Hello there Great site, been visiting for years. I am doing some research on club nicknames, and was wondering if you knew of any good sources. I have the majority of Liga teams, apart from the following: Getafe, Alaves, Sevilla (called Los Palanganas 'the basins' by betis fans I think), Zaragoza (Los Blanquillos, the whites?,) Racing Santander, Cadiz, Malaga, Betis (Los Pepinos, the cucumbers. Because of the colour, or the Sevillian food?). many thanks

This wasn't actually a message to Pichichi, but we thought we would publish it to ask for help from our readers. Can anybody fill the gaps for John?

Add Málaga to your list....Los Boquerones....named after the local fish!
(Posted by Barry on 3 Feb)

Getafe's nickname is azulones, which translates to blue boys i think. Another name is Getafenos.
(Posted by Hugh on 5 Feb)

i can tell john is an english man who is used to the nicknames that normal english premier teams get, like the tottenham spurs, the arsenal gunners and the chelsea blue whatevers... but the fact of the matter is that in spain, teams dont usually have nicknames. Madrid fans are called los merengues, and the barça fans are called cules, but other than that, most teams dont have nicknames. Now as for thos enicknames you got like for zaragoza for example (los blanquillos) that might be a name that a rival calls the team, but they are not known by that, they are siimply known by their name. It is not spanish culture to have nicknames. Barça fans might call madrid fans, fascists but that doesn't mean that is real madrids nickname. That is all
(Posted by Joan Gurat on 9 Feb)

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