1954 in association football

The following are the **football (soccer)** events of the year **1954** around the world.

### April

- April 19: The 1954 FIFA Youth Tournament Under-18 Final was played.  drew 2-2 with  in Köln, .  would win due to a better goal average.
- April 24: Wolverhampton Wanderers win the Football League First Division for the first time.

### May

- May 8: The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) is founded. It was founded by 14 countries in Manila,
- May 8: The Gold medal match at the 1954 Asian Games is played.  beats  5-2. The match is played at the Rizal Memorial Stadium in Manila, .

### June

- June 15: The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) is founded. It was founded by 30 countries in Basel, . At that time, the headquarters of UEFA was based in Paris, .
- June 16: The opening 4 matches of the 1954 FIFA World Cup were played. In Group 1,  beat  5-0, and  beat  1-0. In Group 3,  beat  2-0, and  beat  1-0.

### July

- July 4: The 1954 FIFA World Cup Final was played.  beat  3-2. It was played at the Wankdorf Stadium in Bern,

### International

|Tournament|Tournament Organizer|Host Country(s)|Winner|Runner-Up|Finals Stadium|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1953–54 British Home Championship|Home Nations||||-|
|1954 FIFA World Cup|FIFA||||Wankdorf Stadium, Bern|

### Youth International

|Tournament|Tournament Organizer|Host Country(s)|Winner|Runner-Up|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1954 CCCF Youth Championship|Confederación Centroamericana y del Caribe de Fútbol (CCCF)||||
|1954 South American U-20 Championship|CONMEBOL||||
|1954 FIFA Youth Tournament Under-18|FIFA||||

### Europe

|Nation|League|Champion|Cup|Winner|Runner-Up|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||1954 Albanian National Championship|Partizani|1954 Albanian Cup|Dinamo Tirana|Partizani|||||
||1953–54 Austrian Football Championship|Rapid Wein|colspan=3|No Cup||||||
||1953–54 Belgian First Division|Anderlecht|1953–54 Belgian Cup|Standard Liège|RC Mechelen|||||
||1954 A Group|CSKA Sofia|1954 Bulgarian Cup|CSKA Sofia|Slavia Sofia|||||
||1954 Czechoslovak First League|Spartak Praha Sokolovo|colspan=3|No Cup||||||
||1953–54 Cypriot First Division|Pezoporikos Larnaca|1953–54 Cypriot Cup|Çetinkaya Türk|Pezoporikos Larnaca|||||
||1953–54 Danish 1st Division|Køge BK|colspan=3|No Cup||||||
||1953–54 DDR-Oberliga|BSG Turbine Erfurt|1952–54 FDGB-Pokal|ZSK Vorwärts Berlin|BSG Motor Zwickau|||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|1953–54 Football League First Division|rowspan=2|Wolverhampton Wanderers|1953-54 FA Cup|West Bromwich Albion|Preston North End||
|1954 FA Charity Shield|colspan=2|Shared between Wolverhampton Wanderers and West Bromwich Albion||||||||
||1954 Meistaradeildin|KÍ Klaksvík|colspan=3|No Cup||||||
||1954 Mestaruussarja|Pyrkivä Turku|colspan=3|No Cup||||||
||1953–54 French Division 1|Lille OSC|1953–54 Coupe de France|OGC Nice|Olympique Marseille|||||
||1953–54 Panhellenic Championship|Olympiacos|1953–54 Greek Football Cup|Olympiacos|Doxa Drama|||||
||1954 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|Budapest Honvéd|colspan=3|No Cup||||||
||1954 Úrvalsdeild|ÍA|colspan=3|No Cup||||||
||1953–54 Serie A|Internazionale|colspan=3|No Cup||||||
||colspan=2|No League|1953-54 Liechtenstein Cup|FC Vaduz|FC Triesen|||||
||1953–54 Luxembourg National Division|Jeunesse Esch|1953-54 Luxembourg Cup|Jeunesse Esch|CS Grevenmacher|||||
||1953–54 Maltese Premier League|Sliema Wanderers|1953-54 Maltese FA Trophy|Floriana|Rabat Ajax|||||
||1953–54 Netherlands Football League Championship|FC Eindhoven|colspan=3|No Cup||||||
||1953–54 Irish League|Linfield|1953-54 Irish Cup|Derry City|Glentoran|||||
||1953–54 Norwegian Main League|Fredrikstad|1954 Norwegian Football Cup|Skeid|Fredrikstad|||||
||1954 Ekstraklasa|Polonia Bytom|1953-54 Polish Cup|Gwardia Warsaw|Unknown|||||
||1953–54 Primeira Divisão|Sporting CP|1953–54 Taça de Portugal|Sporting CP|Vitória|||||
||1953–54 League of Ireland|Shamrock Rovers|1953–54 FAI Cup|Drumcondra|St Patrick's Athletic|||||
||1954 Divizia A|Flamura Roșie Arad|1954 Cupa României|Metalul Reșița|Dinamo București|||||
||colspan=2|No League|1953-54 Coppa Titano|Libertas|Unknown|||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|1953–54 Scottish Division A|rowspan=2|Celtic|1953–54 Scottish Cup|Celtic|Aberdeen||
|1953–54 Scottish League Cup|East Fife|Partick Thistle||||||||
||1954 Soviet Top League|Dynamo Moscow|1954 Soviet Cup|Dinamo Kiev|Spartak Yerevan|||||
||1953–54 La Liga|Real Madrid|1954 Copa del Generalísimo|Valencia|CF Barcelona|||||
||1953–54 Allsvenskan|GAIS|colspan=3|No Cup||||||
||1953–54 Nationalliga A|FC La Chaux-de-Fonds|1953-54 Swiss Cup|FC La Chaux-de-Fonds|FC Fribourg|||||
|rowspan=2||1953–54 Oberliga|5 Teams|rowspan=2|1953–54 DFB-Pokal|rowspan=2|VfB Stuttgart|rowspan=2|FC Köln|
|1954 German football championship|Hannover 96|||||||||
||1953–54 Yugoslav First League|Dinamo Zagreb|1954 Yugoslav Cup|Partizan|Red Star Belgrade|||||
||colspan=2|No League|1953–54 Welsh Cup|Flint Town United|Chester City|||||

