| 31/3/2021 | Albania defeats San Marino 0-2 for the 2022 European FIFA World Cup qualifiers and Mario Mitaj becomes Albania's youngest ever international player at 17 years and 237 days old (entering the game as a substitute on 88’). On 18/10/2020, he made his first league appearance with AEK in a game against PAOK, thus becoming the youngest foreign player in club history to feature in a competitive fixture, at 17 years, 2 months and 13 days old. |
| 31/3/2015 | The body of former Fórum Valladolid basketball star Lalo García, who was reported missing 26 days ago, is discovered in the Pisuerga river. García was born on 20/3/1971 and played as a shooting guard for Fórum Valladolid, where he shared the court and dressing room with legendary players such as Arvydas Sabonis and Oscar Schmidt. He retired in 2001 with the honour of being top of the pile for points, steals, appearances and minutes played at the Valladolid-based club. |
| 31/3/2011 | Austrian Olympic judo silver medallist Claudia Heill dies after falling from a sixth-floor window in Vienna. She retired from judo in 2009, five years after winning silver in the women's under-63kg category at the Athens Olympics. She finished fifth in the Beijing games and had been working as a junior coach. |
| 31/3/2002 | Andre Agassi won his 700th career match and captured his second straight Key Biscayne title with a four-set victory over Roger Federer in the final at Nasdaq-100 Open in Florida |
| 31/3/2002 | The Connecticut women's basketball team concluded a perfect season, going 39-0 after beating Oklahoma for the NCAA Title |
| 31/3/2001 | 39 year-old Spanish marathon runner Diego Garcia dies after suffering a heart attack during training |
| 31/3/2001 | Former Arsenal midfielder David Rocastle dies of cancer at the age of 33. Capped by England 14 times he helped Arsenal to the League title in 1989 and 1991 |
| 31/3/2000 | Coach Evgenios Gerard leaves OFI Crete after 15 years service |
| 31/3/1999 | The oldest olympic winner alive Slovenian Leon Stukeli, aged 101, visits Athens. He won 6 olympic medals in gymnastics in the 20s |
| 31/3/1999 | Igor Neto dies aged 69. He was a key player of the Soviet Union football team when they won the 1960 European Championship by defeating Yugoslavia 2-1 in Paris. He played 367 games for Spartak Moscow (1948-1966). He won the gold medal at the Melbourne 1956 Olympics |
| 31/3/1998 | Leeds Utd plane crash-lands when one of the engines bursts into flames seconds after take-off. Luckily there are no human casualties |
| 31/3/1997 | Sixteen-year-old Martina Hingis became the youngest women's tennis player to reach the world number number-one mark, as she passed Steffi Graf for the top spot in the WTA rankings |
| 31/3/1983 | French teenager Henri Leconte defeats Bjorn Borg, 4-6, 7-5, 7-6, in Borg’s official farewell to the game |
| 31/3/1982 | Vangelis Papathanassiou wins the Academy Award for Best music for ''Chariots of Fire'', a film about the Paris 1924 Olympic Games |
| 31/3/1980 | Jesse Owens, dominant figure of the Berlin Olympics, dies in Arizona aged 67. When asked to comment on Hitler's refusal to congratulate him, he said that nor the president of the USA congratulated him. An athletic award dedicated to his memory is given every year to the best track-and-field athlete |
| 31/3/1973 | Vangelis Foundoukidis publishes an article entitled “Statistics in Sports”, in his column “Time Out” in the weekly magazine “Protathlitis” of Spyros Skouras, where he complains about the lack of organized keeping of results and stats in all sports from all federations including SEGAS. |
| 31/3/1963 | Ethnikos Alexandroupoli defeates Aspida Xanthi with 1-0 for the Thrace Championship, which will be later incorporated in the 2nd Division Champiosnhip, and Antonis Antoniadis makes his debut |
| 31/3/1962 | Barry Jones scores one of the fastest goals in football history, just 4 seconds after kick-off (Notts County - Torkee) |
| 31/3/1956 | The Ethics Commission of HOC examines the chance of deregistering the names of the international footballers Stathis Mandalozis, Costas Linoxylakis, Lakis Petropoulos, Andreas Mouratis and Costas Poulis from EPO, accusing them of using their function as amateur footballers to earn money by participating in the film of Vassilis Georgiadis "Masters of the Football Field" |
| 31/3/1889 | Ike Weir faces Frank Murphy for the world title in feather category. The longest boxing match in duration under Queensbury rules is declared a draw after 80 rounds |
| 31/3/1878 | Jack Johnson becomes the first black boxer to win the heavyweight title |
| 31/3/1866 | The first player to be caught off-side in an official Football Association game was Charles W Alcock during a match between the FA and Sheffield |
