The 7 Most Left Wing Clubs In World Football

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]The relationship between modern football and the political left is a pretty complicated one. The sport is now so deeply entwined with finance, certainly at the elite level, that anyone who is even remotely critical of capital, is effectively forced to park those concerns at the turn styles, if they want to continue supporting their club.

[00:00:20]Liverpool, for example, who are one of the few Premier League clubs widely perceived as being left-leaning and having socialist impulses, despite originally being founded by a literal conservative politician and landlord, are now owned by a multinational asset management firm which is owned and controlled by the American billionaire John W. Henry. Jurgen Klopp, like the greatest figure in Liverpool history, Bill Shankley, describes himself as being of the left. But after nine years at Anfield, he accepted a job offer as the head of global soccer for the Red Bull cinematic universe, a privately owned conglomerate to have done more to commercialize and corporatize European football than just about anyone or anything else, and who are broadly despised, especially in Kop's native Germany. As a result, try to square that circle. In the words of Bob Dylan, it's easy to see without looking too far that not much is really sacred. If Liverpool are ever sold to anyone that isn't an American billionaire and/or asset management firm, chances are it will be to a Gulf or West Asian prostate like Man City, Newcastle, and PSG. It's difficult to imagine a more spectacular festival of greed, meanwhile, than the 2026 World Cup. A tournament where every single microtransaction has been monetized and cut off from ordinary supporters. And that is the child of FIFA, a registered charity and not for profofit which pays little to no tax and which is responsible for the sports governance worldwide.

[00:01:57]God help us all. Then there's the fact that there is no indiscretion so great or accusation sufficiently serious as far as most clubs are concerned that a blind eye can't be turned to it in the pursuit of everinccreased revenue or success. Marseilles, for example, are one of Europe's biggest clubs with a historic left-wing identity born out of the city strong workingclass multicultural and communist traditions.

[00:02:23]Yet they basically embarked upon signing the most despicable team in world football a couple of years ago under head coach Roberto Deserby when they brought two players to the club who were accused of physical and sexual abuse and one who had been convicted of involuntary manslaughter after he killed someone while driving. In the words of Gordon Strachen, "We don't have any morals in football."

[00:02:46]>> We we don't have any morals in football.

[00:02:48]Let's get that right. We have none.

[00:02:49]Because over the years I've played football, there's been wife berser.

[00:02:52]There have been drunken driving incidents. There have been infidelity.

[00:02:55]There have been Eric Caner jumping into the crowd and kung fu somebody in the chest. The club stand by them. And the supporters themselves when these guys come back, they stand up and applaud them on the pitch. So don't anybody start talking about morals cuz we don't have any football.

[00:03:07]>> If any of you were doing the sweep stake on how long it would take me to quote both Bob Dylan and Gordon Striken in the intro again, the answer is not very long. Nonetheless, football is, at least comparatively speaking, almost uniquely meritocratic among elite industries, providing a tiny number of people from less fortunate backgrounds with immense opportunities. The dressing rooms of most elite clubs are among the most diverse workplaces on the planet. And at least in the eyes of some people, footballers taking the knee and/or wearing rainbow laces once a season is sufficient evidence that the entire sport, despite being owned and controlled almost exclusively by billionaires, has been captured by a rabid bunch of communists who are hellbent on the destruction of Western civilization.

[00:03:55]Who's to say who's right and wrong? It really is a game of opinions. A couple of weeks ago, I made a video taking a look at seven of the most right-wing clubs in world football, which resulted in some very rational, normal, and sane people with usernames like Goatated Gerbles and Hydrickch Rules 88 sharing their deeply nuanced and thoughtful views in the comments. So, thank you all for that. in amongst the angry hordes of geniuses arguing that the Nazis were in fact left-wing uh despite the fact that German communists, social democrats, and trade unionists were quite literally the first groups of people to be sent to concentration camps after Hitler became chancellor in 1933, but uh forget about that. And that fans chanting about Anne Franken gas chambers while wearing full Klux Clan robes and hoods were just attempting to voice their opposition to modern wokeism.

[00:04:49]Thanks again for that. There were tens of comments, maybe even hundreds of them, from people saying, "I bet that you won't do a video about the most left-wing clubs, eh?" Despite me explicitly stating during the introduction to that video that if it hit 10,000 likes, I would make a video about the most left-wing clubs, then not sending their brightest or best. I did enjoy the guy who called me an extremist before quoting a passage from noted centrist on Brevik's manifesto, though. I didn't even know that Kanye was a fan of the channel.

