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See also FA Cup – Clubs, and Trophies: England, Scotland, and Europe.
Placings in previous seasons (from 2014–15) are available on a spreadsheet.
| Champions (Champions League group stage) |
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Manchester City |
| Runners–up (Champions League group stage) |
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Arsenal |
| 3rd (Champions League group stage) |
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Liverpool |
| 4th (Champions League group stage) |
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Aston Villa |
| 5th (Europa League group stage) |
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Tottenham Hotspur |
| 6th (Europa League group stage) |
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Chelsea |
| 7th (Europa League second qualifying round) |
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Newcastle United |
| 18th (relegated) |
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Luton Town |
| 19th (relegated) |
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Burnley |
| 20th (relegated) |
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Sheffield United |
| Champions (promoted to the Premier League) |
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Leicester City |
| Runners–up (promoted to the Premier League) |
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Ipswich Town |
| Play–off winners (promoted to the Premier League) |
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Southampton (4th) |
| Play–off runners–up |
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Leeds United (3rd) |
| Play–off losing semi–finalists |
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West Bromwich Albion (5th) |
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Norwich City (6th) |
| 22nd (relegated to League One) |
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Birmingham City |
| 23rd (relegated to League One) |
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Huddersfield Town |
| 24th (relegated to League One) |
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Rotherham United |
| Champions (promoted to the Championship) |
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Portsmouth |
| Runners–up (promoted to the Championship) |
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Derby County |
| Play–off winners (promoted to the Championship) |
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Oxford United (5th) |
| Play–off runners–up |
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Bolton Wanderers (3rd) |
| Play–off losing semi–finalists |
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Peterborough United (4th) |
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Barnsley (6th) |
| 21st (relegated to League Two) |
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Cheltenham Town |
| 22nd (relegated to League Two) |
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Fleetwood Town |
| 23rd (relegated to League Two) |
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Port Vale |
| 24th (relegated to League Two) |
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Carlisle United |
| Champions (promoted to League One) |
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Stockport County |
| Runners–up (promoted to League One) |
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Wrexham |
| Third place (promoted to League One) |
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Mansfield Town |
| Play-off winners (promoted to League One) |
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Crawley Town (7th) |
| Play–off runners–up |
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Crewe Alexandra (6th) |
| Play–off losing semi–finalists |
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Milton Keynes Dons (4th) |
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Doncaster Rovers (5th) |
| 23rd (relegated to the National League) |
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Sutton United |
| 24th (relegated to League One) |
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Forest Green Rovers |
| Champions (promoted to League Two) |
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Chesterfield |
| Play–off winners (promoted to League Two) |
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Bromley (3rd) |
| Gloucestershire town in which Forest Green Rovers play home games: population 5,800 in 2011 – the smallest settlement ever to host a team in the English Football League |
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Nailsworth |
| Albion Rovers play home games in (North Lanarkshire town) |
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Coatbridge |
| Clyde FC (a Scottish League club since 1891) was originally based in Glasgow, but since 1994 has played home games in |
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Cumbernauld |
| Ross County play home games in |
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Dingwall |
| Queen of the South play home games in |
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Dumfries |
| Heart of Midlothian (Hearts) and Hibernian play home games in |
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Edinburgh |
| Raith Rovers play home games in |
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Kirkcaldy |
| East Fife play home games in |
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Methil |
| St. Mirren's home ground (they moved from Love Street in 2009) is in |
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Paisley |
| St. Johnstone's home ground, McDiarmid Park (sic) is in |
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Perth |
