List of non-FIFA and former national association football teams by nickname
The following is a list of nicknames of non-FIFA and former national association football teams.
Nicknames[]
Non-FIFA teams[]
ConIFA teams[]
- Nicknames in italics are commonly used in English.
Team | Nickname | English translation | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Abkhazia | Абхазы | Abkhasians | From the Legendary Longevity of Abkhazians people. | [1] |
Горцы | Highlanders | From the Greater Caucasus mountains in northwestern Georgia. | [2] | |
Кавказцы | Caucasians | |||
Arameans Suryoye | Arameans | For Syriacs (Arameans) worldwide | [3] | |
Artsakh | Խաչակիրներ | The Crusaders | From the volunteer detachment of the Armenians from the diaspora who volunteered to go and fight in the Artsakh conflict. | [4] |
Barawa | مدينة ﺑﺮﺍﻭة | Barawani | The Bravanese people, also known as the Barawani | [5] |
Cascadia | Dougies | The Doug, or Douglas fir, is one of the primary symbols of the Cascadia bioregion. | [6] | |
Chagos Islands | Chagossians | The Chagos Islands team plays for the Chagossian people exiled from their homeland by a US military base. | [7] | |
County of Nice | La Selecioun | The Selection | The County of Nice National Football Team is a football team that represents the County of Nice France. The name refers to the chosen or selected. | [8] |
Darfur | Darfur United | The Darfur representative football team, also called Darfur United, is a team representing Darfur, a region in western Sudan. Their players all live in refugee camps in neighboring Chad. | [9] | |
Ellan Vannin | Ellan Vannin | Isle of Man | The Ellan Vannin Football Team is a football team that represents the Isle of Man | [10] |
Felvidék | The Felvidék football team represents the Hungarian minority in Upper Hungary, now part of the Slovak Republic | [11] | ||
Franconia | Franken-Elf | Franken Eleven | The team representing the people of Franconia, located in south-central Germany | [12] |
Greenland | Polar-Bamserne | The Polar Teddybears | The team represents Greenland in international football. | [13] |
Kurdistan Region | The Tricolour | The team is the national team of the Kurdistan Region, its flag has the tricolor of green red and white. | [14] | |
Kabylie | The Kabylie | The Kabylia football team is the team representing the Kabylie people, who live in northern Algeria. | [15] | |
Kárpátalja | kaːrpaːtɒjjɒ | This is the team representing the Hungarian minority which lives in Carpathian Ruthenia, Ukraine | [15] | |
Kiribati | Kiribati | Kiribis | The football team representing Kiribati's 34 beautiful atolls, reefs, and islands. | [16][17] |
Lazistani | Lazistan represents the multiethnic peoples of the Eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey. | [18] | ||
Matabeleland | Ingqungqulu | The Warrior Birds | The Matabeleland football team is the team representing Matabeleland, the western part of Zimbabwe. | [19] |
Monaco | Monegasque | National Team | The Monaco national football team is a national side that represents Monaco in association football. | [20] |
Northern Cyprus | Kuzey Kıbrıs Millî Futbol Takımı | Northern Cyprus National team | The Northern Cyprus national football team represents Northern Cyprus, a de facto country. | [21] |
Occitania | La Seleccion | The Selection | The team is the football team of Occitania, which is the name given to areas of southern France, westernmost Italy and a small valley in northern Spain where the Occitan language is spoken. | [22] |
Padania | I Rossocrociati | The Red-Crossed | Saint George's cross has been used extensively as a symbol of Northern Italy. It was also included in the previous version of the flag of Padania. | [23] |
Panjab | ||||
Quebec | Les Québécois | The Québécois | Named after the – French-speaking – inhabitants of Quebec which is a Canadian province. | [24] |
