The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1929 throughout the world.

Events

• Formation of the Football Association of Zambia in 1929.^[1]

Winners club national championship

• Argentina: Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata
• Austria: Rapid Wien
• Belgium: Royal Antwerp
• Czechoslovakia: Slavia Prague
• Denmark: B93
• England: Sheffield Wednesday
• France: Olympique Marseille
• Germany: SpVgg Fürth
• Greece: not held due to financial reasons
• Hungary: MTK Hungaria
• Iceland: KR
• Ireland: Shelbourne
• Italy: Bologna
• Luxembourg: Spora Luxembourg
• Netherlands: PSV Eindhoven
• Paraguay: Olimpia Asunción
• Poland: Warta Poznan
• Romania: Venus București
• Scotland:
  • Division One: Rangers
  • Scottish Cup: Kilmarnock^[2]
• Spain: F.C. Barcelona
• Sweden: Hälsingborgs IF (not awarded)
• Switzerland: Young Boys

International tournaments

• 1929 British Home Championship (October 22, 1928 – April 13, 1929)

 Scotland

• Baltic Cup 1929 in Latvia (August 14–16, 1929)

 Estonia

• 1929-32 Nordic Football Championship (June 14, 1929 – September 25, 1932)
  1929: (June 14 - October 13, 1929)

 Norway (1929)

 Norway (1929-1932)

• South American Championship 1929 in Argentina (November 1, 1929 – November 17, 1929)

 Argentina

Births

• January 5: Aulis Rytkönen, Finnish international footballer (died 2014)
• January 7: Manfred Kaiser, East German international footballer (died 2017)
• February 3: Néstor Carballo, Uruguayan international footballer (died 1981)
• February 3: Büyük Jeddikar, Iranian international footballer (died 2013)
• February 6: Ramón Martínez Pérez, Spanish footballer (died 2017)
• February 28: Yevgeny Goryansky, Russian football striker and coach (died 1999)
• April 17: Karl-Erik Palmér, Swedish international footballer (died 2015)
• April 18 – Ion Voinescu, Romanian footballer (died 2018)
• April 19: Jiří Hledík, Czech international footballer (died 2015)
• May 12: Don Gibson, English club footballer
• May 18: Herbert Schoen, East German international footballer (died 2014)
• June 23: Bart Carlier, Dutch football player (died 2017)
• July 7: Colin Walker, English footballer (died 2017)
• July 13: Luciano Panetti, Italian footballer (died 2016)
• July 18:
  • Enore Boscolo, Italian footballer
  • Roy Killin, Canadian soccer player (Manchester United)
• July 21: José Santamaría, Spanish-Uruguayan international footballer
• October 22: Lev Yashin, Soviet international footballer (died 1990)
• November 12: Ríkharður Jónsson, Icelandic international footballer (died 2017)
• November 25: Marcel De Corte, Belgian footballer (died 2017)
• November 30: Doğan Babacan, Turkish football referee (died 2018)
• December 9: Luis Cid, Spanish football coach, manager (died 2018)
• December 17: Eliseo Prado, Argentine international footballer (died 2016)

Deaths