Longest name on the back of a football shirt

Posted on January 13th, 2008 in Football Stories by admin

What is the longest player name that has ever been used on the back of a team’s football kit for a players name. We’ll pick up one contender for the title who appeared today as a substitute for Blackburn Rovers against Bolton in the 2-1 win at the Reebok. Zurab Khizanishvili. If you know of a longer name that has been on the back of a players shirt then please let us know. For working out if anyone else is longer, Khizanishvili is thirteen letters long. Updated: Sewey89 found Jakub Blaszczykowski  which is fourteen letters.venegoor of hesselink celtic

Longest player name on a football kit:

Updated to Venegoor of Hesselink, do all nineteen characters appear on his regular Celtic shirt?

We’ll update the page each time somebody comes up with a longer name, now looking for a single word longer than Blaszczykowski.

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  1. asha da basha said,

    venegoor of hesselink at celtic?

  2. jo3 g!ll said,

    how about david lee johnson -smith- harold of boston utd

  3. Federici said,

    The longest name is Venegoor of Hesselink. No doubt about that!

  4. keizy12 said,

    Sno From Celtic ;) :L
    I Kidd,
    I Will Agree With Big Vennegoor:D

  5. Felipe said,

    Juninho Pernambucano was close…

  6. sewey89 said,

    jakub blaszczykowski - he plays for borussia dortmund, i came across him whilst playing football manager! its 14 letters

    i found one picture where the name was on the shirt but i dont know how to post pictures! :S

  7. alex said,

    sewey89 just paste a link to the image in a comment, someone will change it to be an image for you i’m sure. I found a picture but looks like he uses Kuba on this shirt:

  8. sewey89 said,

    i think this is him playing for his old team, or for poland, but you can see that he’s got his name on the shirt!

  9. alex said,

    good find sewey89

  10. Micah said,

    I can only match that, but you win as i only have his name and i’m unable to find a picture with his name on his shirt. The Name: Rabesandratana, Eric, an ex-PSG defender. I saw his name in Match of the day magazine.

  11. Toothy said,

    Not too sure about this one, but im guessin it is…

    Ibrahim Ba

  12. Artek said,

    Here are some pics of Blaszczykowski’s jersey while playing for the NT of Poland. In Wisla Krakow he also had his full name on the back back once he moved to Borussia it was to hard for Germans to say it so her went with Kuba :p

  13. Kovas06 said,

    I Can only equal as well with Schweinsteiger

  14. MiKi said,

    I couldn’t find a picture, but I’m pretty sure that when he played in Spain, the Argentinian goalkeeper Montoya used to wear:
    “EL MONO”
    NAVARRO MONTOYA
    1

  15. sargon barkho said,

    how about Socratis Papastathopoulos from AEK Athens?

  16. marconifc said,

    Andrés Guglielminpietro, played for AC Milan, Inter and Boca Juniors. thats 16 letters.

  17. sargon barkho said,

    i have found a better one actually than my previous one- Lazaros Christodoulopoulos from PAOK Thessaloniki- thats 18 letters

  18. admin said,

    sargon have you managed to find an image with that on?

  19. mr tee said,

    there was a professional footballer from Thailand who used to play in Singapore. his name was Surachai Jatturapatarapong.. beat that!

  20. sargon barkho said,

    i tried to look for it for a while now but rumour has it that he heading to west ham united, so i might be able to get one soon. but i have searched google images and i have found his profile, with a front view picture only. :(

  21. Rozzza said,

    Hathairattanakool (thailand goalkeeper)

  22. LFClondon said,

    Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is the longest team name. They are a welsh team

  23. LFClondon said,

    THAT’S 58 LETTERS!!

  24. catman said,

    clifsenghpourburgersue under 19 germany captain

  25. s said,

    luazaoderoasidefrescana

  26. Joran said,

    The longest name is defenitely: Marcio Markiowsczkynovicov player of Dynamo Buceresti!!

  27. w anker said,

    omar dentest-ipolocko-geneeveski-wertascliffe beat that!! plays for andorran national team

  28. MCN RFC said,

    Eleftheropoulos the Greek Goalie

  29. meeshoo said,

    this player must beat some names in here.unfortunately no pictures.
    Charles Olivier Solofonomenjanahary

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