1967 in association football

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The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1967 throughout the world.

Events

• January 28 – In the Scottish Cup Berwick Rangers F.C. beat Rangers F.C. 1-0 to cause one of the biggest shock results in Scottish Football.
• European Cup: Celtic F.C. defeat F.C. Internazionale Milano 2-1 in normal time at the Estádio Nacional in Lisbon to become the first British and non Mediterranean winners of the trophy.
• Copa Libertadores 1967: Won by Racing Club after defeating Nacional on an aggregate score of 2-1.
• Third Lanark A.C., one of the founding members of the Scottish Football League are declared bankrupt and the club is liquidated.
• September 21 – NAC makes a winning European debut by defeating Malta's Floriana (1-2) in the first round of the Cup Winners Cup, with both Dutch goals scored by Jacques Visschers.
• November 19 – Jimmy O'Connor of Shelbourne sets the world record for the fastest ever hat-trick by scoring three goals in 2 minutes 13 seconds in a League of Ireland match against local rivals Bohemians at Dalymount Park, Dublin.

Winners club national championship

Argentina

• Estudiantes - Metropolitano
• Independiente - Nacional

Chile

• Universidad de Chile

England

for fuller coverage see 1966-67 in English football

• First Division: Manchester United
• Second Division: Coventry City
• Third Division: Queens Park Rangers
• Fourth Division: Stockport County
• FA Cup: Tottenham Hotspur
• Football League Cup: Queens Park Rangers

Netherlands

• Ajax Amsterdam

Paraguay

• Club Guaraní

Scotland

for fuller coverage see 1966-67 in Scottish football

• Division One: Celtic
• Division Two: Morton
• Scottish Cup: Celtic
• Scottish League Cup: Celtic

Spain

• Real Madrid

West-Germany

• Eintracht Braunschweig

International tournaments

• South American Championship in Montevideo, Uruguay (January 17 – February 2, 1967)
  1.  Uruguay
  2.  Argentina
  3.  Chile

• 1967 British Home Championship (October 22, 1966 – April 15, 1967)

 Scotland

• Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Canada (July 24 – August 3, 1967)
  1.  Mexico
  2.  Bermuda
  3.  Trinidad and Tobago

Births

January–April

• January 9 – Claudio Caniggia, Argentinian footballer
• January 16 – Ivo Ron, Ecuadorian footballer
• January 18 – Pieter Huistra, Dutch footballer
• February 3 – Aurelio Vidmar, Australian footballer
• February 10 – Rini Coolen, Dutch footballer and manager
• February 18 – Roberto Baggio, Italian footballer
• February 18 – Marco Boogers, Dutch footballer
• February 26 – Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese footballer
• March 1 – Aron Winter, Dutch footballer
• March 3 – Jaime Patricio Ramírez, Chilean footballer
• March 12 – Jorge Dely Valdés, Panamanian footballer
• March 26 – Alberto Coyote, Mexican footballer
• April 7 – Bodo Illgner, German footballer

May–September

• May 11 – Andrés Romero, Chilean footballer
• May 20 – Richard Zambrano, Chilean footballer
• May 21 – Nando, Spanish footballer
• May 25 – Luc Nilis, Belgian footballer
• May 27 – Paul Gascoigne, English footballer
• June 15 – Héctor Vidal Martínez, Paragayan footballer
• June 22 – Marc van Hintum, Dutch footballer
• June 23 – Pavel Yevteyev, Kazakhstani footballer
• July 19 – Gabriel Favale, Argentine football referee
• August 7 – Jocelyn Angloma, French footballer
• August 10 – Philippe Albert, Belgian footballer
• September 2 – Andreas Möller, German footballer
• September 5 – Matthias Sammer, German footballer
• September 6 – David Patiño, Mexican footballer
• September 20: Craig Forrest, Canadian footballer
• September 27 – Uche Okechukwu, Nigerian footballer

October–December

• October 11 – Mario Salas, Chilean footballer
• October 21 – Paul Ince, English footballer
• October 24 – Carlos Antonio Muñoz, Ecuadorian footballer (died 1993)
• November 2 – Zvonimir Soldo, Croatian footballer
• November 28 – José del Solar, Peruvian footballer
• December 5 – Bogdan Stelea, Romanian footballer
• December 28 – Paul Foster, Australian footballer

Deaths

• April 1 – Jan van Dort (77), Dutch footballer (born 1889)