The US won gold in the first-ever women’s soccer at the Olympics.
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The Union of European Football Associations is founded.
Sixty-six people die in a crush of fans leaving a UEFA Cup match between Spartak Moscow and Haarlem, of the Netherlands, at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow.
Manchester City became the first English Premier League soccer team to win four consecutive seasons.
The world's first international soccer match took place.
Manchester United became the first English football team to win the European Cup.
