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I just need a link to the lyrics. མཀུཏ ( talk) 19:54, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
In English football, is there any substantial difference in clubs named "AFC" and those named "FC", other than nomenclature? (The article " Association football club names" does not address this.) → Michael J Ⓣ Ⓒ Ⓜ 23:52, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
Wymspen had already answered the question, and Viennese Waltz is clearly just being unnecessarily pedantic, when the question is a bit stupid in the first place. Why would the article Association football club names address it when it's an article specifically about Association Football, and not any other sport? If there was a need for the difference between AFC and FC to be explained anywhere, then Football would be the article to do it. There is no difference between Association Football clubs who use AFC, FC, CF, SV or anything else, as they all play Association Football. As Wymspen said most clubs who use the "A" for "Association" do so to separate themselves from Rugby clubs who have already used the name "FC" or Association Football clubs which existed previously or still exist. Some Rugby clubs use RFC, while others use FC, RUFC, RLFC etc. And the same goes for Association Football clubs. The "A" in "AFC" in regard to Football club names can also stand for Amateur, Athletic, American, Australian etc (which I've just added to the AFC disambiguation page), and no doubt many more I've forgotten about. A.F.C. Bournemouth use the "A" for "Athletic" because there's already a Bournemouth F.C. as well as a Bournemouth A.F.C.. AFC Wimbledon use the "A" because they replaced Wimbledon F.C.. They have never confirmed what the "A" in their name stands for. A theory which I've heard a few times over the years is that most Association Football clubs in the early years of Football used the full "Association Football Club" name, but decided to abbreviate it to "Football Club" so it was less of a mouthful. Whereas others decided to keep the full "Association Football Club" name as they thought it made their club sound more official. Danstarr69 ( talk) 17:08, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
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I just need a link to the lyrics. མཀུཏ ( talk) 19:54, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
In English football, is there any substantial difference in clubs named "AFC" and those named "FC", other than nomenclature? (The article " Association football club names" does not address this.) → Michael J Ⓣ Ⓒ Ⓜ 23:52, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
Wymspen had already answered the question, and Viennese Waltz is clearly just being unnecessarily pedantic, when the question is a bit stupid in the first place. Why would the article Association football club names address it when it's an article specifically about Association Football, and not any other sport? If there was a need for the difference between AFC and FC to be explained anywhere, then Football would be the article to do it. There is no difference between Association Football clubs who use AFC, FC, CF, SV or anything else, as they all play Association Football. As Wymspen said most clubs who use the "A" for "Association" do so to separate themselves from Rugby clubs who have already used the name "FC" or Association Football clubs which existed previously or still exist. Some Rugby clubs use RFC, while others use FC, RUFC, RLFC etc. And the same goes for Association Football clubs. The "A" in "AFC" in regard to Football club names can also stand for Amateur, Athletic, American, Australian etc (which I've just added to the AFC disambiguation page), and no doubt many more I've forgotten about. A.F.C. Bournemouth use the "A" for "Athletic" because there's already a Bournemouth F.C. as well as a Bournemouth A.F.C.. AFC Wimbledon use the "A" because they replaced Wimbledon F.C.. They have never confirmed what the "A" in their name stands for. A theory which I've heard a few times over the years is that most Association Football clubs in the early years of Football used the full "Association Football Club" name, but decided to abbreviate it to "Football Club" so it was less of a mouthful. Whereas others decided to keep the full "Association Football Club" name as they thought it made their club sound more official. Danstarr69 ( talk) 17:08, 2 October 2018 (UTC)