Two countries • a A club was founded in Russia following the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea.
Austria Belgium Brazil • a AA Cabofriense was refounded as AD Cabofriense in 1997 by the same directors with the aim of separating football from the social club activities. • b Due to financial problems, Operário Várzea-Grandense (also known as
CEOV) withdrew from professional football in 1996. As it is one of the clubs with the most fans in the state,
EC Operário was created with the same colors (red and green) as the traditional CEOV. Despite being state champion twice (1997 and 2002), the club did not receive the expected support and closed its activities in 2002. Another club with a similar name was created (
Operário Futebol Ltda.), this time with red and black colors in honor of
CR Flamengo, and has won the 2006 tournament. Operário Ltda. currently competes in the second division and the original CEOV returned to professional football in 2013. • c The original Taguatinga EC and CA Taguatinga (former CA Bandeirante) merged in 2018. • d Former SC Atibaia.
Bulgaria Canada China Czech Republic Costa Rica a
A.D. Generaleña merged with
A.D. Pérez Zeledón to become
Municipal Pérez Zeledón,
de facto only continuing the Pérez Zeledón heritage.
Croatia a The city of Rijeka was part of the Kingdom of Italy and it was known as Fiume. b The finances of the original NK Varaždin (called NK Varteks from 1958 to 2010) stumbled repeatedly for five years. When this led to their suspension in 2011, an unassociated NK Varteks was created. When they were suspended again in 2012, a new unassociated Varaždin emerged. The original club, including its records and history, folded in 2015.
England / Wales a
Wimbledon F.C. relocated to
Milton Keynes in 2004 and was renamed
Milton Keynes Dons F.C., two years after the
Football Association's binding decision to permit the move, and two years after the founding of
AFC Wimbledon; see
Relocation of Wimbledon F.C. to Milton Keynes. b In February 2022, Bury fans' group Est.1885 acquired the trading name, history and memorabilia of
Bury F.C.. In May 2023, the Bury Football Club Supporters' Society (who owned
Gigg Lane and the "Bury FC" trading name) and the Shakers Community Society (who owned phoenix club Bury AFC) merged. Bury AFC adopted the Bury FC playing name and returned to Gigg Lane, following FA approval in June 2023. The two team's histories were combined — retroactively counting Bury AFC's seasons as seasons for Bury FC.
Finland France Germany Greece India Indonesia Italy In the early 21st century, numerous
Italian clubs endured very severe economic problems, including some famous and historically successful teams. Some, most notably
Fiorentina,
Napoli, and
Torino were each declared formally bankrupt and thus had to reapply to the Italian football authorities to play at a lower level, with new owners and as new corporate entities. However, all are considered to be the same clubs before and after the bankruptcy rather than separate phoenix entities: they obtained the "sports title" to remain in the Italy football pyramid using clauses in the
Article 52 of N.O.I.F. bIn 2020, FK Aukštaitija acquired the name and history of the club disestablished in 2015 from the
bankruptcy administrator. The
local authorities confirmed the continuity of the club that June.
The Netherlands North Macedonia Northern Ireland Peru Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Russia Scotland b
Airdrieonians F.C. (1878) were liquidated in 2002 but their owners bought Clydebank and rebranded it as Airdrie United (now known as
Airdrieonians F.C. (2002)); therefore that club is not a phoenix as it took the place of an existing entity. However the
current incarnation of Clydebank is a phoenix, as it was founded by supporters to replace the entity which had moved to Airdrie and had to restart at the bottom of the (
Junior) league pyramid. During the
liquidation of The Rangers Football Club plc in 2012,
a new company, set up for the purpose, bought the assets of the business and secured the transfer of its SFA membership, which allowed Rangers F.C. to continue playing, albeit having to start again in the lowest national division of the
Scottish football league system.
Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Turkey Most phoenix clubs in Turkey are clubs that were originally founded independently under a different name and only repurposed as a replacement of the better known original club following its dissolution.
Ukraine •
Notes: • Due to
World War I and
World War II, technically all of the clubs that competed before those wars were recreated from scratch in order to continue yet for many clubs of the Soviet part of Ukraine immediate their revival upon hostilities conditionally is considered as continuation of business. Due to recent renewed hostilities by the Russian Federation, many clubs were forced to suspend their business operations indefinitely. • While perceived as phoenix club of
FC Dnipro, officially
SC Dnipro-1 is considered to be a totally new club according to the FIFA rulings as the club did not clear its debts and refused to acknowledge them. • Polish club of Pogon Lwow was reestablished in Ukraine by local Polish diaspora based on Pogon Lwow of the interbellum Poland. The club competes at regional level. • Technically split between Metal Kharkiv and
Metalist 1925 Kharkiv, in 2020 the
Ukrainian Association of Football officially acknowledge heritage of the original club after Metal Kharkiv.
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