footballer)
* February 28: Jimmy Nicholl (Northern Irish footballer)

March

* March 3: Zbigniew Boniek (Polish footballer)
* March 12: László Kiss (Hungarian footballer)
* March 12: Pim Verbeek (Dutch footballer and manager)
* March 15: Gilberto Yearwood (Hondurian footballer)
* March 24: Włodzimierz Ciołek (Polish footballer)
* March 29: Ferenc Csongrádi (Hungarian footballer)
* March 29: Dick Jol (Dutch football referee)

April

* April 12: František Jakubec (Czech footballer)

May

* May 3: Bernd Förster (German footballer)
* May 19: Jan Fiala (Czech footballer)

June

* June 12: David Narey (Scottish footballer)
* June 26: Maxime Bossis (French footballer)

July

* July 15: Emmanuel Kunde (Cameroonian footballer)
* July 20: Thomas N'Kono (Cameroonian footballer)
* July 29: Jean-Luc Ettori (French footballer)

August

* August 16: Patricio Hernández (Argentinian footballer)
* August 27: Jean-François Larios (French footballer)
* August 29: Viv Anderson (English footballer)

eptember

* September 8: Jacky Munaron (Belgian footballer)
* September 14: Béla Bödönyi (Hungarian footballer)
* September 14: Ray Wilkins (English footballer)
* September 23: Paolo Rossi (Italian footballer)
* September 30: Frank Arnesen (Danish footballer)

October

* October 28: Frank Vercauteren (Belgian footballer)

November

* November 16: Max Hagmayr (Austrian footballer)
* November 18: Noel Brotherston (Northern Irish footballer)

December

* December 6: Klaus Allofs (German footballer)
* December 10: Jan van Dijk (Dutch footballer and manager)

Deaths

* August 12 - Giampiero Combi, Italian footballer.
* October 24 - Tom Whittaker, 58, Arsenal manager, heart attack