| Welsh football club The New Saints – formerly Total Network Solutions, and abbreviated to TNS – plays its home games in (English town) |
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Oswestry |
| Crusaders, Glentoran and Linfield play home games in |
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Belfast |
| BSC Young Boys (15 times national champions, up to and including 2022) play home games in |
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Bern(e) |
| Anderlecht (eponymous home of Belgium's most successful club) is a city near |
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Brussels |
| Ferenczváros and Honved are the two major clubs in |
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Budapest |
| Boca Juniors and River Plate are the two major clubs in |
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Buenos Aires |
| Shamrock Rovers, Bohemians, Shelbourne, St. Patrick's Athletic and Sporting Fingal (as well as University College Dublin or UCD) all play home games in |
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Dublin |
| FC Twente (Netherlands national champions in 2009–10) play home games in |
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Enschede |
FC Schalke 04 play home games in
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Gelsenkirchen |
| Sampdoria play home games in |
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Genoa |
| Galatasaray and Fenerbahce are the two major clubs in |
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Istanbul |
| Benfica play home games in |
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Lisbon |
| Spanish club Osasuna play home games in |
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Pamplona |
| Feyenoord play home games in |
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Rotterdam |
| Real Sociedad play home games in |
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San Sebastián |
| Real Betis play home games in |
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Seville |
| Kaizer Chiefs play home games in |
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Soweto (Johannesburg) |
| Rosenborg (Norway) play home games in |
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Trondheim |
| Juventus play home games in |
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Turin |
| Chievo (Serie A 2008–19) are named after the district that they're based in, which is a suburb of
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Verona |
| Grasshopper (founded 1886 by English student Tom Griffith) is the oldest club in |
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Zurich |
| Everton de Viña del Mar is the sixth most successful club in |
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Chile |
| Vaduz (Liechtenstein) play in the league of |
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Switzerland |
| Joe Public FC play (and were champions 2006 and 2009) in |
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Trinidad and Tobago |
In this section, I've only included songs that have stood the test of time. Most of these have been used by the named club for twenty years or more; many of them for much longer. Most of them are sung by fans; some are played over the public address system as the teams run out onto the pitch; some have been hits for the playing squad at one time or another, sometimes with help from proper musical artistes. Some fall into all three categories. Some are official, some are not.
Some songs are claimed by more than one club. These are in the second of the two tables below.
And finally ... I've left out any song that mentions the club's name in the title. In case anyone has forgotten, this is a quiz website!
| Keep Right On to the End of the Road, Mr. Blue Sky |
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Birmingham City |
| Goodnight Irene |
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Bristol Rovers |
| Blue Is the Colour |
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Chelsea |
| Steve Bloomer's Watching (written in the 1990s) |
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Derby County |
| Marching On Together |
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Leeds United |
| You'll Never Walk Alone |
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Liverpool |
| Blue Moon |
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Manchester City |
| Blaydon Races, Local Hero |
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Newcastle United |
| On the Ball City (said to be the world's oldest football song) |
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Norwich City |
| We've Got the Whole World in our Hands |
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Nottingham Forest |
| When the Saints Go Marching In |
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Southampton |
| Delilah |
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Stoke City |
| The Lord's My Shepherd |
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West Bromwich Albion |
| I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles |
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West Ham United |
| Used by Crystal Palace and Blackpool |
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Glad All Over |
| Used by West Bromwich Albion, Chelsea, Yeovil Town, Wycombe Wanderers, Northampton Town, Gillingham, Wolverhampton Wanderers – most if not all of which claim to have used it first |
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The Liquidator |
| Used by Everton and Luton Town |
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Johnny Todd |
| Opening lyric of The Celtic Song (recorded in 1961); also used, with some slight variations, by Tottenham Hotspur (since the 1967 FA Cup Final), Everton and Hibernian |