### Clubs Founded

|Date Founded|Club|Country|Current League|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|January 26|Unión La Calera||Chilean Primera División||
|February 1|De Graafschap||Eerste Divisie||
|February 5|CO Médenine||Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 2||
|February 7|Celaya Fútbol Club||Liga de Expansión MX||
|March 19|Clube Atlético Patrocinense||Campeonato Brasileiro Série D Campeonato Mineiro ||||
|April 11|Persijap Jepara||Liga 2||
|April 14|Apollon Limassol|British Cyprus (formerly) || Cypriot First Division |||||
|June 5|Hungaritos Agustinos||Copa Perú||
|June|Guangzhou F.C.||Folded in 2025|Formerly known as Guangzhou Evergrande|
|July 3|C.D. Necaxa||Folded in 2012||
|July 8|Wuppertaler SV|(formerly) || Regionalliga West || Merger between TSG Vohwinkel and SSV Wuppertal|||
|August 2|Club Universidad Nacional||Liga MX||
|August 6|Córdoba CF||Segunda División||
|August 10|Deportivo Merlo||Primera B Metropolitana||
|August 17|Sport Boys Warnes||Folded in 2019||
|September 23|The Cong-Viettel|(formerly) || V.League 1 |||||
|October 1|SC Dynamo Berlin|(formerly) || Folded in 1991 || Reorganized to form Berliner FC Dynamo in 1966|||
|October 2|TRAU FC||I-League 2||
|October 26|Al Tahaddy||Libyan Premier League||
|November 9|Floresta Esporte Clube||Campeonato Brasileiro Série C Campeonato Cearense ||||
|December 18|Deportes Tolima||Categoría Primera A||
|1954|Accra Great Olympics|(formerly) || Ghana Premier League |||||
|1954|Adanaspor||TFF First League||
|1954|Al-Nasr Benghazi||Libyan Premier League||
|1954|Al-Wahda San'a|||Yemeni League|
|1954|Al Raed||Saudi Pro League||
|1954|Al Faisaly||Saudi First Division League||
|1954|Baltika Kaliningrad|(formerly) || Russian First League |||||
|1954|MO Béjaïa|(formerly) || Inter-Régions Division |||||
|1954|CF Damm||División de Honor Juvenil|Youth football team|
|1954|Club 31 de Octubre||Bolivian Football Regional Leagues||
|1954|Doxa Katokopias|British Cyprus (formerly) || Cypriot Second Division |||||
|1954|Finn Harps||League of Ireland First Division||
|1954|Foresta Fălticeni||Folded in 2003||
|1954|İnegölspor||TFF Second League||
|1954|FC Kairat|(formerly) || Kazakhstan Premier League |||||
|1954|FC Khimik-Arsenal|(formerly) || Russian Second League |||||
|1954|F.C. Maia||Folded in 2008||
|1954|Markaz Balata||West Bank Premier League||
|1954|Metalul Buzău||Liga II||
|1954|FC Minsk-2|(formerly) || Folded in 2015 || Former farm team of FC Minsk|||
|1954|Nairi SC|(formerly) || Folded in 2000 |||||
|1954|PWD Sports Club|East Pakistan (formerly) || Bangladesh Championship League |||||
|1954|Sankata Club||Martyr's Memorial A-Division League||
|1954|Shabab Al-Hussein||Jordanian Pro League||
|1954|Shamkir FC|(formerly) || Folded in 2017 |||||
|1954|TOT S.C.||Folded in 2016||
|1954|Turriff United||Highland League||
|1954|Tuzlaspor||TFF First League||
|1954|FC Unirea Urziceni||Folded in 2011||
|1954|US Bénédictine|()|Réunion Premier League||

