Football team names are among the most frequently used passwords online, the study found

Football team names are among the 200 most common passwords in the world used by Internet users for various online services, according to a survey conducted for the fifth year in a row by NordPass, the developer of a digital access code manager for businesses and consumers.

Of the 35 countries surveyed, the UK has the highest number of internet users using passion for a club or football-related terms to use as a password. In the top twenty are: Liverpool (4th), Arsenal (6th), Chelsea (10th), Football Club (12th), Rangers (Scotland, 20th).

In Portugal, research (and full verification) points to a curious fact, where the name Benfica appears twice among the 20 most used passwords: Benfica (8th) and Benfica 91 (20th).

Despite being a football country, sports-related topics in Brazil are not among the most popular passwords. The most commonly used are “admin” and “123456”, with Brazilians preferring numeric sequences, reflecting a global trend (nearly a third – 31% – of the world’s most common passwords consist of combinations of numbers).

Check below the football-related names most used as passwords, according to the study: