Teams named after products?

[um_chili]

The recent purchase of the Metrostars and their related name change to Red Bull New York led me to wonder if there are any other teams named after products. I don't just mean a team owned by a company that advertises on their jerseys (e.g., Inter with the Pirelli logo) but a team that is actually named after a product. Here's what I came up with:

--Red Bull New York and the Austrian league equivalent (not sure of their official name)
--Bayer Leverkusen (they even have the Bayer aspirin logo in their team seal)
--Artmedia Bratislava (here, I'm not sure if "Artmedia" is the name of a company/brand that does online design or something, or if it's just a word in Slovakian that I don't recognize)
--Wasn't there a Welsh team named after the company that bought them, something like "TRM" for "Total Resource Management"? I think they even got into Europe one year, but I looked at the current Welsh league tables and didn't see anything like that.

Thoughts on the above? Others??

[blkbrnrvr]

The recent purchase of the Metrostars and their related name change to Red Bull New York led me to wonder if there are any other teams named after products. I don't just mean a team owned by a company that advertises on their jerseys (e.g., Inter with the Pirelli logo) but a team that is actually named after a product. Here's what I came up with:

--Red Bull New York and the Austrian league equivalent (not sure of their official name)
--Bayer Leverkusen (they even have the Bayer aspirin logo in their team seal)
--Artmedia Bratislava (here, I'm not sure if "Artmedia" is the name of a company/brand that does online design or something, or if it's just a word in Slovakian that I don't recognize)
--Wasn't there a Welsh team named after the company that bought them, something like "TRM" for "Total Resource Management"? I think they even got into Europe one year, but I looked at the current Welsh league tables and didn't see anything like that.

Thoughts on the above? Others??
Total Network Solutions (TNS) is the Welsh team you speak of. I think Airbus has the naming rights of a Welsh team too.

[Cassano]

I don't think theirs many, but this is a trend in European basketball. A lot of Italian basketball teams have products before their names (Kinder Bologna, Benetton Treviso, Armani Jeans Milano).

[RuffRyder]

Vestel Manisaspor from Turkey, Vestel being an electronics company.

Does PSV count? what does it stand for exactly.

Isnt there a Red Bull team in Austria too?

[blkbrnrvr]

Isnt there a Red Bull team in Austria too?
Salzburg.

[n4100]

The recent purchase of the Metrostars and their related name change to Red Bull New York led me to wonder if there are any other teams named after products. I don't just mean a team owned by a company that advertises on their jerseys (e.g., Inter with the Pirelli logo) but a team that is actually named after a product. Here's what I came up with:

--Red Bull New York and the Austrian league equivalent (not sure of their official name)
--Bayer Leverkusen (they even have the Bayer aspirin logo in their team seal)
--Artmedia Bratislava (here, I'm not sure if "Artmedia" is the name of a company/brand that does online design or something, or if it's just a word in Slovakian that I don't recognize)
--Wasn't there a Welsh team named after the company that bought them, something like "TRM" for "Total Resource Management"? I think they even got into Europe one year, but I looked at the current Welsh league tables and didn't see anything like that.

Thoughts on the above? Others??
Disney had an entire movie franchise for a team name: Mighty Ducks!

[karlmarx]

Vestel Manisaspor from Turkey, Vestel being an electronics company.

Does PSV count? what does it stand for exactly.

Isnt there a Red Bull team in Austria too?


PSV = Philips Sports Club....I'd say it counts.

[Caesar]

Just about every team in the J and K Leagues.,

[um_chili]

Great info--can't believe I didn't think of PSV. So the list (limited to soccer teams includes):

Red Bull New York
Red Bull Salzburg
TNS
PSV Eindhoven
Vestel Manisaspor
Airbus UK
Artmedia Bratislava (pending some Slovak telling me that "Artmedia" is not a company name)

Keep 'em coming...

[Excape Goat]

Just about every team in the J and K Leagues.,

No J-League.... the old Japanese league, but they had a rule against it after relaunching the league in 1993.

[Teso Dos Bichos]

Total Network Solutions (TNS) is the Welsh team you speak of. I think Airbus has the naming rights of a Welsh team too.

TNS Official Site: http://www.saints-alive.co.uk/index.php *
Airbus UK Official Site: http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s356.htm

* officially recognised, but technically independent

TNS (though do they still exist?)

Yes, check the latest table for the two Welsh clubs:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/league_of_wales/table/default.stm

[Excape Goat]

It is common in Asia. Besides the Korean teams, many of the Thai and Chinese teams are named after the mother company.

[ForeverRed]

Red Bull Salzburg used to be Casino Salzburg

....sigh...used to be the good days.....

[um_chili]

Red Bull Salzburg used to be Casino Salzburg

....sigh...used to be the good days.....

Doesn't this mean that they just went from one corporate sponsor to another (taking "Casino" to refer to some gambling establishment, though I may have this wrong)?

[Alex_K]

Almost every 1st or 2nd division team in Austria has (or at least had at some point) a sponsor in it's name.

And Bayer Leverkusen isn't really named after a product actually. Their original name translates into something like "Gymnastics and sports club of the Bayer company Leverkusen", but was shortened into Bayer Leverkusen while it was still a club for Bayer employees.

[leg_breaker]

If this Kraft deal goes through, Liverpool could soon be called Dairylea Dunkers FC.

[spoonman]

Red Bull New York is even more rediculous then Real Salt Lake :D

It'll take some time before someone says, "I've always dreamed of playing for Red Bull"

[Rakim_22]

What about Ajax? You know the kind of soap.

[spoonman]

It's named after a mythological God

[Bertje]

It's named after a mythological God

Hero actually, which would be a half-god.