1999 IN FOOTBALL (SOCCER)

The following are the 'football (soccer)' events of the year '1999' throughout the world.

Contents

Events

Winners national club championship

South America

International tournaments

Movies

Deaths

Events

★ Manchester United won the UEFA Champions League, FA Cup and Premiership to cap off an unprecedented European Treble, the first and only English side to do so.

★ Copa Libertadores 1999: Won by Palmeiras after defeating Deportivo Cali 4-3 on a penalty shootout after a final aggregate score of 2-2.

★ FIFA Women's World Cup - United States won 0-0, 5-4 on penalty kicks, over China

★ Confederation Cup - Mexico's won the tournament after beating Brazil 4-3

★ May 22 – Manchester United wins the FA Cup with a 2-0 win over Newcastle United. The goals are scored by Teddy Sheringham and Paul Scholes.

★ August 8 – Feyenoord Rotterdam wins the Johan Cruijff Schaal, the annual opening of the new season in the Eredivisie, by a 3-2 win over Ajax Amsterdam in the Amsterdam ArenA.

★ September 11 – Manager Hans Meyer from Germany resigns at Dutch club FC Twente, and is replaced by former player Fred Rutten.

★ October 27 – Dutch club Sparta Rotterdam fires manager Jan Everse, who is replaced by Dolf Roks.

★ October 30 – Manager Herbert Neumann is fired at Dutch club Vitesse Arnhem. Ronald Koeman will replace him on January 1, 2000. In the mean time former player Edward Sturing takes control.

★ November 30 – Manchester United wins the Intercontinental Cup in Tokyo, Japan by defeating Brazil's Palmeiras: 1-0. The only goal for the English club is scored by Roy Keane in the 35th minute.

★ December 29 – Manager Jimmy Calderwood leaves Dutch club NEC Nijmegen and is succeeded by former player Ron de Groot.

Winners national club championship

★ England – Manchester United

★ Italy – A.C. Milan

★ Netherlands

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★ Eredivisie – Feyenoord Rotterdam

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★ Eerste Divisie – FC Den Bosch

★ Portugal – FC Porto

★ Spain – Barcelona

★ Turkey – Galatasaray S.K.

South America

★ Argentina

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★ Clausura – Boca Juniors

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★ Apertura – River Plate

★ Brazil – Corinthians

★ Chile – Universidad de Chile

★ Paraguay – Olimpia Asunción

International tournaments

★ UNCAF Nations Cup in San José, Costa Rica (March 17 – March 28, 1999)
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★ Copa América in Paraguay (June 29 – July 18, 1999)
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★ Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Canada (July 23 – August 7, 1999)
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★ Men's Tournament
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★ FIFA U-17 World Championship in New Zealand (November 10 – November 27, 1999)
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Movies

★ (US)

★ There's Only One Jimmy Grimble (UK)

Deaths

★ January 26 – Claude Bez (58), French footballer

★ March 30 – Igor Netto (69), Soviet footballer

★ April 28 – Sir Alfred Ramsey (79), English footballer and manager

★ August 23 – Georges Boulogne (81), French footballer

★ November 14 – Bert Jacobs (58), Dutch footballer and manager