1937_in_association_football Knowpia

The following are the football events of 1937 throughout the world.

Events edit

May 2 – Puck van Heel becomes Holland's most capped player when he plays his 57th match for the Netherlands national football team against Belgium. Van Heel earned 64 caps during his career.
Foundation of Air Force Central F.C.
Sunderland AFC win the FA cup final.

January 1 – Vlatko Marković, Yugoslavian international footballer (died 2013)
February 3 – Alex Young Scottish international footballer (died 2017)
March 13 – Antonio Betancort, Spanish international footballer (died 2015)
May 16 – Antonio Rattín, Argentine international footballer
June 1 – Ezio Pascutti, Italian international footballer (died 2017)
June 27 – Jules Accorsi, French football player and manager
June 29 – Yair Nossovsky, Israeli footballer
July 6 – Ernesto Figueiredo, Portuguese footballer
July 9 – Josef Vacenovský, Czech forward
July 12
- Fritz Kehl, Swiss football defender
- František Valošek, Czech football player
July 20 – Ilie Datcu, Romanian goalkeeper and coach
August 9 – Hans Nowak, German international footballer (died 2012)
August 19 – Richard Møller Nielsen, Danish international footballer and manager (died 2014)
August 22 – Gennadi Matveyev, Soviet international footballer (died 2014)
October 14 – Ron Routledge, English professional footballer^[2]
November 8
- Peter Brabrook, English international footballer (died 2016)
- Dragoslav Šekularac, Serbian footballer and manager (d. 2019)
November 10 – Zdeněk Zikán, Czech football player (d. 2013)
November 20 – Pim van de Meent, Dutch footballer and manager
December 6 – Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorian-Uruguayan footballer (died 2006)
December 20 – Gordon Banks, English international footballer (died 2019)

^ "Scottish Cup Past Winners | Scottish Cup | Scottish FA". www.scottishfa.co.uk. Retrieved 17 December 2022.
^ "Ron Routledge". worldfootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL Medien GmbH & Co. KG. Retrieved 9 April 2024.