User:Grover cleveland/List of football clubs in non-Anglophone countries with English names

Many association football clubs were founded by British expatriates in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Such clubs were sometimes given names containing English elements. This started a tradition, in some countries, of using English words in club names; such traditions became especially common in Romance-speaking south-west Europe and Latin America. Football clubs whose English names reflect their English founders include A. C. Milan (1899) and Genoa C.F.C. (1892) in Italy,, First Vienna FC in Austria, Grasshopper Club Zürich in Switzerland and River Plate in Argentina. Other clubs, although not founded by English expatriates, nevertheless adopted English names: these include Racing Club de France (1882), and FC Barcelona (1899).

For example, many clubs in Portugal have names that include the English words "sport" or "sporting".

The dictatorships of Benito Mussolini in Italy and Francisco Franco in Spain banned English names in football clubs, with the result that many clubs were renamed during these regimes: most teams reverted to their English names after the bans were lifted.

Clubs containing the word "Racing"
The French equivalent could be Course. The Spanish equivalent could be Carrera.

Clubs containing the word "Sporting"
The French equivalent would be Sportif or Sportive. The Spanish equivalent would be Deportivo or Deportiva. The Portuguese equivalent would be Esportivo/Esportiva or Desportivo/Desportiva.

Clubs containing the word "Sport"
The Spanish equivalent would be Deporte. The Portuguese equivalent would be Desporto. Sport is the standard word in many languages such as French, German, Danish, Dutch, and Italian, so clubs speaking those languages are not included in this section.

Clubs containing the word "Football"
The Portuguese equivalent would be Futebol. The Italian equivalent would be Calcio. The Dutch equivalent would be Voetbal. The Swedish equivalent would be Fotboll. The Spanish equivalent would be either Fútbol or Balompié. The standard French word is also Football, so French clubs are not included in this section. Quite a few Danish teams have taken the prefix F.C., although the Danish word for "Club" is "Klub". This is usually done to signify a club formed as a fusion of two or more smaller clubs.

Clubs containing the word "Kickers"
In the German language the anglicism "Kicker" is used as synonym for "Fußballspieler" (football player), but with the German plural form "Kicker". "Kickers" is only used as club name. Since there does not seem to be a model for that in Britain, "Kickers" is a pseudo-anglicism.