What Are Proper Football Clubs?

 What Are Proper Football Clubs?

I met someone who explained to me a silly idea.

His idea was that you needed to have certain things to be a proper football club. If you did not have all these things then you were not a proper football club.

1. To have won the European Cup, or European Champions League

2. To have a stadium that holds at least 40,000 fans.

3. To have existed for more than 100 years. 

4. To have won trophies in various different eras. 

5. To have a derby or historical rival of similar size. 

6. To have a top scorer in your history who has scored more than 200 goals for the club. 

7. To have produced internationals from your youth system.

8. To have bought some super players in transfers in some eras. 

9. To have had some legendary managers or coaches. 

10. To have played at the same stadium for decades.

11. To be famous all over the World. 

I did not agree with him. But that was his point of view. He did not consider other clubs to be proper.