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 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.

Contribute:

Interested in writing for Albion Road? We are building a community of columnists who are passionate about this great game of ours. Whether you call it soccer, football, fútbol, calcio, fußball or ANYTHING else, there is a place for you here at Albion Road. There are a few things we're especially interested in.

• Correspondents to write a weekly, bi-weekly or monthly column about their favorite football club, league or country
• Histories of your favorite club or player or manager
• Someone interested in bringing to light some of the quality (but not well-known) websites out there?
• Any fantasy football experts care to share a tip or two?
• Any collectors out there interested in talking about your stuff? Scarves, pins, programmes, you name it
• Any referees out there interested in defending (or not!) some of the game's regular controversial calls?

These are just a few of the ideas we've got but don't feel limited by that. If you have a football story we want to publish it!

To get started just send us an This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

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!"
• 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 Storms.