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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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