### Clubs Folded

|Date Folded|Date Founded|Club|Country|Note|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|July 30|August 28, 1934|RCD Córdoba|||
|1954|November 21, 1935|Esporte Clube Alexandria|||
|1954|1886|Leith Athletic||Reformed in 1996|
|1954|April 10, 1900|Santiago National F.C.||Founding member of the Liga Profesional de Football de Santiago|
|1954|1921|SD Escoriaza|||
|1954|1945|Spartaks Rīga|()||

### Births

|Date of Birth|Player|Nationality|Played For|Managed|Date of Death|Other Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|January 15|Jan Everse||Feyenoord, Ajax|FC Zwolle, Sparta Rotterdam, SC Heerenveen|||
|Tarak Dhiab||ES Tunis, Al-Ahli SC|||||
|January 20|Daniela Sogliani||ACF Milan|||Women's footballer|
|January 28|Bruno Metsu||Valenciennes, Lille OSC, Nice|Lille OSC, , , Al Ain, Al-Gharafa, ,|October 15, 2013||
|February 7|Jimmy Bailey||Real España||||
|February 13|Dominique Bathenay||Saint-Étienne, Paris Saint-Germain|Stade de Reims, Saint-Étienne, ,|||
|February 19|Sócrates||Botafogo-SP, Corinthians, Fiorentina|Botafogo-SP, LDU Quito|December 4, 2011|Member of the FIFA 100 1983 South American Footballer of the Year winner|
|February 25|Gerardo Pelusso||Nacional, LDU Quito|Club Atlético Florida, Cerro, Danubio, Alianza Lima, Nacional, Club Olimpia, , Santa Fe, Al-Arabi SC, Deportivo Cali|||
|March 6|Toni Schumacher||1. FC Köln, FC Schalke 04, Fenerbahçe, Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund|Fortuna Köln|||
|March 11|Nicolae Manea||Rapid București, Gloria Bistrița|Unirea Dej, Rapid București, Romania U-21|December 15, 2014||
|April 1|Giancarlo Antognoni||Fiorentina, Lausanne-Sport|||1982 FIFA World Cup winner Member of the Italian Football Hall of Fame|
|April 14|László Fekete||Újpest Dózsa||March 4, 2014||
|April 19|Trevor Francis||Birmingham City, Nottingham Forest, Sampdoria || Queens Park Rangers, Sheffield Wednesday, Birmingham City, Crystal Palace || July 24, 2023 ||||||
|May 18|Eric Gerets||Standard Liège, Milan, PSV|Lierse, Club Brugge, PSV, Kaiserslautern, Wolfsburg, Galatasaray, Olympique Marseille|||
|June 6|Władysław Żmuda||Śląsk Wrocław, Widzew Łódź, Cremonese||||
|June 26|Luis Arconada||Real Sociedad|||UEFA Euro 1984 runner-up|
|July 10|José González Ganoza||Alianza Lima||December 8, 1987|Died in the 1987 Alianza Lima plane crash|
|July 12|Wolfgang Dremmler||Eintracht Braunschweig, Bayern Munich|||1982 FIFA World Cup runner-up|
|July 15|Mario Kempes||Rosario Central, Valencia, River Plate, St. Pölten|||1978 FIFA World Cup winner Member of the FIFA 100|
|July 24|Jorge Jesus||Sporting CP, Belenenses, UD Leiria, Vitória Setúbal, Farense|Braga, Benfica, Sporting CP, Al Hilal, Flamengo, Fenerbahçe||2019 Copa Libertadores winner|
|August 4|Claudio Cavalieri||AS Roma||June 9, 1977||
|August 18|Jan Peters||NEC Nijmegen, AZ '67, Genoa|De Treffers|||
|August 22|Emilio Campos||||September 18, 2022||
|August 24|Heini Otto||FC Twente, Middlesbrough, ADO Den Haag||||
|September 5|Danny Masterton||Ayr United, Clyde||January 5, 2020||
|October 30|Ramón Maradiaga||Motagua, Tenerife, Real España|Motagua, , ,|||
|November 5|Alejandro Sabella||River Plate, Sheffield United, Leeds United, Estudiantes (LP), Grêmio|, Estudiantes (LP), Argentina|December 8, 2020|2009 Copa Libertadores winner|
|November 14|Robert Alberts||Vancouver Whitecaps, Clermont Foot, Hittarps IK|Hittarps IK, Kedah FA, Home United, Sarawak FA, Arema Indonesia, Persib Bandung|||
|November 18|Adrie Koster||Roda JC, PSV|Willem II, Roda JC, Excelsior, Ajax, Club Brugge,|||
|December 1|François Van der Elst||Anderlecht, New York Cosmos, West Ham United, Lokeren||January 11, 2017||

