2010 in association football
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The following are the association football events of the year 2010 throughout the world.
Events
Men's national teams
FIFA
- 11 June – 11 July: 2010 FIFA World Cup in
South Africa
Spain
Netherlands
Germany- 4th:
Uruguay
- 14 August – 22 August: 2010 IBSA World Blind Football Championship in
England
CAF
AFC
- December 1–29: 2010 AFF Suzuki Cup in
Indonesia and 
Vietnam
- Winners:
Malaysia - Runners-up: Indonesia
- Third place:
Philippines, Vietnam
Women's national teams
- 24 February – 3 March: 2010 Algarve Cup in
Portugal
-
United States - Germany
-
Sweden - 4th:
China
- 4–21 November 2010: 2010 South American Women's Football Championship in
Ecuador
Women's youth
- July 13 – August 1: 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Germany
- 5 September - 25 September: 2010 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in
Trinidad and Tobago
-
South Korea -
Japan - Spain
- 4th:
North Korea
- March 3 - March 17: 2010 South American U-20 Women Championship in
Colombia
Multi-sports events
Men
- August 12–25: 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in
Singapore
-
Bolivia -
Haiti - Singapore
- 4th:
Montenegro
- November 7–25: 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China
Women
- August 12–24: 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore
-
Chile -
Equatorial Guinea -
Turkey - 4th:
Iran
- November 14–22: 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China
- Japan
- North Korea
- South Korea
- 4th: China
Club football
| Region | Tournament | Champion | Title | Last Honor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AFC (Asia) | 2010 AFC Champions League |  Seongnam |
2nd | 1995 |
| 2010 AFC Cup |  Aleppo |
1st | N/A | |
| 2010 AFC President's Cup |  Yadarnarbon |
1st | N/A | |
| CAF (Africa) | 2010 CAF Champions League |  TP Mazembe |
4th | 2009 |
| 2010 CAF Confederation Cup |  FUS Rabat |
1st | N/A | |
| 2010 CAF Super Cup | TP Mazembe |
1st | N/A | |
| CONCACAF (North and Central America, Caribbean) |
2009–10 CONCACAF Champions League |  Pachuca |
4th | 2008 |
| 2010 North American SuperLiga | Morelia |
1st | N/A | |
| 2010 CFU Club Championship |  Puerto Rico Islanders |
1st | N/A | |
| CONMEBOL (South America) | 2010 Copa Libertadores |  Internacional |
2nd | 2006 |
| 2010 Copa Sudamericana |  Independiente |
1st | N/A | |
| 2010 Recopa Sudamericana |  LDU Quito |
2nd | 2009 | |
| OFC (Oceania) | 2009–10 OFC Champions League |  PRK Hekari United |
1st | N/A |
| UEFA (Europe) | 2009–10 UEFA Champions League |  Inter Milan |
3rd | 1964–65 |
| 2009–10 UEFA Europa League |  Atlético Madrid |
1st | N/A | |
| 2010 UEFA Super Cup | Atlético Madrid |
1st | N/A | |
| FIFA (Global) | 2010 FIFA Club World Cup | Inter Milan |
1st | N/A |
Women
| Region | Tournament | Champion | Title | Last honor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CONMEBOL (South America) | 2010 Copa Libertadores Femenina | Santos |
2nd | 2009 Copa Libertadores Femenina |
| UEFA (Europe) | 2009–10 UEFA Women's Champions League |  Turbine Potsdam |
2nd | 2004–05 UEFA Women's Cup |
National champions
AFC
CAF
CONCACAF
Note: "(A)" means Apertura champion; (B) means Bicentenario champion; "(C)" means Clausura champion.
Note: "(P)" designates the league champion, by winning the playoffs; "(R)" designates the regular season champion.
CONMEBOL
OFC
| Nation | League | Champion | Title | Last honor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Cook Islands |
2010 Cook Islands Round Cup | Tupapa Maraerenga | 8th | 2007 |
 Fiji |
2010 Fiji National Football League | Ba | 17th | 2008 |
 New Caledonia |
2012 New Caledonia Division Honneur | AS Mont-Dore | 3rd | 2006 |
 New Zealand |
2009–10 New Zealand Football Championship | Auckland City FC | 3rd | 2005–06 |
| Papua New Guinea |
2009–10 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League | Hekari United | 4th | 2008–09 |
 American Samoa |
2010 FFAS Senior League | Pago Youth FC | 2nd | 2008 |
 Solomon Islands |
2009–10 Solomon Islands National Club Championship | Koloale F.C. | 3rd | 2007–08 |
 Tahiti |
2009–10 Tahiti First Division | AS Tefana | 2nd | 2005 |
 Tonga |
2010 Tonga Major League | Competition not held | ||
 Vanuatu |
2009–10 Port Vila Premier League | Amicale FC | 1st | — |
UEFA
Albania: Dinamo Tirana
Andorra: FC Santa Coloma
Armenia: Pyunik Yerevan
Austria: Red Bull Salzburg
Azerbaijan: Inter Baku
Belarus: FC BATE Borisov
Belgium: Anderlecht
Bosnia and Herzegovina: FK Željezničar Sarajevo
Bulgaria: Litex Lovech
Croatia: Dinamo Zagreb
Cyprus: Omonia
Czech Republic: Sparta Prague
Denmark: Copenhagen- England: Chelsea
Estonia: FC Flora Tallinn
Faroe Islands: HB Thorshavn
Finland: HJK Helsinki
France: Marseille
Georgia: Olimpi Rustavi- Germany: Bayern Munich
Greece: Panathinaikos
Hungary: Debreceni VSC
Iceland: Breiðablik UBK
Republic of Ireland: Shamrock Rovers
Israel: Hapoel Tel Aviv
Italy: Internazionale
Kazakhstan: Tobol Kostanay
Latvia: Skonto Riga
Lithuania: Ekranas Panevezys
Luxembourg: Jeunesse Esch
Macedonia: Renova
Malta: Birkirkara
Moldova: Sheriff Tiraspol- Montenegro: Rudar Pljevlja
- Netherlands: Twente
Northern Ireland: Linfield[1]
Norway: Rosenborg Trondheim
Poland: Lech Poznań- Portugal: Benfica
Romania: Cluj
Russia: FC Zenit Saint Petersburg
San Marino: Tre Fiori
Scotland: Rangers
Serbia: Partizan
Slovakia: MŠK Žilina
Slovenia: Koper- Spain: Barcelona
- Sweden: Malmö FF
Switzerland: Basel- Turkey: Bursaspor
Ukraine: Shakhtar Donetsk
Wales: The New Saints
Domestic cup winners
AFC
CAF
CONCACAF
CONMEBOL
OFC
UEFA
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. (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)[2]
- 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, 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. (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 and the 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. (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)
