MLS Team Name Generator

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Fictional MLS team names for expansion talk, create-a-club saves and mock leagues: Sacramento Confluence FC, Real Albuquerque, Inter Tampa Bay CF, Boise Sawtooth United, Milwaukee Breakwaters and Club de Foot Québec. Real cities, invented clubs.

About MLS team names

Real Major League Soccer names follow two traditions. One is the American nickname: Portland Timbers, Seattle Sounders, LA Galaxy, Columbus Crew, Chicago Fire, Philadelphia Union, New England Revolution. The other is borrowed from clubs abroad: Atlanta United, D.C. United, Orlando City, FC Dallas, Toronto FC, Real Salt Lake, Sporting Kansas City, Inter Miami CF and CF Montréal. If you came for the real clubs, those are the two patterns the league's names come from.

Everything in this generator is fictional. Each entry gives a real city or region in the United States or Canada an invented club: Sacramento Confluence FC, Real Albuquerque, Inter Tampa Bay CF, Boise Sawtooth United. The list mixes both traditions. There are clubs named for a local landmark with FC, SC or CF, United, City, Athletic and Rovers forms, borrowed Real, Sporting, Inter, Atlético and Deportivo forms, plural nicknames from local industry and nature such as Pittsburgh Ingots and Oakland Cranes, and singular ones such as Phoenix Mirage and Houston Liftoff.

Canadian entries include French forms such as Club de Foot Québec and Stade Hochelaga, and big markets get second clubs named for a district, such as Boston North End FC and Chicago Bronzeville FC. Use them for expansion debates, create-a-club modes in EA Sports FC and Football Manager, mock leagues and sports fiction.

How to choose MLS team names

  • Start with the city, then choose the tradition. A borrowed form such as United, Athletic, Real or Sporting reads as a supporters' club. A nickname such as Portland Herons or Pittsburgh Ingots reads as an American franchise.
  • Give the name a local reason. Tulsa Derricks FC, Oakland Cranes and Rochester Aperture work because the city already owns the image.
  • In a create-a-club save, check how the name shortens. Boise Sawtooth United becomes Sawtooth on a scoreboard and in a chant. A name with no natural short form is harder to live with.
  • For a second club in a big market, use a district and not the city alone, as in Dallas Oak Cliff SC or Seattle Fremont Athletic. The rivalry is then built into the name.
  • Québec clubs often put the club form first, the French way, as in Olympique Sherbrooke and Racing Lévis.

Frequently asked questions

What are the real MLS team names?

The league's clubs use either an American nickname or a borrowed club form. The nicknames include the Timbers, Sounders, Galaxy, Crew, Fire, Union, Revolution, Rapids, Dynamo, Earthquakes, Whitecaps and Red Bulls. The club forms include Atlanta United, Orlando City, Real Salt Lake, Sporting Kansas City, Inter Miami CF, Toronto FC and CF Montréal. Membership changes with expansion, so check the league's own site for the clubs playing now.

Are any of these names real MLS clubs?

No entry is meant to be a real club, in MLS or below it. The list was drafted to stay away from professional clubs, past and present. North America also has thousands of amateur, college and youth clubs, so a match with one of them somewhere can happen. Search a name yourself before you use it in public.

Which names suit a created club in EA Sports FC or Football Manager?

Pick a city you want to play in and a name with a local reason. Sacramento Confluence FC, Indianapolis Crossroads FC and Detroit Assembly SC use the plain club form, Phoenix Mirage and Las Vegas Afterglow use a singular nickname, and Atlético San Antonio and Real El Paso borrow a Spanish form.

Why do MLS clubs use FC, SC and CF?

FC stands for football club and SC for soccer club. CF puts the word club first, as Spanish and French do. The league moved toward these forms as it left its 1990s nicknames behind. This list uses all three, as in Tacoma Narrows FC, Columbus Scioto SC and Miami Biscayne CF.

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This is the complete list the generator above draws its random batches from, sorted A to Z and grouped by first letter.

