We’ve realised that, unlike Sajid Javid, adhering to common standards can be helpful. We produce, for example, forecasts alongside Jean-Louis Foulley, and we found ourselves disagreeing on the codes, or acronyms, we use for each team. Jean-Louis found that Reuters has a set of codes for teams all around the world, and so we’ve adopted these.
Here are the Premier League ones:
| BOU | AFC Bournemouth |
| ARS | Arsenal |
| AVA | Aston Villa |
| BRH | Brighton & Hove Albion |
| BUR | Burnley |
| CHE | Chelsea |
| CRY | Crystal Palace |
| EVE | Everton |
| LEI | Leicester City |
| LIV | Liverpool |
| MCI | Manchester City |
| MUN | Manchester United |
| NEW | Newcastle United |
| NOR | Norwich City |
| SHU | Sheffield United |
| SOU | Southampton |
| TOT | Tottenham Hotspur |
| WAT | Watford |
| WHU | West Ham United |
| WLV | Wolverhampton Wanderers |
More broadly, you can find out correspondence file here (which includes Soccerbase team names): https://www.dropbox.com/s/c05v92vktntuyyb/acronyms-file.csv?dl=0.