Top footie songs revealed

Top footie songs revealed

They are synonymous with football – and they always get the heart pumping faster and the emotions flowing! What are we talking about? Football anthems of course, and the team at Sorted has taken a look at the biggest ‘belters’ of all time to see which one comes top of the money league.

As Gareth Southgate’s gladiators prepare to take on the Ukraine in the quarter-finals of the Euros in Rome tomorrow night, and the likes of Spotify and some well-known radio stations get us in the mood for the big game by playing our favourite numbers 24-7, we have teamed up with uSwitch to get a steer on a subject dear to all footy fans. And our findings may just surprise you.

For starters, anyone who was around when England in 1996, when the Three Lions reached the semi-final stages of the tournament, will think the song penned by David Badiel and Frank Skinner, coincidentally called Three Lions, would win this contest by a landslide. Well, you’d be wrong. It comes in as the runner-up.

And New Order devotees, who think World in Motion, the anthem used when England made the 1990 World Cup last four, will be top dog, will also have to scratch their heads and think again. For this song only registers third in the pecking order.

Nope. The biggest football anthem of all time is none other than the 1963 classic You’ll Never Walk Alone, performed by Gerry and the Pacemakers. We all know it as the song sung by Liverpool and Celtic fans whenever their heroes take to the pitch. Well, it comfortably wins the title of the greatest money-spinner, bringing in more than £128,500 in royalties from more than 54 million plays on Spotify.

So, for your benefit, here is the list of the top eight footy songs of all time (for the time being)!

  1. Gerry and the Pacemakers – You’ll Never Walk Alone (1963)
  2. Badiel. Skinner and The Lightning Seeds – Three Lions (1996)
  3. New Order – World in Motion (1990)
  4. Fat Les – Vindaloo (1998)
  5. Dizzee Rascal and James Corden – Shout for England (2010)
  6. Ant & Dec – We’re on the Ball (2002)
  7. Grandad Roberts And His Son Elvis – Meat Pie Sausage Roll (Come on England, Gi’s a Goal) (1998)
  8. Chas and Dave – Hot Shot Tottenham (1987)