The 5 Worst Football Club Logos

Ahh, football. The World Game. The Beautiful Game. When you think of club football, you think of some of the biggest and most successful from around the world - Bayern Munich, Real Madrid, Manchester United and my personal favourite of all time, Internazionale.

Then there are some of your lesser known clubs, the ones playing in the lower divisions, the ones not so well-known internationally. For the most part, I love watching any football match, whether it's seeing Accrington Stanley get belted in the first round of the FA Cup or it's the Serie B playoffs between Sampdoria and Reggina, I'm always up for a match, no matter what.

That being said, having to look at the logos of some of these clubs leave a little to be desired. When you start questioning how many rules in graphic design these badges break then you know that they're simply horrible.

5 - Forest Green Rovers

One of the longest serving clubs in England's Conference National (which is a nice way of saying that they're consistently shit) Forest Green Rovers not only picked their name out of the crap barrel, but they also decided to smear whatever residue came out all over their clubs badge.

In what could only be described as a lion with a dislocated shoulder tap dancing around a ball with a unicorn suffering from scoliosis, this logo both baffles the mind as well as reminds old hippies why they no longer dabble in LSD.

4 - Exeter City

Unicorns or some kind of mythical flying horse creatures are the order of the day in England's lower leagues. It seems that this club, perpetually stuck in League Two is no exception. 

Here we have not one but two winged Pegasus-like creatures, one of which is about to be exorcised by a lion-priest, or is that a priest-lion? Funnily enough, the weirdest thing about this image is that the priest-lion thing seems to be rising out of some kind of jug.

I'm not even sure that there is anyone alive in this world still who is able to answer this one.

3 - Juve Stabia

I don't know about you, but that picture reminds me of every episode of Ninja Turtles that had Baxter Stockman in it. I'm positive that the designer of this Serie B club's logo was listening on the radio to the story about the human fly while coming up with the design. 

Also, why in the fuck does this fly-man have a lance in his possession and who is he about to kill with it?

2 - Elche Club de Futbol

Is that a ridiculously oversized quill in your hands or are you just happy to... Oh I give up, seriously! What in the actual fuck is going on in this one? In what way exactly does a scribe in a wig have anything at all to do with football? And why is that book so big? In fact, what the hell is the significance of Bowser's castle in the second tier and the hut at the very bottom. In fact, to hell with it. Please, someone burn this logo. Can someone from the Spanish Segunda Division please help me out!?

1 - Barnsley FC

For our final and ultimately worst logo, we return you to fair old England to witness first hand exactly why the English will never, ever win another World Cup.

Yes, Barnsley, we get that you're simply showing us your Yorkshire pride - farmers, miners etc, but if your football club made this logo anymore obvious there'd be a balding fat guy in overalls exclaiming "'appy as a pig in muck!"

This isn't so bad when you put things in perspective though. This is the club's old logo:

And I leave you with that.

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