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Hosted by Chris Horwedel
Why We Love This Club explores the remarkable football clubs, supporters and communities that make the world’s game special. Hosted by Chris Horwedel, each episode travels to a different corner of global soccer to tell the complete story of one unforgettable club. Discover how each team was founded, what it represents to its community, and why its supporters developed such a deep connection to it. The show explores club history, legendary players, defining matches, stadiums, rivalries, traditions, supporter culture, famous triumphs, painful failures, and the moments that shaped each team’s identity. From historic European champions and emerging women’s teams to supporter-owned clubs, lower-league institutions and overlooked teams across Africa, Asia, Australia and the Americas, Why We Love This Club celebrates football in all its forms. Whether you love soccer history, football culture, passionate fanbases or discovering clubs beyond the biggest names, every episode offers a new reason to love the world’s game.
Al Ahly SC, Egyptian football, the Cairo Derby, and Africa’s most successful club are at the center of this episode of Why We Love This Club . Chris Horwedel explores how Al Ahly grew from a meeting place for young Egyptians in 1907 into a sporting institution with 45 Egyptian league titles and a record 12 CAF Champions League trophies . The episode traces the club’s nationalist roots, its…
B-67 Nuuk, Greenlandic football, Arctic travel and one of the world’s most unusual national championships are at the center of this episode of Why We Love This Club . Chris Horwedel explores the story of Greenland’s record men’s champion, a club based in Nuuk where football operates under conditions unlike almost anywhere else in the world. With no roads connecting Greenland’s towns, domestic…
Corinthian-Casuals FC, São Paulo, Corinthians Paulista, and the origins of modern football culture are at the heart of this episode of Why We Love This Club . Chris Horwedel explores the remarkable story of an English amateur club whose influence stretches far beyond its current ninth-tier home in Tolworth. The episode traces the history of Corinthian Football Club and Casuals FC , their 1939…
Qarabağ FK, Ağdam, Azerbaijan, and one of football’s most extraordinary stories of exile and survival are the focus of this episode of Why We Love This Club . Founded in Ağdam in 1951 , Qarabağ were forced from their home during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War and played their final match at the old İmarət Stadium in 1993. Chris Horwedel traces how a club that lost its ground and its city…
Chivas, Club Deportivo Guadalajara, Liga MX, and the club’s famous Mexican-only player policy are the focus of this episode of Why We Love This Club , exploring how one of Mexico’s biggest football institutions turned a self-imposed restriction into the foundation of its identity. Founded in Guadalajara in 1906 , Chivas grew from an internationally assembled team into a club that eventually…
Clapton Community FC, the Old Spotted Dog and supporter-owned football in East London are the focus of this episode of Why We Love This Club , telling the story of fans who decided that preserving a football identity meant building a new club themselves. Formed in 2018 by supporters connected to historic Clapton FC , Clapton Community was created around open membership, democratic control,…
Derry City FC, the League of Ireland, the Troubles and the Brandywell are the focus of this episode of Why We Love This Club , telling the extraordinary story of a Northern Irish club that crossed a national border simply to keep playing football. Founded in 1928, Derry City became Irish League champions and European competitors before political violence and security restrictions during the…
The Strongest, Bolivian football, La Paz, and the 1969 Viloco air disaster are the focus of this episode of Why We Love This Club , exploring how one of Bolivia’s oldest institutions repeatedly turned survival into identity. Founded in 1908, Club The Strongest became a defining force in La Paz football, winning early championships, helping establish the Estadio Hernando Siles and later becoming a…
Enyimba FC, Nigerian football, the CAF Champions League and the rise of the People’s Elephant in Aba are the focus of this episode of Why We Love This Club , tracing how a once-relegated state-owned club became the first Nigerian team to conquer Africa. Founded in Aba, Abia State , Enyimba spent years outside Nigeria’s traditional elite before chairman Felix Anyansi-Agwu helped transform the club…
FC Barcelona Femení, Liga F, the UEFA Women’s Champions League and the rise of women’s football in Spain are the focus of this episode of Why We Love This Club , tracing how a team once denied Barça’s shirt became one of football’s dominant institutions. The story begins in 1970, when Immaculada Cabecerán recruited players through a magazine advertisement and a women’s side played at Camp Nou…
