The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1956 throughout the world. Events November 3 – Dutch club Rapid JC makes its European debut with a defeat (3-4) on home soil against Yugoslavia's Red Star Belgrade in the second round of the European Cup. Foundation of Royal Thai Navy F.C. Winners club national championship : River Plate : Manchester United : Nice : Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. : ACF Fiorentina : León Paraguay: Olimpia Asunción : FC Spartak Moscow Spain: Atlético Bilbao : IFK Norrköping : Borussia Dortmund International tournaments Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia (November 24 – December 8, 1956) 1956 British Home Championship (October 22, 1955 – April 14, 1956) Shared by , , & Births January January 16: Martin Jol (Dutch footballer and manager) January 17: Faouzi Mansouri (Algerian footballer) (died 2022) January 31: Stefan Majewski (Polish footballer) February February 14: Reinhold Hintermaier (Austrian footballer) February 18: Rüdiger Abramczik (German footballer) February 25: Davie Cooper (Scottish footballer) (died 1995) February 28: Jimmy Nicholl (Northern Irish footballer) March March 3: Zbigniew Boniek, Polish international footballer March 4: Philippe Mahut, French international footballer (died 2014) March 12: László Kiss, Hungarian footballer March 12: Pim Verbeek, Dutch footballer and manager (died 2019) March 15: Gilberto Yearwood, Honduran footballer March 24: Włodzimierz Ciołek, Polish footballer March 29: Ferenc Csongrádi, Hungarian footballer March 29: Dick Jol, Dutch football referee April April 12: František Jakubec; Czech international footballer (died 2016) May May 3: Bernd Förster (German international footballer) May 19: Jan Fiala (Czech footballer) June June 5: Martin Koopman (Dutch footballer) June 12: David Narey (Scottish footballer) June 26: Maxime Bossis (French footballer) July July 15: Emmanuel Kunde (Cameroonian footballer) July 20: Thomas N'Kono (Cameroonian footballer) July 29: Jean-Luc Ettori (French footballer) August August 16: Patricio Hernández (Argentinian footballer) August 27: Jean-François Larios (French footballer) August 29: Viv Anderson (English footballer) September September 8: Jacky Munaron (Belgian footballer) September 14: Béla Bodonyi (Hungarian footballer) September 14: Ray Wilkins (English footballer) (died 2018) September 23: Paolo Rossi (Italian footballer) (died 2020) September 30: Frank Arnesen (Danish footballer) October October 10: Raúl Gorriti, Peruvian international footballer (died 2015) October 28: Frank Vercauteren (Belgian international footballer) November November 4: Jan Korte (Dutch footballer and manager) November 10: José Luis Brown Argentine international footballer, (died 2019) November 16: Max Hagmayr (Austrian footballer) November 18: Noel Brotherston (Northern Irish footballer) (died 1995) December December 6: Klaus