The club badge

[pushpinpussy]

Does anyone have any idea why our club badge came to be how it is and more importantly I have always wandered who sort of invented or designed it.

[Devils_Advocate]

In 1934, then manager Tom Bromilow thought that it would be a good idea for Burnley to have a club crest like his home town club Liverpool. The club ran a competition through the local paper to design and weave a badge with the winning entry being chosen as the official club badge.

Tom selected the winner himself and it was a woman who worked at the Queen St Mill (cant remember her name). In 1935 it offically became the first club badge of Burnley FC

[Lip]

Does anyone have any idea why our club badge came to be how it is and more importantly I have always wandered who sort of invented or designed it.

You wander quite a lot don't you PP

[Lip]

In 1934, then manager Tom Bromilow thought that it would be a good idea for Burnley to have a club crest like his home town club Liverpool. The club ran a competition through the local paper to design and weave a badge with the winning entry being chosen as the official club badge.

Tom selected the winner himself and it was a woman who worked at the Queen St Mill (cant remember her name). In 1935 it offically became the first club badge of Burnley FC

Can you post a link to this information please DA ?

[ClaretTony]

Can you post a link to this information please DA ?

That’s a load of nonsense from DA. The original club badge was introduced around 1973, the club’s first ever official badge.

It was replaced in 2010 with the current one.

[Lip]

That’s a load of nonsense from DA. The original club badge was introduced around 1973, the club’s first ever official badge.

It was replaced in 2010 with the current one.

Just what I thought Tony.

[Row x]

That’s a load of nonsense from DA. The original club badge was introduced around 1973, the club’s first ever official badge.

It was replaced in 2010 with the current one.

I'm looking at a picture of the early 60s championship winning team, their shirts have a badge on. Was it just referred to a team badge in those days?

[Barlickclaret]

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[Row x]

Interesting read

https://www.designyourway.net/blog/burnley-logo/?amp=1

[NewClaret]

Looks very much like Alan Pace is a traditionalist and switched it back to the 1935 version, looking at that chart!

[Loyalclaret]

Interesting read

https://www.designyourway.net/blog/burnley-logo/?amp=1

Reads like something produced by ChatGPT

[Row x]

Reads like something produced by ChatGPT

Is it wrong then?

[AGENT_CLARET]

That’s a load of nonsense from DA. The original club badge was introduced around 1973, the club’s first ever official badge.

It was replaced in 2010 with the current one.

It was first used in 1979

[California Colner]

For me I would prefer the 69 / 75 BFC
I don’t like our current one at all

[THEWELLERNUT70]

In 1934, then manager Tom Bromilow thought that it would be a good idea for Burnley to have a club crest like his home town club Liverpool. The club ran a competition through the local paper to design and weave a badge with the winning entry being chosen as the official club badge.

Tom selected the winner himself and it was a woman who worked at the Queen St Mill (cant remember her name). In 1935 it offically became the first club badge of Burnley FC

Brilliant

[mikeS]

1947 cup final shirt had the crest.

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[Loyalclaret]

Is it wrong then?

You have to read until 'The meaning behind the Burnley logo' before the article actually says anything. Then it details the Phoenix, there are posters on here with far more knowledge about our history than me but I have only ever seen it described as stork?

[Row x]

You have to read until 'The meaning behind the Burnley logo' before the article actually says anything. Then it details the Phoenix, there are posters on here with far more knowledge about our history than me but I have only ever seen it described as stork?

I was more interested in the dates different badges were used, which seems to be backed up by the post which appeared whist I was posting the article

[Loyalclaret]

Other than the colour code (not sure if they are correct) and trade marks, it is hundreds of words that has nothing to do with Burnley FC - guess everyone's interesting is different.

[sjb]

That’s a load of nonsense from DA. The original club badge was introduced around 1973, the club’s first ever official badge.

It was replaced in 2010 with the current one.

It was indeed 1973. The club ran a competition to design the new badge and it was won by a gentleman called Edward Jolleys who lived in Ashton On Ribble. (And this is true unlike that Tom Bromilow rubbish posted by the usual suspects above).

[ClaretTony]

I'm looking at a picture of the early 60s championship winning team, their shirts have a badge on. Was it just referred to a team badge in those days?

They wore the County Borough of Burnley Coat of Arms.

[Lip]

Wrong thread Tony.

[Row x]

They wore the County Borough of Burnley Coat of Arms.

It looks very much like the one we used from 2009 till last year. Not being an expert on these things I take it there's some difference in the two?