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A: 45 names

  • AC Baltimore
  • AC Providence
  • AC Santa Fe
  • Adirondack Rovers
  • Akron Rubber City FC
  • Alabama Wiregrass FC
  • Alaska Last Frontier FC
  • Albany Hudson-Mohawk FC
  • Albany Tulips
  • Albuquerque Balloons SC
  • Albuquerque Bosque United
  • Albuquerque Mesa
  • Albuquerque Sandia FC
  • Alexandria Old Town FC
  • Anacostia Athletic
  • Anaheim Orange Grove FC
  • Anchorage Icefield
  • Anchorage Midnight Sun
  • Anchorage Turnagain FC
  • Arizona Mogollon Rim FC
  • Arlington Potomac FC
  • Asheville Balsam Rovers

A, continued

  • Asheville French Broad FC
  • Astoria Hellgate FC
  • Athlétique Verdun
  • Atlanta Cabbagetown Athletic
  • Atlanta Canopy
  • Atlanta Chattahoochee FC
  • Atlanta Peachtrees
  • Atlético Albuquerque
  • Atlético Denver
  • Atlético El Paso
  • Atlético Fresno
  • Atlético Las Vegas
  • Atlético Orlando
  • Atlético Phoenix
  • Atlético Sacramento
  • Atlético San Antonio
  • Atlético Santa Ana
  • Atlético Tampa
  • Atlético Tucson
  • Austin Barton Springs FC
  • Austin Grackles FC
  • Austin Reverb
  • Austin Zilker Athletic

B: 36 names

  • Badlands Athletic
  • Bakersfield Kern River FC
  • Baltimore Fells Point United
  • Baltimore Keel
  • Baltimore Patapsco FC
  • Baltimore Rowhouses
  • Baton Rouge Levee FC
  • Battle Creek Cereal City FC
  • Bellevue Lake Washington FC
  • Bemidji North Woods FC
  • Bend High Desert Rovers
  • Berkeley Grizzly Peak FC
  • Berkshire Rovers
  • Birmingham Crucible
  • Birmingham Pig Iron
  • Birmingham Red Mountain FC
  • Birmingham Vulcan United
  • Black Hills Needles FC
  • Blue Ridge Athletic
  • Bluegrass Rovers
  • Boise Basalt
  • Boise Greenbelt Rovers
  • Boise Peregrines
  • Boise Sawtooth United
  • Boise Treasure Valley FC
  • Boston Charlestown Athletic
  • Boston North End FC
  • Boyle Heights Athletic
  • Bronx Grand Concourse FC
  • Buffalo Cataracts
  • Buffalo Lake Effect FC
  • Buffalo Niagara Frontier FC
  • Burlington Champlain SC
  • Burlington Maples
  • Burnaby Mountain FC
  • Butte Mining City FC

C: 42 names

  • Calgary Bow River SC
  • Calgary Nose Hill FC
  • Cambridge Charles River FC
  • Cape Cod Dune Rovers
  • Cape Fear Riverwalk SC
  • Carolina Longleaf FC
  • Cascadia Evergreen SC
  • Central Coast Cypress SC
  • Charleston Rainbow Row SC
  • Charleston Sea Island United
  • Charleston Steeple
  • Charleston Sweetgrass
  • Charlotte Spindles
  • Charlotte Sugar Creek FC
  • Charlotte Uptown
  • Charlottetown Confederation FC
  • Chattanooga Walnut Street FC
  • Chesapeake Rovers
  • Cheyenne High Plains FC
  • Chicago Back of the Yards FC
  • Chicago Bronzeville FC

C, continued

  • Chicago Calumet SC
  • Chicago Pilsen Athletic
  • Cincinnati Incline
  • Cincinnati Mill Creek FC
  • Cincinnati Riverboats
  • Cleveland Cuyahoga FC
  • Cleveland Flats Athletic
  • Cleveland Freighters
  • Cleveland Gale
  • Cleveland North Coast United
  • Club de Foot Québec
  • Club de Foot Saguenay
  • Colorado Front Range FC
  • Colorado Springs Aspens
  • Colorado Springs Pikes Peak SC
  • Colorado Springs Tailwind
  • Columbus Crossing
  • Columbus Scioto SC
  • Columbus Trilliums
  • Coral Gables Banyan FC
  • Corpus Christi Laguna SC

