1965 in association football
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The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1965 throughout the world.

Events

• Copa Libertadores 1965: Won by Independiente after defeating Peñarol on an aggregate score of 4-1.
• February 6:Retirement of Sir Stanley Matthews from professional football, five days after his fiftieth birthday.
• Substitutions allowed: The Football League voted 39 to 10 in favour of allowing clubs to introduce a substitute for an injured player at any time during a league match.
• FC Twente (Enschede, the Netherlands) was founded

Winners club national championship

• Argentina: Boca Juniors
• Chile: Universidad de Chile
• England: Manchester United
• Iceland: KR
• Italy: Internazionale Milano F.C.
• Netherlands: Feyenoord Rotterdam
• Paraguay: Olimpia Asunción
• Scotland: Kilmarnock
• Spain: Real Madrid
• West Germany: Werder Bremen

International tournaments

• African Cup of Nations in Tunisia (November 12 – 21, 1965)

1.  Ghana
2.  Tunisia
3.  Côte d'Ivoire

• 1965 British Home Championship (October 3, 1964 – April 10, 1965)

 England

Births

• February 4 – John van Loen (Dutch footballer and assistant-coach)
• February 15 – Gustavo Quinteros (Bolivian footballer and coach)
• May 17 – Massimo Crippa (Italian footballer)
• July 27 – José Luis Chilavert (Paraguayan goalkeeper)
• July 30 – Leonel Álvarez (Colombian footballer)
• September 24 – Roberto Siboldi (Uruguayan footballer)
• October 6 – Jürgen Kohler (German footballer and coach)
• November 16 – Mika Aaltonen (Finnish footballer)
• November 24 – Tom Boyd (Scottish footballer)

Deaths

• January 21 – Arie Bieshaar (65), Dutch footballer (b. 1899)