When it comes to professional sports, it is hard to overestimate the importance of logos of clubs and federations. The logo of each team represents its uniqueness and history. Beautiful, stylish logo is the same source of pride as a winning trophy.
However, creating such an important attribute like the team logo takes a lot of time and effort. Quite often, new team logo involves the work of not only professional artists and designers, but also the efforts of ordinary fans. Logos themselves often contain a piece of a team’s history.
The logos depict team mascots, sights of the city or country, which clubs represent, their past sporting achievements. In order to make the logo unique, attract attention and be remembered, the designers come up with all new ideas. Modern sport has enough original logos so we chose TOP-50 most beautiful logos which millions of fans like and which are recognizable all over the world.
50. Bohemians Praha 1905
One of the most popular football clubs in the Czech Republic is Bohemians from Prague which has one of the most striking logos helping to attract the attention of European fans. Why is there a kangaroo on the logo of the Czech team? Everything is simple – this is a tribute to the Australian tour of 1927.
49. Derby County
Black and white sheep – the mascot of “Derby County” – looks great on the club’s logo.
48. Denver Broncos
Professional American football club decided to choose a horse head with an orange mane for its logo – it looks really purposeful and menacing.
47. Hull City
Hull City – a professional football club from England – chose a “Growling Tiger”, which is a team mascot, as the image of its logo. The mascot itself appeared thanks to traditional colors of the team’s uniform – black-amber vertical stripes.
46. Persebaya
Another colorful logo comes from the Indonesian club called Persebaya, where predatory “guards” – a shark and a crocodile – are depicted around the lighthouse – the symbol of Surabaya city.
45. Milwaukee Bucks
Despite the fact that since 2015 the main symbol of Milwaukee Bucks – a noble deer – has become more edgy on the new round logo of the club, its straight lines and a horrific look make Milwaukee logo really memorable.
44. Changchun Yatai
Despite the fact that the Chinese football club has a simple logo without intricate lines, the duckling with horns and a football looks very original, even though a bit childish.
43. Pittsburgh Penguins
A hockey club from Pittsburgh, playing in the NHL, has a themed and beautiful logo: Iceburgh penguin on skates and with a hockey-stick.
42. Omaha Mammoths
Professional football team from Omaha, Nebraska. They play in the EFL league, attracting attention with a beautiful mammoth logo with huge tusks.
41. Shanghai Shenxin
Chinese professional football club from Shanghai has a brightly colored logo – a cock against the background of a star. In addition to its attractiveness, the color of the cock (yellow / gold) implies constant influence – it is the color of the Earth.
40. Beijing Enterprises
Another Chinese club with bright, spectacular logo. Eagle with the ball on the background of the team colors with a gold rim and ribbon.
39. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Professional American football club Tampa Bay has a hard to forget logo. Nothing superfluous, at the same time, emphasizing its name “Pirates” – the logo depicts a skull with swords and a soccer ball on a red flag.
38. Benevento
Italian football club Benevento created an excellent logo to match its nickname – “The Witches”. The silhouette of a witch on a broomstick on the background of club colors – you will not confuse their logo with anything else.
37. Hamilton Tiger-Cats
Since 1967, the tiger on the Hamilton logo has always remained the most prominent figure, and after the logo was updated in 2005, the Tiger-Cats logo is indeed one of the most beautiful one in Canadian football.
36. Olympiacos
The Greek football club has quite a memorable logo that emphasizes the history of ancient Greece. The head with the laurel wreath of Olympiakos Piraeus is recognizable all over the world.
35. Las Tunas
Las Tunas football team from the Cuban National Football League stands out with its more than an extravagant logo – a cactus in a red baseball cap holding an axe in its hands.
34. Cambodian Tiger
A beautiful logo of Cambodia Tiger with a ferocious tiger. The only thing missing in the logo is its football symbolism.
33. Oldham Athletic
English Oldham Athletic has one of the most beautifully depicted owls among football teams on its logo. This is the club’s mascot – an owl called Cheddie.
32. Tijuana
The logo depicts Mexican hairless dog Xoloitzcuintli – the personification of strength and rage of Tijuana.
31. Lleida
Beautiful logo depicting city and a shamrock – the symbol of the region.
30. Aukro Berani Zlin
A beautiful logo of the hockey club from Czech Republic called Berani Zlin. Team mascot – ram – is painted in team colors: blue and gold.
29. Minnesota Vikings
The club’s striking logo is a gold-haired Viking with a helmet and horns on its head.
28. East Bay Pit Bulls
Professional basketball team could create an original logo with a pit bull and a basketball – it is immediately clear what team this is and what their nickname sounds like.
27. Modesto Nuts
Modesto Nuts is a small baseball team from the local league in Modesto, attracting attention with its beautiful logo. Yes, even nuts are playing baseball here!
