Skittles Team Name Generator

Pub league names for nine-pin alley sides

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Team names for skittles, the nine-pin alley game of pubs and clubs: league sides, mixed teams, works teams and one-off skittles nights. The 500 names run from Beer and Skittles and The Sticker-Uppers to Mixed Blessings, Leaning Pin B and The Strollers.

About skittles team names

Skittles is the nine-pin alley game played in pubs and clubs across the West Country, Wales and the Midlands, and its team names have a character of their own. League tables are full of pub sides with an A and a B team, works teams, village sides and mixed teams, and the best names use the game's own words, not those of ten-pin bowling. The front pin, the spare, the sticker-up who sets the pins back up and the old saying about beer and skittles do most of the work.

This list of 500 is built in a dozen styles. There are nine and pin puns (All Nine Down, Nine Pin Wonders), names on the saying (Not All Beer and Skittles), alley terms (Front Pin Finders, The Sticker-Uppers, Skittled Out), pub sides with invented pubs (Leaning Pin A, Dozing Badger B) and mixed-team names such as Mixed Blessings and Odds and Evens. Works, village and family sides, cider and farm country names, cup-night and tour names, and plain proud ones like The Strollers fill out the rest.

A fair share is self-mocking, because a side called Wooden Spoon Collectors can never be embarrassed by the table. Terms and customs differ from league to league, so skip any name whose joke your own alley would not recognize.

How to choose skittles team names

  • Picture the name on the league table and the scoreboard: two or three short words such as Nine Lives or Going Spare fit a chalked board better than a full sentence.
  • A pub with two sides often keeps one name and adds A and B, so pick a base name both teams are happy to carry.
  • For a mixed team, a name that says so (Mixed Blessings, Lads and Lasses, Better Halves) tells the rest of the league what to expect and gets a smile.
  • Use local terms only if your alley uses them. A flopper or a sticker-up joke falls flat in a league that has another word for it.
  • A self-mocking name ages well. Propping Up the Table is funny in any season, while a boast invites comment after the first defeat.

Frequently asked questions

What are some funny names for a mixed skittles team?

The list has a full set of mixed-team names, including Mixed Blessings, Mixed Bag, Odds and Evens, Chalk and Cheese, Husbands and Wiser and Equal Opportunity Missers. Most play on the word mixed or on a well-known pair, so they tell the league what kind of side you are before a ball is bowled.

Is this page about the pub game or ten-pin bowling?

It is about the pub and club game with nine pins. The names use skittles words such as front pin, spare and sticker-up and the saying about beer and skittles, and they leave ten-pin scoring terms alone. For ten-pin names, try the bowling team name generator.

How do pubs with more than one team name their sides?

A common pattern is the pub's name followed by A or B, or by a word like Reserves or Ladies. The pub names in this list, such as Leaning Pin, Dozing Badger and Sticker's Rest, are made up to show the format, so swap in the name of your own local.

How many skittles team names are in the list?

There are 500 names in a dozen styles, from nine and pin puns to works teams, village and family sides, cup-night and tour names and plain club names like The Strollers and Skittle Alley Rovers. Each batch you generate mixes the styles.

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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: 22 names

  • A Fair Hand
  • A Life of Skittles
  • A Mixed Bunch
  • A Nine Romance
  • A Pint and Nine Pins
  • A Spare in the Air
  • Accounts Deceivable
  • Ale and Hearty
  • All Beer and Skittles
  • All Fun and Skittles
  • All in the Family
  • All Nine Down
  • All Round the Edges
  • All Skittles, No Beer
  • Alley Oop
  • Alley Rangers
  • Alley Ways and Means
  • Allotment Society
  • Apple Pressers
  • At Least We Turned Up
  • Auntie Vi's Volunteers
  • Away Day Heroes

B: 36 names

  • Back Alley Ballers
  • Back of the Coach
  • Back Pin Blues
  • Back Room Battlers
  • Bad Apples
  • Ball Hogs
  • Ball Park Figures
  • Balls of Fire
  • Bar Stool Philosophers
  • Barmaid's Choice
  • Battle of the Sixes
  • Beer and Skittles
  • Beer First, Skittles After
  • Beer Garden Exiles
  • Beer, Skittles and Blame
  • Bell Ringers' B Team
  • Belle of the Ball
  • Benign Nine
  • Better at the Buffet
  • Better Halves
  • Better Last Season
  • Big Cheeses
  • Birthday Bash Bowlers
  • Blame the Alley
  • Blame the Captain
  • Blind Alley
  • Blokes Second
  • Bottom of the Alley
  • Bottom of the Table Again
  • Bottom of the Village
  • Bouncers and Bobblers
  • Boxing Day Bashers
  • Boys and Girls Come Out to Play
  • Brickies and Brews
  • Bridge Street Irregulars
  • Brothers and Blisters

