"United" forms part of many association football teams names, usually, and originally in England, when two or more clubs merged and became united. The first club to use the term is believed to be Hanover United, formed in 1873. Below is a list of professional clubs in order of when the name was first used, with the year it first came into use next to it;

• Sheffield United (1889)
• Newcastle United (1892)
• Scunthorpe United (1899)
• Torquay United (1899)
• West Ham United (1900)
• Manchester United (1902)
• Carlisle United (1903)
• Southend United (1906)
• Leeds United (1919)
• Hereford United (1924)
• Rotherham United (1925)
• Peterborough United (1934)
• Colchester United (1937)
• Cambridge United (1951)
• Oxford United (1956)
• Hartlepool United (1977)
• F.C. United of Manchester (2005)
• Hayes & Yeading United (2007)

Outside of English football, some other professional clubs in countries around the world have used United in their name while playing the same sport, this includes;

• Ayr United (1910)
• Drogheda United (1919)
• Dundee United (1923)
• Galway United (1981)
• D.C. United (1995)
• Tampere United (1998)
• Newcastle United Jets (2000)
• Airdrie United (2002)
• Adelaide United (2003)
• KVSK United (2003)
• Incheon United (2004)
• Jeju United (2006)
• Gold Coast United (2008)

The term has also been used by rugby union clubs:

• United Rugby Club (2005)
• Rugby United, the old name of Rugby Town F.C. (1956)

Verb

united

1. Simple past tense and past participle of unite.

Adjective

united (not comparable)

1. Joined into a single entity.
2. Involving the joint activity of multiple agents.

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