The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1943 throughout the world.
Events
Cartagines defeat Espanola by the extraordinary score of 9-8 in the Costa Rican First Division.
Winners club national championship
Argentina: Boca Juniors
Austria: Vienna
Chile: Unión Española
Costa Rica: Universidad de Costa Rica
Croatia: Građanski Zagreb
Germany: Dresdner SC
Italy: Torino F.C. Mexico: Mars Paraguay: Libertad Scotland Scottish Cup: No competition Spain: Athletic Bilbao Sweden: IFK Norrköping Switzerland: Grasshoppers Turkey: Fenerbahçe Uruguay: Nacional
Births
24 January – Manuel Velázquez, Spanish international footballer (died 2016) 13 March – Giancarlo De Sisti, Italian international footballer 25 April – Angelo Anquilletti, Italian international footballer (died 2015) 4 May – Georgi Asparuhov, Bulgarian international footballer (died 1971) 16 May – Ove Kindvall, Swedish international footballer 3 June – Werner Lihsa, East German international footballer 14 June – Piet Keizer, Dutch international footballer (died 2017) 18 August – Gianni Rivera, Italian international footballer 10 September – Horst-Dieter Höttges, German international footballer 29 September – Wolfgang Overath, German international footballer 26 October – Tommy Gemmell, Scottish international footballer and manager (died 2017) 28 October – Pim Doesburg, Dutch international footballer (died 2020) 6 November – Roberto Telch, Argentine international footballer (died 2014) 7 December – Akbar Eftekhari, Iranian international footballer (died 2017) 22 December – Juan Mujica, Uruguayan international footballer and manager (died 2016)
Deaths
9 March – Franz Krumm (33), German international footballer (born 1909) 10 October – Frits Kuipers (44), Dutch footballer (born 1899)