C: 36 names

  • Cakes, Ale and Skittles
  • Canteen Crew
  • Captain's Pick
  • Cat o' Nine Fails
  • Cellarman's Chosen
  • Chalk and Cheese
  • Chalk and Skittles
  • Chalk Dust
  • Chalk It Up
  • Chalkers on Tour
  • Chapel End
  • Charity Night Chancers
  • Cheddar Gorgeous
  • Cheese Rolls and Skittles
  • Christmas Party Crackers
  • Church End
  • Cider House Rollers
  • Cider With Rosie's Mates
  • Clocking Off
  • Clotted Dream Team
  • Cloud Nine and a Half
  • Cloudy With a Chance of Pins
  • Coach Trip Casualties
  • Cobbled Yard Club
  • Combe as You Are
  • Combe Bottom Casuals
  • Combine Harvesters
  • Core Blimey
  • Corner Pin Collectors
  • Could Do Better
  • Couples Therapy
  • Cousins and Dozens
  • Cream First, Jam After
  • Crimped and Ready
  • Cup Half Full
  • Cup Night Specials

D: 15 names

  • Daisy Cutters
  • Darby and Joan
  • Devils Among the Tailors
  • Diamond Formation
  • Diamond Geezers
  • Diamond of Nine
  • Dinner Hour Dashers
  • Division Four Forever
  • Down the Alley
  • Dozing Badger A
  • Dozing Badger B
  • Dragons' Den
  • Dressed to the Nines
  • Drop the Ball
  • Duck Pond Dynamos

E: 1 name

  • Equal Opportunity Missers

F: 23 names

  • Fallen Pin A
  • Family Fortunes
  • Farm Gate Gang
  • Ferret and Flagon Reserves
  • Final Flourish
  • Fire Station Watch
  • First Round Exits
  • Flip Floppers
  • Flop Idols
  • Flopper Hoppers
  • Flopper or Bust
  • Floppers Anonymous
  • Football Club Old Boys
  • Fresh Air Specialists
  • Friends and Relations
  • Front Pin Cup Dreamers
  • Front Pin Fanatics
  • Front Pin Finders
  • Front Pin First
  • Front Pin Fumblers
  • Front Pin or Bust
  • Front Pin Phobia
  • Function Room Fliers

G: 8 names

  • Gardening Club Greens
  • Giant Killers
  • Going Spare
  • Goods Inwards
  • Grandad's Glory
  • Great Expectations, Poor Results
  • Great Skittlecombe
  • Grumpy Goose Arms

H: 21 names

  • Half a Dozen of the Other
  • Half and Half
  • Half Beer, Half Skittles
  • Hand in Hand
  • Hard Cheese
  • Hare and Hiccup A
  • Harvest Home
  • Having a Ball
  • Haymakers
  • Hedgerow Harriers
  • Here for the Buffet
  • Here for the Skittles
  • Him Indoors, Her Outdoors
  • His, Hers and Theirs
  • Hit and Hope
  • Hit and Miss
  • Home Alley Advantage
  • Home Bankers
  • Home Before the Cows
  • Human Remains
  • Husbands and Wiser

I: 2 names

  • It Was Rolling Left
  • It's All Skittles to Us

J: 3 names

  • Jacks and Jills
  • Jam First, Cream After
  • Just Here Tonight

K: 8 names

  • Keep the Sticker Busy
  • Keep Your Eye on the Ball
  • Keeping Up With the Joneses
  • Kings and Queens
  • Kith and Kin
  • Knock 'Em Flat
  • Knock on Wood
  • Knocked Out Early

L: 25 names

  • Ladies and Gentle Men
  • Ladies First
  • Lads and Lasses
  • Landlady's Darlings
  • Last Hand Heroes
  • Last Orders
  • Last Pin Standing
  • Late for Milking
  • Leaning Pin A
  • Leaning Pin B
  • Leaning Pin Ladies
  • Leaving Do Legends
  • Leeks and Daffs
  • Life's Not All Skittles
  • Lifeboat Crew Ashore
  • Linchpins
  • Little Skittlecombe
  • Loading Bay Legends
  • Long Alley Lads and Lasses
  • Long Alley Legends
  • Lost Causes
  • Lost Welly Inn
  • Lounge Bar Loungers
  • Lower Wobbleton
  • Lower Your Expectations

