Английская Википедия:Australian national sports team nicknames

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use Australian English In Australia, the national representative team of many sports has a nickname, used informally when referring to the team in the media or in conversation. These nicknames are typically derived from well-known symbols of Australia. Often the nickname is combined with that of a commercial sponsor, such as the "Qantas Wallabies" or the "Telstra Dolphins". Some names are a portmanteau word with second element -roo, from kangaroo; such as "Olyroos" for the Olympic association football team.

History

The oldest nicknames are Kangaroos and Wallabies for the rugby league football and rugby union teams. The other names are more recent, mostly invented to help publicise sports not traditionally popular in Australia. Some journalists have criticised the practice as embarrassing, gimmicky, or PR-driven.

The name "Wallabies" was chosen by the 1908 rugby union side, making its first tour of the Northern Hemisphere. British newspapers had already nicknamed the 1905 New Zealand touring team the "All Blacks" from their sporting uniform predominant colour; the 1906 South African tourists had adopted "Springboks". "Rabbits" was first suggested for Australia, but rejected since rabbits there are notorious as pests. Until the 1980s, only touring sides were "Wallabies"; players on the eight tours up to 1984 were "the First Wallabies" up to "the Eighth Wallabies".

The rugby league tour side arrived in Britain later in 1908 with a live kangaroo as mascot and were nicknamed "Kangaroos". "Kangaroos" originally referred only to teams on "Kangaroo Tours" to Britain and France. In 1994 the Australian Rugby League extended the nickname to all internationals for sponsorship reasons, drawing criticism for the break with tradition. The first such game was a 58–0 win over France at Parramatta Stadium on 6 July 1994.

Among the longer-established sports, the test cricket and Davis Cup tennis teams have no common nickname. Harry Beitzel's 1967 Australian Football World Tour team was unofficially nicknamed the Galahs from their flashy uniform. Though this side was a precursor of subsequent Australian international rules football teams, the nickname has not been retained.

Australian Tennis magazine invited readers to suggest a nickname for the Davis Cup team in 1996. The Australia Fed Cup team has been called the Cockatoos, first suggested by player Casey Dellacqua in a press conference at the April 2012 match against Germany. The name has been embraced by teammates and used on the website of governing body Tennis Australia.

As part of a 1998 strategic business plan, Cricket Australia surveyed "stakeholders" in 1998 about a possible nickname, to enhance marketing opportunities. State cricket teams in the Sheffield Shield had benefited from adopting nicknames in the 1990s. 69% opposed a national nickname, partly from a sense of decorum and partly because the best names were already taken by other teams.

Athletics Australia held a competition for a nickname for its squad for the 2001 World Athletics Championships. The winning entry was "the Diggers", from the nickname for ANZAC soldiers. This was quickly abandoned after criticism from the Returned and Services League of Australia and others that this was an inappropriate use of the term. The team previously had a little-used nickname, "the Blazers".

In December 2004, the Australian Soccer Association renamed itself Football Federation Australia (FFA) and announced an effort to rebrand association football as "football" rather than "soccer" in Australia. The national team had been nicknamed "the Socceroos" by journalist Tony Horstead on a 1967 tour to South Vietnam. FFA chairman Frank Lowy commented "It has been commonly used and is a much loved name but we may see it fade out as evolution takes place", and suggested few national football teams had nicknames. By 2016, the FFA announcement of Caltex as sponsors was titled "Caltex Australia with the Socceroos all the way".