Raetia | Die Bündner | The Grisons | Graubünden (Grisons) is the largest canton in Switzerland. | [25] |
Romani people | I Rom | The Gypsies | Also called Romany, Gypsies are people living all over Europe but are originally of Indian origin. | [26] |
Sápmi | Lapps | Laplanders | These are Finno-Ugric people who come from what today is Sápmi an area around parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Kola Peninsula within the Murmansk Oblast of Russia. | [27] |
Sardinia | Sa Natzionale | The National Team | From the Sardinians who are native to the island. | [28] |
Skånelandene | The Scanians | From the Skånelandene region of the southern Scandinavian peninsula which includes the Swedish provinces of Blekinge, Halland, and Scania. | ||
Somaliland | Somaliland | Somaliland team | From the autonomous region in northwestern Somalia that functions as a de-facto country. | |
South Ossetia | ||||
Székely Land | ||||
Tamil Eelam | ||||
Tibet | 禁断の集団 | The Forbiddens | Named after the Danish documentary on the team, called The Forbidden Team. | [29] |
Transnistria | ||||
Tuvalu | ||||
United Koreans in Japan | FC Korea | [30] | ||
Western Armenia | The Highlanders | [31] | ||
Western Sahara | Los Dromedarios | The Dromedaries | [32] | |
Yorkshire | The Vikings | The Vikings represent Yorkshire in International football. The Vikings are major historical influencers of Yorkshire culture including dialect words and aspects of pronunciation derive from old Norse. | [33][34] | |
Zanzibar | Zanzibar Heroes | [32] | ||
The Leopards | [32] |
Other non-FIFA teams[]
- Nicknames in italics are commonly used in English.
Team | Nickname | English translation | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Basque Country | Euskal Selekzioa | The Basque Team | [35] | |
Bonaire | ||||
Catalonia | La Selecció | The Selection | [36] | |
La Quatribarrada | The Quadruple | In reference to the four orange horizontal bands on the flag of Catalonia. | [36] | |
La Segadora | The Reapers | Els Segadors is the official anthem of Catalonia. | [36] | |
La Senacaf | The Senacaf | [36][37] | ||
French Guiana | Les Yana Dòkòs | The Yana Dòkòs | [38] | |
Micronesia | The Four Stars | In reference to the stars on the flag of the F.S. of Micronesia. | [39] | |
Great Britain | Team GB | [40] | ||
Guadeloupe | Les Gars de Guadeloupe | Guys of Guadeloupe | [41] | |
Les Boug'Wada | Gwada Boys | [41] | ||
Martinique | Les Matinino | The Matatino | Tribute to the history of the island. | [42][43] |
Nauru | ||||
Niue | ||||
Northern Mariana Islands | The Blue Ayuyus | Ayuyu is the name given to the Cocount crab. | [44] | |
Palau | ||||
Réunion | Club R | In reference to the initial for Réunion. | [45] | |
Republika Srpska | ||||
Saint Martin | Saint Swallows | [citation needed] | ||
Sint Maarten | ||||
Vatican City |
Former teams[]
- Translations in italics indicate nicknames also used in English.
Team | Nickname | English translation | Notes | Ref. |
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CIS | ||||
Czechoslovakia | ||||
East Germany | Weltmeister der Freundschaftsspiele | World Champion of Friendlies | Dubbed by Fritz Wutke, recalling the 3–3 draw against Brazil in the Maracanã Stadium coming from a three-goal deficit. | [46][47] |
Ireland | ||||
Mandatory Palestine | Eretz Israel | Land of Israel | [48] | |
Netherlands Antilles | De Antilopen | The Antelopes | [citation needed] | |
Saar | ||||
Serbia and Montenegro | Plavi
Плави |
The Blues | [citation needed] | |
South Vietnam | Rồng Vàng | Golden Dragon | [citation needed] | |
South Yemen | صقور الجنوب | South Falcons | [citation needed] | |
Soviet Union | Красная Армия | The Red Army | [citation needed] | |
Yugoslavia | Plavi | The Blues | [citation needed] | |
Zaire | Les Léopards | The Leopards | [49] |
See also[]
References[]
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