2010 in association football
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Overview of the events of 2010 in association football
The following are the association football events of the year 2010 throughout the world.
News
In 2010, the two top-level leagues in the United States both added at least one new team:
However, during the 2010 WPS season , another charter team, Saint Louis Athletica , folded, bringing WPS back to the same number of teams it had in the 2009 season. The league also lost its season champions, FC Gold Pride , and the Chicago Red Stars , although it will add an expansion team in Western New York for 2011.
Following the 2010 MLS regular season, the Kansas City Wizards announced a name change to Sporting Kansas City .
Events
Men's national teams
FIFA
CAF
AFC
Women's national teams
Women's youth
Multi-sports events
Men
Women
Women
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
Note: "(A)" means Apertura champion; "(C)" mean Clausura champion.
OFC
UEFA
Domestic cup winners
AFC
Emperor's Cup : Kashima Antlers
Emir of Qatar Cup : Al-Rayyan
Singapore Cup : Bangkok Glass
Thai FA Cup : Chonburi FC
CAF
Nedbank Cup : Bidvest Wits
CONCACAF
Canadian Championship : Toronto FC
Beker van Suriname : Excelsior
U.S. Open Cup : Seattle Sounders FC
CONMEBOL
Copa do Brasil : Santos
OFC
Chatham Cup : Miramar Rangers
UEFA
FA Cup : Chelsea
League Cup : Manchester United
Coupe de France : Paris Saint-Germain
Coupe de la Ligue : Marseille
DFB-Pokal : Bayern Munich
Greek Cup : Panathinaikos
Coppa Italia : Internazionale
KNVB Cup : Ajax
Taça de Portugal : Porto
Taça da Liga : Benfica
Russian Cup : Zenit St. Petersburg
Scottish Cup : Dundee United
Scottish League Cup : Rangers
Slovenian Cup : Maribor
Copa del Rey : Sevilla
Turkish Cup : 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 . (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
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)
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