The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1947 throughout the world. Events Winners club national championship Argentina River Plate Austria SC Wacker Wien Chile Colo-Colo Costa Rica C.S. Herediano England for fuller coverage see 1946–47 in English football First Division: Liverpool Second Division: Manchester City Third Division: Doncaster Rovers Fourth Division: Cardiff City FA Cup: Charlton Athletic France CO Roubaix-Tourcoing Hungary Újpest FC Italy Torino Ireland Shelbourne Mexico Atlante Netherlands Ajax Amsterdam Paraguay Olimpia Asunción Romania Divizia A: ITA Arad Divizia B: Unirea Tricolor București, Ploiești, Dermata Cluj Divizia C: Concordia Ploiești, BNR București, Astra Română Câmpina, PCA Constanța, Ripensia Timișoara, Sanitas Satu Mare, CFR Cluj, Șoimii Sibiu, Doljul Craiova, Aninoasa, Danubiana Roman, Astra Română Moreni Scotland for fuller coverage see 1946–47 in Scottish football League Division A: Rangers League Division B: Dundee League Division C: Stirling Albion Scottish Cup: Aberdeen Scottish League Cup: Rangers Spain Valencia Sweden IFK Norrköping Switzerland FC Biel-Bienne Turkey Ankara Demirspor Uruguay Nacional USSR First Group: CDKA Moscow Second Group: Lokomotiv Moscow Soviet Cup: Spartak Moscow Yugoslavia Partizan Beograd International tournaments 1947 British Home Championship (28 September 1946 – 12 April 1947) Births 15 January – Peter Nogly, German international Footballer 25 January – Tostão, Brazilian international footballer 20 February – Peter Osgood, English international footballer (died 2006) 24 February – Fernando Barrachina, Spanish international footballer (died 2016) 3 March – Óscar Tabárez, Uruguayan football player and manager 24 March – Archie Gemmill, Scottish international footballer 3 April – Ladislav Kuna, Slovak football player and manager (died 2012) 25 April – Johan Cruijff, Dutch international footballer and manager (died 2016) 8 May – Sef Vergoossen, Dutch football manager 3 July – Rob Rensenbrink, Dutch international footballer (died 2020) 10 August – Laurent Pokou, Ivorian international footballer (died 2016) 28 August – Emlyn Hughes, English international footballer (died 2004) 15 October – Laszlo Fazekas, Hungarian international footballer 23 October – Kazimierz Deyna, Polish international footballer (died 1989) 2 November – Allan Michaelsen, Danish international footballer (died 2016) 26 December – Dominique Baratelli, French international footballer Deaths 8 May – Attilio Ferraris, Italian midfielder, winner of the 1934 FIFA World Cup. (43, heart attack during a friendly match between former stars in Montecatini Terme) 12 June – Cosme Damião, Portuguese football player and manager, 61 References Association football by year