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It's a Grand Old Team to Play For |
| Scottish League champions in 1984 and 1985 – the last apart from Rangers and Celtic; managed by Alex Ferguson, 1978–85 – he left to join Manchester United) |
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Aberdeen |
| Ground proclaimed in 1978 as the UK's first all–seated, all–covered ground (although two corners were not covered; see Clydebank) – name (Pittodrie) means "dung heap" | ||
| Resigned from the Football League in 1962; a new club with the same name was formed in 1964 and promoted to the League in 2006 (the club from the same town, that was one of the original members of the League, was a different club again) |
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Accrington Stanley |
| Dutch club that pioneered the concept of Total Football in the 1960s, under manager Rinus Michels – who adopted it for the national side in the 1974 World Cup |
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Ajax |
| Second club (after Real Madrid) to win the European Cup three times in a row (1971–3) | ||
| Hampshire club: went out of business in 1992, after 66 years in the League |
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Aldershot |
| Originally wore red shirts in recognition of a donation from Nottingham Forest |
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Arsenal |
| Fewest relegations (1 only – 1913) | ||
| In 1974, following Manchester United's relegation to the Second Division, Brian Kidd joined | ||
| Only club to win the FA Cup and League Cup in the same season (1992–3 – see Sheffield Wednesday) | ||
| Denis Compton and his brother Leslie both played for; Arthur Milton, who represented England at both
football and cricket, also played for | ||
| Went 49 games unbeaten, from May 2003 to October 2004 – including an entire Premier League season (2003–4) | ||
| Finished as runners–up to Leicester City in 2016, having played in every Premier League season but last won the title in 2004 | ||
| Became the first to be issued with 100 red cards in the Premier League, on New Year's Day 2022, when Brazilian defender Gabriel Magalhaes (maga–lays) was sent off | ||
| Had provided more England players than any other club, until 2015 when Tottenham drew level |
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Aston Villa |
| Has hosted more FA Cup semi–finals than any other club (55, up to and including 2017) | ||
| Fined £25 to pay for a new FA Cup trophy, in 1895, to replace the one that was stolen (from a shop window) while in their care | ||
| First winners of the Football League Cup (1961) | ||
| Runners–up to Manchester United in the inaugural Premier League season (1992–3) | ||
| Defeated Manchester United's young side on the opening day of the 1995–6 Premier League season, causing Alan Hansen to say "You can't win anything with kids" | ||
| Prince William, Nigel Kennedy, and Joe Grundy in The Archers, are (or were) all, for reasons
known only to themselves, fans of | ||
| Spanish club: play home games at the Vicente Calderon Stadium (named after a former President) |
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Atlético Madrid atletico |
| Nicknamed Los Colchoneros (the Mattress Makers), because their home shirts are striped in the same way as traditional mattresses | ||
| La Masia ('the Farmhouse') is an unofficial name for the youth academy of |
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Barcelona |
| German club: won the European Cup in three consecutive years, 1974–6 (immediately after Ajax became the second, after Real Madrid, to do so) |
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Bayern Munich |
| Play home games at Europe's largest club stadium, the Stadium of Light |
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Benfica |
| Won the 6th and 7th European Cup finals – after Real Madrid won the first five; beat Barcelona in the 6th, and Real Madrid themselves in the 7th; also runners–up in the 8th (to AC Milan), the 10th (to Inter Milan) and the 13th (to Manchester United) | ||
| Managed by Alf Ramsey after he ceased to be England manager |
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Birmingham City |
| Jude Bellingham's first club: he joined in 2010 as an Under–8, became their youngest ever first–team player in August 2019, aged 16 years 38 days, and played regularly during the 2019–20 season. (Moved to Borussia Dortmund in July 2020, and made his senior England debut in November 2020) | ||
| First to be relegated after winning the Premier League title (1995 and 1999) |
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Blackburn Rovers |
| Provided four players in the England team beaten by Hungary in 1953 |
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Blackpool |
| Alan Ball's first club | ||
| Winners of the first Wembley FA Cup Final (beat West Ham 2–0) |
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Bolton Wanderers |
| Lost the 1954 final to Blackpool (the so–called "Matthews Final") | ||
| Won the 1958 final against Manchester United post–Munich | ||
| Managed by Jürgen Klopp from 2008 to 2015 – between Mainz 05 (his first club) and Liverpool |
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Borussia Dortmund |
| Club that Jude Bellingham moved to in July 2020, from his boyhood club Birmingham City, making his England debut 4 months later | ||
| The only club from the south of England but outside London, to play in the Football League 1901–20 (see also Luton Town) |
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Bristol City |
| The two clubs that won all four divisions of the Football League (prior to 1992) |
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Burnley |
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Wolves | |