[Rowls]

Tommy Bromilow's Claret and Blue Army
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Tommy Bromilow's Claret and Blue Army
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[ClaretTony]

It looks very much like the one we used from 2009 till last year. Not being an expert on these things I take it there's some difference in the two?

We used the County Borough Coat of Arms in the 2009/10 season. That wasn't anything to do with getting into the Premier League but was added to the kit that year to commemorate the 50th anniversary of winning the league although in the title winning season we had no badge on the shirt.

Because we'd been in the Premier League, it was Brendan Flood who thought it was worth keeping that badge but we changed it, added Burnley Football Club on the bottom and adopted it as the new club badge.

[IanMcL]

https://worldsoccerpins.com/historical- ... urnley-fc/

[RammyClaret61]

Tommy Bromilow's Claret and Blue Army
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Tommy Bromilow's Claret and Blue Army
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Don’t you mean…
TommyBromilow'sClaretandBlueArmy TommyBromilow'sClaretandBlueArmy TommyBromilow'sClaretandBlueArmy TommyBromilow'sClaretandBlueArmy
With constant clapping!!!

[Row x]

We used the County Borough Coat of Arms in the 2009/10 season. That wasn't anything to do with getting into the Premier League but was added to the kit that year to commemorate the 50th anniversary of winning the league although in the title winning season we had no badge on the shirt.

Because we'd been in the Premier League, it was Brendan Flood who thought it was worth keeping that badge but we changed it, added Burnley Football Club on the bottom and adopted it as the new club badge.

Thanks, the squad photo I have must have been taken the season after, because they have the badge on.
You wouldn't think a shirt badge would be so complicated

[Hipper]

According to the football kit archive site we first used a badge - not our current badge - on our kit in the 1887/88 season. The same badge was used for the next two seasons only and then once more in 1894-95.

The 1914 FA Cup winners team photo is with badges and it looks like they wore them on the day of the match too.

The next time a badge appeared was in 1934-35 on a special kit for the FA Cup semi-final. This badge looks broadly similar to the one we know.

We also wore a badge for the 1946-47 Cup Final.

It doesn't seem to have been worn during the 1959-60 season (see pre-season team photo) but the team photo of the League Champions has them with badges.

In 1960-61 we arrive at the badge we all know.

On our football programmes the badge starts appearing in the 1952/53 season.

https://www.footballkitarchive.com/burnley-kits/#1880s

https://www.ecosia.org/images?addon=edg ... +cup+final+

http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/English ... -1949.html

https://www.ecosia.org/images?addon=edg ... +champions

https://www.uptheclarets.com/programmes

[Hipper]

And the bits that make up the badge:

https://whatsbehindthebadge.com/index.php/burnley/

[mikeS]

The team wore the Royal coat of arms on their shirts (in gold thread) for the 1914 cup final not a club badge.
The club had to ask permission to use it for the match which followed on from the visit of The Prince To Turf Moor in the 19th century.

[ClaretTony]

According to the football kit archive site we first used a badge - not our current badge - on our kit in the 1887/88 season. The same badge was used for the next two seasons only and then once more in 1894-95.

The 1914 FA Cup winners team photo is with badges and it looks like they wore them on the day of the match too.

The next time a badge appeared was in 1934-35 on a special kit for the FA Cup semi-final. This badge looks broadly similar to the one we know.

We also wore a badge for the 1946-47 Cup Final.

It doesn't seem to have been worn during the 1959-60 season (see pre-season team photo) but the team photo of the League Champions has them with badges.

In 1960-61 we arrive at the badge we all know.

On our football programmes the badge starts appearing in the 1952/53 season.

https://www.footballkitarchive.com/burnley-kits/#1880s

https://www.ecosia.org/images?addon=edg ... +cup+final+

http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/English ... -1949.html

https://www.ecosia.org/images?addon=edg ... +champions

https://www.uptheclarets.com/programmes

Club badges and what's worn on a shirt can be totally different. As I've posted further up the thread, the first club badge was produced in 1973 but it was a few years later before it appeared on a home shirt.

And I've corrected one of your links from a site we are prohibited legally from using to this site which is up to date.

[sjb]

The team wore the Royal coat of arms on their shirts (in gold thread) for the 1914 cup final not a club badge.
The club had to ask permission to use it for the match which followed on from the visit of The Prince To Turf Moor in the 19th century.

A visit which led to us being nicknamed 'The Royalites' for several years.

[Leon_C]

Club badges and what's worn on a shirt can be totally different.

