Olympique Marseille (France) 2008 Away kit

Nonetheless, the team is the best-supported club in France and regularly fill their imposing home of the Stade Vélodrome, which seats 60,013. Marseille's vast support continues to show unwavering and impressive loyalty to the club, despite having several average seasons since their return to the top flight. The fans continue to hope that Marseille will regain its former glory. Marseille also has the largest number of supporters associations outside its region in France.
The club's motto is Droit Au But , French for "Straight to the Goal". Nicknamed l'OM - sometimes pronounced phoenetically as l'Ohème, - fans of the club can often be heard chanting "Allez l'OM, allez!" ("Go Marseille, go!").

Olympique Marseille (France) 2008 Home kit

Olympique de (also known as l'OM or Marseille) is a football team that plays in Ligue 1, the top level of the French Football League, based in Marseille. Founded in 1899, Marseille is the largest and most successful club in France. They are so far the only French team to have won the UEFA Champions League (in 1993), which rounded off their dominant run of four consecutive Ligue 1 titles. However, having suffered from scandalous financial irregularities in 1994 and the resulting relegation, the club has not won a major trophy in over a decade.

Besiktas (Turkey) 2008 Home kit

Beşiktaş J.K. was established in 1903 in the Ottoman Empire, which makes it the first Turkish sports club. The first branches of the club were wrestling, boxing, weight-lifting and a variety of gymnastics branches.
The monarchical rules of the Ottomans were relaxed with the declaration of Meşrutiyet (constitutional monarchy) on July 23, 1908; a law allowing the foundation of sport clubs passed on August 3, 1909.
Finally, the club was officially registered on January 20, 1910 under the name of "Beşiktaş Ottoman Gymnastics Club", and Şükrü Pasha took over the presidency of Beşiktaş. In this way, Beşiktaş became the first officially registered Turkish sports club, as well.

Besiktas (Turkey) 2008 Away kit

Beşiktaş J.K. (Full Turkish name: Beşiktaş Jimnastik Kulübü, Beşiktaş Gymnastics Club) is a Turkish sports club from İstanbul, which professionally participates in many branches including football, basketball, volleyball, handball and chess. They play their football matches at İnönü Stadium, located by the Bosporus, near the Dolmabahçe Palace

Fenerbahçe (Turkey) 2008 Home kit

Ziya Songülen and Necip Okaner officially founded Fenerbahce Spor Kulubu a century ago in 1907 on Beşbıyık Street in Moda. The club had to be kept under wraps because of the strict Ottoman rule under Sultan Abdul Hamid, where Turkish youth were not allowed to set up clubs or play football.[14] Songülen was elected the first president of the club, Ayetullah became the first General Secretary, and Okaner was given the post of the General Captain. The lighthouse situated on the Fenerbahçe cape was a big influence on the design of the club's first emblem, which sported the yellow and white colors of daffodils around the lighthouse. The kits were also designed with yellow and white stripes. The emblem and colors of the club were changed in 1910 when Topuz Hikmet redesigned the badge and changed the colors to yellow and navy, still seen today. Fenerbahçe's activities were kept in secrecy until a legislation reform in 1908, when, under a new law, all football clubs had to register to exist legally

Fenerbahçe (Turkey) 2008 3rd kit

Fenerbahçe Spor Kulübü (Fenerbahçe Sport Club), commonly known as Fenerbahçe , is a professional sports club located in Istanbul, Turkey. The team is based in the district of Istanbul named Fenerbahçe. The name of the district and the sports club derives from the lighthouse located in the district ('Fener' in Turkish means lighthouse, 'bahçe' means garden). The most popular branch of the club by far is the football team