D: 33 names

  • Dallas Blackland
  • Dallas Bluebonnets
  • Dallas Deep Ellum Athletic
  • Dallas Oak Cliff SC
  • Dallas White Rock FC
  • Decatur Square FC
  • Denver Five Points Athletic
  • Denver Fourteeners
  • Denver South Platte FC
  • Denver Thin Air FC
  • Deportivo El Paso
  • Deportivo Fresno
  • Deportivo Hialeah
  • Deportivo McAllen
  • Deportivo Oxnard
  • Deportivo Salinas
  • Deportivo Santa Ana
  • Deportivo Tucson
  • Deportivo Yakima
  • Des Moines Raccoon River FC
  • Des Moines Silos
  • Des Moines Tallgrass United
  • Detroit Assembly SC
  • Detroit Belle Isle FC
  • Detroit Eastern Market United
  • Detroit Flywheels
  • Detroit Rivertown Athletic
  • Dorchester Bay FC
  • Down East Athletic
  • Duluth Iron Range Rovers
  • Duluth North Shore SC
  • Duluth Zenith City SC
  • Durham Eno River SC

E: 9 names

  • Edmonton Boreal FC
  • Edmonton River Valley FC
  • Eintracht Cincinnati
  • El Paso Borderland United
  • El Paso Chaparral
  • El Paso Franklin Mountains CF
  • El Paso Yuccas
  • Etobicoke Humber FC
  • Eugene Willamette SC

F: 10 names

  • Fargo Red River SC
  • Flagstaff Ponderosa Rovers
  • Florida Keys SC
  • Fort Lauderdale New River FC
  • Fort Wayne Three Rivers FC
  • Fort Worth Stockyards FC
  • Fortuna Milwaukee
  • Fresno Heatwave
  • Fresno Sequoia SC
  • Fresno Vines

G: 10 names

  • Galveston Seawall Rovers
  • Gatineau Chaudière FC
  • Geneva Finger Lakes FC
  • Georgia Golden Isles SC
  • Gold Country United
  • Grand Rapids Fish Ladder FC
  • Grand Rapids Furniture City FC
  • Great Lakes United
  • Green Bay Fox River FC
  • Greenville Reedy River FC

H: 21 names

  • Halifax Citadel FC
  • Halifax Harbour United
  • Hamilton Escarpment FC
  • Hamilton Steeltown United
  • Harlem River Athletic
  • Harrisburg Susquehanna FC
  • Hartford Charter Oak FC
  • Hartford Chestnuts
  • Hartford Nutmeg United
  • Hialeah Flamingo SC
  • Hoboken Waterfront FC
  • Honolulu Diamond Head FC
  • Honolulu Honu
  • Honolulu Lava Flow
  • Houghton Copper Country FC
  • Houston Buffalo Bayou FC
  • Houston Liftoff
  • Houston Magnolias
  • Houston Third Ward FC
  • Hudson Valley Athletic
  • Huntsville Redstone FC

I: 22 names

  • Idaho Snake River FC
  • Independiente Laredo
  • Independiente Yuma
  • Indiana Dunes FC
  • Indianapolis Crossroads FC
  • Indianapolis Slipstream
  • Indianapolis Tulip Trees
  • Inland Empire Citrus FC
  • Inland Northwest United
  • Inter Austin
  • Inter Baltimore
  • Inter Charlotte
  • Inter Honolulu
  • Inter Houston FC
  • Inter Las Vegas CF
  • Inter New Orleans
  • Inter Orlando CF
  • Inter Phoenix CF
  • Inter Sacramento
  • Inter San Antonio CF
  • Inter Tampa Bay CF
  • Iowa Cedar Valley FC

J: 7 names

  • Jacksonville Egrets
  • Jacksonville First Coast United
  • Jacksonville King Tide
  • Jacksonville St. Johns FC
  • Jersey City Heights FC
  • Johnson City Highlands FC
  • Juneau Glacier Rovers

K: 8 names

  • Kansas City Fountains FC
  • Kansas City Paseo FC
  • Kansas City Swing
  • Kelowna Orchard SC
  • Key West Reef Rovers
  • Kingston Thousand Islands FC
  • Knoxville Marble City SC
  • Knoxville Sunsphere FC

L: 20 names

  • Laredo Rio Bravo CF
  • Las Vegas Afterglow
  • Las Vegas Joshua Trees
  • Las Vegas Spring Mountains FC
  • Lethbridge High Level FC
  • Lexington Limestone FC
  • Little Rock Pinnacle FC
  • London Thames FC
  • Long Beach Shoreline FC
  • Long Island South Shore SC
  • Los Angeles Arroyo CF
  • Los Angeles Echo Park Athletic
  • Los Angeles Golden Hour
  • Los Angeles Jacarandas
  • Louisville Gallop
  • Louisville Locks
  • Louisville Ohio Falls FC
  • Lowcountry Athletic
  • Lowell Spindle City FC
  • Lubbock Caprock FC

