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2024 in association football

The following are the football (soccer) events in the year 2024 around the world.

Events

November

• November 7 - November 2024 Amsterdam riots
• November 18: San Marino gain promotion to the UEFA Nations League League C. This is after San Marino won 3–1 against Liechtenstein.

December

• December 1 - 2024 Nzérékoré stampede
• December 14: Retired professional footballer Mikheil Kavelashvili is elected as the sixth President of Georgia in the 2024 Georgian presidential election. He is set officially become president on December 29.
• December 18 - Intercontinental Cup

Clubs

Clubs founded

Date Founded	Club	Country	Current League	Notes
TBD

Clubs Folded

Date Folded	Date Founded	Club	Country	Note
TBD

Births and deaths

Deaths

Main articles: Deaths in 2024 and 2024 in association football deaths

Date of Death	Player (Age)	Nationality	Played For	Managed	Notable For
January 1	Mario Boljat
January 1	Óscar Ortubé
January 2	Ángel Castellanos
January 2	Alberto Festa
January 3	Bernard Ducuing
January 5	Mário Zagallo (92)	Brazil	CR Flamengo Botafogo	Botafogo Brazil Fluminense Flamengo Kuwait Al-Hilal Vasco da Gama Saudi Arabia Bangu United Arab Emirates Portuguesa	10-time Campeonato Carioca winner 2-time Torneio Rio–São Paulo winner (1962, 1964) 1968 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A winner 1978–79 Saudi Premier League winner 2001 Copa dos Campeões winner 4-time FIFA World Cup winner (1958, 1962, 1970, 1994) 1976 Arabian Gulf Cup winner 1997 Copa América winner 1997 FIFA Confederations Cup winner Former oldest living goalscorer in a FIFA World Cup final (June 29, 2015 – Death) Former oldest living FIFA World Cup winner (November 7, 2017 – Death)
January 7	Franz Beckenbauer (78)	West Germany Germany	Bayern Munich New York Cosmos Hamburger SV	West Germany Olympique Marseille Bayern Munich	6-time Bundesliga winner 4-time DFB-Pokal winner 3-time North American Soccer League winner (1977, 1978, 1980) 1990–91 French Division 1 winner 3-time European Cup winner (1973–74, 1974–75, 1975–76) 1966–67 European Cup Winners' Cup winner 1976 Intercontinental Cup winner 1995–96 UEFA Cup winner 2-time FIFA World Cup winner (1974, 1990) 2-time FIFA World Cup runner-up (1966, 1986) UEFA Euro 1972 winner UEFA Euro 1976 runner-up 2-time Ballon d'Or winner (1972, 1976) 2-time Ballon d'Or runner-up (1974, 1975) 1966 Ballon d'Or third place Awarded the FIFA Order of Merit in 1984 Awarded the Laureus Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007 Member of the FIFA 100 Member of the World Team of the 20th Century
January 8	Frans Janssens
January 15	Georgios Darivas
January 15	Jorge Griffa
January 15	Dror Kashtan
January 16	Klaus Wunder
January 17	Bennie Muller
January 22	Gigi Riva (79)	Italy	Legnano Cagliari		1969–70 Serie A winner 1970 FIFA World Cup runner-up UEFA Euro 1968 winner 1969 Ballon d'Or runner-up 1970 Ballon d'Or third place 3-time Serie A top goalscorer (1966–67, 1968–69, 1969–70) Top goalscorer of the Italian national team (September 29, 1973 – Present) Member of the Italian Football Hall of Fame
January 23	Jean Petit
January 28	Luis Tejada
February 2	Osvaldo Domínguez Dibb
February 4	Kurt Hamrin (89)	Sweden	AIK Juventus Padova Fiorentina AC Milan Napoli		1967–68 Serie A winner 2-time Coppa Italia winner (1960–61, 1965–66) 1968–69 European Cup winner 2-time European Cup Winners' Cup winner (1960–61, 1967–68) 1966 Mitropa Cup winner 1958 FIFA World Cup runner-up 1954–55 Allsvenskan top goalscorer 1960–61 European Cup Winners' Cup top goalscorer Fiorentina joint all-time top goalscorer Member of the ACF Fiorentina Hall of Fame Member of the Swedish Football Hall of Fame
February 4	Giacomo Losi
February 6	Miguel Ángel
February 13	Law Pak
February 16	Ian McMillan
February 16	Jan Sørensen
February 16	Jorge Toro
February 20	Andreas Brehme (63)	West Germany Germany
February 22	Artur Jorge (78)	Portugal
