English League One side Portsmouth yesterday unveiled a specially-commissioned logo for the club’s forthcoming 125th anniversary season in 2023-24.
In April 2023, the club celebrate their 125th birthday, with the following campaign having a range of exciting events planned to celebrate the milestone in style.
Portsmouth 125th Anniversary Logo
The logo draws on the club’s iconic ‘star and crescent’ crest as the base element and adds a silver laurel, replacing ‘1898’ in the badge with ‘1898-2023’. Over the coming months fans will see the branding appear across club venues and channels as the build-up to the celebration season begins.
Portsmouth will also release a "reworked shirt crest"
Portsmouth will also "reworking the club’s shirt crest, which is a simpler design". That design will be revealed next summer with the 23-24 kit launch.
Colin Farmery, chair of the 125th-anniversary steering group set up by the club, said: “I'm delighted with the special logo. The core club crest was redesigned only a few years ago, to pretty much universal satisfaction, and this design builds on that. It is simple, stylish, and instantly recognizable."
The Portsmouth shirts feature a simpler version of the regular crest
“This crest will appear on a range of channels, including merchandise, but we will also be reworking the club’s shirt crest, which is a simpler design, to mark the anniversary. That design won't be revealed until the 2023-24 kit launched planned for next summer.”
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