Football Cheers Chants

Cheering On a Winning Team

Football cheers chants should be some of the best a cheerleading team has since for many schools football season involves all of the “big” games. While most high school and college squads also cheer and perform at other sporting events such as basketball games, football often draws the biggest crowds and the biggest dose of school spirit.

If you are a school squad, football cheers and chants will also be used at special events such as homecoming. During this special event, your stadium seats will not only be full of fellow students, but also alumni, faculty and members of the local community as well. For this reason, it’s important to have cheers a wide mix of people will enjoy without leaving time for anyone to be sitting quietly in their seat!

Creating Winning Football Cheers Chants

Since football is a sport that brings an entire campus “family” together, you will want to find out if your squad has any “vintage” cheers that some spectators might remember and cherish. If your school has a fight song, or a traditional set of cheers, you will want to be sure to mix these into your team’s lineup at the next big game.

If you are creating new cheers, think about what will get the audience excited. Is your school known for a certain football victory? What can you throw in about specific opposing teams that will get a chuckle as well as a roar of applause for your own football players? Taking off the gloves by throwing in some fighting words aimed at another team is a favorite technique, but this should always be done with good team spirit and a light heart.

Rhythm is another important aspect of cheer writing. Try to capture a beat your crowd can catch onto easily. Using a pattern and chants that involve repetition from the fans is a fun and popular way to get everyone involved in the cheering action.

With all this being said, you may not want to write your own cheers at all. Especially now with heavier competition seasons than ever before, cheerleading teams are focusing more and more on their dance routines and other aspects of competition more than they are on old-fashioned responsibilities such as home games. If this is the case, try some of the cheers below when it’s time for your next night out at the football field.

Cheers to Use

Select a chant that incorporates your own team’s features, such as:

(Your school name) is here to fight,
We’ll win this game tonight!
We’re here to move,
Get in the groove!
So get em, hey yeah, go get em,
Get em, hey yeah, go get em!
Number __, (Call out one of your player’s numbers.)
Get em, hey yeah, go get em!
Number__, (Call out another player's number,)
Get em, hey yeah, go get em!
Hey (school name),
Go get em, hey yeah, go get em!

You can also use something really simple that a crowd can jump in on:

(Team name) come unite!
Fight, (team), fight!
(Repeat in sets of three.)

Cheers that involve movement and rhythm from both squad and fans are also popular:

Fire it up (clap twice)
Get on up (clap twice),
Fire it up, and up, and up, and up! (stomp twice)
(Repeat)

Lastly, “intimidate” your opponents with a homegrown cheer bragging about your winning team:

Are you ready for us?
For some (Your school initials) football?
We’re here!
Two teams.
One goal!
Our victory’s in sight!
Good luck to you,
From the red, blue and white, (Substitute your own colors.)
Go, (Team name)!

No matter what type of football cheers and chants you choose, enthusiasm counts for a whole lot more. When your squad is united with a great outlook and an ideal amount of energy, you will be able to psych out a crowd with whatever you are shouting out. So get your attitude in check, and be ready to support your home football team through the ups and downs of the season.