February 23	Rui Rodrigues
February 24	Ulrik le Fevre
February 24	Chris Nicholl
February 25	Carlos Espinoza
March 3	Alexandre Baptista
March 3	Roberto Fleitas
March 4	Kees Rijvers
March 7	Minervino Pietra
March 10	Steve Maxwell
March 13	Stefan Abadzhiev
March 14	Léon Semmeling
March 18	Peter Kunter
March 20	Dumitru Macri
March 20	António Pacheco (57)	Portugal
March 28	Larry Lloyd (75)	England
March 29	Péter Juhász (75)	Hungary
April 1	Alejandro Semenewicz (74)	Argentina
April 2	Göran Hagberg
April 7	Joe Kinnear (77)	Republic of Ireland
April 9	Terto
April 15	Bernd Hölzenbein (78)	West Germany Germany
April 19	Leighton James
April 19	Siegfried Kirschen
April 21	Haim Levin ()	Israel
April 22	Charlie Hurley
April 28	Gilberto Noletti
April 29	Mykhaylo Fomenko ()	Soviet Union Ukraine
May 1	Terry Medwin
May 4	Dagoberto Fontes
May 5	César Luis Menotti (85)	Argentina
May 14	Fabián Cancelarich (58)	Argentina
May 17	Ivan Mráz (82)	Czechoslovakia Slovakia
May 20	Karl-Heinz Schnellinger (85)	West Germany Germany
May 24	Christian Rudzki (77)	Czechoslovakia Argentina
May 31	Amaral (69)	Brazil
June 2	Wensley Bundel (75)	Suriname
June 7	Jean-Kasongo Banza
June 9	William
June 13	Tommy Banks
June 18	Franjo Vladić
June 23	Hugo Villanueva
June 25	Mohamed Arif (38)	Maldives
June 25	José Antonio Urtiaga
June 27	Manuel Fernandes (73)	Portugal
June 27	Landry Nguémo
June 28	Dudu	Brazil
June 29	Pål Enger	Norway
July 2	Germán Gutiérrez de Piñeres
July 2	Comunardo Niccolai (77)	Italy
July 2	Jeff Whitefoot
July 5	Serge Ducosté (80)	Haiti
July 11	Willi Koslowski
July 12	Marcel Zagoli Golié
July 13	Iliya Valov
July 15	Juan Ricardo Faccio
July 16	Mikhail Viarheyenka
July 17	José Cerveró
July 26	Erwin Stein
July 27	Carlos Alvarado
July 30	Bruno Garzena
August 1	Tommy Cassidy
August 3	Dimitris Theofanis
August 4	Juan Ramón Martínez
August 5	Adílio (68)	Brazil
August 5	Sérgio Lopes
August 8	Chato González
August 8	Issa Hayatou (77)	Cameroon
August 8	Zoran Petrović
August 8	Jorge Rodríguez (56)	Mexico
August 12	Ramiro Blacut (80)	Bolivia
August 15	Imre Komora (84)	Hungary
August 15	Jim McLaughlin
August 16	Domingo Pérez (88)	Uruguay
August 20	Humberto Maschio (91)	Argentina Italy
August 21	Paquito García (86)	Spain
August 21	Hans Weiner (73)	West Germany Germany
August 24	Christoph Daum
August 26	Sven-Göran Eriksson (76)	Sweden
August 29	Adolfo Calisto
August 31	Sol Bamba
September 6	Horst Weigang (83)	East Germany Germany
September 6	Ron Yeats
September 10	Roberto Chale
September 16	István Juhász (79)	Hungary
September 16	Gary Shaw (63)	England
September 17	César (68)	Brazil
September 18	Salvatore Schillaci (59)	Italy
October 1	Denílson
October 4	Willi Giesemann
October 4	Anatoliy Konkov (75)	Soviet Union Ukraine
October 6	Johan Neeskens (73)	Netherlands
October 9	Dieter Burdenski
October 9	Arild Gulden
October 10	Peter Cormack
October 11	Branko Rašović
October 15	Belaïd Lacarne
October 18	Heinz Aldinger
October 22	Bernd Bauchspieß (85)	East Germany Germany
October 24	Abdelaziz Barrada
October 25	Zé Carlos (56)	Brazil
October 28	Cesare Gussoni
October 30	Pedro Sarmiento
November 6	John Dempsey
November 8	Rachid Mekhloufi (88)	France Algeria
November 10	Abdelkader Lecheheb
November 13	Luis Ernesto Tapia (80)	Panama
November 15	Frank Schäffer
November 17	Bernard Chiarelli (90)	France
November 17	Hugo Villaverde (70)	Argentina
November 18	Jan Keizer	Netherlands
November 21	Vicente de la Mata (80)	Argentina
November 29	Josef Jelínek (83)	Czechoslovakia Czech Republic
December 2	Helmut Duckadam (65)	Romania
December 2	Lucjan Brychczy
December 4	Lucien Kassi-Kouadio
December 14	Frans Körver
December 20	George Eastham (88)	England
December 21	Walter Pearson (eswiki)
December 30	Wolfgang de Beer (60)	West Germany Germany	MSV Duisburg Borussia Dortmund		2-time Bundesliga winner (1994–95, 1995–96) 1988–89 DFB-Pokal winner 1989 DFB-Supercup winner 1996–97 UEFA Champions League winner 1997 Intercontinental Cup winner
December 30	Hugo Sotil (75)	Peru