Indeed. The graphic above (BarlickClaret I think) which shows the history of the badge on the shirt... the 1983-1987 "BFC" version, I suspect was used to save money on cheaper embroidery, rather than a deliberate attempt to change the club badge.

I'm less clear on the current update with the monochrome claret/white version. I remember seeing a comment that this version was mainly for use on screen, rather than a belt-and-braces update to the official crest - but I don't think I've seen many versions of the coloured one recently. (I actually approve of the change. The colours were rather garish, and the blue/yellows clashed.)

[Hipper]

There seem to be some semantics going on.

I'm assuming when the OP says 'club badges' he means simply 'the badge on the shirt'.

If we didn't have 'club badges' before 1973, we had badges on the team shirt since 1960-61 season and occasionally before then. That badge seems to be the Burnley Borough badge with 'Burnley Football Club' written underneath. That is therefore 'the team', 'the club, or 'the shirt' badge even if it is not 'the club badge'.

As far as I'm concerned that's it. Whether or not we had a club badge that is hidden somewhere in the deepest recesses of Turf Moor doesn't interest me much.

[ClaretTony]

There seem to be some semantics going on.

I'm assuming when the OP says 'club badges' he means simply 'the badge on the shirt'.

If we didn't have 'club badges' before 1973, we had badges on the team shirt since 1960-61 season and occasionally before then. That badge seems to be the Burnley Borough badge with 'Burnley Football Club' written underneath. That is therefore 'the team', 'the club, or 'the shirt' badge even if it is not 'the club badge'.

As far as I'm concerned that's it. Whether or not we had a club badge that is hidden somewhere in the deepest recesses of Turf Moor doesn't interest me much.

Quite wrong. As I’ve said, the badge worn in the 60s was the County Borough of Burnley Coat of Arms and did not have Burnley Football Club written underneath.

I’ll repeat, the first club badge was produced in 1973 and remained the club badge until 2010 after which came the current one which the owners are now systematically getting rid of.

[Spike]

You wander quite a lot don't you PP

Why am I instantly reminded of the song about wanderers

[NottsClaret]

I reckon sooner or later we'll have another 'new' badge / logo / emblem. None of our old ones really fit the bill for a modern, clean brand. Like it or not, that's where we'll probably end up. Can't say I'm too fussed about it either way.

[ClaretTony]

I reckon sooner or later we'll have another 'new' badge / logo / emblem. None of our old ones really fit the bill for a modern, clean brand. Like it or not, that's where we'll probably end up. Can't say I'm too fussed about it either way.

Owners can’t ditch club badges but ours have done it very cutely in stages. Whether you are fussed or not, it’s taking away our identity.

[AGENT_CLARET]

Owners can’t ditch club badges but ours have done it very cutely in stages. Whether you are fussed or not, it’s taking away our identity.

It really isn't

[ClaretTony]

It really isn't

In my opinion it is - where do you see our club badge now?

[AGENT_CLARET]

In my opinion it is - where do you see our club badge now?

In my opinion it isn't

[Row x]

In my opinion it is - where do you see our club badge now?

I must admit to being confused now, which is our club badge?

[ClaretTony]

I must admit to being confused now, which is our club badge?

This

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[Row x]

This


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Thanks, so that's since 2010, and the new one is same badge but different colours. I do prefer the old one.

[ClaretTony]

Thanks, so that's since 2010, and the new one is same badge but different colours. I do prefer the old one.

That’s still the club badge. Last season they partially introduced the tonal ones, claiming that they wouldn’t remove the badge fully and the new idea was only for media stuff. Now they have just about completely removed it.

[helmclaret]

Might be worth you doing an article on this CT, and putting it to bed once and for all.

Seems to crop up every few months this subject with people just trying to show each other up.

[Row x]

That’s still the club badge. Last season they partially introduced the tonal ones, claiming that they wouldn’t remove the badge fully and the new idea was only for media stuff. Now they have just about completely removed it.

Cheers, thankyou

[IanMcL]

Well I like the embroidered full colour badge. This thing with all the colour ducked out is an abomination and the owners should get to understand that this is one the league's founder members and we should be honoured on everything we do. Not treated like some logo company.

[Row x]

Well I like the embroidered full colour badge. This thing with all the colour ducked out is an abomination and the owners should get to understand that this is one the league's founder members and we should be honoured on everything we do. Not treated like some logo company.

I'd agree, if the badge had been around since the club was founded

But if I read all the above correctly, the one that's been changed by these owners has only existed since 2010. Hardly a significant part of our history