M: 29 names

  • Making Up the Numbers
  • Meat Draw Champions
  • Middle Pin Muddle
  • Mill Pond Irregulars
  • Mind the Sticker-Up
  • Missed Again
  • Missed the Front Pin
  • Missed the Lot
  • Mix and Match
  • Mixed Bag
  • Mixed Blessings
  • Mixed Company
  • Mixed Doubles Trouble
  • Mixed Feelings
  • Mixed Fortunes
  • Mixed Grill
  • Mixed Messages
  • Mixed Nuts
  • Mixed Signals
  • Mixed Up Lot
  • Monday Night Club
  • Moor to Come
  • More Miss Than Hit
  • More Skittles Than Beer
  • Mostly Beer, Some Skittles
  • Much Rolling in the Marsh
  • Muddy Welly Arms A
  • Mum, Dad and the Rest
  • Must Try Harder

N: 34 names

  • Nan's Army
  • Nether Pinbury Rovers
  • Never Had a Flopper
  • New Balls Please
  • Next Door's Lot
  • Night Shift Nine
  • Nil Points
  • Nine and Dandy
  • Nine Angry Pins
  • Nine Below Par
  • Nine Characters in Search of a Ball
  • Nine Day Wonders
  • Nine Down, None to Go
  • Nine for the Road
  • Nine Good Reasons
  • Nine Green Bottles
  • Nine Is the Magic Number
  • Nine Lives
  • Nine Men's Mischief
  • Nine Out of Nine
  • Nine Pin Regulars
  • Nine Pin Wonders
  • Nine Short of a Flopper
  • Nine Standing
  • Nine Tenths Asleep
  • Nine Times Out of Ten
  • Nine to Fivers
  • Nine Wooden Soldiers
  • Ninepin Wanderers
  • Ninepins and Needles
  • Ninth Time Lucky
  • No Spares Tonight
  • Not All Beer and Skittles
  • Not Just Here for the Beer

O: 20 names

  • Odd Balls
  • Odd One Left Up
  • Odds and Evens
  • Office Party Leftovers
  • Old Contemptibles
  • Old Farmers, Entirely
  • On Cloud Nine
  • On Our Last Legs
  • On the Ball
  • On the Slate
  • On Tour
  • One Flopper Wonders
  • One Night Only
  • One Pin Wonders
  • Orchard End
  • Orchard Raiders
  • Other Halves
  • Out of the Woods
  • Over the Garden Wall
  • Over the Moor

P: 22 names

  • Parish Council Skittlers
  • Pasty Faces
  • Peaked Too Early
  • Pickled Eggs and Skittles
  • Pie and Skittles
  • Pin Drop Silence
  • Pin Money
  • Pin Up Stars
  • Pinbury St Mary
  • Pinned Down
  • Pints and Pins
  • Pippins and Russets
  • Plan Nine
  • Plate Final Hopefuls
  • Plumbers' Mates
  • Points Mean Nothing
  • Possession Is Nine Pins
  • Post Room Pushovers
  • Presentation Night Regulars
  • Promotion? No Thanks
  • Propping Up the Table
  • Public Bar Purists

Q: 1 name

  • Quarter Final Curse

R: 11 names

  • Raffle Winners
  • Relegation Regulars
  • Reunion Rollers
  • Right Up Our Alley
  • Riverside Rollers
  • Roast Potatoes at Half Time
  • Rolling Pins
  • Rough Cider, Rougher Bowling
  • Rough Diamonds
  • Rough With the Smooth
  • Rugby Club Vets

S: 64 names

  • Sales and Fails
  • Saloon Bar Sages
  • Salt and Vinegar
  • Same Again Please
  • School Run Rollers
  • Scratch Side
  • Scrumpy and Western
  • Second Ball Specialists
  • Second From Bottom
  • Set 'Em Up Again
  • Shandy and Skittles
  • She Who Must Be Obeyed
  • Shield Holders, Once
  • Sign on the Dotted Nine
  • Signal Box Six
  • Silverware Seekers
  • Sisters and Misters
  • Six a Side Sensations
  • Six of One
  • Skittle Alley Rovers
  • Skittle Shed Stalwarts
  • Skittled Out
  • Skittleford Reserves
  • Skittleford United
  • Skittlers United
  • Skittles and a Sit Down
  • Skittles and Bitter
  • Skittles and Excuses
  • Skittles and Giggles
  • Skittles and Grumbles
  • Skittles and Scratchings
  • Skittles and Sympathy

