1927 in association football

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

Events

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
August 20 – Derek Jackman, English footballer (died 2017)^[4]
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.
^ "Bernard Bonner". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved September 20, 2018.
^ "Derek Jackman". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved February 10, 2019.