[00:05:22]Anyway, Ray Gun7 who asked, "Will you do the same for Leftist 2? Doubt it." On a video where I said that I would make a follow-up about leftwing clubs if it hit 10,000 likes, then doubt me no more, my friend. Also, as I promised last time out, and I'm now regretting, if this video also hits 10,000 likes, then I will attempt to make a third installment about the most centrist clubs in world football. So if you think you know of any especially centrist clubs which have Emanuel Macronifos or murals dedicated to Ed Davyy emlazed upon the side of their stadium perhaps. Please do let me know in the comments. It would be very helpful. I won't lie. I'm not sure that this intro is exactly what my boss had in mind when he told me to make shorter videos. Right. Without further ado, then who uh much like Switzerland during a war has remained slavishly loyal to the concept of neutrality over the years and who also isn't a football club so uh obviously doesn't feature. Here are seven of the most left-wing clubs in world football. Seventh, Rio Vakano. I would argue based upon my research that there are three main types of ostensibly leftist or left-leaning football clubs.

[00:06:39]namely those who define themselves in opposition to racism, sexism, homophobia, or all of the above. These will often be clubs and fan bases responding to a local rival having a large far-right presence like Vertus Verona whose city rivals Helis Verona have among the most infamous farright ultras in the world or Palonia Warsaw whose anti-fascist ultras were an outgrowth of the rise in right-wing hooliganism in Polish football during the 1990s most notably at their bitter rivals Leia Warsaw. And this even stretches further still to separatist clubs like Barcelona or Athletic Club who along with the regions in which they are based firstly oppose fascism and the far right at least in large part because of Franco's nationalism and suppression of their regional identities and autonomy. Then there are those who espouse similarly socially liberal views but who were either founded on those principles or develop them organically rather than in opposition or response to the far right. And then there are those who aren't just what we might call progressive in terms of their social views or who may not even be that at all, but who lean more traditionally left on issues like economics, trade unionism, and workingclass solidarity rooted in the politics and community of their local areas. And of course, some clubs may be a mixture of two or even all three of the above. What's more, as I mentioned in my video about right-wing clubs, and the exact same applies here, few football clubs, certainly at the elite level, by virtue of the size of their fan bases, are a monolith where every single fan, player, coach, and owner follows the same political doctrine. Rayo Vayakano are a rare example of a club whose supporters for the most part are both progressive when it comes to social issues and explicitly leftwing on matters of economics and working-class solidarity. In many ways, Ryo are simply a product of their environment. Whilst Madrid itself is the seat of the Kingdom of Spain, and the Spanish capital's two biggest clubs, Atletico and Real Madrid, are inherently rightcoded and have notorious right-wing and far-right ultras, the municipality of the Akas was always a hotbed of leftist activity and fierce opposition to Francisco Franco's authoritarian dictatorship. Despite its close proximity to Madrid, Vakas was a Republican stronghold. And despite being heavily bombed by Franco's nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War, it remained a center of Spain's resistance movement throughout the next 36 years, a franquist dictatorship after the war ended. That's partly because Vakas was a diverse working-class suburb, which received a high number of migrants from all over Spain, including regions with strong separatist identities, many of whom had endured years or even decades of economic and political repression.

[00:09:32]Home to about 300,000 people, the municipality of Vakas formally ceased to exist in 1950 when it was annexed by the much larger municipality of Madrid. The districts of Punter Vyakas and Vier Vakas, which basically shared the exact same geography as the old municipality, still retain the spirit of the original Vakas, though, and their club Ryakano is where this local pride is most visibly and powerfully expressed.

[00:10:01]Consequently, Spanish Republican flags are still frequently flown at the Viaka Stadium roughly 10 kilometers outside of the center of Madrid along with images of the Marxist revolutionary Shaavara and banners emlazing with a Spanish anti-fascist slogan no pasaran. Reo supporters and particularly their boisterous loss book and their Ross ultras are both woke if you like in terms of being visibly anti-racist pro-LGBT and in favor of women's rights dark woke previously Roman Zazilia out of the club owing to his alleged links to the Ukrainian farr right and economically progressive passionately and forcefully opposing increased ticket prices and rallying around members of the local community who are the victims of injustice. Ice. Last year, members of the Bukaneeros, the buccaneers in English, were also reported to have acted as the security for Bellar and Montterro, the leaders of Pereos, a left-wing party in Spain, joining protests against the Israeli bombardment of Gaza. Just as the owners of several right-wing clubs seek to distance themselves from the political instincts of some of their supporters, as covered in my right-wing clubs video, Reo are a prime example of a club with very left-leaning supporters and ultras who are severely at odds with the club's ownership. Since 2011, Ryo have been owned by Raul Martin Praza, a Spanish businessman who could be fairly described as not quite as radical as Los Buccaneeros. Praaser paid a nominal fee to buy Rayo, owing to the club's outstanding debts, and in 2016, he took the highly unusual step for a club of Rayo's stature and modest budget of founding an American Reo franchise named Rayo OKC in Oklahoma City. Reo were relegated from La Liga at the end of that season and Reo OKC were dissolved after a single season but other than that it was a roaring success. The real animosity between Praza and Reo supporters doesn't stem from sporting matters however but from his politics ethics or uh perhaps more pointedly in the eyes of Rio fans his lack thereof.

