Phoenix club (sports)

Multisports club

Greece

Association football

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 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.{{cite news |access-date=5 May 2023 |archive-date=12 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240212231413/https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/65484165.amp |url-status=live

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

India

Indonesia

Italy

Main article: Article 52 of N.O.I.F.

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.

Japan

Korea

Latvia

Lithuania

aFollowing a court settlement in 2014, club acquired rights to the history, titles, name and other assets of the original club.

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.

United States

Baseball

United States

Basketball

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Croatia

Finland

Germany

Greece

Italy

Netherlands

Poland

Russia

Serbia

Spain

United Kingdom

Ukraine

Gridiron football

Canada

United States

Ice hockey

Canada

England

Japan

Sweden

United States

Volleyball

Greece

Notes

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