1927 in association football

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

Events[edit]

Cardiff City FC become the first football team from outside England to win the FA 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.

EPSA (Athens) Panathinaikos

EPSP (Pireas) Olympiacos

EPSM (Thessaloniki) Iraklis

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1924-28 Nordic Football Championship (June 15, 1924 – October 7, 1928) 1927: (June 19 – October 30, 1927)

Denmark (1927)

Denmark (1924-1928)

January 18 – Werner Liebrich, German international footballer (died 1995)
January 23 – Frank Bee, English professional footballer (died 2010)^[2]
January 26 – Victor Mees, Belgian international footballer (died 2012)
January 28 – Karl Bögelein, German international footballer and coach (died 2016)
March 1 –George Davies, English footballer
March 2 – Erol Keskin, Turkish international footballer (died 2016)
March 27 – Karl Stotz, Austrian international footballer and manager (died 2017)
April 1
- Walter Bahr, American soccer player (died 2018)
- Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian international forward (died 2016)
April 6 – Harry Beitzel, Australian football umpire, broadcaster (died 2017)
April 30 – Johann Zeitler, German footballer (died 2018)
May 2 – Víctor Rodríguez Andrade, Uruguayan international footballer (died 1985)
May 3 – Günter Schröter, East German international footballer (died 2016)
May 9 – Juan José Pizzuti, Argentine footballer and manager (died 2020)
June 16 – Ya'akov Hodorov, Israeli international football goalkeeper (died 2006)
July 22
- Bernard Bonner, Scottish professional footballer (died 2005)^[3]
- Dagoberto Moll, Uruguayan footballer and manager
October 14 – Emil Pažický, Slovak international footballer (died 2003)
October 19 – Hans Schäfer, German international footballer (died 2017)
December 5 – Omar Oscar Míguez, Uruguayan footballer (died 2006)

^ "Scottish Cup Past Winners | Scottish Cup | Scottish FA". www.scottishfa.co.uk. Retrieved December 17, 2022.
^ "Frank Bee". worldfootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL Medien GmbH & Co. KG. Retrieved April 2, 2024.
^ "1927 in association football". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved September 20, 2018.

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