page_title: 2018 in association football
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 2018 in association football / Deaths / January
caption_attribution_description: English: Tommy Lawrence in 1966
context_page_description: The following are the scheduled events of association football for the year 2018 throughout the world.
context_section_description: 1 January
  Gert Brauer, 62, German footballer
  Régis Manon, 52, Gabonese footballer
  Dušan Mitošević, 68, Serbian football player
  2 January
  Alan Deakin, 76, English footballer
  Eugène Gerards, 77, Dutch football player
  Ali Kadhim, 69, Iraqi football player
  Mike McCartney, 63, Scottish footballer
  Michael Pfeiffer, 92, German football player
  Felix Reilly, 84, Scottish footballer
  3 January
  Darci Miguel Monteiro, 49, Brazilian footballer
  Igor Strelbin, 43, Russian footballer
  4 January
  Peter Birdseye, 98, English footballer
  Papa Camara, 66, Guinean football player
  Joaquín Cortizo, 85, Spanish footballer
  5 January – Antonio Valentín Angelillo, 80, Italian-Argentine football player
  6 January – Nigel Sims, 86, English footballer
  8 January
  Hans Aabech, 69, Danish footballer
  Juan Carlos García, 29, Honduran footballer
  Antonio Munguía, 75, Mexican footballer
  9 January
  Tommy Lawrence, 77, Scottish footballer
  Valeri Matyunin, 57, Russian footballer
  Ted Phillips, 84, English footballer
  Kurt Thalmann, 86, Swiss footballer
  10 January
  Pierre Grillet, 85, French footballer
  John McGlashan, 50, Scottish footballer
  Gordon Wills, 83, English footballer
  11 January
  Raúl Antonio García, 55, Salvadoran footballer
  Takis Loukanidis, 80, Greek footballer
  Giuseppe Secchi, 86, Italian footballer
  12 January – Leon Ritzen (nl), 78, Belgian footballer
  13 January – Mohammed Hazzaz, 72, Moroccan footballer
  14 January
  Anton Regh, 77, German footballer
  Cyrille Regis, 59, English footballer
  15 January
  Carl Emil Christiansen, 80, Danish footballer
  Bogusław Cygan, 53, Polish footballer
  16 January
  Rubén Oswaldo Díaz, 72, Argentine footballer
  Rodney Fern, 69, English footballer
  19 January – Abdulsalam Musa, 39, Nigerian footballer
  21 January
  Philippe Gondet, 75, French footballer
  Tsukasa Hosaka, 80, Japanese footballer
  22 January
  Jimmy Armfield, 82, English football player
  Reinier Kreijermaat, 82, Dutch footballer
  25 January – Keith Pring, 74, Welsh footballer
  27 January – Göran Nicklasson, 75, Swedish footballer
  30 January
  Azeglio Vicini, 84, Italian football player and National Team coach
  Vic Keeble, 87, English footballer
  31 January – Hennie Hollink, 86, Dutch footballer
caption: Tommy Lawrence
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