26. Spain national team
The national football team of Spain has a logo created according to all the traditions of heraldry – a shield between the columns, a crown, a retro ball at the bottom, and a gold star at the top.
25. Doncaster Rovers
Doncaster Rovers has a beautiful and at the same time rare for England logo of a golden Viking with a sword. In 1972, the automaker “Rover” agreed to place Viking (the symbol of the company) on a new logo of the club. Fans liked the golden Viking so much that they left it after the end of the contract with “Rover”.
24. Miami Dolphins
The team from Miami can be proud of its wonderful logo! This dolphin in the background of the sun is for sure one of the sweetest mascots in American football.
23. Roma
New logo of the Roman club appeared in 2013, although references to history have not gone away: the she-wolf is feeding two twins – founders of Rome.
22. FC Santa Claus
The logo of the Finnish football team from Rovaniemi city really reminds a fairy tale. Not surprisingly, the logo of the club with the same name depicts Santa Claus with a letter since the team is based in Lappi, the hometown of Santa.
21. Kansas Jayhawks
Sports teams of the University of Kansas traditionally fight their rivals under the flag with this wonderful logo.
20. Catalans Dragons
The ranking of the best sports logos has a place for the French rugby team called Catalans Dragons. The logo with the fire-breathing dragon looks very impressive.
19. Koln
Meet the original logo of FC Koln. It depicts the goat rising above the city of Hennes – it’s the club mascot since 1957.
18. Sampdoria
The logo of the Genoese club is not only beautiful, but it also has a romantic history. It shows the sailor Giovanni Batista with a pipe in his mouth.
17. Valencia
Spanish Valencia traditionally uses a bat and a retro ball on their logo – it looks catchy and spectacularly.
16. Midland RockHounds
A small baseball team from Texas draws attention with the beauty of its logo: a large brown dog with a bat and a ball. The key thing here is everything looks harmonious and thematically correct.
15. Equipe nationalle de France
National football team of France has one of the most beautiful logos among all national football teams. The symbol of the country – Gallic cock – flaunts against the background of national colors having a gold star on top of the head – the sign of victory at the World Cup 1998.
14. Illawarra Hawks
In 2007, the Australian basketball team Illawarra presented its new excellent logo: a red hawk with large wings holding a basketball in the claws.
13. Olympique Lyonnais
Strict and at the same time beautiful logo of French Lyon. The logo in the form of a shield with the letters OL and a golden lion inside the letter O.
12. Chicago Bulls
Red and furious Benny the bull is one of the most recognizable logos in professional sports. Bulls’ logo looks great.
11. Guangzhou Evergrande
The nickname of Guangzhou – “Chinese Tigers” – is clearly visible on the bright logo of the club. The fire colored logo in the form of a shield with the image of a flaming tiger with a ball looks really beautiful and menacing!
10. Blackburn Rovers
The red rose is enclosed in a blue circle is a stylish logo symbolizing the county of Lancashire and the history of the Wars of the Roses.
9. Boston Celtics
The original logo of the NBA team “Boston Celtics” represents a character of Irish folklore in an old-fashioned hat and vest leaning on a cane and twisting a basketball.
8. Ajax
According to the popular magazine “Four Four Two”, Amsterdam’s Ajax has the most beautiful logo in football. The profile of the ancient Greek warrior is made of 11 lines (the number of players on the pitch).
7. Lampang
Professional football club from the province of Lampang in Thailand depicted a chariot with one horse and a ball on its logo. The logo has an emerald background – a nod to the nickname of the team – “emerald chariots”. Looks very gracefully.
6. Chicago Blackhawks
The logo of Chicago hockey club in the form of a head of a Black Hawk Indian looks very original and carries historical overtones. The team was named in honor of this Indian (during First World War, club founder Frederic McLaughlin served in the division called “The Black Hawk”).
5. Kelowna Rockets
Junior hockey club from WHL has an interesting and cheerful logo: blue alligator with a hockey stick that lacks one tooth in the mouth!
4. El Paso Chihuahuas
This small baseball team from the state of Texas plays in the Pacific Coast League (PCL). The name and logo were approved on October 22, 2013, in honor of the state of Chihuahua located in the north of Mexico and bordered by El Paso.
3. Hibernians FC
Hibiernians Football Club is notable not only because it never left top football division of Malta and became the first Maltese representative in the Euro cups. Hibernians has one of the most beautiful logos in Europe – a peacock with spread feathers standing on the ball (the club represents the city of Paola).
2. Newcastle United
Newcastle football club has an interesting logo that looks very much like the logo of the city itself. It depicts 2 hippocampuses symbolizing the connection of the city with the sea.
1. Bristol Rovers FC
Bristol Rovers’ nickname “Pirates” reflects the maritime history of the city. And the club’s logo – a pirate with a sword in his hand standing with one foot on a football – looks incredibly colorful.
