1904: A 4-0 win meant Canada won the first ever gold medal for mens football at the St Louis Olympics while the USA recieved both silver and bronze.
1911: West Auckland defeated Juventus 6-1 to claim the Thomas Lipton Trophy, one of the earliest tournaments between teams from different countries, for the second time.
1930: Uruguay won 4-2 against Argentina in the first ever FIFA World Cup Final.
1931: Goals from Matthias Sindelar, Anton Schall, Adolf Vogl & Karl Zischek meant Scotland lost 5-0 in the Hohe Warte Stadium, their first loss to a continental side.
1939: 'The Last Game' was played at the Józef Piłsudski Stadium on the eve of WW2. The home team beat Hungary 4-2.
1942: Occupying German soldiers lost 5-3 against a local baker's side. This became known as the 'death match' after 5 of the baker's players were killed by the gestapo.
1943: Francisco Franco ordered the resignation of the Presidents of both Barcelona and Real Madrid after fan violence in a, still controversial, game which Real won 11-1.
1949: Argentine super stars Adolfo Pedernera & Alfredo Di Stéfano both scored as their team, Millonarios, won the League play off second leg 3-2.
1953: Blackpool beat Bolton 4-3 in what became known as the Matthews Final.
1954: The Mighty Magyars of Hungary lost their first game in five years when West Germany beat them 3-2 in the world cup final.
1957: Ad-Diba scored all 4 goals when Egypt beat Ethiopia 4-0 in the first ever African nations final.
1958: After Turkey, Sudan, Indonesia, Egypt, Uruguay & Belgium all refused to play them in World Cup qualifying, the remaining Asian entry instead hosted Wales who beat them 2-0.
1958: Pelé and Vavá both scored twice when Brazil beat Sweden 5-2 to win their first of five world cups.
1960: Luis Cubilla scored a late equaliser for Peñarol away at Club Olimpia that saw his team win the first ever Copa Libertadores Finals 2-1 on aggregate.
1960: Brazilian team Ferroviária lost 3-0 to Sporting Lourenço Marque on a tour of Africa. Teenager striker Eusébio scored twice and caught the eye of European scouts.
1962: Ferenc Puskás scored a hat trick for the losing side when Benfica beat Real Madrid 5-3 to claim the European Cup.
1966: The Rangers played the Bucks in the first game of the Makana F.A. league of political prisoners on Robben Island.
1966: Liam Tuohy scored for Shamrock Rovers past Sepp Maier in the Bayern Munich goal in a 1-1 draw in the Cup Winners Cup first leg. Bayern would win their home leg 3-2.
1967: Celtic became the first football team from outside Iberia and Italy to win the European Cup when they beat Internazionale 2-1.
1968: 71 Boca Juniors fans died in the 'Puerta 12 Tragedy' after a 0-0 Superclásico derby against River Plate.
1969: Honduras lost 3-0 in a world cup qualifier in San Salvador in a game marred by fan violence that is often seen as part of the reason for the so called 'soccer war'.
1970: Stanley Matthews, the 55 year old Hibernians player-manager and ex european player of the year, played his last ever professional game in a 1-1 draw with Sliema Wanderers.
1973: After winning three European Cups in a row, Ajax were finally beaten 2-0 away at CSKA Sofia and so lost 2-1 on aggregate.
1973: Homayoun Behzadi scored a hat trick to help Persepolis win the Tehran derby 6-0.
1976: After a 2-2 draw Antonín Panenka scored the winning penalty for Czechoslovakia vs Germany in the European Championship Final with a floated chip or 'Panenka'.
1979: Liverpool lost their first two legged tie against non English opposition in four years when Dinamo Tbilisi avenged a 2-1 first leg loss with a 3-0 home victory.
1981: A third division1-0 win by Birkerød against Gladsaxe-Hero was the first professional game played by goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel.
1981: Bjørge Lillelien told Margaret Thatcher that her 'boys took a hell of a beating' after they lost 2-1 in a world cup qualifier.
1985: 39 people died in the Heysel Stadium disaster before Juventus beat Liverpool 1-0 in the European Cup Final.
1986: Diego Maradona scored twice in a 2-1 victory over England. His first became known as 'the hand of god' goal, his second as 'the goal of the century'.
1988: Marco van Basten scored a volley often described as one of the greatest ever goals in the European Championship Final for the Netherlands in their 2-0 victory over the USSR.
1989: Paul Caligiuri scored the 'Shot heard round the world,' when the USA beat Trinidad & Tobago 1-0 to ensure they qualified for the 1990 FIFA World Cup.
1990: The Dinamo Zagreb captain kicked a policeman who came onto the pitch amid fights with Red Star supporters in what is often viewed as the first battle of the Yugoslav Wars.
1991: The USA won the first ever Women's World Cup after beating Norway 2-1 in the final.
1992: The first addition of the Confederations Cup, known then as the King Fahd Cup, was won by Argentina after a 3-1 victory over Saudi Arabia.
1994: Johan Cruyff's Barcelona Dream Team were beaten 4-0 by Fabio Capello's A.C. Milan in the Champions League Final.
1998: Zinedine Zidane scored twice in a 3-0 victory for France over Brazil in the World Cup Final.
2001: American Samoa lost a qualifying match for the World Cup by 31 goals to 0, the worst ever defeat in an international football match.
2002: AS Adema beat SO l'Emyrne 149–0 because SOE, who were already out of the title race, deliberately scored 149 own goals in protest over poor refereeing.
2002: Reigning World and European Champions France lost 1-0 to debutants Senegal in the opening game of the World Cup.
2004: The last Intercontinental Cup, before that competition was replaced by the Club World Cup, was a 0-0 between Porto and Once Caldas.
2005: Liverpool won the Champions League Final against AC Milan on penalties after a 3-3 draw despite being 3-0 down at half time.
2006: When local rivals Steaua and Rapid met in the UEFA Cup quarter finals, a goal from Bănel Nicoliță sent Steaua through on away goals after 0-0 and 1-1 draws.
2006: Egypt beat Côte d'Ivoire and won their 5th African Nations, and the first of three in a row, to make them Africa's most successful team.
2007: Iraq beat Saudi Arabia 1-0 in the Asian Cup final in what was seen as a vital victory for the new and fragile Iraqi Republic.
2008: John Terry slipped while taking a penalty for Chelsea vs Manchester United, after the Champions League Final ended 1-1, and hit the post, denying his side victory.
2012: Zambia won their first African Nations on penalties after a 0-0 draw vs Côte d'Ivoire in Libreville: where most of the 1993 Zambian team died in a plane crash.
2013: Bayern Munich defeated home team Raja Casablanca 2-0 to claim their first Club World Cup.
2014: Germany beat Brazil by 7 goals to 1 in a world cup semi final.
2015: Chile won their first ever International Tournament after beating Argentina in a penalty shootout after a 0-0 Copa América Final.
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