Do we have any good football club names in the UK.

Nottingham Forest

We have the best football club name in the world - Leeds United. What more do you want?

United is the worst!

I'd hope you were united, or you'd be ****ing useless.

I’d hope you were united, or you’d be **** useless.

United after a teams name, refers to the merger of 2 clubs to form a new one. Newcastle East End and Newcastle West End merger in 1892 to become "United".

I know but it's still not a great name.

Equivalent of Merged Manchester.

Matthew 12.42 "The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here."

and also

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Midlothian_(Royal_Mile)

I guess there are very few that don't give some idea as to where the stadium is located. Celtic and Rangers obviously to mind. I don't think anyone ever says Glasgow Rangers, although maybe they do in other countries?

Pretty sure that the Doonhamers are named after Dumfries being "queen of the south"

I will give you a half point because at least it's a bit different.

accrington stanley.

I guess there are very few that don’t give some idea as to where the stadium is located

Arsenal and Port Vale in the English leagues, quite a few in Scotland. Celtic, Rangers, Queen of the South, Raith Rovers, Hibs etc.

Then there are the misleading ones. West Ham's old ground was actually in Upton Park, and the new one is in Stratford. They haven't played in West Ham since 1904.

Surely it's Blackburn Rovers?

Best one I heard is a team from Peru

Deportivo ****a is a Peruvian football club, based in the city of Huancayo in the Peruvian Andes.

It was founded in 1969 and is named after the ****as people...

accrington stanley

who are they?

Actually Ransos.

Arsenal is a good one suggest mighty weapons to hand.

accrington stanley

who are they?

Exactly!

Sheffield United, the original and oldest united, was formed from Sheffield United cricket club, which itself was formed through the merger of local cricket clubs.

The most original name in English football is possibly Port Vale, who aren't actually named after a place, but the valley of ports.

South Africa has some cracking football team names.

we used to have Colne Dynamos

We still have some good ones:

Tonbridge Angels

Sheffield Wednesday

Inverurie Loco Works

Trethomas Bluebirds

Preston North End?

Was always particularly pleased with our 5-a-side team's name; Real Ale Madrid!

Two good names in Edinburgh or possibly three. Heart of Midlothian, note that it is not Hearts. Spartans who play in Scottish league two. Finally there is Hibernian whose supporters may well consider themselves to be in Leith. Pity there's not a decent team between them. Don't blame me I support Celtic.

Scottish lower leagues are full of them. Whitehall Welfare, Gala Fairydean (with listed brutalist stand) and of course, St Cuthbert Wanderers.

we used to have Colne Dynamos

We still have some good ones:

Tonbridge Angels

Sheffield Wednesday

Inverurie Loco Works

Trethomas Bluebirds

This guy gets it.

I used to run the company Fantasy Football League 25 years ago. One of my funnier colleagues called his team "Your sister's Athletic"

Inter ya gran being another classic.

Fortes Mechanics?

There's quite a funny joke about Rangers playing them after their resurrection.

Leeds United. What more do you want?

The addition of ‘Red Bull’ somewhere in the name.

Obi Wan Kenobi Nil was my fantasy football team

The Eastern bloc footy names usually came from institutions - Dinamo (govt party types), CSKA (army), Torpedo (factory workers), Spartak (unions)

Not name related, but I really hope at some point, someone gets to read out Forfar 5 East Fife 4.

Crystal Palace is a bit weird if you don't understand the reference to the Great Exhibition or the location that got named after it.  Sounds more like the name of a take away.

Not name related, but I really hope at some point, someone gets to read out Forfar 5 East Fife 4.

As I recall that happened a few decades ago and it made the national news.  Or perhaps the other way round.

 I don’t think anyone ever says Glasgow Rangers, although maybe they do in other countries?

Many years ago we landed in Tokyo, passport guy took one look at our documents, smiled then shouted "Gasgo Waingers!" In a way only a Japanese man could. Much laughing and hand shaking followed.

Lots of good ones off you go looking in lower leagues.

