Red Buckeye – Aesculus pavia

January 1 – Ali Kadhim, Iraqi international striker (d. 2018)^{[citation needed]}
January 4 – Mick Mills, English footballer and manager
January 5 – Dick Huntley, English professional footballer^[2]
January 16 – Len Tomkins, English former footballer^[3]
January 27 – Per Røntved, Danish international footballer
February 18 – Petre Varodi, Romanian former footballer^[4]
April 16 – Claude Papi, French international footballer (died 1983)
June 7 – Lou Macari, Scottish international footballer
June 21 – John Taylor, English club footballer
August 26 – Alberto Cardaccio, Uruguayan international footballer (died 2015)
September 5 – Ray Booth, Welsh former professional footballer^[5]
September 18 – Peter Shilton, English international footballer
September 25 – Jean Petit, French international footballer
November 11 – Safet Berisha, Albanian international footballer (died 2016)
November 22 – Reiner Geye, German international footballer (died 2002)
December 19 – Christian Dalger, French international footballer

Deaths

^ "Albania 1948/49". RSSSF. Retrieved 24 August 2012.
^ "Dick Huntley". worldfootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL Medien GmbH & Co. KG. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
^ "1949 in association football". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 26 April 2019.
^ 1949 in association football at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
^ "1949 in association football". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 15 September 2019.

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