On this day — 16 Sept
2 football memories for 16 Sept 2026 — years ago today.
Football moments that fell on 16 Sept across the years.
32 years ago today
Aleksandar Mitrović born (1994)
Aleksandar Mitrović turned himself into a cult hero at Fulham by shattering the Championship's all-time goalscoring record, netting 43 times in the 2021-22 season to fire the club straight back to the Premier League — a tally that eclipsed every previous single-season total in England's second tier.
73 years ago today
Manuel Pellegrini born (1953)
Manuel Pellegrini built Villarreal, a club from a town of barely 50,000 people, into Champions League semi-finalists in 2006 — one of the competition's great overachievements — before winning the Premier League title in his very first season at Manchester City's petrodollar-fuelled project, 2013-14.
Sources
- FTZ Today Memory calendar — Second tier source