The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1947 throughout the world. Winners club national championship Argentina River Plate
Austria SC Wacker Wien
Chile Colo-Colo
Costa Rica C.S. Herediano
England for fuller coverage see 1946–47 in English football First Division: Liverpool Second Division: Manchester City Third Division: Doncaster Rovers Fourth Division: Cardiff City FA Cup: Charlton Athletic
France CO Roubaix-Tourcoing
Hungary Újpest FC
Italy Torino
Ireland Shelbourne
Mexico Atlante
Netherlands Ajax Amsterdam
Paraguay Olimpia Asunción
Romania Divizia A: ITA Arad Divizia B: Unirea Tricolor București, Ploiești, Dermata Cluj Divizia C: Concordia Ploiești, BNR București, Astra Română Câmpina, PCA Constanța, Ripensia Timișoara, Sanitas Satu Mare, CFR Cluj, Șoimii Sibiu, Doljul Craiova, Aninoasa, Danubiana Roman, Astra Română Moreni
Scotland for fuller coverage see 1946–47 in Scottish football League Division A: Rangers League Division B: Dundee League Division C: Stirling Albion Scottish Cup: Aberdeen Scottish League Cup: Rangers
Spain Valencia
Sweden IFK Norrköping
Switzerland FC Biel-Bienne
Turkey Ankara Demirspor
Uruguay Nacional
USSR
First Group: CDKA Moscow Second Group: Lokomotiv Moscow Soviet Cup: Spartak Moscow
Yugoslavia Partizan Beograd
International tournaments 1947 British Home Championship (28 September 1946 – 12 April 1947)
Births 15 January – Peter Nogly, German international Footballer 25 January – Tostão, Brazilian international footballer 20 February – Peter Osgood, English international footballer (died 2006) 24 February – Fernando Barrachina, Spanish international footballer (died 2016) 3 March – Óscar Tabárez, Uruguayan football player and manager 24 March – Archie Gemmill, Scottish international footballer 30 March – Henry Perales, Peruvian footballer (died 2021) 3 April – Ladislav Kuna, Slovak football player and manager (died 2012) 24 April – Aldo Anzuini, Italian retired football player and coach 25 April – Johan Cruijff, Dutch international footballer and manager (died 2016) 8 May – Sef Vergoossen, Dutch football manager 19 June – Alan Woodward, English former professional footballer 3 July – Rob Rensenbrink, Dutch international footballer (died 2020) 10 August – Laurent Pokou, Ivorian international footballer (died 2016) 28 August – Emlyn Hughes, English international footballer (died 2004) 15 October – Laszlo Fazekas, Hungarian international footballer 16 October – Ken Woodward, English former professional footballer 23 October – Kazimierz Deyna, Polish international footballer (died 1989) 2 November – Allan Michaelsen, Danish international footballer (died 2016) 26 December – Dominique Baratelli, French international footballer
Deaths 8 May – Attilio Ferraris, Italian midfielder, winner of the 1934 FIFA World Cup. (43, heart attack during a friendly match between former stars in Montecatini Terme) 12 June – Cosme Damião, Portuguese football player and manager, 61
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