List of footballers killed during World War II

Adolfs Greble – competed internationally in the national team (1923–29). A civilian journalist and pre-war member of the fascist Perkonkrusts movement, he was deported by Soviet authorities to the Gulag in 1941 after being deemed 'socially dangerous', and died in prison camp at Vyatlaga, Russia, on 30 March 1943 aged 40

Virgilio Lobregat – Filipino international footballer, who played for the Philippines at the 1925 Far Eastern Games. Was a guerilla and spy aligned with the Allies, and was beheaded after his capture by the Imperial Japanese soldiers at Manila on 30 August 1944 aged 43.[

Akira Matsunaga – competed internationally at the 1936 Summer Olympics, in the national team. Served in the Imperial Japanese Army as an infantry lieutenant and was killed in action at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands on 20 January 1943 aged 28

Pietro Tabor – played for Lucchese (1939–40), Bari (1940–41) and Liguria (1941–44). A civilian in the war, he was killed in an American air raid on Genoa on 29 July 1944 aged 25

Carlo Castellani – played for Empoli (1926–30 and 1934–39) and Livorno and Viarezzio Calcio (both 1933–34). Died of dysentery at Gusen concentration camp, Austria, where he had been deported after turning himself in to the Gestapo to go in place of his anti-fascist father, on 11 August 1944 aged 35.