List of association football mascots explained

The following is a list of mascots of Association football teams, sorted by the country in whose league they appear.

Competitions

Australia

Brazil

Each Brazilian football team has a number of symbols attached to it and is used prominently by the fandom. Among these symbols are the badge, the flag, the anthem and the mascot. While the first three are commonplace all over the world, the last one is peculiarly Brazilian both in its character and its use.

A club's mascot is a cartoon character, often that of an animal, that symbolises some virtue boasted by the team. Most of them have proper names. Usually mascots come in two versions, a "soft" one, which is the official and a "hardcore" one used by ultras and torcidas, which often contain traces of vulgarity or violence.[6]

A mascot is also created for the World Cups, and are used for promoting environmental awareness.[7]

Animals
Brazil national football teamCanarinho (known also as "Canarinho Pistola" (Portuguese:"Angry canary"))A Canary
ABCElefanteAn elephant
América Futebol Clube (MG)CoelhoA cute white "bunny" rabbit
Associação Atlética Ponte PretaMacaca ("she-monkey")A female ape
Associação Desportiva São CaetanoAzulão ("big blue")A blue bird
Atlético Rio Negro Clube (AM)Galo Carijó ("Spotty Rooster")A black-and-white feathered rooster.
Avaí Futebol ClubeLeãoA lion
Botafogo de Futebol e RegatasBiriba/CachorroA mongrel dog, very popular in the 1940s and 50s, is being adopted again by the fans since the late 1990s.
Brasiliense Futebol ClubeJacaréAn alligator
Centro Sportivo AlagoanoAzulão ("big blue")A blue bird
Club Athletico ParanaenseFura-CãoA dog in a luchador get-up; name alludes to "furacão" (hurricane), the team's nickname[8]
Clube Atlético MineiroGalo
CRBGalo-da-campinaA small white-red bird (the name translates literally into "country rooster")
Clube de Regatas do FlamengoUrubuA black vulture
Clube do RemoLeãoA lion
Clube Esportivo Bento GonçalvesZebraA zebra
Clube Náutico CapibaribeTimbuA brown opossum
Criciúma Esporte ClubeTigrãoA tiger
Cruzeiro Esporte ClubeRaposaA brown fox
Esporte Clube JuventudePapagaioA parrot
Esporte Clube VitóriaLeãoA lion
Ferroviário Atlético Clube (CE)TubarãoA white shark
Fluminense de Feira Futebol ClubeTouro do Sertão ("the bull from the outback")A ferocious bull
Fortaleza Esporte ClubeLeãoA lion
Goiás Esporte ClubePeriquitoA green parakeet
Joinville Esporte ClubeCoelhoA rabbit
Maranhão Atlético ClubeBodeA goat
Mogi Mirim Esporte ClubeSapão ("he-toad")A big green toad
Operário Futebol Clube (MS) (MS)GaloA rooster
Paraná ClubeGralha azulAn azure jay, a dark-blue bird with a long beek
Piauí Esporte ClubeRatinhoA mouse
Santa Cruz Futebol ClubeCobra-coralA coral snake
Santos Futebol ClubeBaleião e BaleinhaTwo Orcas wearing the club's home and away uniforms
Sociedade Esportiva do GamaPeriquitoA green parakeet
Sociedade Esportiva ItapirenseCoelhoA rabbit
Sociedade Esportiva PalmeirasPeriquito, Porco ("swine")A green parakeet, the original and official mascot, and a hog, adopted by the supporters.
Sport Club do RecifeLeão da Ilha ("Island Lion")A lion
Treze Futebol ClubeGalo da BorboremaA rooster
Vila Nova Futebol ClubeTigreA tiger
Ypiranga Futebol ClubeCanarinhoA yellow domestic canary[9]
Human (or somewhat human) figures
América Football ClubDiaboThe devil, himself, pictured red, with pointy black beard, horns, arrow-pointed tail and sporting a trident.
ASAFantasma ("phantom")A fiendish ghost
