1945 in association football

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The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1945 throughout the world.

Events[]

• 2 April – The Austrian First Division is abandoned after 9 rounds due to the final stages of the war.^[1]
• The communist authorities in Yugoslavia ban major football clubs Građanski Zagreb, SK Jugoslavija, HAŠK, HŠK Concordia, FK Slavija and SAŠK Sarajevo among others.
• 25 July – At the annual meeting of The Football League in London, it is agreed to continue regional leagues for a further season despite the end of World War II, as clubs feel unable to cope with the demands of a full League season.^[2]
• 26 August – French professional football is resumed for the first time since 1938–39.

Winners club national championship[]

•  Argentina: River Plate
•  Chile: Green Cross
•  Costa Rica: Alajuelense
•  Hungary: Újpest FC
•  Ireland: Cork United
•  Paraguay: Libertad
•  Spain: Barcelona
•  Sweden: IFK Norrköping
•  Turkey: Fenerbahçe,
•  Uruguay: Peñarol
•  Soviet Union: Dynamo Moscow

International tournaments[]

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Births[]

• 20 January – Børge Bach, Danish international footballer (died 2016)
• 14 February – Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, Uruguayan international footballer and manager (died 2013)
• 24 March – Dumitru Antonescu, Romanian international footballer (died 2016)
• 3 April – Gary Sprake, Welsh international footballer (died 2016)
• 1 March – Fidel Uriarte, Spanisch international footballer (died 2016)
• 12 May – Alan Ball, English international footballer
• 14 May – Yochanan Vollach, Israeli international footballer
• 12 June – Pat Jennings, Northern Irish international footballer
• 14 July – Pablo Forlán, Uruguayan international footballer
• 11 September – Franz Beckenbauer, German international footballer and manager
• 20 October – Romeo Benetti, Italian international footballer
• 11 November – Odd Iversen, Norwegian international footballer (died 2014)
• 6 December – Chris Dekker, Dutch footballer and manager

Deaths[]

• 13 March: Guus van Hecking Colenbrander, Dutch international footballer (born 1887)
• 26 March: Dennis Hodgetts, English international footballer (born 1863)
• 27 March: Ángel Melogno, Uruguayan international midfielder, winner of the 1930 FIFA World Cup. (40)

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