[00:12:20]When Rayo's supporters protested against the appointment of Carlos Santiso, who had previously been caught on phone encouraging his staff to find a girl to gang rape as a team bonding exercise as the head coach of their women's team. I know there's quite a lot to digest there. Prazer didn't help matters by stating, quote, "We sign professionals, not people here." End quote.

[00:12:45]It didn't exactly align with Ryo's traditional ethos. That came less than a year after Praza committed the cardinal sin of inviting the local and national leaders of Vox, Spain's farright ultraist party to watch Rayo inside of the club's executive box. Rayo fans responded by turning up to the Viaka stadium in yellow protective hazmat suits, spraying disinfectant to clean the stench of fascism that Prazer had invited in. Regardless of your politics, it was a pretty funny bit. Also, regardless of your politics, why would you buy the most explicitly left-wing club in Spain, and certainly one of the most explicitly leftwing clubs in the world, and then invite the leaders of Spain's biggest far-right political party to your executive box in a high-profile stunt?

[00:13:37]How exactly did he expect that to play out? Unsurprisingly, Prazer, who was already facing fan unrest, has been extremely unpopular with most Rio supporters ever since with widespread calls for him to sell the club and/or step down as president. Incidentally, Rya released a high-profile rainbow kit back in 2015. Most of you will probably have seen it before, which was opposed by the Buckareos, not because they didn't support the causes that the kits were designed to support, which included LGBT rights and support for the victims of domestic abuse, but because they saw it as self-motivated gesture politics by Praaser, and accused the club of not having actually done the hard yards of supporting the causes that they were attempting to identify themselves with.

[00:14:23]It must be said Ryo are fighting firmly against the tide in Spanish football where there are lots of clubs with explicitly right-wing or far-right ultras and very very few outside of somewhat progressively coded clubs in autonomous regions with separatist ambitions that are explicitly left-wing or far-left. Javier Tabas who has been the La Liga president since 2013 is a prominent Vox supporter now and spent his student days advocating for FZA Noea a far-right neo-fascist Francoist party which opposed Spain's transition to democracy following Franco's death consequently many Ryo supporters feel as though the club has been unfairly punished by a rightle leaning or in some cases downright hardright establishment in Spanish football such such as when their Saguna division tie against Albaete was abandoned in 2019, replayed behind closed doors and the club was fined €18,000 as punishment for Reo supporters calling Romans Aully a Nazi on his return to the Viaka stadium. When one thinks of much of the aborant racism which has gone entirely unpunished in Spanish football and even frequent non-racist but incredibly incendiary tragedy chanting, the fact that Rao were the club to be punished for calling someone a Nazi appeared to be a not very subtle double standard, at least to many of the club supporters. Rao president Ral Martin Praza publicly condemned the behavior of his own club supporters as well as meeting with Zazilia to apologize and for some reason he's not very popular among Ryo fans. Strange sixth SV Barblesbergo 3. Berlin isn't a city divided by a wall anymore but that doesn't mean that there isn't an enormous political chasm between its many football clubs. Fan-owned Un Berlin, who recently became the first team in any of Europe's big five leagues to be managed by a woman, have a deep sense of community and are widely perceived as being left-leaning. Record 10 time DDR O Liga title winners Dinarmo Berlin have been associated with skin heads and neo-Nazis since the mid1 1980s, many of whom were larers, just adopting the imagery of what they viewed as being the most shocking and oppositional to communism. But the club would become a hub for much of Berlin's farright post reunification and tennis baria Berlin located in the far west of the city just a stones throw from Herter's Olympia stardium are very visibly progressive and opposed to racism homophobia sexism and neo-Naziism.