M: 25 names

  • Madison Four Lakes FC
  • Magog Estrie FC
  • Marquette Superior Rovers
  • Memphis Backbeat
  • Memphis Mud Island FC
  • Memphis Sternwheelers
  • Miami Biscayne CF
  • Miami Mangroves
  • Miami Trade Wind
  • Miami Wynwood Athletic
  • Milwaukee Bay View Athletic
  • Milwaukee Breakwaters
  • Milwaukee Harbor District FC
  • Milwaukee Lake Breeze
  • Milwaukee Third Ward United
  • Minneapolis Chain of Lakes FC
  • Minneapolis Thaw
  • Minnesota Boundary Waters FC
  • Mississauga Credit River FC
  • Mississippi Delta SC
  • Missoula Clark Fork SC
  • Mobile Azalea SC
  • Moncton Tidal Bore FC
  • Montana Big Sky United
  • Montréal Plateau FC

N: 16 names

  • Nashville Cicadas
  • Nashville Cumberland FC
  • Nashville Germantown Athletic
  • Nashville Pedal Steel
  • Nebraska Sandhills FC
  • New Bedford Whaling City SC
  • New Haven East Rock FC
  • New Orleans Bywater Athletic
  • New Orleans Live Oaks
  • New Orleans Pontchartrain FC
  • New Orleans Second Line SC
  • Niagara Falls Gorge FC
  • Norfolk Drydocks
  • Norfolk Elizabeth River SC
  • Norfolk Fleet
  • North Bay Vineyard FC

O: 23 names

  • Oakland Cranes
  • Oakland Estuary
  • Oakland Fruitvale Athletic
  • Oakland Lake Merritt SC
  • Ogden Wasatch Front FC
  • Oklahoma City Bricktown FC
  • Oklahoma City Red Dirt SC
  • Oklahoma City Redbuds
  • Olympique Baton Rouge
  • Olympique Lafayette
  • Olympique New Orleans
  • Olympique Sherbrooke
  • Omaha Bur Oaks
  • Omaha Missouri Bluffs FC
  • Omaha Platte Valley United
  • Omaha Railhead
  • Oregon Coast Range SC
  • Orlando Lake Eola SC
  • Orlando Sunshower
  • Orlando Swallowtails
  • Ottawa Bytown Athletic
  • Ottawa Rideau FC
  • Outer Banks Shoals FC

P: 23 names

  • Pasadena Crown City SC
  • Paterson Silk City FC
  • Pensacola Emerald Coast FC
  • Philadelphia Fishtown Athletic
  • Philadelphia Schuylkill FC
  • Phoenix Camelback FC
  • Phoenix Mirage
  • Phoenix Ocotillos
  • Piedmont Rovers
  • Pittsburgh Ingots
  • Pittsburgh Monongahela FC
  • Pittsburgh Open Hearth
  • Pittsburgh Steel Valley United
  • Plattsburgh North Country SC
  • Port Angeles Olympic FC
  • Portland Casco Bay FC
  • Portland Drizzle
  • Portland Forest Park FC
  • Portland Herons
  • Portland Lighthouses
  • Providence Fox Point FC
  • Providence Gaslight
  • Providence Quahogs

Q: 1 name

  • Québec Citadelle FC

R: 37 names

  • Racing Bonneville
  • Racing Charlotte
  • Racing Daytona
  • Racing Indianapolis
  • Racing Lévis
  • Racing Ocala
  • Racing Saratoga
  • Raleigh Loblollies
  • Raleigh Neuse River FC
  • Raleigh Triangle
  • Real Albuquerque
  • Real Amarillo
  • Real Bakersfield
  • Real Brownsville
  • Real Corpus Christi
  • Real El Paso
  • Real Fresno
  • Real Honolulu
  • Real Laredo
  • Real Las Vegas
  • Real Pensacola
  • Real Pueblo
  • Real Sacramento
  • Real Tucson
  • Regina Wascana FC
  • Reno Bonanza
  • Reno Jackrabbits
  • Reno Sierra Front FC
  • Richmond Cobblestones
  • Richmond James River FC
  • Richmond Shockoe United
  • Roanoke Star City FC
  • Rochester Aperture
  • Rochester Aqueduct FC
  • Rochester Genesee FC
  • Rochester High Falls United
  • Rocky Mountain Bighorn SC

