List of association football mascots

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The following is a list of mascots of Association football teams, sorted by the country in whose league they appear.

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Competitions

Australia

Brazil

Each Brazilian football team has a number of symbols attached to it and is used prominently by the fandom. Among these symbols are the badge, the flag, the anthem and the mascot. While the first three are commonplace all over the world, the last one is peculiarly Brazilian both in its character and its use.

A club's mascot is a cartoon character, often that of an animal, that symbolises some virtue boasted by the team. Most of them have proper names. Usually mascots come in two versions, a "soft" one, which is the official and a "hardcore" one used by ultras and torcidas, which often contain traces of vulgarity or violence. [6]

A mascot is also created for the World Cups, and are used for promoting environmental awareness. [7]

Animals
Brazil national football team Canarinho (known also as "Canarinho Pistola" (Portuguese:"Angry canary"))A Canary
ABC ElefanteAn elephant
América Futebol Clube (MG) CoelhoA cute white "bunny" rabbit
Associação Atlética Ponte Preta Macaca ("she-monkey")A female ape
Associação Desportiva São Caetano Azulão ("big blue")A blue bird
Atlético Rio Negro Clube (AM)Galo Carijó ("Spotty Rooster")A black-and-white feathered rooster.
Avaí Futebol Clube LeãoA lion
Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas Biriba/CachorroA mongrel dog, very popular in the 1940s and 50s, is being adopted again by the fans since the late 1990s.
Brasiliense Futebol Clube JacaréAn alligator
Centro Sportivo Alagoano Azulão ("big blue")A blue bird
Club Athletico Paranaense Fura-CãoA dog in a luchador get-up; name alludes to "furacão" (hurricane), the team's nickname [8]
Clube Atlético Mineiro GaloA black-and-white feathered rooster
CRB Galo-da-campinaA small white-red bird (the name translates literally into "country rooster")
Clube de Regatas do Flamengo UrubuA black vulture
Clube do Remo LeãoA lion
Clube Esportivo Bento Gonçalves ZebraA zebra
Clube Náutico Capibaribe TimbuA brown opossum
Criciúma Esporte Clube TigrãoA tiger
Cruzeiro Esporte Clube RaposaA brown fox
Esporte Clube Juventude PapagaioA parrot
Esporte Clube Vitória LeãoA lion
Ferroviário Atlético Clube (CE)TubarãoA white shark
Fluminense de Feira Futebol Clube Touro do Sertão ("the bull from the outback")A ferocious bull
Fortaleza Esporte Clube LeãoA lion
Goiás Esporte Clube PeriquitoA green parakeet
Joinville Esporte Clube CoelhoA rabbit
Maranhão Atlético Clube BodeA goat
Mogi Mirim Esporte Clube Sapão ("he-toad")A big green toad
Operário Futebol Clube (MS) (MS)GaloA rooster
Paraná Clube Gralha azulAn azure jay, a dark-blue bird with a long beek
Piauí Esporte Clube RatinhoA mouse
Santa Cruz Futebol Clube Cobra-coralA coral snake
Santos Futebol Clube Baleião e BaleinhaTwo Orcas wearing the club's home and away uniforms
Sociedade Esportiva do Gama PeriquitoA green parakeet
Sociedade Esportiva Itapirense CoelhoA rabbit
Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras Periquito, Porco ("swine")A green parakeet, the original and official mascot, and a hog, adopted by the supporters.
Sport Club do Recife Leão da Ilha ("Island Lion")A lion
Treze Futebol Clube Galo da BorboremaA rooster
Vila Nova Futebol Clube TigreA tiger
Ypiranga Futebol Clube CanarinhoA yellow domestic canary [9]
Human (or somewhat human) figures
América Football Club DiaboThe devil, himself, pictured red, with pointy black beard, horns, arrow-pointed tail and sporting a trident.
ASA Fantasma ("phantom")A fiendish ghost
Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas ManequinhoA boy pissing, a replica of Manneken Pis. Adopted in the 1980s, since the late 1990s is being replaced by the mongrel dog (used in the 1950s) among fans.
Botafogo Futebol Clube (PB)XerifeA sheriff
Ceará Sporting Club Vovô ("grandpa")An old man with a shotgun
Clube Atlético Paranaense Furacão ("hurricane")A lamp genie who is also a human-hurricane hybrid
Clube de Regatas Vasco da Gama Almirante ("Admiral")A Portuguese sea captain
Clube Sportivo Sergipe Capeta ("demon")The devil (with horns, pointy tail, trident and all)
Coritiba Football Club Vovô ("grandpa")An old man (usually sporting a cane or listening to a portable radio)
Esporte Clube Bahia Super-HomemA man in a blue super-hero costume, inspired on DC Comics' Superman.
Fluminense Football Club Guerreirinho (The Little Warrior)A knight. Named after the nickname "Time de Guerreiros" (Warriors' Team) that came around in 2009. Since 2016, it's the official mascot. [10]
Grêmio Esportivo Brasil Xavante An Indian
Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense MosqueteiroA musketeer (a man in a 16th-century army uniform)
Guarani Futebol Clube BugreAn Indian
Clube Atlético Juventus (SP)Moleque Travesso ("trickster boy")A fair-haired boy with a freckled face (homage to the Italian immigrants who founded the club).
São Paulo Futebol Clube Saint Paul A white-bearded man with a halo over its head wearing the club's jersey, representing the saint that names both the team and its city.
Sociedade Esportiva e Recreativa Caxias do Sul BepeA drunk man in Italian costume.
Sport Club Corinthians Paulista MosqueteiroA musketeer (a man in a 16th-century army uniform)
Sport Club Internacional Saci A black one-legged boy wearing a phrygian cap and smoking from a pipe
Monsters and other
América Futebol Clube de Natal DragãoA dragon
Atlético Clube Goianiense DragãoA red dragon
Moto Clube (MA) Bicho-papão A red furry monster.
Paysandu Sport Club Bicho-papão A furry monster. Sometimes pictured as the "big bad wolf".
Souza Esporte Clube DinossauroA dinosaur
Torcidas Organizadas mascots
Força Jovem Vasco Eddie Eddie the Head
Galoucura Clube Atlético Mineiro PulgãoA dog flea.
Jovem Fla TanqueA three-cannon war tank.
Mancha Alviverde Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras Mancha Verde Phantom Blot
Gaviões da Fiel Sport Club Corinthians Paulista GaviãoHawk
Torcida Tricolor Independente São Paulo Futebol Clube Jason Jason Voorhees -

Canada

Rover, a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever, is the mascot of HFX Wanderers FC. Rover, the HFX Wanderers FC mascot.jpg
Rover, a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever, is the mascot of HFX Wanderers FC.

Chile

Colombia

Colombian First Division League (Liga Dimayor)

Colombian Promotion Tournament (Torneo Dimayor)

England and Wales

Many now take part in the Mascot Grand National held each year at Kempton Park Racecourse. and at the annual Mascot Olympics held in Milton Keynes.

Germany

Greece

Honduras

India

Indonesia

Iran

Italy

Japan

Korea Republic

Mexico

Mexican First Division (Liga MX)

Mexican First A Division (Ascenso MX)

Northern Ireland

Portugal

Some images of the mascots [41]

Saudi Arabia

Scotland

Slovenia

Spain

OBS: Real Madrid, Deportivo La Coruña, UD Salamanca, CF Numancia and are the only clubs that do not have an official mascot.

Thailand

Turkey

United States

Major League Soccer [68]

Former (Major League Soccer)

National Women's Soccer League

Lower soccer leagues (NASL, USL, etc.)

Uruguay

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