Lists of nicknames in football (soccer)
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This is a list of lists of the use of nicknames in football (soccer).
- See also: Football club names
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[edit] Club nicknames
- List of football club nicknames in the United Kingdom
- List of mainland European football club nicknames
- List of football (soccer) club nicknames in the Americas
[edit] National team nicknames
[edit] Squad nicknames
- "A Academia" (The Academy), Palmeiras's tem in the seventies
- Busby Babes, Manchester United, 1950s
- Crazy Gang, Wimbledon F.C. in the 1980s/90s
- The Entertainers, the Newcastle United team under the first spell of management by Kevin Keegan
- The Famous Five. Tottenham Hotspur's attacking team featuring five very forward thinking players, managed by Ossie Ardiles
- Fergie's Fledglings, the generation of home-grown Manchester United players such as Ryan Giggs, Nicky Butt, David Beckham and Gary and Phil Neville in the early 1990's who won the FA Youth Cup
- Golden Generation. A group of Portuguese footballers that won several Football World Youth Championships in 1989 and 1991
- The Golden Team, the legendary Hungary national football team of the 1950s
- The Invincibles (football). Preston North End team of the 1888-89 season, or the Arsenal team of the 2003-04 season
- La Grande Inter (The Great Inter), Inter Milan team that won back-to-back European Cup wins in 1964 and 1965
- La Máquina (The Machine) the River Plate team in the early 1940's.
- Lisbon Lions, the Celtic European Cup winning team of 1967
- La Quinta del Buitre (Vulture's Cohort), the generation of club grown Real Madrid players that dominated Spanish football in the 1980s
- Wunderteam (Wonder Team), the Austria national football team that had an unbeaten streak of 14 games between April 1931 and December 1932
- Ye-yé, the generation of all-Spanish Real Madrid players that dominated Spanish football in the 1960s
- Os Magriços, the Portugal national football team which reached 3rd place in the 1966 World Cup in England
- Wembley Wizards the Scottish national team which defeated England at Wembley Stadium in 1928
- The Dream Team, name was given for FC Barcelona's team that, lead by Johan Cruijff, won the European championship in 1992 and 4 La Liga titles in a row (1990-1994).
[edit] Fan body nicknames
- See also: List of hooligan firms
- Ultras, various supporter groups
- Red Devil, supporters of the South Korea national team
- The Toon Army, supporters of Newcastle United
- The Tartan Army, travelling supporters of the Scottish national football team
- The Tractor Boys, supporters of Ipswich Town
- The Lardy Army, supporters of Horsham F.C.
- Sam's Army, supporters of the US National Football team
[edit] Miscellaneous nicknames
- Galáctico, a Real Madrid signing
- Gre-No-Li, a contraction of the surnames of three Swedish footballers: Gunnar Gren, Gunnar Nordahl and Nils Liedholm, strikers in the 1950s for AC Milan.
- WAGs, the wives and girlfriends of the England national team
- The SAS, for the strike partnership of Chris Sutton and Alan Shearer at Blackburn Rovers (or alternatively, the strike partnership of Shearer with Teddy Sheringham for England)
- Red Rom, in reference to the Chelsea F.C. owner, Roman Abramovich and his Russian nationality[1]