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National sports teams of the United Kingdom is an incomplete list of sports teams representing the United Kingdom.The teams are often referred to as 'Great Britain' as they represent the United Kingdom minus Northern Ireland, the residents of which often able to choose to play for either Ireland or the UK.
The Team GB branding has been credited with creating a 'team feel', and direct comparisons were made of the performance at the 1996 Olympic Games in which the BOA's representatives won one gold medal, and the 2000 games where Great Britain and Northern Ireland performed under the Team GB name and returned with eleven gold medals.
This team participated in both the qualifying and final Olympic tournaments, as well as in preparatory games leading up to the competition. Some of these games, which served as trial games for players, were played against other British national teams, while the Great Britain team also played a handful of friendlies against national teams that ...
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The Chinese Dàbùlièdiān (Hanzi: 大不列颠) is used for historical purposes to mean 'Great Britain'. The first character means 'Great' and the other three have unrelated meanings, having been selected for the sound instead of meaning. In Chinese, yīngjílì (Simplified characters: 英吉利), a transliteration of English, is also used to ...
Clark’s ability to find teammates even when they don’t think they’re open makes everyone around her better, lifting the team into the top of the Associated Press poll and title talk. She’s ...
A Great British team lined up against another Rest of Europe XI in 1965 for Stanley Matthews' testimonial. Europe won 6–4. [16] A Scotland XI team played a Rest of Great Britain team in a testimonial match for Alan Mullery; Scotland were defeated 3–2 at Craven Cottage on 22 March 1976. [17] [18]
This article lists all Great Britain national teams who play a code of football: United Kingdom national football team; Great Britain men's Olympic football team; Great Britain women's Olympic football team; Great Britain national rugby league team; Great Britain women's national rugby league team; Great Britain women's national rugby union team