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Sports Team
Band United Kingdom Formed 2017
Sports Team formed in 2017 in United Kingdom. Sports Team has 20 chart appearances on 16 radio countdowns from 10 stations on RockLists, spanning 2020–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Bang Bang Bang”, which appears on 5 lists with a best position of #25. The station that charted Sports Team most often is 102.7 WEQX (Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany)), with 8 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2025.
Sports Team make the kind of racket that could only have come out of England, sung in a sneer that turns out to be a grin. The London six-piece formed in 2017, put out the Winter Nets EP in 2018 with "Camel Crew" on it, then delivered the full-length Gulp! in 2022 and Boys These Days in 2025.
Alex Rice fronts the band, with Rob Knaggs on rhythm guitar and vocals, Henry Young on lead guitar, Oli Dewdney on bass, Al Greenwood on drums and Ben Mack on keys. Their subject is Middle England in all its small, unglamorous detail: chain pubs, flip phones, the M5, a quiet afternoon of fishing. Where plenty of bands would sneer at that stuff, Sports Team write it love songs, wry but never snide.
The sound is jittery, shout-along guitar rock with a keyboard glinting underneath, all nervous energy and elbows. "The Drop" carried that spirit off Gulp!, and "Bang Bang Bang" from Boys These Days shows a band that has tightened the screws without losing the grin.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Sports Team on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bang Bang Bang | 5 | #25 | – | 2025 | |
| 2 | The Drop | 5 | #28 | – | 2023 | |
| 3 | Here's The Thing | 1 | #5 | – | 2020 | |
| 4 | The Game | 1 | #8 | – | 2022 | |
| 5 | Happy (God's Own Country) | 1 | #18 | – | 2021 | |
| 6 | Camel Crew | 2 | #41 | – | 2020 | |
| 7 | I'm in Love | 1 | #18 | – | 2025 | |
| 8 | I'm In Love (Subaru) | 2 | #42 | – | 2024 | |
| 9 | Fishing | 1 | #37 | – | 2021 | |
| 10 | Unstuck | 1 | #74 | – | 2022 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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