5 – 17 January — 2011 Nile Basin Tournament in Egypt
01 ! Egypt
02 ! Uganda
03 ! DR Congo
4th: Kenya
7 – 22 January — 2011 African Under-17 Championship in Rwanda
01 ! Burkina Faso
02 ! Rwanda
03 ! Congo
4th: Ivory Coast
7 – 29 January — 2011 AFC Asian Cup in Qatar
01 ! Japan
02 ! Australia
03 ! South Korea
4th: Uzbekistan
23 January – 13 February — 2011 South American Youth Championship in Peru
01 ! Brazil
02 ! Uruguay
03 ! Argentina
4th: Ecuador
8 February – 29 May — 2011 Nations Cup in the Republic of Ireland
01 ! Republic of Ireland
02 ! Scotland
03 ! Wales
4th: Northern Ireland
12 March – 9 April — 2011 South American Under-17 Football Championship in Ecuador
01 ! Brazil
02 ! Uruguay
03 ! Argentina
4th: Ecuador
17 April – 2 May (originally 18 March – 1 April) — 2011 African Youth Championship
01 ! Nigeria
02 ! Cameroon
03 ! Egypt
4th: Mali
3 – 15 May — 2011 UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship in Serbia
01 ! Netherlands
02 ! Germany
5 – 25 June — 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup in the United States
01 ! Mexico
02 ! United States
12 – 25 June — 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship in Denmark
01 ! Spain
02 ! Switzerland
03 ! Belarus
4th: Czech Republic
17 June – 1 July — 2011 CPISRA Football 7-a-side World Championships in the Netherlands
01 ! Russia
02 ! Iran
03 ! Ukraine
4th: Brazil
18 June – 10 July — 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Mexico
01 ! Mexico
02 ! Uruguay
03 ! Germany
4th: Brazil
1 – 24 July — 2011 Copa América in Argentina
01 ! Uruguay
02 ! Paraguay
03 ! Peru
4th: Venezuela
20 July – 1 August — 2011 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship in Romania
01 ! Spain
02 ! Czech Republic
29 July – 20 August — 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Colombia
01 ! Brazil
02 ! Portugal
03 ! Mexico
4th: France
30 September – 4 October — 2011 Long Teng Cup in Taiwan
01 ! Hong Kong
02 ! Philippines
03 ! Chinese Taipei
4th: Macau
2 – 9 March — 2011 Algarve Cup in Portugal
01 ! United States
02 ! Iceland
03 ! Japan
4th: Sweden
30 May – 11 June — 2011 UEFA Women's U-19 Championship in Italy
01 ! Germany
02 ! Norway
26 June – 17 July — 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup in Germany
01 ! Japan
02 ! United States
03 ! Sweden
4th: France
28 – 31 July — 2011 UEFA U-17 Women's Championship in Switzerland
01 ! Spain
02 ! France
03 ! Germany
4th: Iceland
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.
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.
The season will comprise two phases. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 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. 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.
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.
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 was qualified to the FIFA Club World Cup for the first time after winning its second title in the 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.
Afghan National League: N/A
A-League: Brisbane Roar
Bahraini Premier League: To be determined
Bangladesh League: To be determined
Bhutan A-Division: To be determined
Brunei Premier League: To be determined
Metfone C-League: Phnom Penh Crown
Chinese Super League: Guangzhou Evergrande F.C.
Super Liga Timorense: To be determined
BGMSL: To be determined
Hong Kong First Division League: Kitchee SC
I-League: To be determined
Indonesia Super League: Persipura Jayapura
Persian Gulf Cup: Sepahan F.C.
Iraqi Premier League: To be determined
J. League: Kashiwa Reysol
Jordan League: To be determined
Highest Class Football League: To be determined
K-League: To be determined
Kuwaiti Premier League: To be determined
Kyrgyzstan League: To be determined
Lao League: To be determined
Lebanese Premier League: To be determined
Campeonato da 1ª Divisão do Futebol: To be determined
Malaysian Super League: Kelantan FA
Dhivehi League: To be determined
Northern Mariana Championship: To be determined
Mongolia Premier League: To be determined
Omani League: To be determined
Pakistan Premier League: To be determined
Filipino Premier League: To be determined
Qatar Stars League: To be determined
Saudi Premier League: To be determined
S-League: To be determined
Kit Premier League: To be determined
Thai Premier League: To be determined
Ýokary Liga: To be determined
Enterprise Football League: To be determined
UAE Football League: To be determined
Uzbek League: To be determined
V.League: Sông Lam Nghệ An
Yemeni League: To be determined
Algerian Championnat National: To be determined
Girabola: To be determined
Mascom Premier League: To be determined
Burkinabé Premier League: To be determined
Burundi Premier League: To be determined
MTN Elite one: To be determined
Cape Verdean football Championships: To be determined
Chad Premier League: To be determined
Comoros Premier League: To be determined
Congo Premier League: To be determined
Linafoot: To be determined
Côte d'Ivoire Premier Division: To be determined
Djibouti Premier League: To be determined
Egyptian Premier League: To be determined
Eritrean Premier League: To be determined
Ethiopian Premier League: To be determined
