So I wrote a long comment in a different subreddit, and thought I'd expand a bit here, some of you might like it. Some of you are surely aware that there are rather... weird sounding club names on the continent. Outstanding is BSC Young Boys, which play in Wankdorf stadium - it's always a delight when they play against an English-speaking team ;) So I thought I'd write up a little guide.

As a background, early Swiss Soccer was heavily influenced by English merchants - moreso than, say, German soccer. FC St. Gallen is the first club in continental Europe, and its founders were pretty much influenced by young englishmen going to the same schools as them. The region had many English merchants trading in high quality embroideries, and some parts of the higher classes were basically speaking English for a while. When the Swiss league was founded, the city had three clubs - Blue Stars St. Gallen, which was exclusively speaking English at all times, FC St. Gallen for the protestant middle class, and FC Brühl for the Catholic lower classes. Blue stars ceased to exist, but FC St. Gallen is still in the highest league and FC Brühl in the third highest..

Grasshoppers Club Zürich were actually founded by an Englishman, and it seems like there were a few other teams in England using the name, one that is documented was a Rugby club called Grasshoppers Preston. But anyway, their name is even funnier when you consider that - like many continental clubs such as Bayern and Barcelona - they also have more or less successful departments of other sports, among them Ice Hockey and Handball, two sports definitely not played on grass.

Young Boys (Full Name: Berner Sport Club Young Boys, or BSC YB) actually took the name from the BSC Old Boys from Basel (which still plays in the second or third highest league). Old Boys seems to be a common-ish name at the times for former students - "old boys" of a school. CA Newell's Old Boys in Argentina even included the name of their favorite teacher. However, Young Boys were founded by a group of high school students, so the name would not have fit. They actually played their first season or so as a "student club" for a bigger team, but separated quickly into their own entity.

Also great is SC Young Fellows Juventus, commonly called YF Juventus, a club wtih an excellent youth department in Zurich. They were a merger in 1992 between the Young Fellows Zürich and the Società Calcistica Italiana Juventus Zurigo, so they actually combine two languages in their name. Unsurprisingly, Young Fellows was a club of the upper middle class to upper class, but Juventus was the team of the Italian working class in Zurich, so their marriage was actually quite a surprise, but financially necessary.

FC Black Stars Basel, in the fourth highest league, borrowed its name from an English club that apparently was playing really good at the time.

I can't actually find any name history for FC Blue Stars Zürich, which I bet would be interesting since they are hosting a big youth soccer tournament since about 80 years, now in partnership with FIFA. They only play in the fifth highest league, but their youth dpartment seems to be quite good, and once a year plays against top youth teams at their cup. Maybe it's related to Blue Stars St. Gallen?

Looking to Austria, you got FK Austria Wien, they were actually founded with a German name (Wiener Amateur-Sportverein) and only changed the name in the 20ies. However, they were founded as a split from the Vienna Cricket and Football Club, which, of course, was founded by English merchants and students. While Austria Wien had and has a lot of success, the Cricket and Football Club did not, after the split, and was dissolved around 1933.

First Vienna FC was founded by a mix of English and Austrian players, and enjoyed moderate success for a while, but is now playing in the third league. Interestingly, their crest is inspired by the Isle of Man crest, because they were co-founded by a Manxian. The first actually refers to them being the first club founded in Vienna, a naming theme you're seeing in many German clubs (1. FC Köln) as well.

(Fun fact: Austria Wien lost a few of its top players in its early years to the American Soccer League... MLS, anyone?)

so...

In closing, weird English names in Swiss and Austrian soccer show an important part of soccer history. It was vastly spread by travelling and residing English people, mostly merchants and students. English soccer at the time was still young, of course, but the reputation of its clubs carried to weird places. If you dig around club history, you'll find the influence everywhere. FC Barcelona's colors were, according to the club suggested by one of the co-founders to be the same as his college rugby team. The main founder, Joan/Johann Gamper, a Swiss merchant, agreed, not the least because the colors mirrored the one's of his favorite swiss clubs, FC Basel and FC Excelsior Zürich, now part of FC Zürich.

I'd like to encourage you to dig around soccer history. It's truly baffling and interesting, mirroring world history at the times.

Thank you for reading.