Which are the most unlikely foreign supporters’ clubs in football?

“Just saw The Graun has an article about some English non-league team having a Norwegian supporters’ club,” tweets Alba Punk. “What’s the smallest British or Irish team with a foreign supporters’ club?”

“I thought I’d mention Fisher FC’s Norwegian supporters’ club,” writes Kevin Harris of the south-east London side. “I haven’t been to see the Fish for a couple of years now as I don’t live in the area but the Norwegians did turn up on multiple occasions to visit the SCEFL Premier League club – Step 5 in the non-league system. Looking at this season’s stats, Fisher are averaging crowds of around 150. Norwegians seem to go to extreme lengths to escape those long, dark winters.”

Meanwhile, “my team, Torquay United, are sadly now firmly ensconced in the non-league pyramid,” laments Tom Paternoster-Howe. “And may well find ourselves in the sixth tier next season. However, there is an active Norwegian Torquay supporters’ club. They are a lovely bunch of people and very committed – indeed, travelling from Norway to Torquay to watch the fare dished up at Plainmoor suggests that maybe they should be committed.”

Until Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds intervened, Wrexham might well have been a contender for this category. Nowadays, the popularity of their Disney+ streaming content is so high as to annoy those in MLS. Still, the Las Vegas Wrexham Supporters’ Club only has 95 followers on Facebook.

The current Highland League leaders, Buckie Thistle, have one known American fan, who just happens to be horrormeister Stephen King, who picked the club for a mention in his 2020 book If It Bleeds for their “gorgeous name”. Whether the erstwhile Richard Bachman has set up a supporters’ club is as yet unknown and awaiting confirmation from