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2016 in association football

2016 in association football

Overview of the events of 2016 in association football


The following were the scheduled events of association football for the year 2016 throughout the world.

Events

Men's national teams

AFC

CONMEBOL

OFC

UEFA

Youth (men)

AFC

OFC

UEFA

Women's national teams

Youth (women)

Multi-sports events

Men

Women

Fixed dates for national team matches

Scheduled international matches per their International Match Calendar. Also known as FIFA International Day/Date(s).[1]

  • 21–29 March
  • 30 May – 7 June (non-UEFA confederations)
  • 29 August – 5 September
  • 3–11 October
  • 7–15 November

Club continental champions

Men

  1. The final was never played; the plane that was carrying Chapecoense to the first leg against Colombia's Atlético Nacional crashed, killing almost all of the team. In the days following the disaster, Atlético Nacional campaigned for Chapecoense to be awarded the title, and CONMEBOL did so on 5 December.[2]

Women

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Domestic leagues

UEFA nations

Men

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Notes
  1. Georgia transitioned from an autumn-spring season spanning two calendar years to a spring-autumn season contained within a single calendar year. To that effect, an abbreviated 2016 season was held in autumn.
  2. Does not include 10 national titles won by predecessor club Stade Dudelange.

Women

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Notes
  1. The 2015–16 season was the first for the Belgian Super League after the Belgian and Dutch associations scrapped the BeNe League, a joint top-level league that operated from 2012–13 through 2014–15. Standard also has 15 championships in the Belgian Women's First Division, which was the country's top level before the creation of the BeNe League and now occupies the second level of Belgium's women's football pyramid. In addition, Standard was the top-placing Belgian team in all three seasons of the BeNe League, giving them three more national championships.
  2. Standard's last championship in Belgium's top level came in 2011–12, the final season before the creation of the BeNe League.
  3. In women's football, the Republic of Ireland transitioned from an autumn-spring season spanning two calendar years to a spring-autumn season contained within a single calendar year, a format long used by the country's men's leagues. To that effect, an abbreviated 2016 season was held in autumn.
  4. Includes only Eredivisie titles. Twente was the top-placing Dutch team in all three seasons of the BeNe League.
  5. Date reflects Twente's previous Eredivisie championship.
  6. The 2016 season was the first for SWPL 1, the new top flight of the Scottish Women's Premier League.
  7. Does not include 9 titles won by Glasgow City prior to the split of the SWPL into two divisions after the 2015 season.

CONMEBOL nations

CONCACAF nations

Men

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Women

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  1. Following the 2016 season, the Flash sold its NWSL franchise rights to interests in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina, which relaunched the franchise as the North Carolina Courage. The Flash continue to operate in the de facto second-division United Women's Soccer.
  2. Does not include championships won in two now-defunct top-level leagues—Women's Professional Soccer (2011) and WPSL Elite (2012).

AFC nations

Men

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Women

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CAF nations

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OFC nations

Domestic cups

UEFA nations

Men

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Notes
  1. Does not include 2 cups titles won by predecessor club Alliance Dudelange,4 cups titles won by predecessor club Stade Dudelange, 1 Cup title won by predecessor club US Dudelange.

Women

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CONMEBOL nations

CONCACAF nations

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AFC nations

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CAF nations

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OFC nations

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Detailed results

2016 Summer Olympics (FIFA)

2016 FIFA tournaments

UEFA

CONMEBOL

CAF

AFC

CONCACAF

OFC

Deaths

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January

Wim Bleijenberg
Manuel Velázquez

February

Mark Farren

March

Johan Cruyff

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December


References

  1. "Archived copy". www.fifa.com. Archived from the original on 3 June 2007. Retrieved 15 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "Chapecoense plane crash: Team awarded Copa Sudamericana". BBC Sport. 5 December 2016. Retrieved 5 December 2016.
  3. "1.SŽNL 2015/16" (in Slovenian). Football Association of Slovenia official website. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  4. "Ženski pokal 2015/16" (in Slovenian). Football Association of Slovenia official website. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  5. "FIFA.com - FIFA Club World Cup". Archived from the original on December 25, 2011. Retrieved 2011-12-25.
  6. Kalevi Lehtovirta on kuollut Archived February 13, 2016, at the Wayback Machine (in Finnish)
  7. 2016 in association football at National-Football-Teams.com
  8. 【訃報】 Archived January 27, 2016, at the Wayback Machine (in Japanese)
  9. "Eric Webster RIP". Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved February 7, 2016.
  10. "Obituary: Tommy O'Hara, footballer". The Scotsman. 18 February 2016.
  11. Galatasaray'ın acı günü Archived March 6, 2016, at the Wayback Machine (in Turkish)
  12. Muere Miguel "El Mulo" Gutiérrez Archived February 11, 2016, at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)

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