Overview of the events of 2007 in association football
The following are the association football events of the year 2007 throughout the world.
News
January
February
March
April
- 21 – Lyon become the first club in the "top five" European leagues to win six consecutive Championships after securing the Ligue 1 title with six games to play.
- 22 – Internazionale secure their fifteenth Serie A title after defeating Siena whilst championship rivals Roma lose to Atalanta.
- 22 – Celtic defeat Kilmarnock to retain their Scottish Premier League title.
- 29 – PSV claim the Eredivisie title, their third in a row after the three teams: AZ, Ajax, and PSV had 72 points each. PSV pipped to the title Ajax on goal difference.
May
June
July
- 29 – Iraq produced one of football's greatest fairytale victories as the fractured, war-torn nation were crowned champions of the AFC Asian Cup for the first time.[2]
August
December
International tournaments
National champions
UEFA nations
CONMEBOL nations
A = Apertura, C = Clausura
CONCACAF nations
A = Apertura, C = Clausura
- 1 Excludes Canadian clubs playing in the MLS.
- 2 There was no national champion in Cuba during 2007 as the Campeonato Nacional is in the process of changing from being a summer league to a winter league; the 2006 champion will be followed by a 2007–08 champion.
CAF nations
- 1 There was no national champion in Sierra Leone during 2007 as the Sierra Leone National Premier League is in the process of changing from being a summer league to a winter league; the 2006 champion will be followed by a 2007–08 champion.
AFC nations
OFC nations
Notable managerial changes
Births
Deaths
January
- January 1 – Thierry Bacconnier (43), French footballer
- January 1 – Jørgen Hammeken (88), Danish footballer
- January 3 – Roland Ehrhardt (65), French footballer
- January 4 – Sandro Salvadore (67), Italian footballer
- January 6 – Juan Manuel Alejandrez (62), Mexican footballer
- January 12 – Georg Dahlfelt (87), Danish footballer
- January 12 – Roberto Mazzanti (64), Italian footballer
- January 15 – David Vanole (43), American soccer player
- January 22 – Ramón Marsal (72), Spanish footballer
- January 30 – Sixto Rojas (26), Paraguayan footballer
- January 30 – Sigifredo Mercado (73), Mexican footballer
- January 31 – Arben Minga (47), Albanian footballer
February
March
- March 1 – Fernando Veneranda, Italian footballer and coach
- March 19 – Menotti Avanzolini, Italian footballer
April
May
June
July
August
- August 20 – Anton Reid (16), English footballer
- August 25 – Ray Jones (18), English footballer
- August 28 – Antonio Puerta (22), Spanish footballer
- August 29 – Chaswe Nsofwa (28), Zambian footballer
September
October
- October 8 – Fulvio Zuccheri (48), Italian footballer
- October 26 – Nicolae Dobrin (60), Romanian footballer
November
December
References
- ^ "Kilmarnock 1-5 Hibernian". 2007-03-18. Retrieved 2023-05-14.
- ^ "Iraq in historic Asian Cup win". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2023-05-15.
- ^ "Harry Amass". worldfootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL Medien GmbH & Co. KG. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
- ^ Mothoagae, Keba (4 November 2022). "Liverpool's Gabriano Shelton Has South African Hopes After Bukayo Saka, Jadon Sancho and Marcus Rashford Abuse". sportsbrief.com. Retrieved 4 May 2023.
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