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The following are the association football events of the year 2011 throughout the world.
Events
Men
- 5 – 17 January — 2011 Nile Basin Tournament in
Egypt
- 7 – 22 January — 2011 African Under-17 Championship in
Rwanda
- 7 – 29 January — 2011 AFC Asian Cup in
Qatar
- 23 January – 13 February — 2011 South American Youth Championship in
Peru
- 8 February – 29 May — 2011 Nations Cup in the
Republic of Ireland
- 12 March – 9 April — 2011 South American Under-17 Football Championship in
Ecuador
- 17 April – 2 May (originally 18 March – 1 April) — 2011 African Youth Championship in
South Africa
- 3 – 15 May — 2011 UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship in
Serbia
- 5 – 25 June — 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup in the
United States
- 12 – 25 June — 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship in
Denmark
- 17 June – 1 July — 2011 CPISRA Football 7-a-side World Championships in the
Netherlands
- 18 June – 10 July — 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup in
Mexico
- 1 – 24 July — 2011 Copa América in
Argentina
- 20 July – 1 August — 2011 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship in
Romania
- 29 July – 20 August — 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup in
Colombia
- 30 September – 4 October — 2011 Long Teng Cup in
Chinese Taipei
- 2 – 11 December — 2011 SAFF Championship in
India
Women
- 2 – 9 March — 2011 Algarve Cup in
Portugal
United States
Iceland
Japan- 4th:
Sweden
- 30 May – 11 June — 2011 UEFA Women's U-19 Championship in
Italy
- 26 June – 17 July — 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup in
Germany
- Japan
- United States
- Sweden
- 4th:
France
- 28 – 31 July — 2011 UEFA U-17 Women's Championship in
Switzerland
News
North American professional expansion
In 2011, the major leagues of the men's and women's sport in the United States and Canada each added at least one new team:
- Major League Soccer, the top men's league, added its 17th and 18th teams—the Portland Timbers and Vancouver Whitecaps FC.
- Women's Professional Soccer, which currently has teams only in the U.S., added the Western New York Flash, which plays its home games in Rochester.
2011–12 Russian Premier League
The 2011–12 season is a transitional season of the Russian Premier League, as it will stretch over 18 months instead of the conventional 12 months. The unusual length of the season is the result of the decision to adapt the playing year to an autumn-spring rhythm similar to most of the other UEFA leagues.[citation needed]
The season will comprise two phases.[1] The first phase will consist of a regular home-and-away schedule, meaning that each team will play the other teams twice for a total of 30 matches per team. The league will then be split into two groups for the second phase, where each team plays another home-and-away schedule against every other team of its respective group.
The top eight teams of the first phase will compete for the championship and the spots for both the 2012–13 Champions League and Europa League. Accordingly, the bottom eight teams will have to avoid relegation. The bottom two teams of this group will be directly relegated, while the 13th- and 14-placed teams will compete in a relegation/promotion playoff with the third- and fourth-placed teams of the 2011–12 National League Championship.[2]
Headlines
- 5 January: Kristine Lilly, whose 352 appearances for the US women's national team made her the most-capped player in the sport's history, announced her retirement after an international career that started shortly after her 16th birthday in 1987.[3]
- 31 January: The 4th highest transfer fee in football history (£49.5m) was recorded, when Fernando Torres signed for Chelsea from Liverpool. Andy Carroll's same-day move from Newcastle United to Liverpool for £35m was the eighth highest fee received for a player.
- June: trials started for people allegedly involved in fixing Finnish football matches. One team, Tampere United was indefinitely suspended from Finnish football for accepting payments from a person known for match-fixing.[4]
- 11 September: The first official match of the recently built, 41,000 seated Juventus Stadium, Juventus 4 – 1 Parma, where Stephan Lichtsteiner scored the first goal in the new stadium on the 17th minute.[5]
- 2011 Turkish sports corruption scandal: an ongoing investigation about match fixing, incentive premium, bribery, establishing a criminal organization, organized crime, extortion, threat and intimidation in Turkey's top two association football divisions, the Süper Lig and First League.
61st FIFA Congress
The 61st FIFA Congress was held in Zurich, Switzerland between 31 May and 1 June. At the congress, Sepp Blatter was re-elected as the President of FIFA.[6][7]
Continental champions
Several international continental tournaments were held to determine berths into the 2011 FIFA Club World Cup.
Most notably, FC Barcelona of Spain's La Liga won the 2011 UEFA Champions League Final against Manchester United of the English Premier League 3–1.[8] The UEFA Champions League is considered by some to be the most preeminent club competition in the World, even more so than the Club World Cup, primarily due to the financial strength of European teams in contrast to clubs in the Americas, Asia, Africa and Oceania.
Elsewhere, the 2011 CONCACAF Champions League Finals was historic in the essence that it was the first final in the modern North American champions league-era not to feature an all-Mexican final. Nevertheless, Monterrey of Mexico's Premiera Division won the 2011 title 3–2 on aggregate over Real Salt Lake of the United States' Major League Soccer.[9] Salt Lake became the first American club to reach a Champions League final, as well as the first American side to reach a top-tier North American club championship since Los Angeles Galaxy in 2000.[10]
New Zealander teams continued their dominance in the OFC Champions League as Auckland City won their second OFC Champions League honor against Amicale of Vanuatu's Premia Divisen.[11]
Al-Sadd of Qatar's Starts League won the 2011 AFC Champions League Final against Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors of the Korean K-League 2–2 (4–2 in penalties). Al-Sadd qualified for the FIFA Club World Cup for the first time after winning its second title in Asia.
On 6 November, the 2011 CAF Champions League Final will be contested between Wydad Casablanca of Morocco's Botola and Espérance Tunis of Tunisia's CLP-1. The second leg will be contested on 12 November.
List of men champions
| Region | Tournament | Champion | Title | Last Honor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AFC (Asia) | 2011 AFC Champions League |  Al-Sadd
|
2nd | 1988–89 |
| 2011 AFC Cup |  Nasaf Qarshi
|
1st | N/A | |
| 2011 AFC President's Cup |  Taiwan Power Company
|
1st | N/A | |
| CAF (Africa) | 2011 CAF Champions League |  Espérance ST
|
2nd | 1994 |
| 2011 CAF Confederation Cup |  Maghreb de Fès
|
1st | N/A | |
| 2011 CAF Super Cup |  TP Mazembe
|
2nd | 2010 | |
| CONCACAF (North and Central America, Caribbean) |
2010–11 CONCACAF Champions League |  Monterrey
|
1st | N/A |
| 2011 CFU Club Championship |  Puerto Rico Islanders
|
2nd | 2010 | |
| CONMEBOL (South America) | 2011 Copa Libertadores |  Santos
|
3rd | 1963 |
| 2011 Copa Sudamericana |  Universidad de Chile
|
1st | N/A | |
| 2011 Recopa Sudamericana | Internacional
|
2nd | 2007 | |
| OFC (Oceania) | 2010–11 O-League |  Auckland City
|
2nd | 2009 |
| UEFA (Europe) | 2010–11 UEFA Champions League |  Barcelona
|
4th | 2009 |
| 2010–11 UEFA Europa League |  Porto
|
2nd | 2003 | |
| 2011 UEFA Super Cup | Barcelona
|
4th | 2009 | |
| FIFA (Worldwide) | 2011 FIFA Club World Cup | Barcelona
|
2nd | 2009 |