These days, players moving between multiple clubs is as commonplace as sportswashing or bad football takes on Twitter, but in the 1970s, most players came through the youth ranks of a club and either remained for their whole career or moved onto a bigger club and ended their career there. Basically, most of a player’s…

Since the establishment of the Football League in 1888, a total of 24 different teams have won the league title in England ranging from current Championship sides like Preston and Sunderland to League One outfits like Ipswich Town and Sheffield Wednesday. Manchester United have won the most league titles with 20, followed by Liverpool (19),…

On August 21, 2020, Sevilla claimed a record sixth UEFA Europa League title, beating Inter Milan 3-2 in Cologne via a Luuk de Jong brace and an own goal from Romelu Lukaku, with Lukaku and Diego Godín finding the back of the net for Inter. Sevilla would follow that up with another fourth-place finish and…

Since the inauguration of the European Cup in 1955, we have seen 22 different teams win the competition, whilst a total of 42 teams have reached the final. Teams from as far and wide as Greece, Romania and Scotland have made it to the biggest game in club football, but what are some of the…

Constantly fans of the most important secondary thing in the world allude to the atmosphere in stadiums all over England, as well as the culture of cheering, which took some of its first forms on the Island and a prototype of what it should actually look like to support your favorite club. And this is…

Everyone knows about Villarreal, the ‘Yellow Submarine’ that has won the Europa League and seen the likes of Diego Forlán, Juan Román Riquelme and Santi Cazorla don their kit, but few know that there is another La Liga team whose nickname is ‘Yellow Submarine.’   On September 8, 1910, Cádiz CF defeated Cádiz Sporting Club…

With seven German championships, five DFB-Pokals, and one UEFA Cup, Schalke have emerged as one of the most successful clubs in German football since their founding in 1904, but they currently sit one point above last place after drawing 2-2 to Borussia Dortmund. After earning promotion last season, Schalke could be set to drop back…

With the 2022-23 season being literally filled with football, most fans will focus on the main events, like the World Cup and the Champions League. This is quite a good thing for Valencia, as their disastrous season has gone somewhat under the radar. They currently sit in the 19th position in the La Liga table, having…

It seems that nicknaming your team The Red Devils is a surefire way to guarantee your club’s success. Manchester United seem the most obvious example, but there is a host of other teams who share this nickname. Al Ahly, America de Cali and Hapoel Tel Aviv have trophy cabinets overflowing with honors. AC Milan could…

We tend to think of the Copa Del Rey as a purely Spanish affair, which probably sounds like the most obvious statement ever. This statement however is wrong, because nearly 100 years ago, two foreign teams were invited to play in the tournament and one of them actually won it.   The Copa Del Rey…