Botafogo de Futebol e RegatasManequinhoA boy pissing, a replica of Manneken Pis. Adopted in the 1980s, since the late 1990s is being replaced by the mongrel dog (used in the 1950s) among fans.
Botafogo Futebol Clube (PB)XerifeA sheriff
Ceará Sporting ClubVovô ("grandpa")An old man with a shotgun
Clube Atlético ParanaenseFuracão ("hurricane")A lamp genie who is also a human-hurricane hybrid
Clube de Regatas Vasco da GamaAlmirante ("Admiral")A Portuguese sea captain
Clube Sportivo SergipeCapeta ("demon")The devil (with horns, pointy tail, trident and all)
Coritiba Football ClubVovô ("grandpa")An old man (usually sporting a cane or listening to a portable radio)
Esporte Clube BahiaSuper-HomemA man in a blue super-hero costume, inspired on DC Comics' Superman.
Fluminense Football ClubGuerreirinho (The Little Warrior)A knight. Named after the nickname "Time de Guerreiros" (Warriors' Team) that came around in 2009. Since 2016, it's the official mascot.[10]
Grêmio Esportivo BrasilXavanteAn Indian
Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto AlegrenseMosqueteiroA musketeer (a man in a 16th-century army uniform)
Guarani Futebol ClubeBugreAn Indian
Clube Atlético Juventus (SP)Moleque Travesso ("trickster boy")A fair-haired boy with a freckled face (homage to the Italian immigrants who founded the club).
São Paulo Futebol ClubeSaint PaulA white-bearded man with a halo over its head wearing the club's jersey, representing the saint that names both the team and its city.
Sociedade Esportiva e Recreativa Caxias do SulBepeA drunk man in Italian costume.
Sport Club Corinthians PaulistaMosqueteiroA musketeer (a man in a 16th-century army uniform)
Sport Club InternacionalSaciA black one-legged boy wearing a phrygian cap and smoking from a pipe
Monsters and other
América Futebol Clube de NatalDragãoA dragon
Atlético Clube GoianienseDragãoA red dragon
Moto Clube (MA)Bicho-papãoA red furry monster.
Paysandu Sport ClubBicho-papãoA furry monster. Sometimes pictured as the "big bad wolf".
Souza Esporte ClubeDinossauroA dinosaur
Torcidas Organizadas mascots
Força Jovem VascoEddieEddie the Head
Galoucura Clube Atlético MineiroPulgãoA dog flea.
Jovem FlaTanqueA three-cannon war tank.
Mancha Alviverde Sociedade Esportiva PalmeirasMancha Verde Phantom Blot
Gaviões da Fiel Sport Club Corinthians PaulistaGaviãoHawk
Torcida Tricolor Independente São Paulo Futebol ClubeJasonJason Voorhees-

Canada

Chile

Colombia

England and Wales

Many now take part in the Mascot Grand National held each year at Kempton Park Racecourse. and at the annual Mascot Olympics held in Milton Keynes.

Germany

Greece

Honduras

India

Indonesia

Iran

Italy

Japan

See main article: List of J.League mascots.

Korea Republic

Mexico

Northern Ireland

Portugal

Some images of the mascots[41]

Saudi Arabia

Scotland

Slovenia

Spain

OBS: Real Madrid, Deportivo La Coruña, UD Salamanca, CF Numancia and are the only clubs that do not have an official mascot.

Thailand

Turkey

United States

Major League Soccer[68]

Former (Major League Soccer)

National Women's Soccer League

Lower soccer leagues (NASL, USL, etc.)

Uruguay

See also

External links

Notes and References

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  65. Used often by rival team supporters.
  66. Based on Konya being the former capital city of the Sultanate of Rum.
  67. The nickname "şahin" (hawk/falcon in Turkish) is based on Şahin Bey, who is considered a hero of the city since he helped defend it during the Franco-Turkish War.
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