[00:17:04]I know utter woke nonsense on the outskirts of Berlin's deeply divided football scene. However, situated in the Barblesburg quarter of Potam, about 20 mi from the German capital, lies one of the world's most explicitly left-wing clubs. SV Barblesburg 03 were founded in 1903, as their name would suggest, and they were briefly but fittingly renamed SG Carmarks Barblesburg post World War II. Today, the team plays their home games at the K Libeneck Stadium, named after the German Revolutionary Socialist politician Carl Lee Neck, who co-founded the Communist Party of Germany or the KPD, alongside Rosa Luxembourg in 1918.

[00:17:48]Both Lib and Luxembourg were murdered by the right-wing paramilitary Free Corpse in 1919, who would later aid the rise of Nazism. Barblesburg's politics are partly oppositional, but not entirely so. The former East Germany has become a stronghold of the far right and the AFD since Germany's painful and in many ways deeply unfair reunification process with several clubs from the former DDR becoming synonymous with neo-Nazi ultras and fringes. A couple of which I covered in my video on the most right-wing clubs. Within this environment, SV Barblesburg have become a countercultural force fighting back against the far right and attracting a fan base which largely rejects the politics of hate. Barblesburg is also best known for being home to the world's first large-scale movie studio, which is still active, and as tends to be the case, the arts and creative industries attract more liberal and left-leaning people. SV Barblesburg03's identity was therefore a somewhat natural outgrowth of their geography, local politics and sense of being besieged by clubs with a world view which was entirely oppositional to their own. This animosity was solidified in 2017 when Barblesburg faced Edigi Copbus in a league match for the first time in 25 years. relatively local rivals.

[00:19:12]Copbus is about an hour and a half away from Potam, close to the border with Poland. The emotion of the tie was intensified by Edigi having among the most infamous right-wing hooligans amid significant competition within the German game. Edgey supporters, many of them masked up, performed Nazi salutes and chanted things like arite mry barblesburg nulry, invoking the phrase displayed above the entrance of Avitz.

[00:19:40]and other Nazi concentration camps.

[00:19:43]Lovely stuff. Some Barblesburg supporters responded with chants of Naziwine Rouse, literally Nazi pigs out.

[00:19:52]In the match report filed by the NOFV, however, the governing body in charge of administering German fifth tier football in the east of Germany, only Barblesburg's response to Eniggy's ultrased.

[00:20:05]Consequently, Barblesburg were fined more than Eniggy for their indiscretions, which included the use of rockets, flares, and other pyrochnics as well. Barblesburg refused to pay their €7,000 fine, launching a campaign under the slogan #Nazis rouseardian, Nazis out of the stadiums in English, which received support from German giants like Barussia Dortmund and FC Karn. The situation became so serious that at one stage the NOFB threatened to revoke Barblesburg's license and kicked them out of the league entirely in light of masked EDI supporters who threw ZL's going entirely unpunished. These threats didn't exactly play out too well within the wider world of football. Eventually, a settlement was reached with Barblesburg agreeing to donate €35,000 to anti-racism causes and a further €35,000 to the league, who also promised to use their €35,000 to fight racism and discrimination as part of the settlement. These days, Barbles bear compete in the fourth tier Riian Liga or dost up against several clubs with notorious far-right ultras whether that be lock zig kenets or damo Berlin. It is a pretty hostile environment for a club where folk and scar music is played before games and images of Trosky and other leftist icons of flown during matches. Interestingly, Daniel Fran, who some of you may recall me mentioning in my video about right-wing clubs, he is a pot stam native who began his career at Barblesburg's right-wing rivals Eigy Copbus, then joined Barblesburg, followed by RB Leipzig, then he went to Chemnit, where he was eventually kicked out after repeatedly expressing sympathy and support for various neo-Nazi fan groups. And then after all of that, he rejoined Barblesburg quite remarkably in 2020. He retired in 2025 after 5 years back at the club. He's now their assistant manager. It's a funny old game, isn't it? Fifth, I Cathn. All right, I am going to have to try and be a bit more tur looking at the clock, otherwise the length of this video may actually get me sacked. Now is a good place to start though, seeing as though I'm not actually allowed to say much about Greek football. Whereas a lot of Greek clubs are synonymous with the right. Who knows which ones? Certainly not me. I have forged a culturally distinct identity rooted in their history as a club of refugees founded by Greek immigrants from Istanbul or Constantinople as it was then just over 100 years ago in the immediate aftermath of the Greco Turkish War. a sports club of which football was just one department, albeit the largest and the most significant one. Ike served as a hub to help refugees from Constantinople and Anatolia as a whole settle in the suburbs of Athens. Ike have grown to become one of the two best supported and one of the three most successful clubs in Greek football. I am unfamiliar with the others, but they haven't forgotten their roots. Though egg support is too large to act as a monolith, making it more complex than a smaller club like Barblesburg, the culture of working-class solidarity, anti-fascism, and anti-racism remain both loud and visible. The club's best known ultras, original 21, are the most politically active, routinely demonstrating against the farright and consequently coming to blows on multiple occasions, particularly during the early to mid2010s with the Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn, which was declared a criminal organization and banned from political engagement in 2020. When a member of Golden Dawn murdered the anti-fascist Greek rapper Pavlo Visas in 2013, original 21 raised a banner which read, quote, "Fascists kill, cops collaborate, and the 300 play with our lives." End quote. The 300 referred to the number of members of the Greek Parliament. Original 21 members also caused controversy in 2001 when they refused to observe a minute of silence in memory of the victims of 9/11, arguing that it was hypocritical to remember only the dead of America and not those killed in Afghanistan and chanting murderers of the people Americans throughout the not very silent minute of silence against Habernian. Ike still draws particularly large support from Greek immigrant refugee and diaspora populations all over the world and alongside more typical leftist causes their politics tend to have a bent in that direction. Ike fans and original 21 members for example have shown frequent displays of support for Albanians, Kurds and most notably Palestinians flying Palestine flags at virtually all of the club's games. I currently lead the Super League Grease table looking to win only their third league title in over 30 years and they just face Ryo Bayano over two legs in what surely has to be the most leftwing quarterfinal tie in the very brief history of the Europa Conference League.

