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3rd October 2023
10:32am BST
Most capital cities around the world have a football club who proudly wears the name of its birthplace.
In Madrid you have Real Madrid, in Paris you have Paris Saint-Germain, Hertha Berlin in Germany, the list goes on.
That's the case for most places - except London and that's for one particular reason.
London is one of the most densely populated capitals in Europe, with only Moscow and Istanbul boasting a higher number of inhabitants and according to the Daily Star, it's vast population plays a role as to why no clubs have London in their name.
Even when football first started to gain popularity in the early 20th century, London was already one of the biggest cities in the world as private schools hosted games. That was before northern clubs began to form and adopt a level of professionalism to the game.
Due to London being so big, each club would represent a local borough or area as oppose to the whole city.
While Crystal Palace claim to be the oldest club to come from London, records show that Fulham are the first club to come from the capital in 1879, then known as Fulham Church St Andrews Sunday School FC.
One club who were very close to including London in their name were Chelsea as founder Gus Mears pondered calling them Blues London FC but opted not to for reasons that remain unknown.
Some clubs do have London written on their club badge - West Ham United being one of them.
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