Ever wondered which football club has an extremely strange and weird name?
Irrespective of the team they rep, some football enthusiast knows almost everything about the game as an advanced fanatic of the game, and they’re often proud of the wide knowledge they’ve garnered over the years about their favorite game.
Undoubtedly, having vast knowledge about the game you follow painstakingly is something that should be described as laudable.
However, when it comes to some weird and funny information about certain football clubs, a truly knowledgeable football enthusiast or fanatic should seek to know more about it.
Football clubs are most times named after the cities, landmarks, companies, and brands that they represent. But occasionally you will get some club name that will make you laugh loud and make you question why that name.
Here are football clubs with weird and strange names.
- Miscellaneous S. C. – (Botswana)
The word “Miscellaneous” is said to be, “Consisting of a variety of ingredients or part, while another meaning refers to it as “Having diverse characteristics, abilities or appearances.
So when a professional football club bears or gets associated with such a name, undoubtedly it is quite laughable and weird.
The club is based in Serowe, Botswana and currently playing in the Botswana Premier League, Miscellaneous Sporting Club is also known as Tsenala “The Red & White“, the official nickname of the club.
The word Matswakabele means Miscellaneous in the Botswana language, and it was a nickname that was developed in the early days of the club but was never adopted.
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The club with one of the weirdest names is formed by the first President of Botswana, late Sir Seretse Khama when he returned from exile in 1962 to form the Tsenala. Before Miscellaneous was formed by Khama, it was reported that he had formed a club name Motherwell which was the only football side in the village.
In other, for Motherwell not to be the only club in the village, Khama formed Miscellaneous, recruited some decent players from there in other to challenge Motherwell. As the years go by, the Tsenala became a household name in Botswana, produced a number of quality players who went on to shine at other club sides who play in the Botswana Premier League.
- Llanfairpwll FC – (Angelsay, Wales)
Llanfairpwll football club is known to have one of the longest football club names in the world, and it is based in a community on the Island of Anglesey, Wales.
The team is often pronounced with a shortened version of Llanfairpwll FC, due to the jaw-breaking pronunciation. Llanfairpwll plays in the North Wales Coast West Football League, the 5th level of the Welsh football league system.
Llanfairpwll FC was created in 1899 as Llanfair Rovers, entered the North Wales Coast League, and had a good season playing 23 games, winning 10, drawing 5, and losing 8.
The Island of Angel side has been Champions of the Welsh Alliance League in the 1987-88 and 2000-01 season. They’ve also ended the league as runners up three times, they also played football league opponent in the Welsh Cup like Shrewsbury Town in 1987, losing to them at Caernarfon Town. (Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch)
Getting the right pronunciation of the club name might just be something daring to do. The easiest pronunciation to go with is simply Llanfair FC, with that your tongue is safe.
- Taumata FC – (New Zealand)
Have you ever heard of the club name Taumata FC or ever try to fully pronounce the name of the club?
Well, someone might need to be patient and relaxed before pronouncing it, if at all anybody would pronounce such a jaw-breaking, tongue-twisting football club name “Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu” then such person deserves a new tongue.
The 40 syllable name of the club is translated to mean, “The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the slider, climber of mountains, the land swallower, who traveled about, played his nose flute to his loved one“. Damn, this should be a syllabus on its own.
- Club Always Ready – (Bolivia)
When you hear or come across a side with such a funny name like “Always Ready“, what comes to your mind as a football enthusiast is perhaps a football club that is always ready in all sense of managing a team and always ready to face off with an opponent.
Always Ready as they’re simply called was founded in 1933 in El Alto, the second-largest city in Bolivia. Despite their weird name, the club has a lot of rich history and tradition in Bolivia.
Always Ready also featured in the Copa Libertadores in 1968, where they crashed out in the first round, despite the underwhelming results they had in the 1968 Copa, yet their history in Bolivia can’t be overemphasized.
In 1977, La Banda Roja was one of the founding members of the National Professional League, where it stayed until 1981 before they relegated to the second division.
They got promoted into the top-flight in 1987 and went back in 1991 and didn’t get promoted until 2019, 28 years swimming in the second division.
Returning to the Apertura they won the Copa Simon Bolivar after defeating Aviles Industrial in the final, then in 2020 they also won the Torneo Apertura Championship the top-flight Division Professional League, defeating Nacional Potosi one of decent side in the Bolivian league away from home in the last match of the season.
- April 25 S.C – (North Korea)
April 25 is a North Korean based sports club that plays in the North Korea league. It is a multi-sports club based in Pyongyang and the club it’s primarily known outside the country for its formidable men’s and women’s football teams.
4.25 for short belongs to the Ministry of People’s Armed Forces, and it is believed that all members of the professional teams are considered officers of the Armed Forces.
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The men’s football team plays in the DPR Korea Premier League, and is the most successful club in the country, having won 22 national championships. The home ground of the team is the Yanggakdo Stadium, but during international clubs’ competition, their home matches are been played at the Kim ll Sung Stadium.
April 25 achieved an unbelievable feat in 2015, with their men’s and women’s side winning their respective league, a great feat that is still well talked about in the country.
The club is literally named after a date in the history of the club, which is a day the insular country celebrates their “Military Foundation Day” marking the day Kim ll-Sung formed his guerilla army in 1932 that later became the Korean People’s Army.
- Deportivo Morón (Argentina)
The word Moron has an amusing ring in English. Oh no, and the Morons concedes a late goal, that could have been their moment but well the name precede them– Future Peter Drury.
Deportivo Morón plays their football in Buenos Aires in the country’s lower leagues. Morón is the name of the city within the capital’s greater metropolitan area. While their football might not be terribly noteworthy, their name is an absolute banter.
Go, Go, Morons!
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