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) • 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) == References ==