### Deaths

|Date of Death|Player|Nationality|Played For|Managed|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|January 6|Pedrosa||Botafogo CA Estudantes Paulista São Paulo || || 4-time Campeonato Carioca winner Played at the 1934 FIFA World Cup|||
|January 10|Oscar Brockmeyer||Christian Brothers Cadets Missouri Tigers || || Silver medalist at the 1904 Summer Olympics|||
|January 20|Kees Oldenburg||Stormvogels|||
|January 28|Christiaan Groothoff||||Refereed at the 1912 Summer Olympics|
|January 31|Vivian Woodward||Clacton Tottenham Hotspur Chelsea Football League XI || || 1900–01 FA Cup winner 7-time British Home Championship winner Won a gold medal at the 1908 and 1912 Olympics.|||
|February 4|Henri Scharry||Jeunesse Esch||Played at the 1928 Summer Olympics|
|February 17|Erik Bergqvist||AIK IFK Stockholm || || Played at the 1912 Summer Olympics Won two Olympic medals in water polo (Silver in 1912, Bronze in 1920)|||
|February 19|Herman Hesselink||Vitesse||Co-founder of SBV Vitesse Brother of former Dutch footballer Willem Hesselink|
|February 25|Juan Cilley||Estudiantes San Isidro || || Finished third at the 1919 South American Championship|||
|March 14|Štefan Biró|||SK Baťa Zlín ŠK Bratislava || || 4-time Slovenská liga winner||
|March 15|Benito Mosso|||Torino Palestra Itália || || Brother of Argentine Italian footballers Eugenio, Francisco, and Julio Mosso||
|April 1|Ramón Guzmán||Barcelona Mallorca ||  Barcelona || 1929 La Liga winner 5-time Catalan football championship winner 2-time Copa del Rey/Copa del Generalísimo winner (1928, 1942)|||
|Jan Thomée||DSV Concordia||Bronze medalist at the 1908 Summer Olympics||
|April 3|Jalmari Holopainen||HJK Helsinki||2-time Finnish champion (1911, 1912) Played at the 1912 Summer Olympics|
|April 4|Jerzy Piec||Naprzód Lipiny/TuS 1883 Lipine AKS Chorzów || || Played at the 1936 Summer Olympics and 1938 FIFA World Cup|||
|April 12|Pim Mulier||||Co-founder of Koninklijke HFC Founder of the Nederlandse Voetbal en Athletiek Bond Organized the first football|
|April 14|Gino Ferrer Callegari||Padova AS Roma Sampdoria Lucchese Liguria Entella ||  Entella |||||
|April 18|George Kay||Bolton Wanderers Lisburn Distillery West Ham United Stockport County ||  Luton Town Southampton Liverpool || 1913–14 Gold Cup winner 1946–47 Football League First Division winner|||
|April 30|René Démaret||US Valenciennes-Anzin Montpellier RC Strasbourg AS Monaco || || 1950–51 Coupe de France winner|||
|May 1|Pentti Larvo||HPS Helsinki||5-time Mestaruussarja winner Played at the 1936 Summer Olympics|
|May 3|Józef Garbień||Pogoń Lwów||4-time Polish Football Championship winner|
|May 26|Sverre Berg-Johannesen||Stavanger IF|||
|May 28|Algoth Niska||Unitas HIFK Fotboll || || Played at the 1912 Summer Olympics Was also a bootlegger and adventurer Grandfather of Finnish singer Ilkka Lipsanen|||
