Lists of nicknames in football (soccer)

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

Club nicknames

See also: Football club names

• 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
• 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

Player nicknames

Main article: List of football (soccer) players by nickname

Fan body nicknames

See also: List of hooligan firms

• Ultras, various supporter groups
• The Toon Army, supporters of Newcastle United
• The Tartan Army, travelling supporters of the Scottish 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.
• 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

See also

• List of nicknames for sports clubs and stadiums