[00:25:20]Ryo very narrowly emerged victorious from what was actually a sensational tie and their run to the semis is one of, if not I would say the most impressive of any team in any UEFA competition this season.

[00:25:33]Fourth, Clapton Community FC. How low can you go? Is a question that I am frequently asked at the World Limbo Championships, where I am a full-time finalist, but it also applies to my videos about leftist football clubs. By virtue of elite level football being so detached from anything that even remotely resembles socialist principles, it is much easier to be a truly left-leaning club in an institutional sense much further down the football food chain. Step forward, Clapton Community FC, who are possibly the world's most committed left-wing club.

[00:26:09]By far the newest club in this seven.

[00:26:11]Clapton CFC were only founded in 2018 by disillusioned supporters of Clapton FC, an English non-league club who were themselves founded all the way back in 1877.

[00:26:23]Incidentally, that means that Clapton have been playing association football continuously for longer than all but one club in the entire world outside of Britain. Or at least they were. That long-standing record was torched, according to critics, by Clapton FC chairman Vince McBine. Clapton's attendances rose sharply as many East Londoners, disillusioned with the Premier League and professional game in the 2010s, latched on to the non-league side as an alternative. McBain reportedly criticized these new Clapton supporters, claiming that the club didn't need them before causing outrage by hiking ticket prices unannounced.

[00:27:02]Clapton ultras who had flocked to the club to avoid exactly this type of exploitation began boycotting the club's home games and instead watching on enchanting their support from outside of the ground. There aren't many images of Clapton or Clapton Community FC on Getty Images for what I would imagine are fairly obvious reasons, but there is a great six-inute segment about them on Copper 90 from 9 years ago documenting this part of their story. The bit where they are chanting from outside of the ground while stood on top of old fridge freezers and toilets, I must admit I found very funny. The differences between the two couldn't be resolved following that video's publication. So, Clapton Ultras formed their own club, Clapton Community FC, and the original Clapton FC without any supporters anymore was left to die. Technically, the club hasn't been dissolved, but they are not in a league and don't play any matches anymore, which uh well, that's not much of a football club, is it?

[00:28:03]Clapton Community FC, by contrast, have flourished. Entirely fan-owned, club memberships start at £12 a year for adults and as little as £1 a year for concessions. Operating on an equal system of one member, one vote. Ticket prices meanwhile are set at £5 for adults, up from £4 last season because that is the minimum price that the league will allow and they are free for concessions. Concessions at Clapton Community includes CFC members, new and residents, teenagers over 60s, students and apprentices, trade union members, unemployed people and those on low incomes, people with disabilities and other health conditions, and refugees, asylum seekers, and undocumented migrants. Basically, watching Clapton is free for anyone who can't afford to pay £5. The original Clapton FC were kicked out of the old spotted dog ground after failing to pay rent a year after Clapton Community were founded and Community moved into the old ground themselves in 20123.

[00:29:09]They moved to the Eastern Counties League Division 1 South this season in the 10th tier of English football where their attendances are estimated because not all attendance figures are officially recorded at this level of the English game to be between four to five times the division's average. A veritable festival of woke claps and communities awake kits pay homage to the Spanish second republic with no pasaran printed on them and they have had the same awake kit since 2018 to make it more affordable for supporters.

