20 sports teams with the weirdest names

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerych- *deep breath* -wyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch Football Club in Wales.

Fans have always identified with a certain team, be it a franchise in their city or even an internationally acclaimed team with a large fan following. They wear their kits and kiss their badges with a certain sense of pride and belonging.

But there are some team names that are so strange and even border on the ridiculous that their fans would probably turn away with embarrassed looks on their faces while the others have a good laugh when the team names are brought up. What’s more, some of these names can even be downright insulting.

Here is a list of sports teams with the weirdest names.

Football

We start things off with King Faisal Babies, a professional football club playing in the Ghana Premier League. Their biggest claim to international fame is the fact that they had a grand total of one representative in the Ghana football team which competed in the 2006 FIFA World Cup. It is a club that has never won the league title and was also relegated recently. And judging by the name that strikes terror into the hearts of the opposition (not!), it really is a dreadful name for a football club!

Our next team is from the Welsh Football League and it goes by the name Clwb Pel Droed Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch Football Club (I swear I typed that out from memory and did not check Wiki). It is more popularly known as Llanfairpwll FC. Based in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (okay, I checked this time), it was originally formed in 1899 as Llanfair Rovers. Now isn’t that a much simpler name to use than Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (I’m getting quite good at this now)? Imagine the TV producers who have to try and fit the name in one line on the screen!

We now travel to Thailand to find not one, but two football clubs with weird names. The first is TTM Lopburi FC. What’s so special about that, you ask? Well, the full form is Thailand Tobacco Monopoly. It is one of the oldest clubs in Thailand and they have even won the Thai Premier League. They have even undergone name changes like TTM Samut Sakhon FC and TTM Chaingmai. But what is interesting to note is that the ‘TTM’ has always been in the name. A retirement destination for players like Jack Wilshere, perhaps?

Thailand Tobacco Monopoly FC – Just a football club at the fag end of the day

The second club from Thailand to make this list is Bangkok Bravo FC. This too is not that bad, unless you take a look at the original name – Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit Bravo Association Football Club. I don’t even know what the words before ‘Bravo Association Football Club’ mean, but I’m going to assume they translate to “The”. It holds the record for being the longest football club name. Bravo!

Lastly, we come to Fotballaget Fart. It is a team in the Norwegian first division and it actually translates to “the football team speed”. I am not going to talk much about this one. I’ll leave that to you.

Honourable mentions: If you’re ever in New Zealand, you should watch a game featuring Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu FC; Taumata FC for short. Also Semen Padang FC in Indonesia (some jokes just write themselves).