• 24 October – English footballer Dixie Dean scores a hat-trick for Tranmere Rovers F.C. to become the youngest ever player to score three goals for The Superwhites.

Clubs formed in 1924 edit

• 7 August: Foundation of club Peruvian Universitario de Deportes and Colombian Junior de Barranquilla
• July: Foundation of Bulgarian FC Sportist Svoge

• Belgium: Germinal Beerschot
• Denmark: B 1903
• England: Huddersfield Town
• Germany: 1. FC Nürnberg
• Greece: Regional Championships:

EPSA (Athens) Apollonas Athinon

EPSM (Thessaloniki) Aris

EPSP (Patras) Panachaiki

• Hungary: MTK Hungária
• Iceland: Víkingur
• Italy: Genoa 1893
• Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes: SK Jugoslavija
• Netherlands: Feyenoord Rotterdam
• Poland: Championships did not take place due to preparations of national team to 1924 Paris, France Olympic Games
• Scotland: For fuller coverage, see 1923–24 in Scottish football.

Scottish Division One – Rangers

Scottish Cup – Airdrieonians^[1]

• Turkey: Harbiye Talimgah

• 1924 British Home Championship (October 20, 1923 – April 12, 1924)

  Wales

• Olympic Games in Paris, France (May 25 – June 9, 1924)
  1.   Uruguay
  2.    Switzerland
  3.   Sweden
• 1924-28 Nordic Football Championship (June 15, 1924 – October 7, 1928) 1924: (June 15 – September 21, 1924)

  Sweden (1924)

  Denmark (1924–1928)

• South American Championship 1924 in Uruguay (October 12, 1924 – November 2, 1924)

  Uruguay

• 17 February: Raimon Carrasco, Spanish businessman and 34th President of FC Barcelona (died 2022)
• 6 March: Ottmar Walter, German international footballer (died 2013)
• 13 March: Raúl Córdoba, Mexican international footballer (died 2017)
• 22 March: Bill Roost, English footballer (died 2013)
• 28 May: Johnny Carroll, Irish footballer (died 2001)^[2]
• 25 June: Dimitar Isakov, Bulgarian footballer

• November 20 – Ebenezer Cobb Morley, English sportsman, former FA president, regarded as the father of the FA and modern football. (93)