S, continued

  • Skittles Athletic
  • Skittles Before Supper
  • Skittles by Candlelight
  • Skittles on a School Night
  • Skittles Tour Survivors
  • Skittles, Then Home
  • Sleepy Otter B
  • Soggy Sheepdog B
  • Somebody Has to Come Last
  • Sons and Daughters
  • Sorting Office Sorters
  • South Westerlies
  • Spare a Thought
  • Spare of the Moment
  • Spare Seekers
  • Spares and Graces
  • Sparks and Chippies
  • Squash and Skittles
  • Squeaky Gate A
  • Staff Room Rejects
  • Startled Hen Second String
  • Stick 'Em Up
  • Sticker's Rest A
  • Sticker's Rest B
  • Sticker-Up Wanted
  • Sticker-Up's Nightmare
  • Still Standing, Sadly
  • Stitch in Nine
  • Stores and Spares
  • Straight Through the Gap
  • Stuck Up Lot
  • Supper and Skittles

T: 96 names

  • Tap Room Tappers
  • Tea and Skittles
  • The Albion
  • The Alley Aunties
  • The Alley Gaiters
  • The Alley Was Sloping
  • The Also-Rans
  • The Apple Carts
  • The Back Alley Regulars
  • The Badgers
  • The Beer Was Fine
  • The Belly Floppers
  • The Butchers' Hooks
  • The Casuals
  • The Cavaliers
  • The Cheese Rollers
  • The Choir Practice
  • The Corinthians
  • The Cricket Club Winter XI
  • The Cup Runneth Over
  • The Day Release
  • The Diamond Cutters
  • The Dinner Ladies
  • The Fine Nine
  • The Friday Knights
  • The Front Pin Fan Club
  • The Hamlet Players
  • The In-Laws
  • The Invincibles
  • The Invitation Nine
  • The Irregulars
  • The Landlord's Lot

T, continued

  • The Last Leg
  • The Late Shift
  • The Levellers
  • The Lock-In Lot
  • The Milk Round
  • The Nervous Nineties
  • The Nine o'Clock Shadows
  • The Ninth Pin Inn
  • The Ninth Wonder
  • The Nomads
  • The Old Guard
  • The Old Skittle House
  • The Outlaws
  • The Ramblers
  • The Rascals
  • The Regulars
  • The Roundheads
  • The Saturday Specials
  • The Scoreboard Poets
  • The Scrumpy Rollers
  • The Smiths and Others
  • The Snug Bar Seven
  • The Spare Hunters
  • The Stalwarts
  • The Sticker's Friends
  • The Sticker-Uppers
  • The Stragglers
  • The Strollers
  • The Strugglers
  • The Stubborn Back Pin
  • The Sunday Best
  • The Tea Break

T, continued

  • The Thursday Club
  • The Tourists
  • The Tuesday Tigers
  • The Usual Suspects
  • The Usual, Please
  • The Veterans
  • The Wassailers
  • The Wednesday
  • The Whole Nine
  • The Windfalls
  • The Wobblers
  • The Works Do
  • The Yeomen
  • The Young Guns
  • Thoroughly Mixed
  • Three Balls and a Prayer
  • Three Balls Each
  • Three Generations
  • Three Legged Stool B
  • Through the Middle, Touched Nothing
  • Timber Fellers
  • Time at the Bar
  • Tin Pan Alley
  • Tip the Sticker-Up
  • Tipsy Heron Thirds
  • Top of the Alley
  • Top of the Averages
  • Top of the Nines
  • Top of the Village
  • Tor de Force
  • Tractor Shed Team
  • Trophy Cabinet Dusters

U: 7 names

  • Uncle Bob's Mob
  • Under the Dartboard
  • Unlucky for Some
  • Up From the Valleys
  • Upper Wobbleton
  • Upset the Apple Cart
  • Us and Them

V: 2 names

  • Village Green Preservers
  • Village Hall Committee

W: 13 names

  • Wassail Away
  • We've Been Worse
  • Who's Keeping Score
  • Whose Round Is It
  • Wide of the Mark
  • Winners Stay On
  • Withy Bed Wanderers
  • Wives and Worse Halves
  • Wobbly Skittle Arms
  • Wooden Spoon Collectors
  • Wooden Tops
  • Works Outing
  • Wrong End of the Alley

Y: 1 name

  • Young Farmers, Mostly