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. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Абхазы | Abkhasians | From the Legendary Longevity of Abkhazians people. | [1] | |
Горцы | Highlanders | From the Greater Caucasus mountains in northwestern Georgia. | [2] | |
Кавказцы | Caucasians | |||
Arameans | For Syriacs (Arameans) worldwide | [3] | ||
Խաչակիրներ | The Crusaders | From the volunteer detachment of the Armenians from the diaspora who volunteered to go and fight in the Artsakh conflict. | [4] | |
مدينة ﺑﺮﺍﻭة | Barawani | The Bravanese people, also known as the Barawani | [5] | |
Dougies | The Doug, or Douglas fir, is one of the primary symbols of the Cascadia bioregion. | [6] | ||
Chagossians | The Chagos Islands team plays for the Chagossian people exiled from their homeland by a US military base. | [7] | ||
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 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 | Isle of Man | The Ellan Vannin Football Team is a football team that represents the Isle of Man | [10] | |
The Felvidék football team represents the Hungarian minority in Upper Hungary, now part of the Slovak Republic | [11] | |||
Franken-Elf | Franken Eleven | The team representing the people of Franconia, located in south-central Germany | [12] | |
Polar-Bamserne | The Polar Teddybears | The team represents Greenland in international football. | [13] | |
The Tricolour | The team is the national team of the Kurdistan Region, its flag has the tricolor of green red and white. | [14] | ||
The Kabylie | The Kabylia football team is the team representing the Kabylie people, who live in northern Algeria. | [15] | ||
kaːrpaːtɒjjɒ | This is the team representing the Hungarian minority which lives in Carpathian Ruthenia, Ukraine | [15] | ||
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] | ||
Ingqungqulu | The Warrior Birds | The Matabeleland football team is the team representing Matabeleland, the western part of Zimbabwe. | [19] | |
Monegasque | National Team | The Monaco national football team is a national side that represents Monaco in association football. | [20] | |
Kuzey Kıbrıs Millî Futbol Takımı | Northern Cyprus National team | The Northern Cyprus national football team represents Northern Cyprus, a de facto country. | [21] | |
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] | |
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] | |
Les Québécois | The Québécois | |||
Die Bündner | The Grisons | [24] | ||
I Rom | The Gypsies | [25] | ||
Sa Natzionale | The National Team | [26] | ||
禁断の集団 | The Forbiddens | Named after the Danish documentary on the team, called The Forbidden Team. | [27] | |
FC Korea | [28] | |||
The Highlanders | [29] | |||
Los Dromedarios | The Dromedaries | [30] | ||
The Vikings | [31] | |||
Zanzibar Heroes | [30] | |||
The Leopards | [30] |
Other non-FIFA teams
- Nicknames in italics are commonly used in English.
Team | Nickname | English translation | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Euskal Selekzioa | The Basque Team | [32] | ||
La Selecció | The Selection | [33] | ||
La Quatribarrada | The Quadruple | In reference to the four orange horizontal bands on the flag of Catalonia. | [33] | |
La Segadora | The Reapers | Els Segadors is the official anthem of Catalonia. | [33] | |
La Senacaf | The Senacaf | [33][34] | ||
Les Yana Dòkòs | The Yana Dòkòs | [35] | ||
The Four Stars | In reference to the stars on the flag of the F.S. of Micronesia. | [36] | ||
Team GB | [37] | |||
Les Gars de Guadeloupe | Guys of Guadeloupe | [38] | ||
Les Boug'Wada | Gwada Boys | [38] | ||
Les Matinino | The Matatino | Tribute to the history of the island. | [39][40] | |
The Blue Ayuyus | Ayuyu is the name given to the Cocount crab. | [41] | ||
Club R | In reference to the initial for Réunion. | [42] | ||
Saint Swallows | ||||
Former teams
- Translations in italics indicate nicknames also used in English.
Team | Nickname | English translation | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
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. | [43][44] | |
Eretz Israel | Land of Israel | [45] | ||
De Antilopen | The Antelopes | |||
Plavi
Плави |
The Blues | |||
صقور الجنوب | South Falcons | |||
Красная Армия | The Red Army | |||
Plavi | The Blues | |||
Les Léopards | The Leopards | [46] |
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