| Has a fanzine called The Hatchet (English Football League club) |
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Bury |
| Expelled from the Football League in August 2019 after being unable to play their opening fixtures of the season due to financial issues (despite being newly promoted to League One); went into administration in November 2020 | ||
| The only club from outside England to win the FA Cup (1927) |
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Cardiff City |
| Scottish club: wore numbers on their shorts, not on their shirts (up to 1994) |
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Celtic |
| Brazilian club, most of whose first team were killed in a plane crash in 2016 |
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Chapecoense |
| Richard Attenborough was once a director of |
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Chelsea |
| Barred by the Football League from entering the first European Cup, 1956/7, after winning the League for the first time (and the last until their Premier League win in 2004–5) | ||
| Michael Owen's father Terry made 176 of his 326 League appearances (and scored 41 League goals) for
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Chester City |
| Division Two (third flight) club that reached the semi–finals of the FA Cup in 1997 – losing 3–0 to Middlesbrough in a replay, after a 3–3 draw; relegated in 2000, and taken over by fans in 2001 after the chairman's resignation over financial irregularities; promoted that season, despite having nine points deducted |
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Chesterfield |
| Bolted seats to the terracing of its Kilbowie Park ground, on admission to the Scottish League in 1977, to reduce the capacity below 10,000 and avoid having to comply with safety regulations; thus became the UK's first all–seated stadium (but it wasn't covered – see Aberdeen) |
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Clydebank |
| The first English League club to have an all–seater stadium (1981 – reinstated terracing at one end in 1985; see Clydebank and Aberdeen) |
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Coventry City |
| Badge features an elephant | ||
| Took only 11 points in the 2007–8 Premiership season (from 38 games – won 1, drew 8, lost 29; mathematically relegated in March) |
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Derby County |
| First club managed by Alex Ferguson (1974) |
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East Stirlingshire |
| Conference club taken over in Feb 2008 by subscribers to website MyFootballClub (known up to April 2007 as Gravesend and Northfleet); bought out in 2013 by a Kuwaiti–based consortium, in the face of declining membership and mounting debts |
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Ebbsfleet United |
| The other club from Barcelona: played at the Olympic Stadium from 1997 to 2009 |
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Espanyol |
| Most seasons (games) in the English top flight – became the first club to complete 100 seasons, in 2003 |
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Everton |
| English League clubs that play home games at St. James's Park: Newcastle United and
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Exeter City |
| First to beat Man U in a competitive European game at Old Trafford (1996) |
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Fenerbahce |
| Rotterdam's biggest football club, and the first Dutch club to win the European Cup (1970 – Ajax won it in the three following years) |
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Feyenoord |
| Italian winners of the first European Cup Winners' Cup final (1961) |
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Fiorentina |
| Plays home games at Highbury Stadium
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Fleetwood Town |
| Founded in 1889 in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire: reached the National League play–offs in 2015 and 2016; in 2015, became the world's first "vegan football club" |
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Forest Green Rovers |
| Comedian Tommy Trinder was a director of |
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Fulham |
| Kent's only Football League club (except 1989–92 when Maidstone United were one) |
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Gillingham |
| Founded in 1893 as New Brompton FC; changed to the current name in 1912 | ||
| Scottish club: lost to Fiorentina in the first European Cup Winners' Cup final (1961) |
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Glasgow Rangers |
| Gary Lineker's Japanese club (1992–4) |
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(Nagoya) Grampus 8 |
| German club that Kevin Keegan played for from 1977 to 1980 (between Liverpool and Southampton) |
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Hamburg |
| Won the European Cup in 1983, ending a run of six consecutive English wins (beat Juventus in the final) | ||
| First club managed by Brian Clough and Peter Taylor (1965–7) |
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Hartlepools (sic) United |
| Scottish club, nicknamed The Jambos (Jam Tarts – "jockney" rhyming slang) |
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Heart of Midlothian |
| First British team to compete in the European Cup (Chelsea were barred from taking part by the Football League); lost to Stade de Reims in the semi–final |
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Hibernian |
| Won the Football League three years in a row in the 1920s; first played in the Premiership in 2017 |
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Huddersfield Town |
| Denis Law's first club (81 games, 1956–60) | ||
