2010 in association football

- USA **United States** :: [U.S. Open Cup](2010-lamar-hunt-u-s-open-cup-final): Seattle Sounders FC ### CONMEBOL - BRA **Brazil** :: [Copa do Brasil](2010-copa-do-brasil): Santos ### OFC - NZL New Zealand :: [Chatham Cup](2010-chatham-cup): Miramar Rangers ### UEFA - ENG **England** ::[FA Cup](2010-fa-cup-final): Chelsea :: [League Cup](2009-10-football-league-cup): Manchester United - FRA **France** :: [Coupe de France](2010-coupe-de-france-final): Paris Saint-Germain :: [Coupe de la Ligue](2009-10-coupe-de-la-ligue): Marseille - DEU **Germany** :: [DFB-Pokal](2010-dfb-pokal-final): Bayern Munich - GRC **Greece** :: [Greek Cup](2009-10-greek-cup): Panathinaikos - ITA **Italy** :: [Coppa Italia](2010-coppa-italia-final): Internazionale - NLD **Netherlands** :: [KNVB Cup](2009-10-knvb-cup): Ajax - PRT **Portugal** ::[Taça de Portugal](2010-taca-de-portugal-final): Porto ::[Taça da Liga](2010-taca-da-liga-final): Benfica - RUS **Russia** :: [Russian Cup](2009-10-russian-cup): Zenit St. Petersburg - SCO **Scotland** :: [Scottish Cup](2010-scottish-cup-final): Dundee United :: [Scottish League Cup](2010-scottish-league-cup-final): Rangers - SVN **Slovenia** :: [Slovenian Cup](2009-10-slovenian-football-cup): Maribor - ESP **Spain** :: [Copa del Rey](2010-copa-del-rey-final): Sevilla - TUR **Turkey** :: [Turkish Cup](2010-turkish-cup-final): Trabzonspor ## Deaths ### January - 1 January – Sergio Messen, Chilean midfielder (60) - 1 January – Jean-Pierre Posca, French defender (57) - 3 January - Gus Alexander, Scottish footballer (75) - 7 January – Alex Parker, Scottish defender (74) - 9 January - Améleté Abalo, Togolese football manager (47) - 11 January - Johnny King, English footballer (83) - 13 January - Tommy Sloan, Scottish footballer (84) - 15 January – Detlev Lauscher, German striker (57) - 18 January – Lino Grava, Italian defender (82) - 19 January – Nils Jensen, Danish goalkeeper (74) - 19 January – Panajot Pano, Albanian striker (70) - 19 January - Christos Hatziskoulidis, Greek footballer (57) - 20 January - Jack Parry, Welsh footballer (86) - 21 January – Marino Bergamasco, Italian midfielder (84) - 26 January – Lars Larsson, Swedish defender (76) ### February - 1 February - Bobby Kirk, Scottish footballer (82) - 3 February – Gil Merrick, English goalkeeper (88) - 5 February – Galimzyan Khusainov, Russian striker (72) - 7 February - Bobby Dougan, Scottish footballer (83) - 8 February – Angelo Franzosi, Italian goalkeeper (88) - 9 February – Constant de Backer, Belgian midfielder (81) - 10 February – Orlando, Brazilian defender (74) - 11 February – Brian Godfrey, Welsh striker (69) - 11 February – Yury Sevidov, Russian striker (67) - 12 February – Werner Krämer, German striker (70) - 12 February – Petar Borota, Serbian goalkeeper (57) - 12 February – Luis Molowny, Spanish midfielder and manager (84) - 13 February – Marian Parse, Romanian striker (23, cancer) - 14 February – Zhang Yalin, Chinese midfielder (28, lymphoma) - February 15 – Juan Carlos González, Uruguayan defender, winner of the [1950 FIFA World Cup](1950-fifa-world-cup). (85) - 16 February – Wan Chi Keung, Hong Kong striker (53) - 18 February - Alan Gordon, Scottish footballer (65) - 20 February - Bobby Cox, Scottish footballer (76) - 22 February - Bobby Smith, Scottish footballer (56) - 23 February – Gerhard Neef, German goalkeeper (63) - 27 February - Charlie Crowe, English footballer (85) - 28 February - Adam Blacklaw, Scottish footballer (72) ### March - 3 March - Keith Alexander, English footballer (53) - 4 March - Tony Richards, English footballer (75) - 6 March - Mansour Amirasefi, Iranian footballer (76) - 6 March - Endurance Idahor, Nigerian footballer (25) - 9 March - Gheorghe Constantin, Romanian footballer (77) - 11 March - Wille MacFarlane, Scottish footballer (79) - 12 March - Aleksandr Minayev, Russian footballer (51) - 12 March - Hugh Robertson, Scottish footballer (70) - 13 March - Édouard Kargu, French footballer (84) - 13 March - Charlie Ashcroft, English footballer (83) - 17 March - Abdellah Blinda, Moroccan footballer (58) - 18 March - Júlio Correia da Silva, Portuguese footballer (90) - 19 March - Bob Curtis, English footballer (60) - 20 March - Naim Kryeziu, Albanian footballer (92) - 27 March - Zbigniew Gut, Polish footballer (60) - 28 March - Derlis Florentín, Paraguayan footballer (26) ### April - 3 