Trabzonspor (Turkey) 2008 Away kit

At this time the Turkish Football Federation (TFF) had been encouraging local teams in the same city to merge into one, in order to ensure competitiveness in Turkish football. Trabzon had an extremely competitive league dating back to the 1920s, and there was little love between intense rivals who had been vying for the title for so long. The most intense rivalry was between the two most successful sides, Idmangücü and Idmanocaĝi. Ultimately it was these two teams which were responsible for the many delays before Trabzonspor was formed. When the TFF saw that they had no intention of joining together with the others, they were threatened with punishment. The last big hurdle was choosing the colours of the new club. After many disagreements, the colours of bordeaux and blue were chosen and Trabzonspor were formed

Trabzonspor (Turkey) 2008 Home kit

Trabzonspor is a Turkish football club, from the Black Sea port city of Trabzon playing in the Turkish Premier Super League.
Trabzonspor was formed in 1967 in a merger of two local clubs. Many of the players from these teams became part of the team to win promotion to the top division, and helped Trabzonspor in their early years in the top flight. Along with three other Istanbul clubs known as the 'big three' (Galatasaray SK, Fenerbahçe SK, Beşiktaş J.K.), they are the only club outside of Istanbul to have won the Turkish title, earning a name as one of the "Big Four". Trabzonspor's nicknames are the "Bordeaux Blues" and the "Black Sea storm". Recently the team has created controversy on its behaviour towards its players after Mirosław Szymkowiak retired from football

Valencia C.F.(Spain) 2008 Home kit

Valencia Club de Fútbol (also known as Valencia CF or Valencia) are a Spanish professional football club based in Valencia. They play in La Liga and are one of the most successful clubs in Spanish football. Valencia have won six La Liga titles, six Copa del Rey trophies, three UEFA Cups, one UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and two UEFA Super Cups. They have also been UEFA Champions League final runners-up on two different occasions in 2000 and 2001, losing to La Liga rivals Real Madrid in 2000 and German club Bayern Munich in 2001. Valencia are also members of the G-14 group of leading European football clubs.
Valencia were founded in 1919, and have played their home games at the 53,311-seater Estadio Mestalla since 1923. They are soon to move into the 75,000-seater Nou Mestalla in the north-west portion of the city in 2009. Valencia have a long-standing rivalry with Levante, also located in Valencia, and with another club in the Valencian Community region, Villarreal.

Hamburger SV (Germany) 2008 Away kit

Hamburger SV can trace its roots as far back as the September 29, 1887 merger of Der Hohenfelder Sportclub and Wandsbek-Marienthaler Sportclub to form Sports Club Germania. The current club was formed as Hamburg Sport-Verein in 1919 through the union of three city teams severely weakened by World War I: Sports Club Germania; Hamburg FC (1888); and FC Falke (1906). The club colors were the Hanseatic red and white in honor of the City of Hamburg, with the blue and black of the oldest of the founding clubs, Germania, being used on the team crest. It is through Germania that HSV can lay a claim to being the oldest team in the country. However, other clubs may dispute that honor, as Germania was formed originally as an athletics club and did not begin to play football until 1891 when a half dozen Englishmen joined the club, bringing with them their enthusiasm for the game.

Portugal Nat.Team 2008 Home kit

The Portugal football team is controlled by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF), finishing 4th at the last World Cup. Portugal have qualified four times for the FIFA World Cup; 1966, 1986, 2002 and 2006. The first appearance saw them reach the semi final, losing 2-1 at Wembley to the eventual world champions England. Portugal finished in third place and Eusébio was considered the best player of the tournament. The next two times Portugal qualified for the World Cup were 1986 and 2002, with Portugal going out in the first round both times after surprise defeats to Morocco, United States and South Korea. In the 1986 tournament, players went on strike over prize-money and refused to train between their first and the second games.

Real Madrid (Spain) 2008 3rd kit

The first crest of Real Madrid had a very simple design. It consisted of a decorative interlacing of the three initials of the club, "MCF" for Madrid Club de Futbol, in dark blue on a white shirt. The first change in the crest occurred in 1908, when the letters adopted a more streamlined form and appeared inside a circle.The next change in the configuration of the crest did not occur until 1920, when King Alfonso XIII granted the club his royal patronage, which came in the form of the title "Real," roughly "Royal." Thus, Alfonso's crown was added to the crest and the club styled itself Real Madrid Club de Futbol.

Chesterfield F.C.(England) 2008 Away kit

Chesterfield Football Club is an English football club based in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. The club currently plays in Football League Two, the fourth tier of English football. Despite being the 4th oldest Football League club in England, they have spent most of their existence in the lower divisions of the English league. The club enjoy a fierce local rivalry with near neighbours Mansfield Town, as well as other rivalries with Notts County, Nottingham Forest, Rotherham United, Sheffield Wednesday, Sheffield United and Doncaster Rovers.

Villarreal Club de Fútbol (Spain) 2008 Away kit

After finishing 7th a year later, Villarreal stayed near the bottom of the table for two seasons before defeating Dutch team SC Heerenveen in the final to win their first European title, the UEFA Intertoto Cup in the summer of 2003, thereby qualifying for the UEFA Cup tournament. In the 2003/04 season, Villarreal reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup, losing to neighbours and eventual champions Valencia CF. That summer, however, they won the Intertoto Cup again, qualifying for that coming season's UEFA Cup tournament, in which they would reach the quarter-finals. They bowed out in the quarter-finals to Dutch side AZ Alkmaar, losing 3-2 aggregate. During the same 2004/05 season Villarreal finished in 3rd place in La Liga, earning the club their first direct qualification to a European tournament; the UEFA Champions League.

Villarreal Club de Fútbol (Spain) 2008 Home kit

Villarreal Club de Fútbol SAD, usually abbreviated to Villarreal, is a Spanish Primera División football club based in Vila-real, a small town in the province of Castellon. The team plays at the 23,000 seater El Madrigal stadium.The club was founded in 1923 and played in regional leagues until the Spanish Civil War, during which time Spain football went on a hiatus. After the war, the club played in various regional leagues as well as the Third Division until the 1970/71 season, when Villarreal first played in the Segunda División for two consecutive seasons, at the end of which the club was relegated to the Third Division once again. After playing in the Segunda División B for a few seasons in the late 80s, Villarreal managed to solidify themselves as a Segunda División club starting with the 1992/93 season.

Boca Juniors (Argentina) 2008 Home kit

Club Atlético Boca Juniors is a popular Argentine sports club, best known for its football team. Its home base is the neighbourhood of La Boca, in Buenos Aires, and it hosts its home games at the Estadio Alberto J. Armando (La Bombonera) at 805 Brandsen Street.
Boca have won a record 17 international titles, an honor they share only with AC Milan, including six Copa Libertadores and three World Club crowns (Copa Intercontinental) and one Copa Oro and Supercopa Masters. The club has also won 22 Argentine professional championships

Barcelona (Spain) 2008 Home kit

The club's main stadium is the Camp Nou and the fans of FC Barcelona are known as culers or culés. In June 2007, the number of socis (club members/owners) reached 156,366, while in June 2006 the number of penyes (officially-registered supporter clubs) reached 1782 worldwide.
The club also operates a reserve team, FC Barcelona B, a youth team FC Barcelona C and four other professional sports teams, AXA FC Barcelona, FC Barcelona, FC Barcelona Futsal and FC Barcelona Sorli Discau that compete at basketball, handball, futsal and rink hockey respectively.

BV Borussia Dortmund (Germany) 2008 Home kit

BV Borussia Dortmund is a German football club based in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia and one of the most successful clubs in German football.The club was founded on December 19, 1909 by a group of young men unhappy with church-sponsored Trinity Youth, where they played football under the stern and unsympathetic eye of the local parish priest. Father Dewald was blocked at the door when he tried to break up the organizing meeting being held in a room of the local pub, Zum Wildschütz. The name Borussia is Latin for Prussia and was taken from the nearby Borussia brewery. The team began play in blue and white striped shirts with a red sash, and black shorts. In 1913, they donned the black and yellow strip so familiar today.

