The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1965 throughout the world.

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• Copa Libertadores 1965: Won by Independiente after defeating Peñarol on an aggregate score of 4–1.
• February 6:Retirement of Sir Stanley Matthews from professional football, five days after his fiftieth birthday.
• Substitutions allowed: The Football League voted 39 to 10 in favour of allowing clubs to introduce a substitute for an injured player at any time during a league match.
• FC Twente (Enschede, the Netherlands) was founded
• FC Hansa Rostock was founded
• 1. FC Magdeburg was founded
• 1965 International Soccer League
  • League: Polonia Bytom defeated New York Americans, 5–1 on aggregate.
  • Cup: Polonia Bytom defeated FK Dukla Prague 3–1, on aggregate.

• African Cup of Nations in Tunisia (November 12 – 21 1965)
  1.  Ghana
  2.  Tunisia
  3.  Ivory Coast
• 1965 British Home Championship (October 3, 1964 – April 10, 1965)

 England

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• January 1 – Khabib Ilyaletdinov, Russian club player
• January 9 – Iain Dowie, English-Northern Irish footballer, manager and pundit
• January 13 – Bennett Masinga, South African international footballer (died 2013)
• January 25 – Josef Ringel, retired Czech footballer^[1]
• February 4 – John van Loen, Dutch footballer and assistant-coach
• February 5 – Gheorghe Hagi, Romanian footballer, manager and club owner^[2]
• February 15 – Gustavo Quinteros, Bolivian footballer and manager
• March 3 – Dragan Stojković, Serbian international and coach^[3]
• March 8 – Juan Hernández Ramírez, Mexican international footballer
• May 4 – Aykut Kocaman, Turkish international
• May 17 – Massimo Crippa, Italian international footballer
• May 23 – Manuel Sanchís Hontiyuelo, Spanish international footballer^[4]
• June 7 – Jean-Pierre François, French footballer and singer
• June 12 – Carlos Luis Morales, Ecuadorian goalkeeper
• June 30 – Dietmar Drabek, Austrian referee
• July 5 – Abdoulaye Sogue, Senegalese former professional footballer^[5]
• July 17 – Muhamad Radhi Mat Din, Malaysian coach and footballer
• July 18 – Rosanan Samak, Bruneian football coach
• July 27 – José Luis Chilavert, Paraguayan goalkeeper^[6]
• July 27 – Trifon Ivanov, Bulgarian international footballer (died 2016)^[7]
• July 30 – Leonel Álvarez, Colombian footballer
• August 9 – David Kealy, Irish footballer
• August 21 – Juan Lombardi, former Uruguayan footballer
• August 27 – Ange Postecoglou, Greek-born Australian football player and manager
• August 30 – Peter Grant, Scottish football player and manager
• August 31 – Ricardo Gónzalez, Chilean footballer
• September 7 – Darko Pančev, Macedonian footballer
• September 22 – Christophe Jeannet, French footballer^[8]
• September 24 – Roberto Siboldi, Uruguayan footballer
• October 6 – Jürgen Kohler, German international footballer and manager
• November 16 – Mika Aaltonen, Finnish international footballer
• November 17 – Terence Mophuting, Botswanan footballer
• November 24 – Tom Boyd, Scottish footballer
• November 25 – Mauro Blanco, Bolivian footballer
• December 10 – José Aurelio Gay, Spanish football player and manager