Most Horrible Soccer Team Name Thread

[EstoniaRulz]

some kind a weird names
Zurich Grasshoppers
Newell's Old Boys
Young Boys Bern
Tomski Tom

[KaptPowers]

How much does this (http://allafrica.com/stories/200502221387.html) sound like "Mean Machine" come to life?

[um_chili]

Newell's Old Boys is one of many instances of English influence in Argentine football--River Plate being another. Their FA is called the AFA (Argentine Football Association) rather the FAF (Federacion Argentina de Futbol), as it would be in Spanish. Does sound a little strange, though.

Count me in for hating the new wave of sponsored team names. TNS--what a crappy name. Though isn't there some connection between Phillips and PSV Eindhoven? I suspect the same may be true for Oriente Petrolero as well--sponsored by an oil company, the name suggests.

Most football names are just boring indications of where a team is from: Milan, Chelsea, Porto, etc. Feh. But that's better than a lot of the MLS teams' names. I don't mind knock-off names like FC Dallas or DC United. They're copying Euro teams, but the names basically sound good and make sense, so that's fine. Also better than names like Mutiny, Wiz, etc. But Real Salt Lake is a friggin' embarrassment. It's poseurish in a way that doesn't even make any sense. It sounds like "Reel", which means nothing in English, except "not fake," which (as I said) makes no sense. And even in the context of the country they're copying it from, it means "Royal," which makes no sense either. Terms like "FC" and "United" make sense outside England because they aren't distinctive to that country's culture for any reason; but "Real" is a term used only by Spanish teams, and for reasons that are distinctively spanish. Then there's the corny-ass spelling--ReAL--designed to encourage "correct" pronunciation. Ugh. The SLC Royals or Alliance SLC would have been fine names. God knows what they were thinking on that one.

[NER_MCFC]

Also better than names like Mutiny, Wiz, etc.
Back in '96 when the Wizards were still the Wiz and FC Dallas was still the Burn, somebody joked that those games must seemed like proctologists convestions.

[KaptPowers]

More bad names...

01.) African Continental Bank FC (Nigeria)
02.) Pan African Mines (Zaire)
03.) Motor Action (Zibabwe)
04.) Bench FC (Liberia)
05.) World Hope (Kenya)
Truly the team of God, they're run by a Christian organization!
06.) Killer Giants (Botswana)
07.) Happy Valley Athletic (Hong Kong

[tobefm]

I was one of the founding members of the Maseru Casuals formed in lesotho in 1970, the Doc my brother Howard and I, Tim were the first 3, where did you here of the team name????

[johan neeskens]

I visited the Happy Valley Athletic stadium years ago! It's really nice, believe it or not. Nicer than most European stadiums.

[zippy85]

'FC Twenty',.. sounds like a quiz.

[davidco]

Hapoel Om El Pahem is the worst soccer team
to my opinion

[The_ChelseaSupporter]

MK Dons
All of MLS
Rochester Rhinos :rolleyes:

And all of those German teams with too many meaningless numbers in their names. :D

[johan neeskens]

'FC Twenty',.. sounds like a quiz.

If you weren't such an illiterate ignoramus you might have known that that's not the way to pronounce it.

[Excape Goat]

I visited the Happy Valley Athletic stadium years ago! It's really nice, believe it or not. Nicer than most European stadiums.

They don't have their own staidum. Thye stadium in question probably is the HK stadium where all the Hong Kong teams used occasionally. Happy Valley is the name of area in HK and I lived there. The place was named after a place in Scotland(I think). In Chinese, the place does not mean "Happy" or Valley". So the name imust be English in origin so I do not understand why the English colonalists named the place "Happy".. :)

[johan neeskens]

They don't have their own staidum. Thye stadium in question probably is the HK stadium where all the Hong Kong teams used occasionally. Happy Valley is the name of area in HK and I lived there. The place was named after a place in Scotland(I think). In Chinese, the place does not mean "Happy" or Valley". So the name imust be English in origin so I do not understand why the English colonalists named the place "Happy".. :)

I thought it was theirs as the stadium is also in the Happy Valley area! You walk uphill from the race course. I watched a friendly game there, Anderlecht v a Hong Kong XI.

I love Hong Kong by the way, I spent almost three months there in the mid 1990s. It's my second favourite place in the world in fact.

[zasal911]

[QUOTE=KaptPowers;4330497]No, it's just part of the league's borderline-obsession with getting the Latino fan to come to games.

So then Maple Leafs Entertainment (the guys that own the NHL's Leafs and the NBA Raptors) named the club Toronto FC to appeal to who??

[new_skin]

I've always thought Shamrock Rovers was pretty terrible myself. I'll go ahead and add Australia's North Queenlsand Thunder FC too, formerly known as 'Northern Thunder.'

[Cris 09]

And all of those German teams with too many meaningless numbers in their names. :D

Those "meaningless" numbers are the founding date!! ;)

[The_ChelseaSupporter]

Those "meaningless" numbers are the founding date!! ;)

I know I just find it annoying. No worries, it was just a joke. :p

[Cris 09]

Newell's Old Boys is one of many instances of English influence in Argentine football--River Plate being another. Their FA is called the AFA (Argentine Football Association) rather the FAF (Federacion Argentina de Futbol), as it would be in Spanish. Does sound a little strange, though.

It's actually been called Asociación del Fútbol Argentino (AFA) since the 1930's.

[glennaldo_sf]

Holland's got a team called the 'Quick Boys'.

:o

[Cris 09]

Tennis Borussia Berlin is a regional team in Berlin. They were formed out of a tennis and "table tennis" or "ping pong" club! :rolleyes: