Why are there so many football teams in London, and there are many London derbies every year, but there is no team called London Team?

London is so big that it is divided into many regions. Each team is actually a regional representative team. Who dares to call it the London team, haha.

In fact, each team’s name has a very interesting origin, and most of them are named according to the region where the team is located.

Take the Gunners (ARSENAL) as an example. In the second half of 1886, a group of workers from the arsenal in Woolwich, London, decided to form their own football team and compete in games everywhere. This is Arsenal. The predecessor of the club, the English name of Arsenal is arsenal

and Chelsea (CHELSEA). An unknown small village in the northern suburbs of London produces a kind of round toast bread called chelsea. This kind of bread sells well and many people come here because of its reputation. But since the name of this village is probably hard to remember, the British just call it Chelsea. On March 14, 1905, a team was established in Chelsea Village - F.C. CHELSEA

FULHAM

The club is located in the Fulham district of west London. The club named itself after the district, which was originally a village, meaning "FULLEN, FOWL (poultry) HAM (house)", that is, "a house (village) with a large number of poultry". In the Middle Ages, Fulham was Londoners consider it the best place to live because you can eat poultry there, and in medieval England, eating meat was considered a blessing

WESTHAM

The club is located in the Newham district (NEWHAM) in east London. Newham was formed by the merger of West Ham and East Ham in 1965. The club is named after the area of ??West Ham. The area name comes from Old English "LOW LYING PASTURE"

CHARLTON

The club is located in the Charlton district of southwest London. He named himself after the district name, which comes from the Old English "SETTLEMENT FOR FREE MAN" (SETTLEMENT FOR FREE MAN) or "SETTLEMENT FOR THE PEASANTS" (SETTLEMENT FOR THE PEASANTS)

Totna TOTTENHAM

The club is located in the Tottenham district of north London. The club is named after the district. The name of the district comes from Old English, meaning "village of the Tottenham people" ( TOTTA'S VILLAGE), as for the name of Tottenham (HOTSPUR), it is because when the club was founded in 1882, one of the founders was the Tottenham Cricket Club, so Tottenham became the name of the club at the beginning, and later in In 1884, the club's name was changed to Tottenham Hotspur