Real Madrid (Spain) 2008 Home kit

Real Madrid plays its home games at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid. Real Madrid is unique in that, unlike most football clubs, it has been owned and operated only by its members (socios) since 1902. On December 23, 2000, FIFA awarded Real Madrid the title of the "Best Club of the 20th Century". Real Madrid is the most successful club in European competition history with 11 European trophies, nine European Cups and two UEFA Cups; more than any other European club.

Panathinaikos A.O. (Greece) 2008 Away kit

Panathinaikos Athlitikos Omilos (Greek: Παναθηναϊκός Αθλητικός Όμιλος, widely known both as Panathinaikos or PAO, is a Greek multisport club based in Athens, Greece. Panathinaikos has been largely successful throughout its history, as its teams and individual athletes have won a total of 493 officially acknowledged titles (as of June 2007) in both national and international competitions. Furthermore, it is also one of the largest sport clubs in Greece and also on an international scale, as measured by the number of different sports departments it maintains . In English the club's name would be Pan-Athenian Athletic Club. According to the official history of the club, Panathinaikos was founded by George Kalafatis in 1908, when he and forty other athletes decided to break away from Panellinios Gymnastikos Syllogos following the club's refusal to form a football team.

Real Madrid (Spain) Away KIt

Real Madrid Club de Fútbol (also known as Real Madrid, Los Blancos or Los Merengues) is a Spanish professional football club based in Madrid, Spain. Founded in 1902, it plays in La Liga and is one of the most successful clubs of the 20th century. Real Madrid have won thirty La Liga titles, seventeen Copa del Rey and have been European Champions for a record nine times. Real Madrid is also member of the G-14 group of leading European football clubs

Lazio (Italy) 2008 Home kit

Società Sportiva Lazio, commonly referred to as simply Lazio or the abbreviation SS Lazio, is an Italian professional sports club most noted for its football section, based in Rome, Lazio and founded in 1900. Lazio participate in thirty-seven sporting practices in total, more than any other sports association in Europe.Lazio, who play in sky blue shirts with white shorts have won Serie A twice, first in 1973–74 and then again in 1999–00. As well as winning four Coppa Italia tropies, Lazio have earned silverwear on the European stage; winning the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and UEFA Super Cup both in 1999. The club has spent most of their history in the top tier in Italian football, where they currently play for the 2007–08 season.Home games are played at the Stadio Olimpico, a stadium they share with rivals AS Roma. With a capacity of over 82,000 it is the second largest of its kind in Italy, only the San Siro is bigger.

Sporting Lisbon (Portugal) 2008 Home kit

Sporting Clube de Portugal (sometimes referred to as Sporting Lisbon) is a sports club based in Lisbon, Portugal. The club is particularly renowned for its football branch, which is Portugal's most followed sport. With about 100,000 registered club members[1], Sporting is among the most successful and popular sports clubs in Portugal, its teams, athletes and supporters being oftenly nicknamed "os Leões" - "the Lions".

Morocco Nat.Team 2008 Home kit

The Morocco national football team, nicknamed Lions de l'Atlas (Atlas Lions), is the national team of Morocco and is controlled by the Fédération Royale Marocaine de Football. They were the first African team to qualify directly to the World Cup finals, as they did in 1970. They were the first African team to win a group at the World Cup, which they did in 1986, finishing ahead of Portugal, Poland, and England. They were also the first African team to make it to second round barely losing to eventual runner-ups West Germany 1-0 in 1986. They also came within two minutes of moving out of the group stage of the the 1998 World Cup, Kjetil Rekdal's late winning goal for Norway against Brazil eliminating them.
Morocco won the African Nations Cup once, in 1976.

Blackburn Rovers (England) 2008 Home kit

Blackburn Rovers Football Club are an English Premier League football club based in the town of Blackburn, Lancashire. The club was established in 1875, and in 1888 became a founding member of The Football League. In 1890 Rovers moved to its permanent home at Ewood Park. Until the formation of the Premier League in 1992, the majority of the club's success was pre-1930 when they won the league and FA Cup on several occasions.