1927 IN FOOTBALL (SOCCER)

The following are the 'football (soccer)' events of the year '1927' throughout the world.

Contents

Events

Winners club national championship

International tournaments

Births

Deaths

Events

★ Cardiff City FC become the first football team from outside of England to win the F.A Cup beating Arsenal FC 1-0 in the final. The goal was scored by Hughie Ferguson who was played by Gary Dobbs in the 2007 Welsh TV recreation of the famous match.

★ May 24 – Chilean club Universidad de Chile established

★ November 1 – Peru plays its first ever international match. In Lima the hosts are beaten by Uruguay: 0-4.

Winners club national championship

★ England: Newcastle United

★ Paraguay: Olimpia Asunción

★ Poland: Wisła Kraków

★ Greece: Regional Championships:
:: EPSA (Athens) Panathinaikos
:: EPSP (Pireas)Olympiacos
:: EPSM (Thessaloniki) Iraklis
:: EPSP (Patras) A.P.S. Olympiakos Patras

★ Scotland: Rangers F.C.

International tournaments

★ 1927 British Home Championship (October 20 1926 – April 9 1927)
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Births

★ January 26 – Victor Mees, Belgian footballer

★ June 16 – Ya'akov Hodorov, Israeli football goalkeeper

★ October 14 – Emil Pažický, Slovak footballer (d. 2003)

★ October 19 – Hans Schäfer, German footballer

★ December 5 – Omar Oscar Míguez, Uruguayan footballer

Deaths