1937 in association football

Events

• May 2 - Puck van Heel becomes Holland's most capped player when he plays his 57th match for the Netherlands national football team against Belgium. Van Heel earned 64 caps during his career.
• Foundation of Air Force Central F.C.
• Sunderland AFC win the FA cup final.

  Winners club national championship

• Argentina: River Plate
• France: Olympique de Marseille
• Italy: Bologna
• Netherlands: Ajax Amsterdam
• Paraguay: Olimpia Asunción
• Poland: Cracovia
• Turkey: Fenerbahçe
• Kingdom of Yugoslavia: Građanski Zagreb

  International tournaments

• 1937 British Home Championship
• 1937 South American Championship

  Births

• January 1 - Vlatko Marković, Yugoslavian international footballer
• February 3 - Alex Young Scottish international footballer
• March 13 - Antonio Betancort, Spanish international footballer
• May 16 - Antonio Rattín, Argentine international footballer
• June 1 - Ezio Pascutti, Italian international footballer
• June 27 - Jules Accorsi, French football player and manager
• June 29 - Yair Nossovsky, Israeli footballer
• July 6 - Ernesto Figueiredo, Portuguese footballer
• July 9 - Josef Vacenovský, Czech forward
• July 12
• * Fritz Kehl, Swiss football defender
• *František Valošek, Czech football player
• July 20 - Ilie Datcu, Romanian goalkeeper and coach
• August 9 - Hans Nowak, German international footballer
• August 19 - Richard Møller Nielsen, Danish international footballer and manager
• August 22 - Gennadi Matveyev, Soviet international footballer
• November 8
• *Peter Brabrook, English international footballer
• *Dragoslav Šekularac, Serbian footballer and manager
• November 10 – Zdeněk Zikán, Czech football player
• November 20 - Pim van de Meent, Dutch footballer and manager
• December 6 - Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorian-Uruguayan footballer
• December 20 - Gordon Banks, English international footballer

  Deaths