[Football] Who Are The Biggest One-Team City In The World?

[Greg Bobkin]

It's amazing what you can find on the internet these days...

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

need some parameters in this thread. How far down are we going exactly, as surely if you go down far enough then no city is a one club city

I agree, it’s a badly set question and then there’s the mistakes in the thread title.

I actually took on the challenge and was looking at really small cities to see if any had just one team. Vatican has at least two. St Asaph only seems to have one formal club from initial look.

 

[Brovion]

There are at least three that even I know of in Newcastle: united, Blue Star and benfield.
So not a one club city.

Blimey, if you're going to count that far down then I don't think there is a single city in the world that qualifies. Even Brighton has Whitehawk (at least).

 

[Brovion]

Bradford city

You take that back! Bradford (Park Avenue) are the TRUE Bradford team, the Manningham lot are a bunch of upstarts.

As a more-reasoned aside it is strange that Bradford once boasted two league clubs whereas the bigger neighbouring city of Leeds only ever had one (at a time).

 

[Questions]

You take that back! Bradford (Park Avenue) are the TRUE Bradford team, the Manningham lot are a bunch of upstarts.

As a more-reasoned aside it is strange that Bradford once boasted two league clubs whereas the bigger neighbouring city of Leeds only ever had one (at a time).

I saw us beat Park Avenue 4-0 once. I think.

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

Seville ?

 

[essbee1]

Liverpool. (tongue in cheek.)

 

[Birdie Boy]

The title says 1 team City, not 1 City that has multiple teams in multiple divisions. Surely it's the top 4 divisions in the uk and probably to 2 divisions elsewhere...

Newcastle/ Brighton/ Leeds/ Naples/ I'm not sure elsewhere.
So Napoli for me, didn't they win the league a season or 2 ago as well?

 

[Slum_Wolf]

Seville ?

I imagine a Real Betis fan would have a thing or two to say about that...

 

[The Colonel]

Hard to see past Naples here. It has a population of almost 1 million.

 

[American Seagle]

Blimey, if you're going to count that far down then I don't think there is a single city in the world that qualifies. Even Brighton has Whitehawk (at least).

I mean you have to? Otherwise what line are you drawing to decide that a soccer club is not worthy of being defined as a soccer club? Is it not disrespectful to do that? The line would be arbitrary and could easily just be anything outside the EPL as well.

 

[The Colonel]

I mean you have to? Otherwise what line are you drawing to decide that a soccer club is not worthy of being defined as a soccer club? Is it not disrespectful to do that? The line would be arbitrary and could easily just be anything outside the EPL as well.

Professional club should be the qualifying factor surely?

 

[American Seagle]

The title says 1 team City, not 1 City that has multiple teams in multiple divisions. Surely it's the top 4 divisions in the uk and probably to 2 divisions elsewhere...

Newcastle/ Brighton/ Leeds/ Naples/ I'm not sure elsewhere.
So Napoli for me, didn't they win the league a season or 2 ago as well?

Leeds has more clubs than Newcastle though: Farsley, Guisely etc.

 

[American Seagle]

Professional club should be the qualifying factor surely?

Only if mentioned in the description, which this thread does not mention. Otherwise not.
If changed to "Biggest city with only one professional club" I agree with you. Although Naples falls out then as it has a women's team as well. So I guess you really mean "Biggest city with only one professional male club"?

 

[Birdie Boy]

Leeds has more clubs than Newcastle though: Farsley, Guisely etc.

But are they in the top 4 divisions?

 

[SeagullinExile]

Most successful, probably Ajax?

Appreciate there are other teams in Amsterdam, but I don't think Ajax have played any of them for some years ?

But who would be considered the biggest,PSG,Napoli and of course Leeds United

Unfortunately Sheffield Wednesday cannot be considered

PSG? Not so sure about that! They were only formed in 1970. There’s 4 other Parisian clubs that were founder members of League 1.

 

[American Seagle]

But are they in the top 4 divisions?

The thread title doesn't mention that so why is it relevant?

 

[Birdie Boy]

The thread title doesn't mention that so why is

The thread title doesn't mention that so why is it relevant?

But you were quoting my post which does say only to 4 divisions. Every single city in the world will have a football team even if it is a pub team.

 

[American Seagle]

But you were quoting my post which does say only to 4 divisions. Every single city in the world will have a football team even if it is a pub team.

Exactly. I don't think we are right to be the arbiters of what club is a club and what one isn't. It is extremely disrespectful. Just like the media obsession over the big 6.
Is Liverpool a one club city? Probably by their metrics. We should try and be better than them.

 

[FCB]

This does not answer the question but Málaga, with a city population of over half a million, are knocking about in the regionalised 3rd tier of Spanish football. Impressively, they're still getting crowds of over 20,000 in a league where some teams don't get 1000 through the gate.

Similar with Deportivo La Coruna.