[00:29:38]Left-wing folk icon Billy Brag performed at the club in 2025. Their goalkeepers kit is inspired by the colors of the trans flag. There are banners invoking Woody Guthrie. Fans chant, "Say it loud, say it clear, refugees are welcome here." The club themselves, not just their supporters, although in this specific case the two are indistinguishable, describe themselves as being quote always anti-fascist, anti-exist, anti-racist, anti-homophobe, and anti-transphobe.

[00:30:09]And they are the first British club to receive a part-free zone accreditation by the BDS movement, boycotts, divestments, and sanctions against illegal Israeli occupation of the West Bank. Clubs and community strive to always have a pay what you can offer all the way down to zero to ensure that the club is open to all providing open access to children to play and train for free and a space for trans and non-binary people who may have been denied access or marginalized elsewhere to play football again. At the time of recording, Clapton Community is second in the Eastern Counties League Division 1 South on 87 points, three points behind Hudson.

[00:30:48]Third, US Learno. Italian football, not dissimilar to Spanish football, isn't universally renowned for its left-wing ultras, but Learno, not dissimilar to Reo, are a rare but very notable exception. Learno is a modestlysized port city in Tuscanyany. Often described as a gritty but more authentic alternative to Florence due to receiving far fewer tourists, Levno was among many other things the birthplace of the Italian Communist Party in 1921.

[00:31:21]Co-founded by Marxist theorists and revolutionaries Amado Bordiga, Antonio Grachi and Nicola Bombachi, the party was outlawed unsurprisingly by Ben Bonito Mussolini in fascist Italy but continued to serve an important role at the heart of the Italian resistance movement. In the post-war era, it became the largest communist party in the Western world, peaking at 2.3 million members and 12.6 million votes. and Levo has been a stronghold of radical left-wing politics ever since. Even in Italy's most recent 2022 general election, in which Georgia Maloney of the neofascist or the post-fascist, as it is sometimes described, brothers of Italy party emerged victorious with a large majority. Only 30% of votes in Levardo are estimated to have gone to right-wing, center-right, and far-right parties. And it is only an estimate because Italian election results are broken down at constituency rather than city level with the two largest parties in the city being the centerleft PD and the leftwing M5s or the five-star movement if translated into English. In a sea of Inter Milan's Latios and Helis Veronuses, Leernno have stood resolutely in Italian football as a symbol not just of progressive politics like a lot of clubs worldwide, but of the radical left. Always a rebel club. Leavo's most vocal ultras, the Brigate Autonom Leones or Bal have routinely clashed with the ultras of Italian football's right-wing establishment both inside and outside of stadiums. And they landed the club in hot water on a number of occasions, most notably for taking aim at Italy's late right-wing billionaire prime minister and former AC Milan owner Sylvio Burlesone. Bal frequently display communist symbols such as the red star and the hammer and sickle along with the image of Shaavara, the flag of Palestine and imagery associated with Irish Republican causes. Levo's ultras have even previously embelled a banner of former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, largely disowned by the post Stalinist era of the USSR, but not by Levno supporters. Celebrating the Georgian native, former CPSU general secretary's birthday. One of Levaro's greatest players of all time, Cristiano Lucarelli is a self-described committed communist who was blackballed by the Italian national team for eight years after he displayed the image of Sha Gavara during a goal celebration for Italy's under21s in 1999.

[00:33:58]Lucarelli claimed that the image of Gavara wasn't political, which I suppose the ubiquity of Sha Gavara's image and likeness makes somewhat plausible these days, but less so in the case of a player who routinely celebrated his goals by performing the clench fist salute popularized by the Communist Party and had Bandiera Rossa, an anthem of the Italian Labour movement as the ringtone on his phone. He was recalled by Marello Lippy in 2005 and scored three goals from six caps for Italy's senior team. Lucarelli, who was born in Levo, reportedly took a huge pay cut to join his boyard club from Torino in 2003, choosing to wear the number 99 shirt in recognition of Levno's Brigate Autonom Leoni Ultras, who were founded in 1999. He went on to score 111 goals in only 192 games for Levardo, which is the third most in the history of the club. In the 200405 season as Serria's golden age was coming to an end, Lucarelli even won the division's golden boot ahead of Alberto Gilardino, Lucatoni, Andre Chevchenko, Aleandro Delpierro, Christian Vieieri, Adriano, and Zlatan Ibrahimovic with 24 goals in 35 games in Levo's first season following promotion from Syria B. These were houseian days for Levono, but the club has repeatedly flown too close to the sun. Relegated from Seras seven times in total, Levono have had to be refounded following financial collapse twice. Once in 1991 and most recently in 2021, preceding their name change from AS Learno to US Learno. The US, you will be relieved to discover, doesn't refer to the capitalist pigs of the United States, but to Udon Sportiva. Having fought their way back to the top from the depths of Italian football's regional fifth tier once before, Levoro are now attempting to do it all over again. They won a Ser title last season and with it promotion to Syria C where they are currently 11th in group B. Levo Stadio Armando Piki named after Inter Milan legend and Levoro native Armando Piki who was forced to retire and ultimately died of cancer age 35 is a classically beautiful old Italian wreck of a ground built ironically during Italy's fascist era. The stadium was originally named Estadio Edaniano Mussolini after Bonito Mussolini's daughter, but it was renamed after both her husband and father were both executed in the mid1 1940s.

