The following is a list of nicknames of non-FIFA and former national association football teams.

Nicknames

Non-FIFA teams

ConIFA teams

• Nicknames in italics are commonly used in English.

Team	Nickname	English translation	Notes	Ref.
Abkhazia	Горцы	The Highlanders	From the Greater Caucasus mountains in northwestern Georgia.	[1] [2]
	Кавказцы	Caucasians
Artsakh	Խաչակիրներ	The Crusaders	From the volunteer detachment of the Armenians from the diaspora who volunteered to fight in the Artsakh conflict.	[3]
Barawa	مدينة ﺑﺮﺍﻭة	The Barawanis		[4]
Cascadia	The Dougies		The Doug, or Douglas fir, is one of the primary symbols of the Cascadia bioregion.	[5]
Chagos Islands				[6]
County of Nice	La Selecioun	The Selection		[7]
Darfur	Darfur United			[8]
Ellan Vannin	Ellan Vannin	Isle of Man		[9]
Felvidék				[10]
Franconia	Franken-Elf	Franken Eleven		[11]
Greenland	Polar-Bamserne	The Polar Teddy Bears	Referencing the polar bears that live within Greenland.	[12]
Kurdistan Region		The Tricolour Team	The Kurdistan region's flag is a tricolour of green, red and white.	[13]
Kabylie				[14]
Kárpátalja	kaːrpaːtɒjjɒ			[14]
Kiribati				[15] [16]
Lazistan				[17]
Matabeleland	Ingqungqulu	The Warrior Birds		[18]
Monaco				[19]
Northern Cyprus	Kuzey Kıbrıs Millî Futbol Takımı			[20]
Occitania	La Seleccion	The Selection		[21]
Padania	I Rossocrociati	The Red Crosses	The Saint George's cross has been used extensively as a symbol of Northern Italy. It was also included in the previous version of the flag of Padania.	[22]
Panjab
Quebec	Les Québécois	The Québécois		[23]
Raetia	Die Bündner	The Grisons		[24]
Romani people	I Rom	The Gypsies	Romanis are referred to as "gypsies".	[25]
Sápmi	Lapps	Laplanders		[26]
Sardinia	Sa Natzionale	The National Team		[27]
Skåneland	Skånelandene	The Scanians
Somaliland
South Ossetia
Székely Land
Tamil Eelam	Tamil Tigers		Possibly a reference to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who fought for the region's independence from Sri Lanka.
Tibet	禁断の集団	The Forbiddens	Named after the Danish documentary on the team, called The Forbidden Team.	[28]
Transnistria
Tuvalu
United Koreans in Japan	FC Korea			[29]
Western Armenia		The Highlanders		[30]
Western Sahara	Los Dromedarios	The Dromedaries		[31]
Yorkshire	The Vikings		The Vikings are major historical influencers of Yorkshire culture including dialect words and aspects of pronunciation derive from old Norse.	[32] [33]
Zanzibar	Zanzibar Heroes			[31]
	The Leopards			[31]

Other non-FIFA teams

• Nicknames in italics are commonly used in English.

Team	Nickname	English translation	Notes	Ref.
Basque Country	Euskal Selekzioa	The Basque Team		[34]
Bonaire
Brittany	The Black Devils
	Les Diables Noirs
	An Du Diaouloù
Catalonia	La Selecció	The Selection		[35]
	La Quatribarrada	The Quadruple	In reference to the four orange horizontal bands on the flag of Catalonia.	[35]
	La Segadora	The Reapers	Els Segadors is the official anthem of Catalonia.	[35]
	La Senacaf	The Senacaf		[35] [36]
French Guiana	Les Yana Dòkòs	The Yana Dòkòs		[37]
Micronesia	The Four Stars		In reference to the stars on the flag of the F.S. of Micronesia.	[38]
Great Britain	Team GB			[39]
Guadeloupe	Les Gars de Guadeloupe	Guys of Guadeloupe		[40]
	Les Boug'Wada	Gwada Boys		[40]
Martinique	Les Matinino	The Matatino	Tribute to the history of the island.	[41] [42]
Nauru
Niue
Northern Mariana Islands	The Blue Ayuyus		Ayuyu is the name given to the Coconut crab.	[43]
Palau
Réunion	Club R		In reference to the initial for Réunion.	[44]
Republika Srpska	Бијели орлови Bijeli orlovi	The White Eagles
Saint Martin	Saint Swallows			[ citation needed]
Sint Maarten
Vatican City

Former teams

• Translations in italics indicate nicknames also used in English.

Team	Nickname	English translation	Notes	Ref.
CIS
Czechoslovakia
East Germany	Weltmeister der Freundschaftsspiele	World Champion of Friendlies	Dubbed by Fritz Wutke, recalling the 3–3 draw in a friendly match against Brazil in the Maracanã Stadium coming from a three-goal deficit.	[45] [46]
Ireland
Mandatory Palestine	Eretz Israel	Land of Israel		[47]
Netherlands Antilles	De Antilopen	The Antelopes		[ citation needed]
Saar
Serbia and Montenegro	Plavi Плави	The Blues		[ citation needed]
South Vietnam	Rồng Vàng	Golden Dragons		[ citation needed]
South Yemen	صقور الجنوب	Falcons of the South		[ citation needed]
Soviet Union	Красная Армия	Red Army		[ citation needed]
Yugoslavia	Plavi	The Blues		[ citation needed]
Zaire	Les Léopards	The Leopards		[48]

See also

• List of national association football teams by nickname

References