Alternate English Premier League Club Logos

Aug 1, 2013; Indianapolis, IN, USA; Chelsea fans at the Guiness International Champions Cup match with Inter Milan. Mandatory Credit: Tom Russo-USA TODAY Sports

The English Premier League has some of the world’s most storied sports franchises. Those franchises have classic logos that are recognizable around the world. Their logos are different from the logos were used to seeing in American sports.

For the most part, American logos are simple. In baseball they tend to be letters, the name in script or a circle logo like that of the Texas Rangers or the New York Yankees. That circle logo is actually fairly similar to Chelsea FC’s logo. Outside of that it tends to be symbols or animals; Simple, identifiable and easy. Some of the logos, or badges, in the English Premier League look more like family shields and crests then what we are accustomed to seeing as team logos in the States.

Some have odd symbols that seem to have nothing to do with the team or soccer. It is pretty pretty funny. For instance the famed Manchester United logo has a devil under a three mast sail boat? Well originally the crest of the club derived from the Manchester City Council coat of arms, that is where the sail boat comes from. The devil comes from the team’s nick name and didn’t make its way into the crest till the 70s. So there are reasons for the crests looking the way they do.

The folks at TheLADbible retooled the logos slightly to accurately describe what the logos look like.

Check them out below ( h/t Feint Zebra):