[00:36:37]I would imagine that losing the stadium's naming rights were the least of her concerns at the time. Eder escaped to Switzerland and denied any involvements in fascism, dying in Rome in 1995, aged 84.

[00:36:51]In case you were wondering, Learno and the Brigate Autonomy Levens Ultras, you won't be surprised to discover, have a close friendship with Athens and their original 21 ultras along with left-wing fan groups of Marseilles, Adana, Demispor, Celtic, St. Pow, and Tanana Calo.

[00:37:11]Second Ro the Stern Leipzig Berlin comes closest but I don't think that there is a single city anywhere else in the world with a more complex political landscape than Leipzig. RB Leipzig are the most hated club within the German game viewed as a plastic corporate imposition upon German football culture which is otherwise steeped in tradition.

[00:37:34]Meanwhile, lock or locomotive Leipzig have some of the most notorious hooligans among all of Germany's far-right fan bases with Riian Ganorst and political rivals BSG Chemig acting as an anti-fascist counterbalance in a city of just over 600,000 people. The original BSG Chem Leipzig were twotime DDR Obo Liga champions in East Germany, but following reunification, they became FC Sax and Leipzig. The politics of FC Sax and Leipzig, much like that of the former East Germany as a whole, became a highly charged and contested area between rival fan groups, which eventually led to a split between Sax and Leipzig and an explicitly left-wing refounded BSG Chem Leapzig in 1997.

[00:38:22]The split eventually killed Sax and Leipzig, who were left with, and I am painting in very broad brush strokes here and throughout for obvious reasons, a largely older and more right-wing fan base, leading to the club being dissolved in 2011, 5 years after Red Bull had attempted to buy them. Chem Lightig meanwhile are still going selling out Saxon Lightzig and the original Kem Leipzigs, Alfred Sports Park almost every week and contesting fierce rivalries with the likes of Kemnits, Darmmo Berlin and most notably Lock Leipzig in the Reier Ligan or Dost and none of those Leipzig clubs are the ones who made either my left or rightwing videos wrote the stern lightig do however as runners up further down the football food chain and Lezig's football scene by extension. RSL's quality and competitiveness may be up for debate, but their left-wing credentials certainly aren't. This is a club that was founded by punks and anti-fascists at the end of the 1990s in their own image. It attracted and continues to attract a fan base made up almost exclusively of Leipzig's distinct subcultures in Konovitz, an area of Leipzig and of Saxony, which is synonymous with the radical left. The club draws much of their support from Konovitz's countercultural so-called Bermuda Triangle. And when RSL won promotion to the fifth tier, suddenly gaining greater prominence and coming up against clubs with notorious far-right ultras, their supporters were attacked by neo-Nazis on several occasions. Somewhat amusingly, when the British sportsware brand Lonel became popular among German neo-Nazis, allegedly because the middle of Lndale somewhat resembles the letters NSDAP, the National Socialist German Workers Party, or the Nazis for short, the brand was reportedly so keen to disassociate themselves from such groups, that they began manufacturing romigs kits, the most left-wing German club that they could find, as well as providing RSL with a sponsored buff. bus fitted with a loudspeaker which they then drove to anti-fascist events. Apparently it had the desired effect and German neo-Nazis swiftly dumped Lonsdale.

[00:40:41]Cool looking bunch. These days Roern Lezig compete in the seventh tier of the German game. In 2019, as part of the club's 20-year anniversary, they hosted none other than our old friends Clapton Community Football Club in a friendly, which ended in a two- all draw. First, Paconia 29M, the most left-wing football club in the world, and I don't think that it's even up for debate, is Paconia 29mm. Not only is their fan base made up almost entirely of committed leftists and their ultras among the most notorious left-wing ultras on the planet, they are a splinter club who have split from one of the world's formerly most left-wing clubs who were no longer sufficiently leftwing for them. Now, what could be more leftwing than that?

