Lists of nicknames in football (soccer)

This is a of lists of the use of nicknames in football (soccer).

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

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

* 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 (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 [http://www.moscowtimes.ru/article/850/49/234732.htm]

References

See also

* List of nicknames for sports clubs and stadiums