Country	League	Team
Albania	Albanian National Championship	17 Nëntori
Austria	Austrian Football Bundesliga	SK Rapid Wien
Belgium	Belgian League	Club Brugge K.V.
Bulgaria	Bulgarian A Group	PFC Levski Sofia
Cyprus	Cypriot First Division	Pezoporikos Larnaca FC
Czechoslovakia	Czechoslovak First League	AC Sparta Prague
Denmark	Danish 1st Division	Brøndby IF
England	The Football League	Liverpool
Faroe Islands	Faroe Islands Premier League	Havnar Bóltfelag
Finland	Mestaruussarja	HJK Helsinki
France	Division 1	AS Monaco
East Germany	DDR-Oberliga	Berliner FC Dynamo
West Germany	Bundesliga	SV Werder Bremen
Gibraltar	Gibraltar First Division	Saint Theresa's F.C.
Greece	Alpha Ethniki	AEL
Greenland*	Greenlandic Men's Football Championship	Kissaviarsuk-33
Hungary	Nemzeti Bajnokság I	Budapest Honvéd
Israel	Liga Leumit	Hapoel Tel Aviv FC
Italy	Serie A	A.C. Milan
Luxembourg	Luxembourg National Division	Jeunesse Esch
Malta	Maltese Premier League	Hamrun Spartans F.C.
Netherlands	Eredivisie	PSV Eindhoven
Northern Ireland	Irish League	Glentoran
Norway	Norwegian First Division	Rosenborg
Poland	Ekstraklasa	Górnik Zabrze
Portugal	Primeira Liga	F.C. Porto
Republic of Ireland	League of Ireland	Dundalk
Romania	Liga 1	FC Steaua București
San Marino	Campionato Sammarinese di Calcio	S.P. Tre Fiori
Scotland	Scottish Premier League	Celtic
Soviet Union	Soviet Top League	FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Spain	La Liga	Real Madrid
Sweden	Allsvenskan	Malmö FF
Switzerland	Nationalliga A	Neuchâtel Xamax
Turkey	1.Lig	Galatasaray S.K.
Vatican City	Campionato della Città del Vaticano	Servici Tecnici
Yugoslavia	Yugoslav First League	Red Star Belgrade

*Greenland was not affiliated with UEFA and never has been, but it's part of the sovereign state of Denmark which is located in Europe.

• 1 January:
  • Diego Basto, Colombian footballer^[1]
  • Sékou Fadiga, Ivorian footballer^[2]
  • Isaac Mattia, South Sudanese footballer^[3]
• 3 January: Crispin Olando, Kenyan international footballer^[4]
• 4 January:
  • Anestis Argyriou, Greek footballer
  • Maximilian Riedmüller, German footballer
• 8 January:
  • Vitaliy Hoshkoderya, Ukrainian footballer
  • Adrián López, Spanish footballer
  • Michael Mancienne, English footballer
• 9 January: Marc Crosas, Spanish footballer
• 20 January:
  • Uwa Elderson Echiéjilé, Nigerian international^[5]
  • Jougle (Jougle Manoel Rodrigues), Brazilian footballer^[6]
  • Jeffrén Suárez, Spanish footballer
• 23 January: Marko Šimić, Croatian junior international
• 28 January: Alaa Ali, Egyptian footballer (d. 2019)
• 29 January: Bohdan Karkovskyi, Ukrainian former professional footballer^[7]

• 3 February: Pouria Gheidar, Iranian footballer^[8]
• 4 February: Sergei Yuvenko, Russian professional football player^[9]
• 12 February:
  • Linda Bengtsson, Swedish footballer^[10]
  • Nicolás Otamendi, Argentine international football player
• 23 February: Nicolás Gaitán, Argentine international football player
• 24 February: Levi Hanssen, New Zealand/Faroe Islands footballer
• 26 February: İsmail Baydil, Turkish footballer^[11]
• 28 February: Jorge Gastélum, Mexican footballer
• 29 February:
  • Mikel Balenziaga, Spanish footballer
  • Fabiano Ribeiro de Freitas, Brazilian footballer
  • Scott Golbourne, English footballer
  • Benedikt Höwedes, German footballer
  • Viktor Prodell, Swedish footballer
  • Evgeni Cheremisin, Russian footballer
  • Hamza Ziad, Algerian footballer

