The best team names in world football

Some team names ring loud globally. Manchester United, Chelsea and Barcelona are just a few whose reach stretches far beyond their own country’s border.

Known for their success on the pitch, these clubs have built an image around their ability to lift trophies, but one area of improvement could be their branding, as they all have such descriptive and boring names.

So, here’s a list of teams who are one step ahead of their more illustrious rivals:

Deportivo Wanka

Founded in 1996, this Peruvian club based in the city of Huancayo in the Peruvian Andes is named after the Wankas people who formerly inhabited the area.

The club was relegated from the Primera Division 2004 and suspended from all league competition after moving their home base to the mining town of Cerro de Pasco, which is a breathtaking 4,300 meters above sea level.

But, who gives a toss about the history, they have a brilliant name and even their nickname is fantastic - Los Wankeros.

Snigger.

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The Swiss Super League team play at the Stade de Suisse, Wankdorf Stadium and its erection was completed in July 2005.

Despite their grand surroundings though, the club last won a major honour in 1987 when they lifted the Schweizer Cup and they even tasted relegation from the top flight to National League B 10 years later.

In the future fans will undoubtedly be hoping to see a maturity in their performances this coming season that’ll see them develop from boys to men.

Arsenal

Despite all other teams in the English top flight and football league attaching the club’s location to their names, Arsenal have decided against this and instead named themselves after a stock of weapons.

Founded by a group of workers from the Woolwich Arsenal Armament Factory in late 1886, they dropped the location following their 1913 move from south to north London.

Having failed to pick up a trophy since their 2005 FA Cup victory, Arsenal will be gunning for victory this time around and you wouldn’t bet against them at bwin to return to winning ways this season.

Fotballaget Fart

Playing their home games at the Fartbana, this Norwgian side based in the southern area of Vang have been kicking up a stink since their formation in 1934.

The women’s side were promoted to the Toppserien in 2011, having previously played in the top flight three years earlier.

And their achievements have trumped that of their male counterparts, as the men’s team have proved to be considerably less potent, as they’re currently lingering around in the fifth tier.

Thailand Tobacco Monopoly

Tobacco sponsorship in football isn’t unheard of, as even the mercurial Stanley Matthews promoted the smooth, clean taste of Craven ‘A’ cigarettes in 1952.

However, being named after the concept of the tobacco industry being dominated by one company without any competition is as far as I’m aware unheard of in this country.

Seemingly the owners thought their original name was carcinogenic and in 2009 changed it to TTM Samut Sakhon FC and then and the end of the year to TTM Phichit after re-locating to the Northern province, before returning to Chiang Mai and adopting the name TTM Chaingmai FC.