UEFA Europa League sides’ nicknames: L to Z
Lazio – Aquile (Eagles) or Aquilotti (Eaglets)
This nickname reflects a badge of a bar who snippet their origins behind to 1900 and army officer cum contestant Luigi Bigarelli. When it came to selecting a button itself, a eagle was an evident choice: a unapproachable animal mystic of a Roman legions.
RB Leipzig – RBL
Founded in 2009, a bar do have a nickname compared with their owners, a certain Austrian appetite splash company, nonetheless being German they also go by a acronym of their name. See also: FCB, BVB, VfB, HSV, S04.
Lokomotiv Moskva – Zheleznodorozhniki (Railway Men)
The idea is in a name. Lokomotiv were founded as a workers’ group of a Moscow Passazhirskaya railway depot and a Ministry of Transport, and Russian Railways sojourn a vital bar unite all these years later. Some fans use a various of a nickname with a clearer couple to their origins: Parovozi (Steam Trains).
Ludogorets Razgrad Lokomotiv Moskva – The Eagles
The Bulgarian side were once The Wolves nonetheless took a aerial track many years ago. Nobody is utterly certain why, nonetheless one nomadic speculation has it that Razgrad’s Russian twin city is Orel, that translates as Eagle.
Lyon – Les Gones (The Kids)
There is no genuine story here, nonetheless a nickname conveys ideas of girl and, given it’s combined in a internal dialect, is now recognizable as being from Lyon.
Marseille – Les Phocéens (The Phocaeans)
A curtsy to a origins of a Mediterranean city, that was determined in 600BC as a Greek cluster by settlers from Phocaea.
Napoli – Partenopei
From a city’s aged name, Parthenope. In Greek mythology Parthenope was one of a Sirens who expel herself into a sea and drowned when her singing unsuccessful to tempt Ulysses. The city was named in her honour as fable had it that her physique cleared adult on a internal island of Megaride.
Nice – Les Aiglons (The Eaglets)
The eagle has assigned a French city’s cloak of arms given a 15th century, an majestic button relating to a appetite of a House of Savoy. OGC, shaped in 1904, duly adopted it.
Östersund – none
Östersund are only 21 years old, combined by a partnership of internal teams (namely Ope, IFK Östersund, Östersund/Torvalla and Frösö) penetrating to build a marquee bar in a cold ‘Vinterstaden’ (winter city). ÖFK is rising as a moniker nonetheless isn’t utterly determined yet.
Partizan – Crno-beli (Black and Whites)
The Belgrade side attempted combinations of red, blue and white before predestine drew them to black and white. After a 1957 accessible with Juventus in South America, a Juve boss Umberto Agnelli donated dual sets of jerseys and, 60 years on, Partizan still competition a colours.
Plzeň – Viktoriáni
This one derives from a club’s full name, Viktoria Plzeň. The nickname endured even when a Czech group forsaken a partial celebrating a Roman Goddess of Victory for over 40 years before reverting in 1992. The subsequent deteriorate they were promoted.
Real Sociedad – Txuri-urdin
The bar from San Sebastian in a Basque Country play in blue and white, and their nickname is simply those colours in a region’s language, Euskera (Basque).
Salzburg – Die Mozartstädter
Austria’s widespread force do have a some-more common nickname desirous by their appetite splash sponsors, nonetheless they also go by Die Mozartstädter, a name practical to everybody from Salzburg in honour of a city’s many famous son: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Spartak Moskva – Narodnaya komanda (People’s team)
Spartak were never trustworthy to a supervision dialect like their large city rivals. Instead they drew support from all amicable groups regardless of standing or profession. It is maybe no warn they became a many renouned bar in Russia and sojourn so.
Sporting CP – Leões (Lions)
This one owes to a lion on a bar crest, itself borrowed from a cloak of arms of an successful Portuguese family. The group also goes by Green and Whites, with a founders apparently selecting immature to symbolize wish for a club’s future.
Villarreal – El Submarino Amarillo (The Yellow Submarine)
A garland of supporters started a club’s organisation with a Beatles during a diversion during El Madrigal in 1968 by changing a difference of a Famous Five’s strike strain to “Amarillo es el Villarreal/amarillo es/amarillo es” (Villarreal are yellow, they are yellow).
Zenit – Blue-White-and-Sky-Blues (Sine-Belo-Golubye)
Wikipedia suggests Zenitchiki (Anti-aircraft Gunners), nonetheless nobody uses that. Zenitovtsy (Those who go to Zenit) is heard, nonetheless Sine-Belo-Golubye is some-more popular – just. For most of a time, Zenit does a job.