[00:41:33]AConia were formed in 1948 during the Greek civil war where Apoel Nicoir kicked out their players who supported or had any sympathies whatsoever for the communist uprising against the Greek royalists and the Cypress Football Association basically banned anyone with any leftwing tendencies from even competing in the league anymore.

[00:41:54]Appoal's left-wing exiles among others founded not only AConia the club but also the Cypress Amateur Football Federation seemed as though they were banned by the existing Criate FA.

[00:42:07]Ammonia and the rival league gained significant popularity over the next 5 years before they were readmitted by the Cypress Football Association in 1953.

[00:42:17]Ammonia have gone on to become one of the two biggest and most successful clubs in Cyprus alongside Applewell with whom they contest the derby of the eternal enemies. Ammonia were fan-owned which was in keeping with the club's image until in 2018 amidst financial difficulties. The club's football department was sold to the private ownership of American criate businessman Stavros Papavro. Furious at the sale, Ammonia's worldrenowned Gate 9 Ultras announced a break from ACmonia's football department. They would continue to support the sports departments that weren't owned by Papastro, but they founded Pakamonia 29M as a breakaway football club for disgruntled ammonia supporters. inevitably seen as though Aciammonia are a large and historic club and Paconia 29M aren't only the club's most politically engaged either at a local or more universal level switched over to the new club solidifying their status as the most left-wing club in the world and I absolutely won't hear otherwise. Yordi Gomez, incidentally an FA Cup winner with Wigan Athletic, you may recall the fellow unks among you at least, joined Ammonia 29M for a single season in 2023, having previously spent four seasons at ACmonia. Having started out in the fifth tier, Ammonia 29M extraordinarily reached the top flight in 2024 where their game against AConia in which Gate 9 Ultras were sensationally cheering for a team playing against their formerly beloved AConia received nationwide attention.

[00:44:00]The first match between the two teams ended in a one- all draw, but that was one of only 14 points that the club won all season as they were relegated back down to the criate second division. A 2009 Galllet poll found that three out of four acmonia supporters voted for the progressive party of working people, which is a Marxist Leninist Communist Party in Cyprus with Gate 9 members in particular renowned for flying communist symbols and images of socialist icons at games. And that was the state of play with the original much larger AC ammonia before the split and ammonia 29mm's FC United of Manchester style breakaway.

[00:44:39]Ammonia 29mm are currently third in group A of the Cypria second division and boast the division's second highest attendances. That is it for today's video. a real slap in the face to all of those who said that I wouldn't make a video about left-wing football clubs after I stated that I would make a video about left-wing football clubs. I would explain all of my honorable mentions in equally excruciating detail and why they missed out, but uh this video is already far far far too long uh to even be on this channel these days. So, I'll just run you through my short list instead.

[00:45:13]The original Aciamonia Brazil's Baria and Corinthians Altona 93 Sancti Pemulate Zigg and Tennis Barusia Berlin from Germany Redar Paris Marseilles Celtic Hapoel Tel Aviv standardly Dulich Hamler Royal Uniloir Kadis Sevilla Bohemians Cliftonville Tanana Kalo Palonia Warsaw and Aeshvoy and I apologize to my Polish brothers and sisters for my pronunciation as always. Way talk FC, Portland Timbers and Seattle Sounders in terms of progressive representation in Major League Soccer and Detroit City FC in terms of genuinely leftwing American clubs albeit outside of the top flight.

[00:45:59]Vertus Verona who are the ying to Helis Veronus' Klux Clan Yang Bashiktash Ammed Spore Adana Demispore Dafford if FK Velis Moshdar could all have featured but didn't for a variety of reasons that we haven't the time or uh I don't at least to fully explain but I'm sure that I missed some. So let us know of any interesting examples from your countries or that you might know about down below in the comments. As I promised, if this video also hits 10,000 likes, then I will attempt somehow someway to find the seven most centrist football clubs, which was a funny promise that I didn't actually plan on coming to fruition. I considered upping the target to 15,000 to try and get out of it, but uh I am nothing if not a man of my word. Right, thank you all very much as ever for watching. Sorry to some of you for this video being so long. Let me know your thoughts down below in the comments. As I say, uh, hit the like button if you enjoyed it and, uh, make sure that you are subscribed and have notifications turned on, not just for this channel, HTC7s, but also my second or personal channel, uh, where longer videos are the norm, uh, which is known as Alfie Pots Hmer. It it takes its name from uh, well, from me. Um, yeah, check that out.

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