1978 in association football

Events

• Copa Libertadores 1978: Won by Boca Juniors after defeating Deportivo Cali on an aggregate score of 4–0.
• England: Ipswich Town win the cup beating Arsenal F.C. 1–0 with the winning goal scored by Roger Osborne

Winners club national championship

Africa

• : Zamalek

Asia

• : Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C.
• : Al-Rayyan SC

Europe

• : Nottingham Forest
• : AS Monaco
• : Újpest FC
• : Juventus
• :
  • Eredivisie – PSV Eindhoven
  • Eerste Divisie – PEC Zwolle
• : Steaua București
• : Real Madrid
• : Rangers
• : Fenerbahçe

North America

• : Tigres UANL
• / :
• New York Cosmos (NASL)

Oceania

• : West Adelaide

South America

• • Metropolitano – Quilmes
  • Nacional – Independiente
• : Guarani
• : Olimpia Asunción

International tournaments

• African Cup of Nations in Ghana (March 5 – 16 1978) 1. 1. 1.

• 1978 British Home Championship (May 13 – May 20, 1978) ::

• FIFA World Cup in Argentina (June 1 – 25 1978) 1. 1. 1.

Births

Main article: Births in 1978

January

• January 1 – Philip Mulryne, Northern Irish footballer
• January 2 – Aimo Diana, Italian footballer and manager
• January 6 – Cédric Roussel, Belgian footballer (d. 2023)
• January 9
  • Gennaro Gattuso, Italian footballer and manager
  • Hamlet Barrientos, Bolivian footballer
• January 10
  • Gavin McCann, English footballer
  • Facundo Quiroga, Argentine footballer
• January 11
  • Emile Heskey, English footballer
  • Michael Duff, Northern Irish footballer and manager
• January 12 – Bonaventure Kalou, Ivorian footballer
• January 13
  • Chérif Touré Mamam, Togolese footballer
  • Tinga, Brazilian footballer
• January 17
  • Frode Kippe, Norwegian footballer
  • Patrick Suffo, Cameroonian footballer
• January 18 – Bogdan Lobonț, Romanian footballer and manager
• January 20
  • Salvatore Aronica, Italian footballer and manager
  • Luciano Zauri, Italian footballer and manager
• January 24 – Tomokazu Myojin, Japanese footballer
• January 25
  • Jason Roberts, English-Grenadian footballer
  • Robin Nelisse, Dutch Antillean international footballer
• January 26 – Nastja Čeh, Slovenian footballer
• January 27 – Gustavo Munúa, Uruguayan footballer and manager
• January 28
  • Gianluigi Buffon, Italian international goalkeeper
  • Jamie Carragher, English footballer
  • Papa Bouba Diop, Senegalese footballer (d. 2020)

February

• February 2
  • Barry Ferguson, Scottish footballer and manager
  • Claudio Morel, Paraguayan footballer and manager
• February 3 – Joan Capdevila, Spanish footballer
• February 5
  • Jairon Zamora, Ecuadorian footballer
  • Anvarjon Soliev, Uzbekistani footballer
• February 6 – Jacek Kuranty, Polish footballer
• February 7
  • Ivan Leko, Croatian footballer and manager
  • Daniel Van Buyten, Belgian footballer
• February 12 – Alain Masudi, Congolese footballer
• February 15 – Alejandro Lembo, Uruguayan footballer
• February 18 – Josip Šimunić, Croatian footballer
• February 19
  • Alioum Saidou, Cameroonian footballer
  • Michalis Konstantinou, Cypriot footballer
• February 24 – Leon Constantine, English footballer
• February 25
  • Yazid Mansouri, French-Algerian footballer
  • Yuji Nakazawa, Japanese footballer
• February 26
  • Abdoulaye Faye, Senegalese footballer
  • Mohammed Noor, Saudi Arabian footballer
• February 27
  • James Beattie, English footballer and manager
  • Kakha Kaladze, Georgian footballer

March

• March 9 – Lucas Neill, Australian footballer
• March 11 – Didier Drogba, Ivorian international
• March 12 – Sébastien Michalowski, retired French footballer
• March 14 – Antti-Jussi Karnio, Finnish footballer[https://web.archive.org/web/20120919021327/http://guardian.touch- line.com/StatsCentre.asp?Lang=0&CTID=55&CPID=72&pStr=Player&PLID=178348&TEID=8235 Antti-Jussi Karnio at Guardian Football]
• March 15 – Ramalho (Edson Ramalho dos Santos), Brazilian footballer
• March 24 – Tomáš Ujfaluši, Czech footballer
• March 30 – Mauricio Rojas, Chilean footballer
• March 31
  • Stephen Clemence, English footballer and coach
  • Jérôme Rothen, French international

April

• April 1 – Antonio de Nigris, Mexican international striker (d. 2009)
• April 2
  • Erivelton, Brazilian former footballer
  • Radim Novák, Czech goalkeeper (d. 2020)
• April 18 – Stéphane Lucas, French former professional footballer
• April 30 – Simone Barone, Italian footballer

May

• May 13 – Ilya Kazakov, former Russian football player
• May 16
  • Edu, Brazilian football player and manager
  • Lionel Scaloni, Argentine footballer and manager
• May 17 – Paddy Kenny, Irish footballer
• May 17 – Ricardo Carvalho, Portuguese footballer
• May 30
  • Barney Marman, Motswana former footballer
  • Nicolás Olivera, Uruguayan footballer

