Weirdest team name in world football?

[Conlig Loyal]

I lived in Berne for six years... In those days you could buy stickers that said "I (heart) Young Boys". You could also buy a foot-long sausage called "the Young Boy Sausage"... A colleague of mine proudly told me that when he was younger he used to play with Young Boys...

And of course they play in the Wankdorf Stadium

(It has recently re-adopted its original name after 15 years as the Stade de Suisse...)

If you want to contact them by snail mail, just write, 'Young Boys, Wankdorf.' as the address.
The letter will be at Porkheid by the next morning.

 

[rfcforever]

There was a school team in Glasgow in the 1970's called Immaculate Conception

 

[BlueDragon99]

I have seen the following teams play, all in the top division of their country:

AFC Leopards (Kenya)
Ba (Fiji) A feeder team for Aberdeen, obviously...
Bangkok Bank of Commerce (Thailand)
Defence Force (Trinidad & Tobago)
FK Cement (Serbia)
Grasshoppers (Switzerland)
Pelé FC (Guyana)
Police ‘A’ (Cambodia)
Royal Bodyguard ‘A’ (Cambodia)
Royal Bodyguard ‘B’ (Cambodia)
Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (Cambodia)
Royal Thai Air Force (Thailand)
Saigon Port Authority (Vietnam)
Scarlet FC (Kenya)
Telephone Organisation of Thailand
Tennis Borussia (Germany)
That Ras (Jordan)
The Strongest (Bolivia)
Volcano United (Kenya)
Western Tigers (Guyana)
Wormatia Worms (Germany)
Young Boys (Switzerland)

But my favourite team names have to be Mysterious Dwarfs (Ghana) and (with no racism intended, since all the players were black) Dangerous Darkies (South Africa).

Also, there is a Rangers-connected team in Bolivia called Always Ready FC (Aye Ready…)

 

[dereksmallsloyal]

Not quite NAC Breda but VfL Wolfsburg translates as “Club for Gymnastics Wolfsburg”.

 

[Conlig Loyal]

Sheffield Wednesday is a pretty ridiculous name if you think about it.

 

[Timardim]

You’re nearly right.
However, the correct answer has to be Celtic Boys Club.
Surely it’s exceptionally weird to be called the same name as a senior club when you have absolute no connection to them.
You’re a separate entity.

It's also weird that the parent club Celtc Football club (not the boys club ) with the same name paid £50.000 to get the name changed a couple of years ago especially when they're a separate entity......

 

[Oncebitten]

This was gonna be my suggestion.

I remember buying a Champ Man game as a youngster and on one of the screenshots on the box it showed them when they where called Flexys Cefn Druids. Who the %^*& are they, thought the young me.

Then they rebranded as Total Network Solutions to make things even stranger.

Not quite correct, TNS and Cefn Druids two different teams.........Cefn Druids were known for a while as NEWI Cefn Druids , (North East Wales Institute)

 

[bullen an la]

Hi Ho Hi Ho we are the Dwarfy boys

wee are the people

 

[BlueDragon99]

Not a team but I can’t take the stadium name, Tony Macaroni, seriously

Ravanelli (as in Fabrizio) translates into English as Radishes...

 

[DazRFC94]

FC Admira Wacker

 

[jweebear]

Bit short sighted than name.

 

[Paisleybear30]

There's a team called Randoms that plays somewhere, I've always wondered if they just let anyone turn up and play

 

[Conlig Loyal]

There's a team called Randoms that plays somewhere, I've always wondered if they just let anyone turn up and play

The Wanderers (not Wolves), one of the very first football teams from the 1850s/60s, did that, hence their name.

 

[Gmcg95]

Some great names in South American football: CA Douglas Haig (Argentina) and CD Jorge Wilstermann (Bolivia) for a couple named after famous persons.

Also loads of teams named after British teams showing the influence British ex-pats/workers had on establishing the game over there: Liverpool de Montevideo, Arsenal di Sarandi (Argentina) etc

 

[Est1872]

Not quite correct, TNS and Cefn Druids two different teams.........Cefn Druids were known for a while as NEWI Cefn Druids , (North East Wales Institute)

Right enough, been getting my weird Welsh names muddled! Weird names right enough

 

[hms]

Kaiser Chiefs - named after a band from Leeds

 

[rfcforever]

Kaiser Chiefs - named after a band from Leeds

Other way round mate. Kaiser Chiefs were the top football team in SA when I worked there in 1983-84

 

[HIHI]

Red Imps!
One of my fav.teams!

 

[aldoblue]

Other way round mate. Kaiser Chiefs were the top football team in SA when I worked there in 1983-84

Named after them as the band members loved Lucas Radebe who played for them before Leeds

 

[NE Cornerbear]

Just noticed today in Burundi Premier League - Les Elephants. (Red shirts/ grey trunks?)

 

[hms]

Other way round mate. Kaiser Chiefs were the top football team in SA when I worked there in 1983-84

Come on mate!

 

[Willem Bear]

Semen Padang from Indonesia.

reliably told their style play is they like to spray and lob it about.
Can sometimes leak a bit if put under a bit of stress.
However they always finish with looking to shoot deep into the open hole...er, i mean goal.

Apparently their manager used to always dig them up for dribbling too much before shooting!

 

[Lance Uppercut]

Rankinston Mountaineers an Ayrshire Juniors team that went out of the game decades ago

Craigmark Burntonians are still on the go I believe.