My favourite would be Inverness Caledonian Thistle. If only for the famous newspaper headline 'Super Caley go ballistic, Celtic are atrocious"

Whitehill Welfare

Bonnyrigg Rose

Ormiston Primrose

Civil Service Strollers

Forres Mechanics

Sadly both Glenbuck, the village and home of the Shankly brothers, and its team Glenbuck Cherrypickers are no longer with us.

And as the Fall once said*. We're not Gala Fairydean, We are Spartans FC

*almost.

As I recall that happened a few decades ago and it made the national news.  Or perhaps the other way round.

You are right, it happened in 2018! I missed that.

Spartans

Was always particularly pleased with our 5-a-side team’s name

Mate at Uni played for Inter Yer Mam.

Hamilton Academical. The only league club to have come from a school team.

PVC Leidehosen, worth setting up a team just for a cheap laugh

Burntisland Shipyard FC.

One year Stirling Albion will draw them in the Scottish Cup and I can justify an away day,

Also used to say to the boys that we'd follow The Binos all the way to Hampden but we never did draw Queens Park away.

Dukla Prague was a Czech army team. Their kit was not featured by Subbuteo but Stirling Albion's was - as Arsenal.

Another vote for Blyth Spartans, though their current predicament means they may not be around much longer…..

Reading <mic drop> /

Keith.

"Who are we playing next weekend?"

"Keith"

"Just Keith, or will anyone else be with him?"

Yep, I know it's a town in NE Scotland.

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surprised the munter hunters havent been mentioned.

i always liked the scorelines in scotland   Fife 4 Forfar 5

I broke a rule of mine.

I dropped below the bottom half of the internet.

**** me sideways the Daily Heil readership are a bunch of cretins.

accrington stanley

who are they?

Exactly

Arsenal is a good one suggest mighty weapons to hand.

That's because they originated from nr Woolwich Arsenal.

Tottenham Hotspurs, originally wanted to be called just "Hotspurs" but the London Hotspurs that my great grandfather played for objected.

That’s because they originated from nr Woolwich Arsenal.

I assumed they had come from within. A works team essentially.

I must admit I am quite keen, as a fifer,  to watch the mighty Burntisland ship yard FC!

I assumed they had come from within. A works team essentially.

They may well have done as I can't remember the exact details, great grandad had some shares* in Arsenal and was a ref in the southern premier league in the early 1900s, have tried to research into it but mostly lost to the mists of time apart from occasional old match reports that pop up on the net from time to time.

* we only found out about 50yrs after he died, some heir hunter guy came knocking at my parents door, my mum ended up with 1 whole share - worth about 10k when it got sold.

They'll be dancing in the streets of Raith tonight! But as Raith Rovers is the name of Kirkcaldy's club that's a bit unlikely.

Aston Villa (glorious name) earlier this season played the Berne team Young Boys at the ****dorf Stadium. I don't know why some people thought that was funny.

Hull City is the only English team with a name that you can't colour in any of its letters and it's the law that every team has to have at least one letter from the word Mackerel in its name.

I think Hotspur is. Contender.

Fighting cocks are Vicious and unrelenting. Our bantam used to send fox hounds, errant dogs and foxes away with at least one laceration.

There's a facinating programme on BBC Sounds that was on Radio 4 a while back; Word of Mouth with Michael Rosen on about the origin of football team names. IIRC rangers were teams without their own grounds, united were teams that merged with other ones and Spurs were based in a part of London where descendants of 15th centuary rebel Harry Hotspur had a gaff. Several were bible reading groups that played football for light relief.

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Keith.

“Who are we playing next weekend?”

“Keith”

If only Keith could end up playing Barry

There’s a facinating programme on BBC Sounds that was on Radio 4 a while back

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001yxl3

If only Keith could end up playing Barry

Or Leith (I know, I know)

Deportivo Moron - Argentina

FL Fart - Norway

Kanye Swallows - Botswana

Wacker Innsbruck

Nyasa Big Bullets FC - Malawi

Semen Padang - Indonesia

A former works 5 a side team called themselves "The Purple Headed Warriors of Love".