• 3 March: Eike Mund, German footballer
• 11 March: Joaelton (Joaelton Jonathan Sampaio), Brazilian footballer^[12]
• 12 March: Aarón Torlà, Spanish footballer^[13]
• 21 March: Lee Cattermole, English footballer^[14]

• 2 April: Edinaldo (Edinaldo Malcher de França Filho), Brazilian footballer^[15]
• 3 April: Tim Krul, Dutch international^[16]
• 11 April: Oleg Sibalov, Russian professional football player^[17]
• 12 April: Fred Santana, Brazilian footballer^[18]
• 23 April: Vitali Seletskiy, Russian professional football coach and former player^[19]

• 2 May; Ahn Il-joo, South Korean professional footballer^[20]
• 4 May:
  • Artur Gieraga, Polish footballer^[21]
  • Michael Ludäscher, Swiss footballer^[22]
• 15 May: Ruslan Tarala, former Russian professional footballer^[23]
• 17 May: Jennison Myrie-Williams, English youth international
• 21 May: Jonny Howson, English footballer^[24]
• 23 May: Angelo Ogbonna, Italian footballer
• 25 May: Adrián González Morales, Spanish junior international
• 29 May:
  • Łukasz Bocian, Polish footballer^[25]
  • Alex Porfirio, Brazilian footballer

• 1 June: Javier Hernández, Mexican international football player
• 9 June: Martín Castillo, Mexican professional footballer^[26]
• 15 June: Cristopher Toselli, Chilean footballer
• 22 June: Silvio Arango, Colombian former footballer^[27]
• 23 June: Adrian Chomiuk, Polish footballer^[28]
• 24 June: Micah Richards, England international footballer

• 2 July: Abderahmane Hachoud, Algerian international footballer
• 6 July: Gustavo Mencia, Paraguayan footballer
• 8 July:
  • Enoch Oteng, Belgian footballer^[29]
  • Cédric De Troetsel, Belgian retired footballer^[30]
• 11 July: Bongane Twala, South African footballer^[31]
• 18 July: Elvin Mammadov, Azerbaijani international
• 24 July: Irina Birvagen, Kazakhstani former footballer^[32]

• 5 August: Eddie Nolan, Irish international footballer
• 6 August: José Márquez, Guatemalan footballer^[33]
• 28 August: Ray Jones, English footballer (d. 2007)
• 31 August: Faber Cañaveral, Colombian professional footballer^[34]

• 2 September: Javi Martínez, Spanish international footballer
• 5 September:
  • Nuri Şahin, Turkish footballer
  • Felipe Caicedo, Ecuadorian association footballer
• 12 September: Aleksei Buryanov, former Russian professional footballer^[35]
• 13 September: Luis Rentería, Panamanian international footballer (died 2014)
• 18 September:
  • Ferdinand Sinaga, Indonesian international
• 19 September: José Pedro Sousa, Portuguese football^[36]
• 23 September: Anthony Straker, English footballer
• 25 September: Chinta Chandrashekar Rao, Indian footballer^[37]
• 28 September: Alex Marello, Canadian professional soccer player^[38]

• 4 October: Marcos Román, Nicaraguan professional footballer^[39]
• 7 October: Diego Costa, Spanish international^[40]
• 12 October: Abdou Boinaheri, French international footballer^[41]
• 13 October: Marco Gasparri, Italian professional footballer^[42]
• 14 October
  • Will Atkinson, English footballer
  • Mario Titone, Italian footballer
• 15 October: Mesut Özil, German international football player

• 7 November: Andri Abubakar, Indonesian footballer^[43]
• 15 November: Sascha Imholz, Swiss footballer
• 17 November: Salome Khubuluri, Georgian footballer^[44]
• 18 November: Andreas Niederquell, German former footballer^[45]
• 20 November: Soheil Rahmani, Iranian footballer^[46]

• 5 December
  • Cristian Machín, Uruguayan footballer^[47]
  • Kamil Cholerzyński, Polish professional footballer^[48]
• 9 December: Ibrahim Morad, Emirati footballer^[49]
• 10 December:
  • Wilfried Bony, Ivorian international footballer
  • Mitchell Donald, Dutch footballer
  • Neven Subotić, Serbian international footballer
• 17 December: Thaísa Moreno, Brazilian footballer^[50]
• 21 December: Anastasios Christofileas, Greek professional footballer^[51]