About the albionroad.com website

Albion Road attempts to be an encyclopedia of the world's football clubs - the meanings of team names, nicknames, the symbolism of club emblems, histories, uniforms, traditions, etc. Everything that makes each club unique. You'll also find profiles of the sport's major countries and leagues as well as articles of general interest to football fans everywhere. It launched on April 28, 2005.

Why Albion Road?

A few years ago, I played in an English fantasy football league with my friend Andreas. He named the league 'Albion Road', a make-believe English stadium or team or place. I've adopted that name on various message boards and thought it would be an appropriate name for this website.

Who is Albion Road?

JEREMY RUETER - Webmaster, Editor in Chief, Manager and everything else in between. Jeremy handles the maintenance of the site and has written virtually all the profiles, layout, researched statistics and a whole lot more you don't even want to know about.

Join the Albion Road community:

• We have an Albion Road Facebook page.
• We have an Albion Road Flickr pool.
• We have an Albion Road email list that you can This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to - be notified of new articles as they're posted.

What people have said about Albion Road:

• Search for Soccer Editor's Pick: September 2009 - "Great resource for finding facts and information about everything soccer!"
• Wider Reading - Albion Road - "I’m sure it’s not perfect, but Albion Road looks like a cracker, and I’ll be trying it out anytime the need arises to blog about an obscure club or include showy-offy facts in a post. Nice work."
• When Saturday Comes - Webwatch - June 2007 - "By reading just one example of the site’s erudition, Belgian Third Division B, you’ll be able to tell whether or not this is the kind of place where you could hang out for hours accruing the kind of knowledge you don’t necessarily need, but subconsciously want."

Thanks:

Some people have given me a lot of help on this site, and I want to give you a little recognition. Most of all, Brent Carter for getting me started with the web design help. Also Conor, StSt, Charl, Keith, Alex_K, ganu, Chris K, Fabrizio, Bill, Emre, Graham, Saso, Miles, Jordan and of course my main squeeze Stormy.