I suspect they rarely scored, apart from own goals, as it were.

Airbus UK Broughton FC has a very romantic feel to it.

Deportivo Moron – Argentina

FL Fart – Norway

Kanye Swallows – Botswana

Wacker Innsbruck

Nyasa Big Bullets FC – Malawi

Semen Padang – Indonesia

You didn't even read the thread title let alone the OP did you?

Sheffield wednesday every time

I think Hotspur is. Contender.

Fighting cocks are Vicious and unrelenting. Our bantam used to send fox hounds, errant dogs and foxes away with at least one laceration.

But the "Hotspur" in question is the 14th century  Lord Percy Duke of Northumberland. I've had coffee with his great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandson's mrs and she is pretty keen on kick boxing and mixed martial arts I suppose.

Sheffield wednesday every time

Well not every time - only on Wednesdays by definition. They reputedly started out as a cricket club that played on wednesdays because it was halfday closing and the players had the afternoon off work.

Thanks for mansplaining about my football team

When Bonnyrig Rose played Linlithgow Rose, it was known as the 'war of the roses'.

How about Newcastle Chemfica?

https://fulltime.thefa.com/index.html?league=6866065

I quite like these (all in the same league)

• Crook Town
• Redcar Athletic
• Seaham Red Star
• Tow Law Town
• West Allotment Celtic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Football_League

Shame this one doesn't exist anymore.

Middlesbrough Ironopolis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlesbrough_Ironopolis_F.C.

But the “Hotspur” in question is the 14th century Lord Percy Duke of Northumberland

And where do you think he got that nickname from?

The point is not where the name comes from but how great it makes the team sound.

There are some great old names like Edinburgh's originally titled

Foot Ball Club.

I think Hotspur is. Contender.

Fighting cocks are Vicious and unrelenting.

I think you're mixing them up with Millwall fans

St Cuthbert's Wanderers.

Dalbeattie Star FC.

David Danskin fae Burntisland gets acknowledged as the founder of Arsenal

West Ham ....avoided by Jews and Muslims

Some other names that are great.

Banks O Dee

Llantwit Major

Jeanfield Swifts

Sauchie Juniors.

Gornal Athletic.

Anyone who has been to Gornal would know that those two words don't Go together.

A little while ago, I put together a family quiz.  One of the rounds was "Bird or Bollocks," ten names of birds some of which were real and some I'd made up.  I reckon there's a Football or Fiction round to be had from some of the posts here.

Also, ornithologists need professional help.

PVC Leidehosen

Unfortunate trousers

Just back from the curious mix of football and hill running you get at Bonnyrigg:  Bonnyrigg Rose vrs Edinburgh City who were previously known as Postal United.   Terrible game - one lot probably had greenfly the other was enough to induce going postal...

They’ll be dancing in the streets of Raith Total Network Solutions tonight!

If we assume rugby is proper football, we can open it up to Wasps FC (not RUFC etc; formed before most Association Football teams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasps_FC), or the classic Preston Grasshoppers (which does have a R, despite still being older than most football teams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Grasshoppers_R.F.C.). Or even Harlequins.

And I always thought the oldest clube was Sheffield FC, not Sheffield United FC. I may be wrong, but United were formed after loads of other clubs, like Forest etc

Forres Mechanics are also known as the Can Cans, just to add a bit extra. The Highland league has a fair few good team names (mostly just because they name places funny up here I think)

Banks O Dee

Buckie Thistle

Clachnacuddin

Keith

Also, today was one of my favourite football fixtures, Forfar vs East Fife, which always sounds amazing when they read the score out. Especially if it’s 5-4

Local to me is Racing Club Warwick FC

I always thought the oldest clube was Sheffield FC, not Sheffield United FC. I may be wrong, but United were formed after loads of other clubs, like Forest

This ir right. Sheffield fc is the oldest club. Sheffield United is the oldest 'united'