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

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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. For the anniversary of the club, the badge switched its colors and the clover with the frame became bright green, while the lettering — white. 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 leaves of the clover feature a unique striped pattern, which makes the whole logo modern and crispy. At the same time, the team remains the top team in the country, consistently winning the Scottish Cup and the Scottish Cup.

C., but I equally appreciate and admire its supporters, most especially the ones I have met on Celtic buses. Therefore, 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.

My father was president of the club, season ticket holder and one of three delegates of the Celtic Supporters Association. Their 2-1 European Cup victory over Inter Milan made Celtic the first British and only Scottish club to have achieved the honour. Established in 1888, Celtic has become one of the most adorned and respected football clubs in the world.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Still it’s the earliest use by the club of the symbol and a likely forerunner of the official badge. The current version of the logo was designed in 1995 and was replaced by the 125-years anniversary badge for one year, in 1012.One story that does the rounds for the reason the 4 leaf took over from the 3 leaf was that Desmond White and local delegates from the Celtic Supporters Association admired the Bonnybridge CSC club logo so much they asked for permission to adopt it.

In a book about the legendary Celtic defender James 'Dun' Hay (by his grandson Roy Hay – 'The Story of a Footballer' 2004) the above photo appears confirming that this was the design used on medals issued by the club to the players who won every major trophy available in Scotland that year, the first time this had been done.I was one of the very first to cast eyes on the Badge when I sat on my father’s knee on a Celtic bus in Bonnybridge and I was only two years old. At present, the earliest known official usage recorded of the four-leaf clover badge has been traced back to 1935 when the badge was printed on the back of a season-ticket book.

On Monday positions 50 to 41 were revealed and today we reveal the top ten football badges in the world as voted by the blog over the last few months. The original Celtic logo depicted a green Celtic cross (a thick shape with a ring behind the two lines. This whole ReBrand project was first inspired by my toying around with the iconic Celtic badge over over many years. 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.Along the top of the resulting green frame, they’ve written the club’s name – ‘the Celtic Football Club’ – in white letters.