 

[karen's day]

Boulevard Blazers from hamilton ,Bermuda

 

[auldyin]

Craigmark Burntonians are still on the go I believe.

Aye they are still going and playing in Dalmellington. The club were named after 2 pit villages Craigmark and Burnton

 

[Satan666]

Botswana Meat Commission.

Sure I saw them on one of the small stages at Bloodstock Fest.

 

[Tailwind]

Was a South African team called Dangerous Darkies from Nelspruit

White knights assemble!

 

[Tailwind]

You’re nearly right.
However, the correct answer has to be Celtic Boys Club.
Surely it’s exceptionally weird to be called the same name as a senior club when you have absolute no connection to them.
You’re a separate entity.

Never take a day off

 

[Lance Uppercut]

Aye they are still going and playing in Dalmellington. The club were named after 2 pit villages Craigmark and Burnton

The Burnt Onions as we used to call them

 

[Tailwind]

Right enough, been getting my weird Welsh names muddled! Weird names right enough

Right enough

 

[Est1872]

Right enough

Did notice I'd kicked the arse out of it, but couldn't be arsed editing

 

[Spyro]

Not the the weirdest - but I always found Total Networks Solutions a bloody weird name to keep appearing. Now they are called "The New Saints" and play in grey and white hoops. So, they aren't a club with a strange name. They are just c**ts.

Airbus UK were another.

 

[rfcforever]

Come on mate!

wasn't paying enough attention. Sorry!!!!

 

[gersandproud]

I have seen the following teams play, all in the top division of their country:

AFC Leopards (Kenya)
Ba (Fiji)
Bangkok Bank of Commerce (Thailand)
Defence Force (Trinidad & Tobago)
FK Cement (Serbia)
Grasshoppers (Switzerland)
Pelé FC (Guyana)
Police ‘A’ (Cambodia)
Royal Bodyguard ‘A’ (Cambodia)
Royal Bodyguard ‘B’ (Cambodia)
Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (Cambodia)
Royal Thai Air Force (Thailand)
Saigon Port Authority (Vietnam)
Scarlet FC (Kenya)
Telephone Organisation of Thailand
Tennis Borussia (Germany)
That Ras (Jordan)
The Strongest (Bolivia)
Volcano United (Kenya)
Western Tigers (Guyana)
Wormatia Worms (Germany)
Young Boys (Switzerland)

But my favourite team names have to be Mysterious Dwarfs (Ghana) and (with no racism intended, since all the players were black) Dangerous Darkies (South Africa).

Also, there is a Rangers-connected team in Bolivia called Ever Ready FC (Aye Ready…)

Some crackers in there
Can you imagine chanting things like -
Grasshoppers
Worms
Or Young Boys ?

Checking out the Guyanese league - I notice they've also got-
Fruta Conquerors -
& Anne's Grove

I believe there's a Taiwanese club called
Flying Camel
But they've also got a Royal Blues F.C. -
So I won't be getting the hump with them (apologies)

Japan's got -
Honda F.C.
Sony F.C.
& Gamba

 

[hms]

wasn't paying enough attention. Sorry!!!!

You’re forgiven fella

 

[Gauche.]

Auchenshuggle potato pickers...possibly not too strange to Glaswegians, but must seem weird to others.

 

[Bigeye]

Third Lanarkshire Rifles

 

[KGR98]

Still think Young Boys is a bit weird

And they play at the Wankdorf stadium

 

[Sancus]

Chicken Inn FC.

Play in Zimbabwean league.

 

[BiopsyJones]

The African leagues certainly dominate the weird club names table.

 

[Rule Britannia]

As a young boy my brother and I played a few games for Circuit Santos.

Some team the auld Santos. Football tended to be an after thought

 

[CD Bear]

Some team the auld Santos. Football tended to be an after thought

I remember playing on the wing and being hit on the leg with a dart fired from an air gun.

 

[Blaew]

Young Boys Berne v Newells Old Boys. Can imagine the commentator saying a player had an old head on young shoulders.
As an aside the Newells badge is a red and black shield with NOB across it in white. Childish but made me laugh

There is an Old Boys Basel who I thought would be a funny opponent for Young Boys Berne.

 

[RfcIbrox]

Red Imps!
One of my fav.teams!

Red Imps v Ebusua Dwarfs

 

[Gibraltar Loyal]

Red Imps v Ebusua Dwarfs

Giants in their own leagues

 

[Tailwind]

Giants in their own leagues

Standing on the shoulder of... midgets?

 

[Sunnyvale_Loyal]

W Connection in Trinidad & Tobago.

 

[ForzaLaudrup]

Police Machine FC who play in Nigeria

They were involved in a match fixing scandal a few years ago when they were chasing promotion and had to boost their goal difference. Went out and scored 61 goals in the 2nd half hahaha

Another team went out and scored 72 goals in the 2nd half at the same time.

Nigeria suspends football teams over 'scandalous' 79-0 and 67-0 scorelines

Two spectacular results that boosted the goal difference of lower-league Nigerian teams chasing promotion were 'a despicable matter'

www.google.co.uk

 

[Alf Garnet]

Hesniceandtight PFC (parkheed)Glasgow

 

[Tugay1872]

The Mali fitba club Police while isnt a right honker, I'm sure the supporter's arent looking forward to the transfer window with all the rumours of defunding the police tbh.