Sports Clubs
Various football clubs may be known, formally or informally, as the Magpies:
Australia
- Collingwood Magpies, Australian Football League club
- Hay Magpies, rugby league club based in the New South Wales town of Hay
- Port Adelaide Magpies, South Australian National Football League club
- Souths Logan Magpies, a Queensland Cup club
- Western Suburbs Magpies, a NSWRL Premier League club
- Western Magpies Australian Football Club, an AFL Queensland State League club
- Western Suburbs Magpies AFC, Australian rules football club in Sydney
Britain
- Chorley F.C., English football club
- Newcastle United F.C., English football club
- Notts County F.C., English football club
- Maidenhead United F.C., English football club
Malta
- Rabat Ajax F.C., Maltese football club
United States
- New York Magpies
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