"United" forms part of many association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players using a spherical ball. It is widely considered to be the most popular sport in the world teams names, usually, and originally in England The area now called England has been settled by people of various cultures for about 35,000 years, but it takes its name from the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries. England became a unified state in AD 927, and since the Age of Discovery, which began during the 15th century, has had a significant, when two or more clubs merged and became united. The first club to use the term is believed to be Hanover United Polytechnic Football Club, originally, Hanover United Football Club is a football club from England, formed in 1873 or 1875. It is believed to be the first football club to use United in its name. It played its home matches at the Limes, Barnes, London, moving to a ground near Chiswick railway station in 1906. The club is a full member of the, formed in 1873 Year 1873 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar)[1]. Below is a list of professional clubs in order of when the name was first used, with the year it first came into use next to it;
- Sheffield United Sheffield United Football Club is a professional English football club based in the city of Sheffield, South Yorkshire. They currently play in the English Football League Championship. They play at Bramall Lane in Sheffield, and play in red and white striped shirts (1889)
- Newcastle United Newcastle United Football Club are an English football club based in Newcastle upon Tyne. The club was founded in 1892 after the merger of two local clubs, Newcastle East End and Newcastle West End. Historically they have won 4 First Division titles, 6 FA Cups and 1 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (1892)
- Scunthorpe United (1899)
- West Ham United West Ham United Football Club is an English football club based in Upton Park, London Borough of Newham, East London. They have played their home matches at the Boleyn Ground stadium since 1904 (1900)
- Manchester United Manchester United Football Club is an English professional football club who play at Old Trafford in Stretford, Greater Manchester. Having won a joint-record 18 league titles and a record 11 FA Cups, Manchester United is one of the most successful clubs in the history of English football, and are the reigning Football League Cup holders. The club (1902)
- Carlisle United (1903)
- Southend United (1906)
- Leeds United Leeds United Association Football Club , commonly referred to as Leeds or Leeds United, are an English professional association football club based in Leeds, West Yorkshire. They are to play in the Football League Championship, the second tier of the English football league system, next season. The club's home is the Elland Road stadium in Beeston, (1919)
- Hereford United (1924)
- Rotherham United (1925)
- Peterborough United (1934)
- Colchester United (1937)
- Oxford United (1956)
- Hartlepool United (1977)
- Hayes & Yeading United (2007)
Outside of English football, some other professional clubs in countries around the world have used United in their name while playing the same sport, this includes;
- Ayr United (1910)
- Dundee United (1923)
- D.C. United D.C. United is an American professional soccer club located in Washington, D.C. that participates in Major League Soccer, the United States' top-tier soccer league. The team's home field is the 45,596-seat Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, owned by the District of Columbia and located on the Anacostia River. The team has proposed building a new 2 (1995)
- Tampere United (1998)
- Newcastle United Jets (2000)
- Airdrie United (2002)
- Adelaide United (2003)
- KVSK United (2003)
- Gold Coast United (2008)
- Drogheda United
- Galway United
- United Rugby Club (2005)
- Rugby United, the old name of Rugby Town F.C. (1956)
Television
- United!, a show that aired on BBC1 BBC One is the flagship television network of the British Broadcasting Corporation . It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular public television service with a high level of image resolution. It was later renamed BBC tv until the launch of sister channel BBC2 in 1964, whereupon it was known (none of the episodes survive)
- "United", a fourth season episode of Star Trek: Enterprise Enterprise is a science fiction television program created by Brannon Braga and Rick Berman and set in the fictional Star Trek universe created by Gene Roddenberry in the 1960s. The series follows the adventures of humanity's first Warp 5 starship, the Enterprise, ten years before the United Federation of Planets shown in previous Star Trek series
Politics
- One of several political parties around the world called the United Party
- United Front (disambiguation), a Marxist tactic and the name of many political alliances
- UNITED for Intercultural Action, the biggest European network against nationalism, racism, fascism and in support of migrants and refugees
- United and uniting churches are churches formed from the merger or other form of union of two or more different Protestant denominations
Music
- United (Phoenix album)
- United (Dream Evil album)
- United (Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell album)
- United (Commodores album)
- United (Marian Gold album)
- "United", a song by Judas Priest, from the album British Steel
- "United", a song by Prince Ital Joe featuring Marky Mark
- Hillsong United (band), the band of Hillsong United (the Hillsong Church youth ministry) that has released several albums
- United, a 2006 concert tour by Japaneses-American po singer-songwriter, Hikaru Utada
Countries
United is used in a countries name, when any number of states or regions are combined to make a united Country. Countries with united in their name include:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK/ United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland[note 7] is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of the island of Ireland, and many small islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land)
- United States of America ^ b. English is the de facto language of American government and the sole language spoken at home by 80% of Americans age five and older. Spanish is the second most commonly spoken language (USA/ U.S./ United States)
- United Arab Emirates Before 1971, the UAE was known as the Trucial States or Trucial Oman, in reference to a 19th century truce between the United Kingdom and several Arab Sheikhs. The name Pirate Coast was also used in reference to the area's emirates from the 18th to the early 20th century (UAE)
- United Mexican States (Mexico In Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica many cultures matured into advanced civilizations such as the Olmec, the Toltec, the Teotihuacan, the Zapotec, the Maya and the Aztec before the first contact with Europeans. In 1521, Spain conquered and colonized the territory, which was administered as the viceroyalty of New Spain which would eventually become Mexico's official name)
Other
- United and uniting churches
- Hillsong United, the youth ministry of Hillsong Church
- United North Piha Lifeguard Service
- United, a brand name chocolate biscuit sold in the UK
- United Technologies Corporation United Technologies Corporation (NYSE: UTX) is an American multinational conglomerate based in Hartford, Connecticut. It researches, develops, and manufactures high-technology products in numerous areas, including aircraft engines, helicopters, heating and cooling, fuel cells, elevators and escalators, fire and security, building systems, and, an American multi-national
- United Telecommunications, a telephone company that was purchased by Sprint Sprint Nextel Corporation is a telecommunications company based in Overland Park, Kansas. The company owns and operates the third largest wireless telecommunications network in United States, with 48.2 million customers, behind Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility, and was later spun off as Embarq Embarq Corporation, or EMBARQ was the largest independent local exchange carrier in the United States , serving customers in 18 states and providing local, long distance, high-speed data and wireless services to residential and business customers. It had been formerly the local telephone division (LTD) of Sprint Nextel. EMBARQ produced more than $6.
References
- ^ Collett, Mike (2003). The Complete Record of the FA Cup. p. 325. ISBN The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering (SBN) code created by Gordon Foster, now Emeritus Professor of Statistics at Trinity College, Dublin, for the booksellers and stationers W.H. Smith and others in 1966 1899807-19-5.
See also
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