June

• June 9 – Miroslav Klose, German footballer and manager
• June 13 – Aleksei Brikov, former Russian footballer
• June 17 – Vladimir Buss, former Russian footballer
• June 20 – Frank Lampard, English footballer and manager
• June 21 – Hatem Aqel, Jordanian footballer
• June 23 – Diego Rangel, Spanish retired professional footballer
• June 30 – Vedat Kapurtu, Turkish footballer

July

• July 4 – Manfred Razenböck, Austrian former footballer
• July 15 – Antonio Sambruno, Spanish former professional footballer
• July 22 – Dennis Rommedahl, Danish footballer
• July 28 – Emmanuel Gros, retired French footballer

August

• August 4 – Talinda Nyathi, Motswana former footballer
• August 5 – Walid Chattaoui, Tunisian retired footballer and manager
• August 16 – Héctor Bosque, Spanish retired footballer

September

• September 6
  • Éric Kossingou, French former professional footballer
  • Homare Sawa, Japanese footballer
• September 11
  • Dejan Stanković, Serbian footballer and manager
  • Pablo Contreras, Chilean footballer
• September 15
  • Eiður Guðjohnsen, Icelandic footballer and manager
  • Marko Pantelić, Serbian footballer
• September 17 – Arne Slot, Dutch football player and manager
• September 18
  • Ryan Lowe, English footballer and manager
  • Augustine Simo, Cameroonian footballer
• September 22 – Harry Kewell, Australian footballer and manager
• September 25 – Hakim Bouchouari, Belgian former professional footballer

October

• October 3
  • Gerald Asamoah, German footballer
  • Claudio Pizarro, Peruvian footballer
  • Ricardo Rocha, Portuguese footballer
• October 6
  • Ankyofna Encada, Bissau-Guinean former footballer
  • Carl Hoefkens, Belgian footballer and manager
• October 9 – Oscar Ewolo, Congolese footballer
• October 11 – Kali, Angolan footballer
• October 13 – Markus Heikkinen, Finnish footballer
• October 15 – Boško Balaban, Croatian footballer
• October 17
  • Lars Hirschfeld, Canadian soccer player
  • Kevin Lisbie, English-Jamaican footballer
• October 18 – Igor Lebedev, Russian professional football coach and former player
• October 22 – Chaswe Nsofwa, Zambian footballer (d. 2007)
• October 23
  • Jimmy Bullard, English footballer and manager
  • Archie Thompson, Australian footballer
• October 24 – Carlos Edwards, Trinidadian footballer
• October 30 – Gerardo Seoane, Swiss footballer and manager
• October 31 – Marek Saganowski, Polish footballer and manager

November

• November 4 – Roman Hupf, Austrian footballer
• November 7
  • Mohamed Aboutrika, Egyptian footballer
  • Rio Ferdinand, English footballer
  • Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, Dutch footballer
• November 8
  • Tim de Cler, Dutch footballer
  • Ali Karimi, Iranian footballer and manager
• November 10 – Nadine Angerer, German footballer
• November 11 – Erik Edman, Swedish footballer
• November 12
  • Eric Addo, Ghanaian footballer
  • Mista, Spanish footballer
• November 18 – Damien Johnson, Northern Irish footballer
• November 26 – Andrejs Rubins, Latvian footballer and manager (d. 2022)
• November 28 – Mehdi Nafti, Tunisian footballer and manager
• November 29
  • Dimitrios Konstantopoulos, Greek footballer
  • Andriy Vorobey, Ukrainian footballer

December

• December 4 – Michael Ricketts, English footballer
• December 5 – Marcelo Zalayeta, Uruguayan footballer
• December 8 – John Oster, English-Welsh footballer
• December 17 – Patricia Pérez, Mexican female footballer
• December 23 – Nicolás Suárez, Bolivian footballer
• December 24 – Ghislain Bagnon, French former professional footballer
• December 29
  • Victor Agali, Nigerian footballer
  • Kieron Dyer, English footballer

Deaths

January

• January 3 – Rubén Morán, Uruguayan striker, winner of the 1950 FIFA World Cup. (47)

May

• May 8 – Juan Evaristo, Argentine midfielder, runner up of the 1930 FIFA World Cup, part of the first sibling to ever play a World Cup Final. (75)

June

• June 2 – Santiago Bernabéu (82), Spanish footballer, coach and president.

July

• July 13 – George Reader (81), English football referee

August

• August 5 – Ernst Melchior, Austrian footballer
• August 11 – Mario Varglien, Italian midfielder, winner of the 1934 FIFA World Cup. (72)
• August 15 – Leo Lemešić, Croatian football player and manager
• August 31 – Ángel Bossio, Argentine Goalkeeper, runner-up of the 1930 FIFA World Cup. (73)

September

• September 15 – Ricardo Zamora, Spanish footballer
• September 25 – Luigi Allemandi, Italian defender, winner of the 1934 FIFA World Cup. (74)

November

• November 18 – Pablo Dorado, Uruguayan striker, winner of the 1930 FIFA World Cup and first player ever to score in a World Cup Final. (70)

December

• December 5 – Carlos Riolfo, Uruguayan midfielder, winner of the 1930 FIFA World Cup. (73)

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