| Formed in 1994 by the merger of two Highland League clubs, and successfully applied for one of the two vacancies created by the restructuring of the Scottish league; won the Scottish Cup for the first time in 2015 |
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Inverness Caledonian Thistle |
| Longest name in the English and Scottish leagues (26 letters – Wolverhampton Wanderers is 22) | ||
| MLS club: founded in 2018, partly owned by David Beckham; coached (from January 2021) by Phil Neville |
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Inter Miami |
| Italian champions for five consecutive years, 2006–10 |
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Internazionale |
| Managed by both Alf Ramsey and Bobby Robson, immediately before they became England manager |
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Ipswich Town |
| Nicknamed La Vecchia Signora (the Old Lady) or i bianconeri (the black–whites) |
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Juventus |
| Liverpool's opponents at Heysel Stadium in 1985 (when they won the European Cup for the only time) | ||
| Winners of the European Cup and Champions League, once each; but have been runners–up a total of seven times – more than any other club | ||
| Conference North team managed by Paul Gascoigne for 39 days in 2005 |
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Kettering Town |
| Paul Gascoigne's Italian club (1992–5); won the last European Cup Winners' Cup final (1999) |
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Lazio |
| Last Football League champions before the formation of the Premier League (1992) |
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Leeds United |
| Relegated from the Championship in 2007 after being deducted 10 points for financial mismanagement; won their first 7 games of the 2007–8 season in League One, and were undefeated in the first 13, after being deducted a further 15 points | ||
| Lost FA Cup finals in 1949, 1961, 1963 and 1969 |
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Leicester City |
| Replaced the word 'Fosse' in their name with 'City', in 1919 (the Fosse Way passes through the city, and their original ground was near Fosse Road) | ||
| Won 9–0 away to Southampton in 2019, equalling the record for the biggest win in the Premier League and beating that for the biggest away win (both previously held by Manchester United, against Nottingham Forest and Ipswich Town respectively) | ||
| Second to be relegated after winning the Premier League title (2016 and 2023; see Blackburn) | ||
| Harry Kane made his Football League debut in 2011, on loan to |
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Leyton Orient |
| First club that Graham Taylor managed (1972–7) |
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Lincoln City |
| Windsor Park (Belfast) is the home ground of |
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Linfield |
| Most League Cup wins (8, up to and including 2017–18; last time was in 2012)
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Liverpool |
| Equalled Manchester City's record of 18 consecutive Premier League wins, in 2019–20; but fell 5 games short of Arsenal's record 49 games unbeaten | ||
| Founded in 1943 as Ferranti Thistle (a works team); joined the Scottish League in 1974 as Meadowbank Thistle; relocated and renamed (to and after a New Town in West Lothian) in 1995 |
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Livingston |
| US club that David Beckham played for from 2007 to 2012 |
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Los Angeles Galaxy |
| The second club from the south of England (after Arsenal) to play in the Football League (1897–1900) |
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Luton Town |
| Started the 2008–9 season (in League Two) with minus 30 points, following financial irregularities | ||
| German club: the last that Jürgen Klopp played for (1990–2001) anmd the first that he managed (2001–8) |
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Los Angeles Galaxy |
| Matt Busby signed aged 17, and played 204 League games, 1928–36, for (also 115 for Liverpool, 1936–9) |
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Manchester City |
| First club to win an English and a European trophy in the same season (League Cup and Cup Winners' Cup, 1969–70) | ||
| First team to amass 100 points in a single season in the English top flight (2017–18) | ||
| Set a record of 18 consecutive wins in the Premier League (2018–19) | ||
| Originally known as Newton Heath; first winners of the FA Premiership title |
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Manchester United |
| French club: won the first UEFA Champions' League competition in 1993, but were not allowed to defend it following match fixing and financial scandals |
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Marseille |
| Relegated from the Premiership in 1997 after being deducted 3 points for defaulting on a match at Blackburn due to illness; also lost both domestic Cup finals in that season |
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Middlesbrough |
| Longest single–word name in the English league | ||
| Jimmy Greaves scored nine goals in twelve games, in 1961, for (Italian club) |
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(AC) Milan |
| First club managed by George Graham (moved to Arsenal 1986) |
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Millwall |
| Dragon Theo Paphitis was chairman, from 1998 to 2006, of | ||
| Diego Maradona played 188 games, and scored 81 goals (more appearances than any other club, and more goals for any except Argentinos Juniors), for (Italian club) |
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Napoli |