Table

Sport	Team (link to team / event)	Nickname (link for origin)	Name sponsor
Rugby union	Men's test	Wallabies	Cadbury
	Women's	Wallaroos	Paper to Paper
	Under-21 side	Junior Wallabies
	Men's Sevens	Thunderbolts
	Women's Sevens	Pearls
Rugby league football	Men's test	Kangaroos	(Previously VB and Holden)
	Women's	Jillaroos	Harvey Norman
	Under-20 side	Junior Kangaroos	Holden
Wheelchair rugby	Paralympic	Steelers (official) Wheelabies (unofficial)
Soccer	Men's	Socceroos	Subway
	Women's (incl. Olympic)	Matildas (from Waltzing Matilda)	Commonwealth Bank
	Olympic men's	Olyroos	Subway
	Under-20 (men)	Young Socceroos	Subway
	Under-20 (women)	Young Matildas	Commonwealth Bank
	Under-17 (men)	Joeys	Subway
	Under-17 (women)	Junior Matildas U17s	Commonwealth Bank
	World Medical Football Championships	Docceroos
Beach Handball	Australian Women's National Team	Aussie Beach Gliders
Futsal	National team	Futsalroos
Goalball	Australian women's national team	Aussie Belles
Netball	National team	Diamonds	Origin Energy
	Men's	Sonix
	Mixed	Sonix
	Under 23 (men's)	Sparx
Touch Football	Australian Touch Football Team	Emus
Quizzing	Australian Quiz Team	Quokkas
Athletics	Australian Athletics Team	Australian Flame
Cricket	National team	Baggy Greens (officially for the caps, metonymically for the players)	Commonwealth Bank
	Women's	Southern Stars	Commonwealth Bank
Swimming	Australian Swim Team (Olympic, Paralympic, and World Championships)	Dolphins (dropped 2009, revived 2015)	Hancock Prospecting
Softball	Men's	Aussie Steelers
	Women's (Olympic / World's)	Dingeroos/Aussie spirit
	Women's U-19	Aussie Pride
Water polo	Men's	Sharks
	Women's	Stingers
Basketball	Men's	Boomers	Airbnb
	Women's	Opals	Jayco
	Under-21 (men)	Crocs
	Under-21 (women)	Sapphires
	Under-19 (men)	Emus
	Under-19 (women)	Gems
	Intellectual disability (men)	Boomerangs
	Intellectual disability (women)	Pearls
	Deaf (men)	Goannas
	Men's wheelchair	Rollers
	U-23 wheelchair (men)	Spinners
	Women's wheelchair	Gliders
Cycling	World Championships/World Cup	Cyclones	Toshiba
Field hockey	Men's	Kookaburras
	Women's	Hockeyroos	None for 2007 (ANZ for 2004 Olympics)
	Under-21 (men)	Burras
	Under-21 (women)	Jillaroos
Ice hockey	Men's	Mighty Roos (after The Mighty Ducks)
	Women's	Mighty Jills
	Para Hockey	IceROOS
Lacrosse	Men's	Sharks
	Women's	MelliesШаблон:Citation needed
	Men's U23s	Aussie Roos
	Women's U23s	Team Koala
	Men's U19s	Crocodiles
	Women's U19s	StarsШаблон:Citation needed (after the Southern Cross)
	Women's U17s	Team Koala
Box lacrosse	Men's	Boxaroos
Bowls	Men's	Jackaroos – a pun on jack, the target ball
	Women's	Sapphires
Orienteering	National team	Boomerangs
Team handball	Men's	Crocodiles
	Women's	Redbacks
Ultimate frisbee	Open	Dingos
	Women's	Firetails
	Mixed	Barramundis
	Women Masters	Taipans
	Open Masters	Wombats
	Under-23s Open	Goannas
	Under-23s Women	Stingrays
	Under-19s Open	Thunder
	Under-19s Women	Southern Terra
Tennis	Fed Cup	Cockatoos
Roller derby	Men	Wizards of AUS
Universiade	National team	Australian Uniroos
Baseball	Men's	Southern Thunder
	Women's	Emeralds
Volleyball	Men's and Women's	Volleyroos. 1988 – 1992 The Kookaburras.
Fistball	Men's	Wombats
	Women's	Possums
	Men's Masters	Dugongs
Quidditch	National team	Drop bears
Badminton	National team	Falcons
Surfing	Olympics	Irukandjis
Finska/Mölkky	National Team	Finskaroos	Planet Finska
Backyard ultra Marathon	National Team (Mixed)	Redback Yarders
Kilikiti	National team	AussieRoos

See also

• Athletic nickname, in the United States
• Lists of nicknames – nickname list articles on Wikipedia
• Шаблон:Section link