| DUNDEE | Scottish city with two professional football clubs (6) |
| ABERDEEN | Scottish city with a ferry to Shetland |
| FULHAM | London's oldest professional football club, established 1879 (6) |
| MADRID | Spanish professional football club that plays its home games at Estadio Santiago Bernabeu (4,6) |
| POMPEY | Nickname of Portsmouth, England (or its professional football club) |
| VERONA | Italian city (with two gentlemen) (6) |
| UNITED | Word associated with the names of many British football clubs (6) |
| ANKARA | City in Turkey home to football clubs Hacettepe and Genclerbirligi (6) |
| GREECE | Olympiacos and Panathinaikos are leading football clubs in this country (6) |
| SOCCER | Football clubs taken in by amendment to score (6) |
| TURKEY | Country whose football clubs include Besiktas and Galatasaray (6) |
| LATICS | The ...... , nickname of football clubs Wigan Athletic and Oldham Athletic (6) |
| LALIGA | Top men's professional football division of Spain, founded in 1929 (2,4) |
| HEARTS | Midlothian football club's nickname (6) |
| FRANCE | Football club's drawn in controlled Eastern country (6) |
| STJOHNSTONE | The only British professional football club with the letter J in its name (2,9) |
| REAL | Spanish professional football club that plays its home games at Estadio Santiago Bernabeu (4,6) |
| AJAX | Dutch professional football club based in Amsterdam (4) |
| STOKE | Premier League side, the world's second oldest professional football club (after Notts County) (5) |
| REALMADRID | Spanish professional football club which was recognised as the FIFA Club of the century in the year 2000: 2 wds. |