|June 1|Jimmy Settle||Bolton Wanderers Bury Everton Stockport County || || 1901–02 Football League First Division top scorer Member of the Gwladys Street's Hall of Fame|||
|June 2|Franz Scheu||Wiener AC|||
|June 8|Fritz Fürst||Bayern Munich||2-time Kreisliga Bayern winner (1910, 1911)|
|June 11|André Poullain||CA Paris||1919–20 Coupe de France winner|
|June 25|Alfred Chalk||Upton Park||Gold medalist at the 1900 Summer Olympics|
|June 29|Thorsten Svensson||GAIS||3-time Swedish champion (1923–24, 1924–25, 1926–27) Bronze medalist at the 1924 Summer Olympics|
|July 21|Ernie Hart||Leeds United Mansfield Town || || 1929 FA Charity Shield winner|||
|July 26|Arthur Bridgett||Stoke City Sunderland South Shields Port Vale ||  South Shields North Shields || 3-time British Home Championship winner (1904–05, 1907–08, 1908–09)|||
|July 30|Hans Nobiling||SC Germania Hamburg||Founder of SC Germânia|
|September 6|Alfred Berghausen||Preußen Duisburg|||
|September 7|Armando Reyes||Racing Club|Racing Club|8-time Argentine Primera División winner 4-time Copa de Honor MCBA winner 5-time Copa Ibarguren winner 2-time Copa Aldao winner (1917, 1918 Copa Aldao) Played at the 1916, 1917, 1919 South American Championships|
|September 10|René Rossignol||Nîmes Olympique Grenoble Foot 38 || |||||
|October 27|Harry Tate||St. Rose Parish||Bronze medalist at the 1904 Summer Olympics|
|November 12|Alec Smith||Rangers Scottish League XI || || 8-time Scottish Division One winner 3-time Scottish Cup winner (1896–97, 1897–98, 1902–03)|||
|November 20|Gino De Biasi||Treviso|||
|November 23|Louis Schubart||Olympique Lillois||Played at the 1908 Summer Olympics|
|November 25|Enrico Crotti||Inter Milan Torino ||  Cagliari Fanfulla Legnano Empoli |||||
|November 27|Egil Lærum||Vålerenga Larvik Turn || || 1950 Egebergs Ærespris winner Was also a ski jumper|||
|December 2|Egidio Turchi||Pistoiese Ambrosiana-Inter Livorno Lazio Lucchese Napoli Prato Palermo ||  Colleferro Pistoiese |||||
|December 13|Karl Neubauer||Favoritner AC Rapid Wien || |||||
|December 20|Roland Schmitt||Racing Club de France FC Sète 34 Toulouse Olympique Lyon || || 2-time French Division 1 winner (1935–36, 1938–39) 1935–36 Coupe de France winner|||
|1954|Marcel Henneberg||Servette||1906–07 Swiss Serie A winner|
|1954|Nikolai Korotkov|||Novogireyevo Moscow Mamontovka Moscow || ||||
|1954|Rūdolfs Kundrāts|||LSB Rīga Riga Vanderer || || 1932 Baltic Cup winner||
|1954|Jimmy McIntyre||Walsall Notts County Reading Coventry City ||  Southampton Coventry City Fulham |||||
|1954|Cayetano Saporiti||Montevideo Wanderers||2-time Uruguayan Primera División winner (1906, 1909) 2-time South American Championship winner (1916, 1917)|
|1954|Voldemārs Viņķis||RFK Riga|Played at the 1924 Summer Olympics||

## Infobox (international football competition)

- **tourney name**: 1954 in association football
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