" :In England, the team is always referred to as ""England"", or ""the England team"", and almost never ""the English team"". ""England"" is the name of the team and it is a national football team. We use ""Manchester City football club"" instead of ""Mancunian Metropolitan football club"". This also helps us avoid problems with teams where the adjective is not the best way to describe the team; to quote from talk:England national football team: ::""It also makes the pages easier to follow if all the international team pages take their national name rather than the associated adjective - what do you call someone from New
" :In England, the team is always referred to as ""England"", or ""the England team"", and almost never ""the English team"". ""England"" is the name of the team and it is a national football team. We use ""Manchester City football club"" instead of ""Mancunian Metropolitan football club"". This also helps us avoid problems with teams where the adjective is not the best way to describe the team; to quote from talk:England national football team: ::""It also makes the pages easier to follow if all the international team pages take their national name rather than the associated adjective - what do you call someone from New Zealand