S: 70 names

  • Sacramento Almonds
  • Sacramento Camellia City FC
  • Sacramento Confluence FC
  • Sacramento Harvest
  • Saguenay Fjord FC
  • Salt Lake Arches
  • Salt Lake Bonneville FC
  • Salt Lake Updraft
  • San Antonio Cypresses
  • San Antonio Fiesta
  • San Diego Balboa CF
  • San Diego Marine Layer
  • San Diego Torrey Pines
  • San Francisco Foghorns
  • San Francisco Mission Athletic
  • San Francisco Twin Peaks FC
  • San Jose Alum Rock CF
  • San Jose Apricots
  • San Jose Signal
  • San Mateo Peninsula SC
  • Santa Barbara Channel FC
  • Santa Cruz Redwood Rovers
  • Santa Fe Sangre de Cristo FC
  • Santa Fe Trail Rovers
  • Saskatoon Prairie Lily FC
  • Sausalito Headlands FC
  • Savannah Forsyth Park FC
  • Savannah Hostess City FC
  • Savannah Marsh Rovers
  • Savannah Shrimpboats
  • Savannah Spanish Moss
  • Scarborough Bluffs FC
  • Scottsdale Sonoran FC
  • Seattle Elliott Bay FC
  • Seattle Fremont Athletic

S, continued

  • Seattle Madronas
  • Seattle Undertow
  • Shenandoah Skyline FC
  • Smoky Mountain Rovers
  • South Bay Strand FC
  • South Jersey Pine Barrens FC
  • South Philly Navy Yard FC
  • Spokane Falls FC
  • Spokane Lilac City FC
  • Spokane Marmots FC
  • Spokane Palouse United
  • Sporting Anchorage
  • Sporting Birmingham
  • Sporting Buffalo
  • Sporting Charleston
  • Sporting Chesapeake
  • Sporting Laval
  • Sporting Memphis
  • Sporting Providence
  • Sporting Reno
  • Sporting Richmond
  • Sporting Savannah
  • Sporting Spokane
  • Sporting Tidewater
  • St. John's Jellybean Row SC
  • St. John's Signal Hill FC
  • St. Louis Barges
  • St. Louis Dogtown Athletic
  • St. Louis Keelboat
  • St. Louis Soulard SC
  • St. Paul High Bridge FC
  • Stade Hochelaga
  • Staten Island Kill Van Kull FC
  • Sudbury Nickel Belt FC
  • Syracuse Snowbelts

T: 25 names

  • Tacoma Narrows FC
  • Tacoma Octopuses
  • Tacoma Tideflat Rovers
  • Tampa Bay Skyway FC
  • Tampa Bay Spoonbills
  • Tampa Bay Squall
  • Texas Panhandle SC
  • Thunder Bay Sleeping Giant FC
  • Tidewater Athletic
  • Toledo Maumee FC
  • Toronto Don Valley FC
  • Toronto Junction Athletic
  • Traverse City Bay Rovers
  • Trois-Rivières Mauricie FC
  • Truckee High Sierra FC
  • Tucson Javelinas
  • Tucson Old Pueblo United
  • Tucson Saguaro SC
  • Tucson Sundown
  • Tulsa Art Deco FC
  • Tulsa Crude
  • Tulsa Derricks FC
  • Tulsa Green Country United
  • Twin Cities Walleyes
  • Tyler Piney Woods SC

U: 1 name

  • Utah Red Rock FC

V: 2 names

  • Vancouver False Creek FC
  • Victoria Inner Harbour FC

W: 13 names

  • Waterbury Brass City FC
  • Waterloo Region Athletic
  • White Mountain Rovers
  • Whitehorse Klondike FC
  • Wichita Flint Hills FC
  • Wichita Jetstream
  • Wilmington Brandywine FC
  • Windsor Ambassador FC
  • Winnipeg Exchange FC
  • Winnipeg Forks FC
  • Wisconsin Driftless FC
  • Worcester Seven Hills FC
  • Wyoming Wind River FC

Y: 1 name

  • Youngstown Western Reserve FC