Lists of nicknames in football (soccer)

This is a list of lists of the use of nicknames in football (soccer).

See also: Football club names

Club nicknames

Main article: List of national football (soccer) teams by nickname

Busby Babes, Manchester United, 1950s
Crazy Gang, Wimbledon F.C. in the 1980s/90s
The Entertainers, the Newcastle United team under the first spell of management by Kevin Keegan
The Famous Five. Tottenham Hotspur's attacking team featuring five very forward thinking players, managed by Ossie Ardiles
Golden Generation. A group of Portuguese footballers that won several Football World Youth Championships in 1989 and 1991
The Golden Team, the legendary Hungary national football team of the 1950s
The Invincibles (football). Preston North End team of the 1888-89 season, or the Arsenal team of the 2003-04 season
La Grande Inter (The Great Inter), Inter Milan team that won back-to-back European Cup wins in 1964 and 1965
La Máquina (The Machine) the River Plate team in the early 1940's.
Lisbon Lions, the Celtic European Cup winning team of 1967
La Quinta del Buitre (Vulture's Cohort), the generation of club grown Real Madrid players that dominated Spanish football in the 1980s
Wunderteam (Wonder Team), the Austria national football team that had an unbeaten streak of 14 games between April 1931 and December 1932
Ye-yé, the generation of all-Spanish Real Madrid players that dominated Spanish football in the 1960s
Os Magriços, the Portugal national football team which reached 3rd place in the 1966 World Cup in England
Wembley Wizards the Scottish national team which defeated England at Wembley Stadium in 1928
Thrilos/LEGEND Olympiakos FC
autokratoras/emperor ARIS FC

Main article: List of football (soccer) players by nickname

See also: List of hooligan firms

Galáctico, a Real Madrid signing
Gre-No-Li, a contraction of the surnames of three Swedish footballers: Gunnar Gren, Gunnar Nordahl and Nils Liedholm, strikers in the 1950s.
WAGs, the wives and girlfriends of the England national team
The SAS, for the strike partnership of Chris Sutton and Alan Shearer at Blackburn Rovers
Red Rom, in reference to the Chelsea F.C. owner, Roman Abramovich and his Russian nationality^[1]