The best club crests

Fart

Gorilla Rising wrote: »

Sampdoria crest is pretty cool too.

That always reminds me of a homeless man smoking a pipe.

batistuta9

Gorilla Rising wrote: »

Sampdoria crest is pretty cool too.

i know their name & colours are because of a merger between two teams but what is it supposed to be in the middle

wiki says
"The club crest features a sailor in profile known by the old Genoese name of Baciccia, which translates to Giovanni Battista in Italian or John-Baptist in English. The image of a sailor is appropriate due to Sampdoria being based in the port city of Genoa."

is that right? i can't see it, well the hat & pipe (kind of) thought it looked more like a gavel

Gorilla Rising

batistuta9 wrote: »

i know their name & colours are because of a merger between two teams but what is it supposed to be in the middle

wiki says
"The club crest features a sailor in profile known by the old Genoese name of Baciccia, which translates to Giovanni Battista in Italian or John-Baptist in English. The image of a sailor is appropriate due to Sampdoria being based in the port city of Genoa."

is that right? i can't see it, well the hat & pipe (kind of) thought it looked more like a gavel

Well I wouldn't be 100% on the history myself, but it's always looked like it's supposed to me.

LOI Stats

We seem to have a knack for decent crests.

celtictiger32

http://www.soccer-ireland.com/football-images/team-crests/shamrock-celtic.jpg

Will I Amnt

LOI Stats wrote: »

We seem to have a knack for decent crests.

Not always. I hated this

Dubliner28

Big Knox wrote: »

IMO the new Everton crest will look tidy on the actual jerseys.

Everton fans get their wish on the clubs crest. Thank god. That is horrible

http://www.evertonfc.com/news/archive/2013/05/28/a-message-to-evertonians

Ittihad FC from the Saudi Premier League have a class one:

bohsfan

Dubliner28 wrote: »

Everton fans get their wish on the clubs crest. Thank god. That is horrible

http://www.evertonfc.com/news/archive/2013/05/28/a-message-to-evertonians

Quite the turnaround there from the club. It's too late for them to make any changes for the upcoming season though. So, they will be changing the crest this year and once again in a years time. What a shambles.

As a graphic designer, I can see what they were trying to do with the crest. In fact, I think that this representation of the tower is much better than previous attempts. That said- the new design did look a bit off to me, there was just something not quite polished about it...

I had a look at the clubs rationale for the new design online. It mentioned that the work was carried out by an internal team and deliberately didn't enlist any external design help. I can't help but feel if they had opened up their team to make use of an external agency they would have got a better outcome.

Sometimes you can be too close to something and end up doing more harm than good.

eagle eye

I'm a Blackburn Rovers fan and I think our crest is one of the best. The Columbus Crew is the best of the newer ones for sure imo.

I always like the Bohs one too and Feyenoord's one is good too.

DazMarz

D.C. United have a very nice crest



Benfica's is epic too

Diabhal Beag

callaway92

~Rebel~ wrote: »

The PSG one

It's easy on the eye alright but I never understood the baby falling into a pram from the Eiffel Tower :eek:

Boots234

Always liked the old Middlesbrough crest, I'm not sure how to upload a picture on this site.....

dan1895

Love the old Shels one.

bradlente

GavRedKing wrote: »

I like Oldhams one.

Oldham Owl is not impressed.

Diabhal Beag

callaway92 wrote: »

It's easy on the eye alright but I never understood the baby falling into a pram from the Eiffel Tower :eek:

It was a Nostradamus prediction into a future Prime Time special.

Jelle1880

callaway92 wrote: »

It's easy on the eye alright but I never understood the baby falling into a pram from the Eiffel Tower :eek:

It's the royal cradle and the fleur-de-lys from coat of arms of Saint-Germaine, one of two clubs that formed PSG.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Blason_Saint-Germain-en-Laye.svg

keith16

Boots234 wrote: »

Always liked the old Middlesbrough crest, I'm not sure how to upload a picture on this site.....

This one?



I'm a big fan of the Italy one.

batistuta9

keith16 wrote: »

I'm a big fan of the Italy one.

i think this ones better






old Roma

losthorizon

Fart wrote: »

That always reminds me of a homeless man smoking a pipe.

But do you know who it is? As it represents a real person.

YouTookMyName

bradlente wrote: »

Oldham Owl is not impressed.

vicwatson

^^^ I would like that crest and others like it but there are way too many claret and blue teams in the EPL.