April - Oleg Kopayev, Russian footballer (72) - 6 April - Sid Storey, English footballer (90) - 9 April - Zoltán Varga, Hungarian footballer (65) - 10 April - Manfred Reichert, German footballer (69) - 11 April - Hans-Joachim Göring, German footballer (86) - 11 April - Theodor Homann, German footballer (61) - 12 April - Alper Balaban, Turkish footballer (22) - 13 April - Jorge Bontemps, Argentine footballer (32) - 13 April - Charlie Timmins, English footballer (87) - 15 April - Wilhelm Huxhorn, German footballer (54) - 17 April - Alexandru Neagu, Romanian footballer (61) - 21 April - Sammy Baird, Scottish footballer (79) - 21 April - Tony Ingham, English footballer (85) - 21 April - Manfred Kallenbach, German footballer (68) - 22 April - Emilio Álvarez, Uruguayan footballer (71) - 22 April - Victor Nurenberg, Luxembourgian footballer (79) - 22 April - Piet Steenbergen, Dutch footballer (81) - 25 April - Ian Lawther, Northern Irish footballer (70) - 26 April – Alberto Vitoria, Spanish midfielder (54) - 26 April - Yuri Vshivtsev, Russian footballer (70) ### May - May - Bert Padden, Scottish football referee (born 1932) - 3 May - Denis Obua, Ugandan footballer (62) - 6 May - Guillermo Meza, Mexican footballer (21) - 6 May - Giacomo Neri, Italian footballer (94) - 7 May – Denovan Morales, Honduran midfielder (22) - 11 May - Brian Gibson, English footballer (82) - Emmanuel Ngobese, South African footballer (29; tuberculosis) - 13 May - Walter Klimmek, German football defender (91) - 15 May - Besian Idrizaj, Austrian footballer (22) - 19 May - Harry Vos, Dutch footballer (63) - 24 May - Kambozia Jamali, Iranian midfielder (71) - 26 May - Leo Canjels, Dutch footballer (77) ### June - 1 June - John Hagart, Scottish footballer (72) - 4 June - Hennadiy Popovych, Ukrainian footballer (37) - 6 June - Mabi de Almeida, Angolan football manager (46) - 7 June - Jorge Ginarte, Argentine footballer (70) - 9 June - Mohamed Sylla, Guinean footballer (39) - 12 June – Mao Mengsuo, Chinese midfielder (20) - 20 June – Lai Sun Cheung, Hong Kong defender (59) - 20 June - Roberto Rosato, Italian footballer (66) - 22 June - Amokrane Oualiken, Algerian footballer (77) - 23 June - Jörg Berger, German footballer (65) - 27 June - Édgar García de Dios, Mexican footballer (32) ### July - July 1 - Eddie Moussa, Swedish footballer (26) - July 3 - Colin Gardner, British football manager - July 3 – Herbert Erhardt, West-German defender, winner of the [1954 FIFA World Cup](1954-fifa-world-cup), listed by the DFB in the top 20 best German defenders of all time. (79) - July 6 - Alekos Sofianidis, Greek footballer (76) - July 8 - Guillermo León, Costa Rican footballer - July 11 - Rudi Strittich, Austrian footballer (88) - July 13 - Ken Barnes, British footballer (81) - July 17 - Shaun Mawer, English footballer (50) - July 17 - Ioannis Stefas, Greek footballer (61) - July 17 - Gunārs Ulmanis, Latvian footballer (71) - July 19 - Joseph Aghoghovbia, Nigerian footballer (69) - July 19 - Daiki Sato, Japanese footballer (21) - July 28 - Daniel Pettit, English footballer (95) - July 29 - Alex Wilson, Polish footballer (76) - July 30 - Stanley Milburn, English footballer (83) - July 31 - Pedro Dellacha, Argentine footballer (84) ### August - August 2 - José María Silvero, Argentine footballer (78) - August 3 - Edmund Zientara, Polish footballer (81) - August 5 - Yuri Shishlov, Russian footballer (65) - August 8 - Ken Boyes, English footballer (75) - August 8 - Massamasso Tchangai, Togolese footballer (32) - August 10 - Brian Clark, English footballer (67) - August 10 - Adam Stansfield, English footballer (31) - August 13 - Panagiotis Bachramis, Greek footballer (34) - August 22 - Raúl Belén, Argentine footballer (79) - August 22 – Juan Carlos González, Uruguayan defender, winner of the [1950 FIFA World Cup](1950-fifa-world-cup). (85) - August 22 - Stjepan Bobek, Yugoslav footballer (86) - August 27 - Oscar Ntwagae, South African footballer (33) - August 28 - Isa Bakar, Malaysian footballer (57) - August 30 - Francisco Varallo, Argentine striker and the last surviving player of the [1930 FIFA World Cup](1930-fifa-world-cup) and the [final](1930-fifa-world-cup-final). (100) - August 30 - Henryk Czapczyk, Polish footballer (88) - August 30 - Philip Tisson, Saint Lucian footballer (24) ### September - 2 September - Jackie Sinclair, Scottish midfielder (67, cancer) - 3 September - Jose Augusto Torres, Portuguese striker and manager (71, heart failure) - 10 September - Andrei Timoshenko, Russian striker (41) - 10 September - Fridrikh Maryutin, Soviet striker (85) - 11 September - Diego Rodríguez Cano, Uruguayan defender (22, car accident) - 18 September - Bobby Smith, English striker (77, after a short illness) - 18 September - Øystein Gåre, Norwegian manager (56, after a short illness) - 22 September - Vyacheslav Tsaryov, Russian defender (39, after a short illness) - 23 September - Fernando Riera, Chilean striker and manager (90) - 28 September - Orvin Cabrera, Honduran striker (33, liver cancer) ### October - 1 October - Ian Buxton, English striker (72) - 1 October - Bobby Craig, Scottish footballer (75) - 1 October - Dezső Bundzsák, Hungarian midfielder and manager (82) - 6 October - Norman Christie, Scottish footballer (85) - 9 October - Les Fell, English midfielder (89) - 12 October - José Casas 'Pepín', Spanish goalkeeper (78) - 13 October - Juan Carlos Arteche, Spanish midfielder (53, cancer) - 13 October - Eddie Baily, English striker (85) - 14 October - Malcolm Allison, English defender and manager (83, after a long illness) - 18 October - Mel Hopkins, Welsh defender (75) - 18 October - Hans Hägele, German striker and football agent (70, suicide) - 21 October - Mustapha Anane, Algerian striker (60, after a long illness) - 22 October - Franz Raschid, German midfielder (56, pancreatic cancer) - 24 October - Fritz Grösche, German midfielder and manager (69, cancer) - 26 October - Paul the Octopus, 2010 FIFA World Cup "oracle" (2, natural causes) - 29 October - Ronnie Clayton, English midfielder (76) - 30 October - John Benson, Scottish defender and manager (67, after a short illness) ### November - 3 November - Ron Cockerill, English defender (75) - 8 November - Fred Blankemeijer, Dutch defender (84) - 8 November - Tim Womack, English footballer (76) - 12 November - Jim Farry, Former Chief Executive of the Scottish FA (56, heart attack) - 15 November -Ángel Cabrera, Uruguayan footballer (71) - 16 November - Ilie Savu, Romanian goalkeeper and manager (90) - November 17 - Olavo Rodrigues Barbosa, Brazilian defender, runner-up at the [1950 FIFA World Cup](1950-fifa-world-cup). (87) - 18 November - Jim Cruickshank, Scottish goalkeeper (69) - 24 November - Valentin Ivakin, Soviet goalkeeper and manager (80) - 26 November - Mohammad Anwar Elahee, Mauritian defender and manager (81) - 27 November - Steve Hill, English footballer (70) - 28 November - Vladimir Maslachenko, Soviet European Nation's Cup winning goalkeeper (74) ### December - 3 December - Jose Ramos Delgado, Argentine defender (75, Alzheimer disease) - 5 December - Shamil Burziyev, Russian defender (25, car accident) - 6 December - Imre Mathesz, Hungarian midfielder (73) - 6 December - Rene Hauss, French defender and manager (82) - 7 December - Federico Vairo, Argentine defender (80, stomach cancer) - 10 December - Marcel Domingo, French goalkeeper and manager (86) - 11 December - Peter Risi, Swiss striker (60, after a long illness) - 12 December - Emmanuel Ogoli, Nigerian defender (21, collapsed on the pitch) - 14 December - Dale Roberts, English goalkeeper (24, suicide) - 17 December - Ralph Coates, English midfielder (64, stroke) - 21 December - Oleksandr Kovalenko, Ukrainian midfielder and referee (34, suicide) - 21 December - Enzo Bearzot, Italian defender and World Cup winning manager (83) - 24 December - Frans de Munck, Dutch goalkeeper (88) - 26 December - Bill Jones, English defender (89) - 27 December - Walter Balmer, Swiss international footballer (born 1948) - 28 December - Jeff Taylor, English footballer (80) - 29 December - Ramón Montesinos, Spanish midfielder (67) - 29 December - Avi Cohen, Israeli defender (54, motorcycle accident) ## References ## References 1. (27 April 2010). ["Linfield clinch league title"](http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/irish/8645142.stm). *BBC News*. 2. ["Emmanuel 'Scara' Ngobese loses TB battle: RIP Emmanuel 'Scara' Ngobese"](http://www.kickoff.com/news/15338/rip-emmanuel-scara-ngobese.php). ::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_in_association_football) and is available under the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the [article history page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_in_association_football?action=history). ::