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

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

National team nicknames

Main article: List of national football (soccer) teams by nickname

Squad nicknames

• 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).

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

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
• Red Rom, in reference to the Chelsea F.C. owner, Roman Abramovich and his Russian nationality^[1]

References

1. ^ http://www.moscowtimes.ru/article/850/49/234732.htm

See also

• List of nicknames for sports clubs and stadiums