Football League Club’s nicknames

by EveryOtherWave

35 Comments

  1. tedium-incarnate on

    West Brom aren’t the Throstles and haven’t been for over 100 years. Not sure where you got this.

  2. OkraEmergency361 on

    This is old, but it’s curious how some teams have had the same nickname for years and others have changed. Aren’t Barnsley known as Tarn or Tykes? And Cov haven’t been the bantams for a long, long time.

    Man City fans aren’t called Citizens, they’re called plastics.

  3. It’s probably been over 100 years since we were known as the Brewers, how old is this list?

  4. Middlesbrough and Newport both being called Ironsides.

    Newport haven’t been nicknamed the ironsides since 1989 when the club folded.

  5. BigResponsibility252 on

    Can we play guess the year? “The Hartlepools” merged into Hartlepool in 67 so it’s at least before then.

  6. BuenasVibras on

    “Come on you sandgrounders!” Doesn’t have the flow that I’d imagine any chant should have in the terraces

  7. Best_Document_5211 on

    We’ve been the gas since the 80s and the pirates from 1930. Must be a list from the 20s

  8. PickaxeJunky on

    Hartlepool Utds nickname is ‘The Monkeyhangers’ isn’t it?

    They hung a monkey during the Napoleonic wars because they thought it was a French spy.

  9. Chriswalken459 on

    I thought we were the Foxes? Never heard us be referred to as Filberts before.

  10. Consistent-Detail518 on

    I’m estimating 1930’s for this. We’re on the list & we were Rotherham County until ’25, plus Wednesdays got renamed in ’29, but the list is clearly very old.

  11. Nothing to see here, certainly not a nickname synonymous with a sex act in a public toilet

  12. Pretty much no one from Bolton actually uses Trotters. Basically is a name used by the media and that’s it honestly.

  13. Charlton are now the Addicks instead of haddicks just because of our lazy accents.

  14. cherrybaggle on

    Bristol Rovers should be “The Pirates” its the club’s official nickname reflecting the maritime history of Bristol. The local nickname of the club is “The Gas”, derived from the gasworks next to their former home, Eastville Stadium.

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