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Fantasy Premier League tips: Best FPL team names – 149 funniest fantasy football squads
FANTASY PREMIER LEAGUE managers are assembling their squads ahead of the 2019/20 season, but picking a team name is often just as challenging as selecting 15 players.
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Millions of fantasy football fanatics have been signing up for the new campaign across a host of different games and platforms as they prepare for another season of top-flight thrills and spills.
Official Fantasy Premier League launched their latest edition at the end of June, with managers given £100million to spend in the transfer market constructing their squads.
Express Sport have provided a helping hand for those struggling to fill their rosters with some handy templates, but picking players is not even the hardest bit about FPL pre-season.
Getting the right team name will help you stand out from the crowd and set you apart from your mini-league rivals, so here is a comprehensive list of the funniest football-based puns to adopt for your outfit – let us know about any we've missed in the comments!
Arsenal
Boom Xhakalaka
Chamakh My Pitch Up
Mertesacker Emptiness*
Obi-Wan Iwobi
Ospina Colada
Santi’s Little Helper*
The Wizard of Ozil
You Petr Cech Yourself*
Xhaka Khan
Aston Villa
Bacuna Matata
HuttonDressedAsLahm
No Weimann No Cry
Burnley
Dyches and Dragons
Mee, my Delph and Ibe*
Bournemouth
Big Cook, Lewis Cook
Ibe Gotta Feeling
Chelsea
Absolutely Fabregas
Batshuayi Crazy
Cesc and the City
Costa del Silva
Curious Jorginho
Dukes of Hazard
Giroud Awakening
Giroud Let The Dogs Out?*
Giroud Sandstorm
Guns ’N Moses
Hazard Lights
Le Saux Solid Crew
Not a Kalou
The Cesc Pistols
Willian Dollar Baby
Crystal Palace
2 Girls 1 Schlupp
Benteke Fried Chicken*
Crystal Phallus
Puncheon in the Face
The Kouyate Kid
Wha’ Schlupp?
Everton
Baines on Toast
Come Digne with Me
Escape from Alcaraz
Gylfi as Charged
Gylfi Pleasures
Kings of Leon Osman
Pain in the Niasse
Leicester City
Ctrl Alt De Laet
For Fuchs Sake
Fiddler on the Huth
Sonic Huth
Liverpool
Anfield of Dreams
Chicken Tikka Mo Salah*
Enter Shaqiri
Fun Lovren Criminals
Karius to Glory
Klopps and Robbers
Lallana Del Rey
Lallanas in Pyjamas
Moves like Agger
Show me da Mane
TAA Very Much
The 40 Year Old Virgil
The Ninja Skrtels
Top of the Klopps
Manchester City
Chicken and Bacon Sané
Delph & Safety
Dzeko and the Bunnymen*
Game of Stones
Lads on Toure
Lady Yaya
Pique and De Bruyne
Manchester United
3 Men and a Bebé
50 Shades O’Shea
All The Smallings
Don’t You Want Me Bebe?*
Dirty Sanchez
Hit Me Bebe One More Time*
How I Met Your Mata
Martial Law
Martial Mata’s LP
Mean Gaals
Michu at De Gea Ba
Obi Wan Bissaka
One Flew Over Lukaku’s Nest*
Neville Wears Prada
Who Ate All Depays?
Newcastle United
Abra Dubravka
Beat Around Debuchy
Cry Me a Rivière
Dolly Barton
Riders of Yohan
Norwich City
Krul and the Gang
Krul Intentions
Krul to be Kind
Pukki Blinders
Southampton
Flying Without Ings
Lord of the Ings
Tottenham Hotspur
Men Behaving Chadli
Top Dier
When Harry Met Alli
Watford
Aint no Holebas Girl
Deeney in a Bottle
European Influence
Bayer Neverlusen
Bayern Bru
Bilbao Baggins
Blink-1 Eto’o
Chiellini Con Carne
De Ligt House Family
Egg Fried Reus
Expected Toulouse
Farcelona
Fiorentina Turner
Gotta Griez’Em All
Inter Row-Z
Kroos Control
Murder On Zidane’s Floor*
Neuer Gonna Give You Up*
Olympique Mayonnaise
Pepe Pig
Pique Blinders
Pjanic at the Disco
Salt & Pepe
Silence of the Lahms
Tea & Busquets
Tinchy Sneijder
The Balotelli-tubbies*
The Big Lewandowski
The Men Who Stare at Gotze*
The Passion of the Cruyff*
Turkish De Ligt
Whats Love Gotze do?
Former Premier League regulars
Ayew Ready?
Ayew Ready For This?
Ayew Serious?
Bony & Clyne
Crouch Potato
Gangsta’s Allardyce
Mr Bojan-Goals
My Little Bony
My Little Kone
Pleased to Michu
Run the Kewells
Smack My Bilic Up
The Zarate Kid
FPL classics
2 Goals 1 Cup
ABCDE FC
Game of Throw-Ins
Goal of Duty
Multiple Scorgasms
Obi Wan – Kenobi Nil
Victorious Secret
*Asterisk denotes name too long for Fantasy Premier League character limit but may be suitable for other fantasy football games