| Norwegian club that Ole Gunnar Solskjær left to join Manchester United – as both a player (in 1996) and a manager (on loan in 2018, and permanently in 2019) |
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Molde |
| First Football League Champions to be promoted to the Premiership (1993) |
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Newcastle United |
| The only team that Derby County beat in their record–breaking Premier League season (2007–8) | ||
| Pelé's second and last professional club (1975–7); founded 1971; Franz Beckenbauer, Johann Neeskens (and Dennis Tueart!) also played for; folded 1985 |
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New York Cosmos |
| French club from which Leeds United signed Eric Cantona at age 26 (he had previously played for Auxerre and Marseille, and three other French clubs on loan) |
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Nimes |
| Delia Smith became a joint majority shareholder of (along with her husband Michael Wynn–Jones) in 1996; Ed Balls was Chairman from December 2015 until December 2018; Stephen Fry was a director from 2010 to 2016 |
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Norwich City |
| Went 42 matches unbeaten, November 1977 to November 1978 – a record broken by Arsenal's 49 in 2003–4 |
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Nottingham Forest |
| Named by the EFL as its oldest club, following Notts County's relegation in 2019
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| The only club that's won the European Cup (and/or Champions' League) more times than it's won its domestic league competition | ||
| The Football League's oldest club, prior to relegation in 2019; the world's oldest professional club (founded in 1862); relegated most times |
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Notts County |
| Juventus FC's first set of black and white striped shirts were supplied in 1903 by a supporter of | ||
| Won the UEFA Women's Champions League five times in a row, 2016–20 (also won in 2011 and 2012) |
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Olympique Lyonnais |
| Chris Waddle played in a European Cup Final for |
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Olympique Marseilles |
| Based in Pamplona, the historical capital of Navarre: its name is Basque for 'health', 'strength' or 'vigour' |
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Osasuna |
| Took Accrington Stanley's place in the Football League in 1962; replaced in 2006 by the new team of the same name |
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Oxford United |
| David Beckham's last club (2013) |
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Paris St. Germain |
| The only club that Alan Hansen played for, other than Liverpool |
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Partick Thistle |
| The club that José Mourinho managed immediately before Chelsea (first time): he led them to victory in the UEFA Cup in 2002–3, and the Champions' League in 2003–4 |
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Porto |
| Won the FA Cup in 1939, and so kept it for seven years (longer than any other club) |
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Portsmouth |
| Managed by Sir Stanley Matthews, 1965 and 1969 |
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Port Vale |
| Won the League and Cup double in the League's first season (1888–9), but are currently the only former League champions that have never played in the Premier League (since 2017 when Huddersfield Town did so for the first time) |
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Preston North End |
| Bobby Charlton left Manchester United in 1973 to become player–manager of (leaving in 1975; he subsequently made only a handful of appearances for Waterford in Ireland and three Australian clubs, and was briefly caretaker manager at Wigan Athletic in 1983) | ||
| David Beckham made his League debut (on loan, in March 1995, aged 19) for | ||
| Scotland's oldest club (founded 1867); play home games at Hampden Park; the only amateur club in the Scottish league |
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Queen's Park |
| Winners of the first three Scottish Cup finals (1874–6), and seven more up to 1893; only Celtic and Rangers have won it more often – Hearts won it for the 8th time in 2012, Aberdeen for the 7th time in 1990 | ||
| First Football League club to use an artificial pitch (1981); also the first to remove it (1988) |
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Queens Park Rangers |
| Ground is on South Africa Road | ||
| Won the first five European Cup finals – still a record number of consecutive wins; played in two European Cup Winners' Cup finals; lost them to Chelsea and Aberdeen |
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Real Madrid |
| French club: runners–up to the above in the first European Cup final – and also in the fourth |
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Reims |
| Nicknamed Il Giallorossi (the yellow–red) |
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AS Roma |
| Winners of the inaugural UEFA Europa Conference League (2022) | ||
| Elected, along with Inverness CT, to one of the two vacancies caused by the restructuring of the Scottish league in 1994; runners–up in the Scottish FA Cup in 2010; promoted to the SPL in 2012; winners of the Scottish League Cup in 2016; nicknamed the Staggies; play home games at Victoria Park, Dingwall |
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Ross County |
| The club that Alex Ferguson left East Stirlingshire to manage in 1974; four years later they became the only club to sack him, allegedly for breach of contract in agreeing to join Aberdeen |
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St. Mirren |
