| MIDSEASON | In the UK, January in professional football |
| REALMADRID | Spanish professional football club which was recognised as the FIFA Club of the century in the year 2000: 2 wds. |
| IANWRIGHT | Former professional football player who took part in I'm A Celeb in 2019 and hosted Moneyball in the 2020s (3,6) |
| NOTTSCOUNTY | The oldest professional football club in the world (5,6) |
| HAMPDENPARK | Home ground of the only amateur club in the Scottish Professional Football League |
| ARIZONACARDINALS | The oldest continuously-run professional football team in the United States (7,9) |
| STJOHNSTONE | The only British professional football club with the letter J in its name (2,9) |
| FOGUERON | Local name for a bonfire, mid-January in Mallorca sees many of these lit in the streets to celebrate the fiestas of Sant Antoni and Saint Sebastian (8) |
| JUVENTUS | Professional football club based in Turin whose nickname is Vecchia Signora ('the Old Lady') (8) |
| LALIGA | Top professional football division in Spain, corresponding to the English Premier League (2,4) |
| LEXI | _ Porter, the youngest female footballer in England to sign a professional football contract (4) |
| ALN | This is the abbreviation of a famous professional football club based in Riyadh. (1,1,1) |
| IVAN | Identify the first name of this former legend who is the only man in professional tennis history to have a match winning percentage of over 90% in five different years. (4) |
| REAL | - Madrid; professional football club based in Spain (4) |
| AJAX | Dutch professional football club based in Amsterdam (4) |
| RAITHROVERS | The professional football team of Kirkcaldy, Fife |
| SUPERSUNDAY | When the professional football season ends |
| VANCOUVER | Canadian city whose professional football team are the Whitecaps (9) |
| EDMONTON | Canadian city whose professional football team is the Elks |
| STOKE | Premier League side, the world's second oldest professional football club (after Notts County) (5) |