Red Kev

Always liked the simplicity of 1860 Munich's crest, hardly changed over the years as well.



Olympique Marseille's one has rarely changed too.



Some older East German ones here.

especially like the Lokomotiv Leipzig one....

Sacramento

Sacramento wrote: »

^^^ I would like that crest and others like it but there are way too many claret and blue teams in the EPL.

Only 2. Villa and West Ham.
There was 3 When Burnley were there back in 09/10. Palace were traditionally Claret and Blue but reverted to red and royal around 1974. No one else afaik unless Vinny Tan orders Cardiff to rebrand again.

Wolves have had classy badges down through the years. Simple but nice




This Ireland badge was my favourite of the whole lot. Dunno why they got rid of it. Sometimes simple crests are just the best and this was nice and simple. And also the memories of Italia 90 come flooding back


My Club Arsenal should have at least looked into the possibility of reintroducing either one of these crests instead of our current one

nigeldinho

Finn Harps have had some cracking crests over the years.

Original


50 year anniversary crest.


90's


Current

vicwatson

Sacramento wrote: »

^^^ I would like that crest and others like it but there are way too many claret and blue teams in the EPL.

ambid

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This Ireland badge was my favourite of the whole lot. Dunno why they got rid of it. Sometimes simple crests are just the best and this was nice and simple. And also the memories of Italia 90 come flooding back


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Love this badge. I imagine they must have had problems with copyright as it's so much better than the current crest. The current one is trying to be too clever by integrating a ball and shamrock so neither is especially clear.

The_Kew_Tour

That was my favourite Irish badge too. Have the Euro 88 jersey and looks class on it.

The new one/current one is actually quite nice IMO.

Not big fan of one before it. Looked cheap.

jordainius

TaosHum wrote: »

Bit off topic, but something I've only noticed, but the Israeli FA's crest is quite similar to the ROI's.

It's also quite similar to Arsenal's, just ask Sky Sports News.

Nuri Sahin

Oat23 wrote: »

That was my Ultimate Team 13 club badge when I used to play FIFA 13

Surprised no one has mentioned UNAM (aka the Autobots) badge yet.

New AS Monaco badge

Chip Whitley

New York City FC crest is nice.



But I'm drawn to this designed by a fan, something really nice and unusual about this.



Some nice variations will come up if you Google the crest.

uch

Jaysus, memories, I actually went to see them in Seamer Road years ago, I don't support English Football but I always had a soft spot for them.

Darkglasses wrote: »

The old Scarborough FC crest. Love it

Darkglasses

uch wrote: »

Jaysus, memories, I actually went to see them in Seamer Road years ago, I don't support English Football but I always had a soft spot for them.

Same here, I always kept an eye out for their results until the club folded. If Athletic can climb a few more steps in the ladder I'd take an interest again.

I know, I'm such a glory hunter :pac:

uch

Darkglasses wrote: »

Same here, I always kept an eye out for their results until the club folded. If Athletic can climb a few more steps in the ladder I'd take an interest again.

I know, I'm such a glory hunter :pac:

Yeah, If they could get back to conference level you'd at least see their results in mainstream media. I'd have to root out me auld Jersey for the craic.

8-10

The Incredible Hulk wrote: »

New York City FC crest is nice.



But I'm drawn to this designed by a fan, something really nice and unusual about this.



Some nice variations will come up if you Google the crest.

That fan one is way better than the real one!

I am pie

8-10 wrote: »

That fan one is way better than the real one!

The real one has a bang of Rangers about it!

losthorizon

Gorilla Rising wrote: »

Sampdoria crest is pretty cool too.

Fart wrote: »

That always reminds me of a homeless man smoking a pipe.

The Club is the joining of two different clubs - Doria was named after a person. an admiral - Admiral Doria. Pictured in the Crest.

Always liked St Pats Crest.

uch

Captain Havoc

losthorizon

In the main I dont like the changing of club crests. A bit of History is nice so the Rovers one is good in that respects and the football is old fashioned. I was always very taken with communist era crests as well - you know what you are getting with them. A damn good hammering.

Hamadeusentman

Dynamo Moscow

Meant to resurrect this thread since Everton's crest issues started it all last year. The new one is quite nice..

White Horse

Dubliner28

Pats old one

inforfun

The one in my avatar. Obviously

Sir Gallagher

Captain Havoc wrote: »

Dear god, that Kilkenny one is tragic.