| Pelé played over 1,000 games, and scored over 1,000 goals (1956–74) for |
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Santos |
| Last team elected to the League, before automatic promotion (1987); relegated back to the Conference in 1999, after Jimmy Glass's last–minute goal for Carlisle; wound up in 2007 |
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Scarborough |
| Kevin Keegan and Ray Clemence began their careers at; Ian Botham made 11 League appearances at centre–half, 1980–5, for |
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Scunthorpe United |
| The oldest 'United' in English football (founded in 1889)
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Sheffield United |
| Third oldest club in the English league (founded 1867); 4 League titles and 3 FA Cups, but their only post–war trophy has been the League Cup in 1991; as of 2017, they've been out of the top flight since 2000 |
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Sheffield Wednesday |
| Lost the finals of both the FA Cup and League Cup to Arsenal in the 1992–3 season | ||
| Lost 2–0 to Ipswich Town on 1 December 1962, leading to players Tony Kay, David Layne and Peter Swan receiving
four–month prison sentences, and life bans from football, for match fixing
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| Manager Trevor Francis gave a trial to Eric Cantona, but decided against signing him | ||
| Alan Shearer's first club (118 League games, 23 goals, 1988–92) |
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Southampton |
| Lost to Real Madrid in the first European Cup final (1956), after beating Hibernian (Britain's only entrants) in the semi–final |
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Stade de Reims |
| Won a record 9 games without conceding a goal, in 2007 (in League Two) |
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Stockport County |
| Relegated to the Conference in 2011, after 106 years and 95 seasons in the League – the longest sequence yet to end | ||
| Ground is closest to the River Mersey | ||
| Claims (on its badge) to have been founded in 1863 – which would make it the Football League's oldest club, following Notts County's relegation in 2019; but see Nottingham Forest |
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Stoke City |
| Lee Dixon and Steve Bould both moved to Arsenal in 1988 (January and June respectively) from | ||
| Michael Owen's last club (8 Premier League appearances, 1 goal – 2012–13) | ||
| Promoted to Division 1, in 1990, despite losing the play–off final (see Swindon Town) |
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Sunderland |
| Polled its fans, in 2000, to choose a nickname (they chose The Black Cats) | ||
| Penshaw Monument features on the badge or crest of | ||
| Denied promotion to Division 1, in 1990, despite winning the play–offs, after being found guilty of making "irregular payments" (see Sunderland) |
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Swindon Town |
| Mike Summerbee, and his son Nicky, joined Man City from | ||
| Proposed name for the club to be formed by merging Reading and Oxford United, and based in Didcot (1980s?) |
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Thames Valley Royals |
| Played home games at Cathkin Park, in the Glasgow district of Crosshill, from 1875 to 1903, and New
Cathkin Park (formerly known as Hampden Park) from 1903 until 1967, when the club went out of business
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Third Lanark |
| Italian club that Denis Law signed for (from Manchester City, for £100,000, in 1961; he returned to Manchester United for £115,000 a year later) |
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Torino |
| Founded by members of a cricket club, and took its name – which originates in the nickname of Sir Henry Percy (1364–1403), eldest son of the first Earl of Northumberland, who appears in the Shakespeare plays Henry IV and Henry V, and whose family owned land in the same area |
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Tottenham Hotspur |
| Last non–League team to win the FA Cup (1901); won the 100th final (1981 – their 10th win; only Arsenal and Manchester United have won more) | ||
| First British club to win a European trophy (Cup Winners' Cup, 1963) | ||
| Drew level with Aston Villa in providing most players to the England team or squad (2015) | ||
| Plays home games at Broadhurst Park (opened in 2015 with a friendly against Benfica) |
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FC United of Manchester |
| Spanish club, managed by Gary Neville from December 2015 to March 2016 (in which time they won only three out of sixteen games in La Liga, and were also knocked out of the Champions League, Europa League and Copa del Rey) |
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Valencia |
| Only club to win promotion (from Division Two) and the FA Cup in the same season (1930–1) |
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West Bromwich Albion |
| Highest ground above sea level, in the English league (168 metres, 551 feet) | ||
| Lost the first Wembley FA Cup Final (2–0, to Bolton) |
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West Ham United |
| Won the FA Cup and were relegated in the same season (2012–13) |
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Wigan Athletic |
| Bought by RR McReynolds Company LLC (Hollywood actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney) in 2020 |
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Wrexham |
| FA Cup semi–finalists in 2001 – just 8 years after being promoted to the Football League |
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Wycombe Wanderers |
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