It wasn’t until the late seventies when the four leaf clover became the emblem emblazoned on the strip, and has been since used to the present day as the club crest. It was on that day that an Irish priest, Brother Wilfrid, gathered his fellow believers there and suggested that they organize a soccer club. The original Celtic logo depicted a green Celtic cross (a thick shape with a ring behind the two lines. The preliminary selection was made with help from journalist and historian Rodolfo Rodrigues, author of the book Badges of Football Teams of the Entire World.

Well, it was our honorary member whose name did not require to go into the hat – one of our parish priests.The most popular away strip ever worn by the club also featured the large green 3 leaf shamrock as late as the early 60s. The obverse inscribed Celtic Football Club, 1908, the reverse inscribed Presented By The Directors Of Celtic F.

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the club’s existence, they adopted this logo: a white circle with a lot of green elements. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. None the less the removal of the badge from the article came across as rather pompous and humourless. So I liked your new badge so much I got it tattooed on my leg at the weekend, like yourself I had my doubts because the original badge is so close to my heart but I love your re-design its different and unique but also very original, so thanks a lot for the inspiration.Celtic’s shirts did not feature a regular badge until 1977 (based on a badge that first appeared on the cover of their 50th [Golden] Jubilee Dinner menu in 1938), upon which most of their subsequent badges have been based. The judges who participated in the election, plus four judges from ESPORTE FINO, were: Everaldo Marques (ESPN Brazil), Helena Jacob (journalist, graphical teacher of design and master in semiotics), Mauricio Noriega (SporTV), Mauro Beting (Bandeirantes Radio, TV Band, BandSports) and Rodolfo Rodrigues (journalist and historian, author of the book, Badges of Football Teams of the Entire World). Celtic, nicknamed The Bhoys and The Hoops, is the football club from Scotland, which was established in 1888. Redesigning the badge of such an iconic football club (with some of the most devoted supporters in the world) was a daunting task, even if my alterations were only for fun. The club’s wordmark, “The Celtic Football Club”, is written in a lightweight sans-serif typeface with thin clean lines and placed on the upper part of the badge’s frame, arched from the center.

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.Having studied our early years it’s clear that although badges were not as prominent as they are today in recognising a brand we did use the Celtic Cross, the harp, and the 3 leafed shamrock. Its a metal crest badge with a stud fixed you can wear them on your shirt scarf bag or anywhere else you can think to put them.

My father told me that Kelly made two meaningful contributions to Celtic: (1) he successfully defended the right to fly the flag above the old jungle; (2) he brought back the big man to Celtic Park. Today the strongest and one of the oldest Scottish clubs are managed by Neil Lennon and has Ian Bankier is the chairman. The only significant change to the badge was that the name around the badge now stated “ The Celtic Football Club” as against “ The Celtic Football and Athletic Coy. In season 1987-88, to celebrate the club’s centenary the club did a one-off redesign of the badge reverting it to include the old Celtic Cross which was the symbol on the original Celtic badge when the club was formed back in 1888.In 1988, the club celebrated their centenary with a badge derived from the Celtic cross of their very first badge. The Celtic Handbook from 1938 has the new badge on the front cover for the first time instead of advertising and the logo was the same on the 50th year Jubilee Dinner in the Grosvenor Hotel.