Glasgow Celtic FC Football Club Metal Pin Badge Crest Logo Emblem Official

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Below images are from an advert for Admission Tickets in the Glasgow Observer dated 22nd August 1891. Today the team is considered to be the strongest in Scotland, taking the leading position in the Scottish Premier League. The leaves of the clover feature a unique striped pattern, which makes the whole logo modern and crispy.

With these chosen finalists, the second phase of the project was to invite journalists and design specialists to judge the badges.For the anniversary of the club, the badge switched its colors and the clover with the frame became bright green, while the lettering — white. However, it was not for many years before the club did formally adopt the four leafed clover as the official club badge, but the first steps had already been taken. After the 2007/08 season, the star was retained and the badge remained the same until 2012/13 season, when Celtic celebrated their 125th anniversary by using a 1994 badge encircled by an attractive Celtic knot and an alternative badge featuring a Celtic cross. I have mixed feelings about this one, I have always been a massive fan of the clover and the inclusion of black to help things stand out. There are some cracking stories about the memorable characters and situations that developed over the years as we travelled on Celtic business.

During the first half of the twentieth century, the club’s home strip lacked a badge, but their away tops featured a large three-leafed shamrock from time to time between 1925 and 1965. The old traditional Celtic Cross badge made a re-appearance in the ‘Centenary Season’ (1987-88), and again in 2003 to celebrate 100 years of the Hoops top.As ever, I am indebted to Dave at Historical Football Kits for some of the historical information used above. Evidence has been found since this article was initially written that the Celtic four leafed clover badge was used officially even earlier in 1935, see below]. This seems to have been a one off and was down to the club winning four trophies and not three as there are no other examples of the 4 leaf being used until 1938.

All were informed that the idea was to choose the best looking badge, independent of their support for the clubs. Obviously the club’s symbols and colours are Irish befitting of our humble beginnings but many probably don’t know that we only started using the hoops in 1903 after wearing green and white stripes before then and of course the original white top with green collar and Celtic cross on the right breast for the first season only.

Well, it was our honorary member whose name did not require to go into the hat – one of our parish priests. During the amendment, there was even speculative consideration by Fergus McCann (the then Chief Executive) of possibly changing the crest at one short point, but thankfully was never taken any further see article. One possible theory is that it is possible that if Celtic had won only the three then a three-leafed clover would have been used likely gone on to become the club emblem.

The team also wore an away strip with a large three-leafed shamrock as the badge in the fifties, but then all the strips were without a crest on the strip. Unfortunately for Fergus his idea didn’t take into consideration the strength of feeling amongst the Celtic support and it didn’t get off the ground. The Celtic logo is composed of a stylized clover image, enclosed in a wide circular frame with a white background and a double green outline. I saw a reference in The Celt fanzine some time ago to there being an earlier four leaf clover emblem used by the club. The competition started with the blog team making a short-list of team badges as our chosen judges would have gone crazy if they had to look at all the team badges from all the teams on the planet.

Clear examples of the 3 leaf being used until then was the large green 3 leaf shamrock glass plaque in honour of John Thomson along with the large 3 leaf shamrock used on his goalkeeper top which was common at that time. At the outset of its formation club membership was heavily over subscribed considering that buses were rationed and not readily available, then not every member was guaranteed a place on the bus. In addition to these highlights, for three consecutive seasons (2016/17, 2017/18 and 2018/19), Celtic have won every domestic trophy on offer (nine), completing the first Scottish ‘treble-treble’ (no other Scottish side has even won the domestic treble in two consecutive seasons). The Athletic aspect covered that in the original days the board likely wished to attract other events to the club as well as football to broaden the club’s mandate as well as to generate revenue (e. As of the end of the 2018/19 season, their honours include being crowned Scottish champions on 50 occasions, 39 Scottish Cups and 18 Scottish League Cups.