Deaths of notable sports officials and players in 2021.

In each table, the names are listed in alphabetical order

January

1

Nationality	Person	Sport	Age	Cause of death	Ref.
England	Clint Boulton	Association football	72	Unknown	[1]
Italy	Emanuele Chiapasco	Baseball	90	Unknown	[2]
Canada	Paul Delorey	Curling	71	Unknown	[3]
Iceland	Ágúst Herbert Guðmundsson	Basketball	53	Motor neuron disease	[4]
France	Bernard Guignedoux	Association football	73	Unknown	[5]
Colombia	Pablo Hernández	Cycling	80	Unknown	[6]
United States	Floyd Little	American football	78	Cancer	[7]
Norway	Harald Maartmann	Cross-country skiing	94	Unknown	[8]
Netherlands	Paatje Phefferkorn	Martial arts	98	COVID-19	[9]

2

Nationality	Person	Sport	Age	Cause of death	Ref.
Brazil	Cléber Eduardo Arado	Association football	48	COVID-19	[10]
Indonesia	Alex Asmasoebrata	Auto racing	69	Unknown	[11]
Spain	Miquel Ferrer	Association football	89	Unknown	[12]
Canada	Rob Flockhart	Ice hockey	64	Heart attack	[13]
South Africa	Ryder Mofokeng	Association football	68	Unknown	[14]
United States	Don Salls	American football	101	Unknown	[15]
Russia	Yuri Saukh	Association football	69	Unknown	[16]
United States	Paul Westphal	Basketball	70	Glioblastoma	[17]
Wales	Brian Whitcombe	Rugby union	86	Unknown	[18]

February

March

April

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June

July

August

September

October

November

1

Nationality	Person	Sport	Age	Cause of death	Ref.
Scotland	Brian Adair	Cricket	86	Unknown	[19]
Pakistan	Gulraiz Akhtar	Field hockey	78	Unknown	[20]
Canada	Hugo Dittfach	Horse racing	85	Unknown	[21]
England	Alan Igglesden	Cricket	57	Brain cancer	[22]
Italy	Poerio Mascella	Association football	71	Unknown	[23]
Ireland	Maurice Price	Association football	83	Unknown	[24]

2

Nationality	Person	Sport	Age	Cause of death	Ref.
United States	John Aiken	Ice hockey	89	Unknown	[25]
United States	Jane Brown Grimes	Tennis	80	Unknown	[26]
Ireland	Des Ferguson	Gaelic football	91	Unknown	[27]
Sweden	Tomas Leandersson	Ten-pin bowling	55	Unknown	[28]
United States	John Marshall	American football	76	Unknown	[29]
Canada	Alf Mayer	Shooting	83	Unknown	[30]
Ireland	John Joe O'Hagan	Gaelic football	91	Unknown	[31]
England	Alf Patrick	Association football	100	Unknown	[32]
Italy	Luciano Piquè	Association football	86	Unknown	[33]
Ukraine	Viktor Putyatin	Fencing	80	Unknown	[34]
Algeria	Mohamed Soukhane	Association football	90	Unknown	[35]

3

Nationality	Person	Sport	Age	Cause of death	Ref.
Switzerland	François Blank	Ice hockey	90	Unknown	[36]
Germany	Hermann Haverkamp	Water polo	79	Unknown	[37]
Japan	Yasuro Kikuchi	Go	93	Unknown	[38]
United States	Tom Matte	American football	82	Unknown	[39]
United States	Warren Powers	American football	80	Alzheimer's disease	[40]
Russia	Andrei Redkous	Association football	64	Unknown	[41]
Slovakia	Boris Sádecký	Ice hockey	24	Cardiac arrest	[42]
Denmark	Kurt Thyboe	Sports commentator	81	Pneumonia	[43]

4

Nationality	Person	Sport	Age	Cause of death	Ref.
Scotland	Walter Cameron	Association football	78–79[lower-alpha 1]	Unknown	[44]
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Amela Fetahović	Association football	35	Unknown	[45]
Israel	Amatsia Levkovich	Association football	83	Unknown	[46]
Italy	Eugenio Pazzaglia	Association football	72	Unknown	[47]
United States	Mike Pitts	American football	61	Unknown	[48]
United States	Roger Zatkoff	American football	90	Unknown	[49]

5

Nationality	Person	Sport	Age	Cause of death	Ref.
Canada	Charlie Burns	Ice hockey	85	Unknown	[50]
Australia	Russell Ebert	Australian rules football	72	Leukaemia	[51]
Poland	Ryszard Grzegorczyk	Association football	82	Unknown	[52]
Italy	Luigi Maldera	Association football	75	Unknown	[53]
Slovakia	Dušan Pašek	Ice hockey	36	Suicide by hanging	[54]
Germany	Flip Stapper	Association football	76	Unknown	[55]
Belarus	Konstantin Wajgin	Biathlon	57	Unknown	[56]

6

Nationality	Person	Sport	Age	Cause of death	Ref.
Slovakia	Pavol Molnár	Association football	85	Unknown	[57]
United States	Angelo Mosca	Canadian football	84	Unknown	[58]
Jamaica	Shawn Rhoden	Professional bodybuilding	46	Heart attack	[59]
Brazil	Luíz Antônio dos Santos	Long-distance running	57	Cardiac arrest	[60]
India	Tarak Sinha	Cricket	70	Lung cancer	[61]
United States	Harvey White	American football	83	Unknown	[62]

7

Nationality	Person	Sport	Age	Cause of death	Ref.
Russia	Liudmila Belavenets	Chess	81	COVID-19	[63]
India	Sunit Ghosh	Cricket	87	Unknown	[64]
United States	Robin Greiner	Pair skating	89	Unknown	[65]
England	Barry Jackson	Association football	83	Unknown	[66]
Russia	Aliya Khambikova	Volleyball	21	Unknown	[67]
Russia	Igor Nikulin	Hammer throw	61	Unknown	[68]
Australia	Brian Renwood	Australian rules football	86	Unknown	[69]
United States	Ronnie Williams	Basketball	59	Brain cancer	[70]

8

Nationality	Person	Sport	Age	Cause of death	Ref.
Netherlands	Rinus Bennaars	Association football	90	Unknown	[71]
Australia	Keith Bradshaw	Cricket	58	Multiple myeloma	[72]
United States	Medina Dixon	Basketball	59	Pancreatic cancer	[73]
Puerto Rico	Pedro Feliciano	Baseball	45	Unknown	[74]
South Africa	Mike Harris	Formula One	82	Unknown	[75]
Eritrea	Desiet Kidane	Road bicycle racing	21	Traffic collision	[76]
South Korea	Kim Kyeong-bo	Esports	20	Unknown	[77]
England	Cecilia Robinson	Cricket	97	Unknown	[78]

9

Nationality	Person	Sport	Age	Cause of death	Ref.
Germany	Erika Fisch	Long jump	87	Unknown	[79]
Liberia	Willis Forko	Association football	37	Unknown	[80]
Algeria	Loucif Hamani	Boxing	71	Unknown	[81]
Mexico	Memo Luna	Baseball	91	Unknown	[82]
Italy	Francesco Romani	Karate	88	Complications from a fall	[83]
Wales	Laurie Sheffield	Association football	82	Unknown	[84]
United States	Duane Wilson	Baseball	87	Unknown	[85]

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13

Nationality	Person	Sport	Age	Cause of death	Ref.
Bulgaria	Ivo Georgiev	Association football	49	Heart failure	[86]
United States	Sam Huff	American football	87	Unknown	[87]

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