Gabon Championnat National D1: To be determined
Gambian Championnat National D1: To be determined
OneTouch Premier League: To be determined
Guinée Championnat National: To be determined
Campeonato Nacional da Guiné-Bissau: To be determined
Kenyan Premier League: Tusker
Lesotho Premier League: To be determined
Liberian Premier League: To be determined
Libyan Premier League: To be determined
THB Champions League: To be determined
Malawi Premier Division: To be determined
Malien Première Division: To be determined
Mauritanean Premier League: To be determined
Mauritian League: To be determined
Botola: To be determined
Moçambola: To be determined
Namibia Premier League: To be determined
Niger Premier League: To be determined
Nigerian Premier League: To be determined
Réunion Premier League: To be determined
Rwandan Premier League: To be determined
Senegal Premier League: To be determined
Seychelles League: To be determined
Sierra Leone National Premier League: To be determined
Somalia League: To be determined
Premier Soccer League: To be determined
Sudan Premier League: To be determined
Swazi Premier League: To be determined
Tanzanian Premier League: To be determined
Tunisian CLP-1: To be determined
Ugandan Super League: To be determined
Zambian Premier League: To be determined
Zanzibar Premier League: To be determined
Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League: To be determined
Argentina — Primera División:
Clausura: Vélez Sársfield
Apertura: Boca Juniors
Bolivia — LFPB: Bolívar
Brazil — Série A: Corinthians (5th title)
Chile — Primera División:
Apertura: Universidad de Chile
Clausura: Universidad de Chile
Colombia — Primera A:
Apertura: Atlético Nacional
Finalización: Junior
Ecuador — Serie A: Deportivo Quito
Paraguay — Primera División:
Apertura: Nacional
Clausura: Olimpia'
Peru — Primera División: TBD
Uruguay — Primera División: Nacional
Venezuela — Primera División: Deportivo Táchira
Football Federation American Samoa Soccer League: To be determined
Cook Islands Round Cup: To be determined
Fijian National Football League: To be determined
FSMFA Top League: To be determined
Kiribati National Championship: To be determined
New Caledonia Division Honneur: To be determined
ASB Premiership: Waitakere United
Niue Soccer Tournament: Vaiea Sting
Norfolk Island Soccer League: To be determined
Palau Soccer League:
Papua New Guinea National Soccer League: Hekari United
Samoa National League: Kiwi FC
Solomon Islands National Club Championship: Koloale FC
Tahiti Division Fédérale: AS Tefana
Tonga Major League: SC Lotoha'apai
Tuvalu A-Division: Nauti FC
Vanuatu Premia Divisen: Amicale FC
1 January – Nikolay Abramov, Russian defender (26)
4 January – Coen Moulijn, Dutch international forward (73)
6 January – Uche Okafor, Nigerian international defender (43)
8 January – Josep Artigas, Spanish international midfielder (87)
8 January – Ángel Pedraza, Spanish midfielder and manager (48)
8 January – Thorbjørn Svenssen, Norwegian international defender (86)
9 January – Richard Butcher, English midfielder (29)
9 January – Jerzy Woźniak, Polish international defender (78)
10 January – Bora Kostić, Yugoslavian international striker (80)
15 January – Nat Lofthouse, English international forward (85)
16 January – Alcides Silveira, Uruguayan international midfielder (72)
24 January – Francisco Hernández, Mexican international midfielder, member of the 1950 FIFA World Cup Mexico squad (83)
25 January – Kiril Milanov, Bulgarian international forward (62)
27 January – Svein Mathisen, Norwegian international midfielder (58)
29 January – Corona, Spanish defender (92)
3 February – Neil Young, English forward (66)
6 February – William Morais, Brazilian midfielder (19)
16 February – Tonny van Ede, Dutch international winger (86)
19 February – Ernő Solymosi, Hungarian international defender (70)
21 February – Jean Baeza, French international defender (68)
24 February – Yozhef Betsa, Soviet Ukrainian midfielder, 1956 Olympic champion (81)
26 February – Dean Richards, English defender (36)
21 March – Jesús Aranguren, Spanish defender and coach (66)
April 16 – Chinesinho, Brazilian midfielder, winner of the 1966–67 Serie A. (75)
April 22 – Cheung Sai Ho, Hong Kong international midfielder. (35)
22 May – Nasser Hejazi, Iranian goalkeeper and coach (61)
18 June – Ulrich Biesinger, German international forward (77)
23 June – Dennis Marshall, Costa Rican international defender (25)
17 July – Juan Arza, Spanish international forward and manager (88)
4 August – Naoki Matsuda, Japanese international defender (34)
11 August – Ignacio Flores, Mexican international defender (58)
6 September – Masanori Sanada, Japanese international goalkeeper (43)
25 September – Theyab Awana, UAE international winger (21)
27 September – Jesús María Pereda, Spanish international midfielder and manager (73)
31 October – Flórián Albert, Hungarian striker (70)
14 November – Alf Fields, English defender (92)
27 November – Gary Speed, Welsh international midfielder and manager (42)
4 December – Sócrates, Brazilian international midfielder (57)
13 December – Klaus-Dieter Sieloff, German international footballer (69)
