Ripping off the badge

[ursus arctos]

Yes, there are different rationales behind this phenomenon.

The Hapoel and Maccabi clubs in Israel and the Dinamo clubs of the former USSR are similar to the IFK clubs.

The Benfica knockoffs are all clubs founded by Portuguese expats (except for Santa Clara, who started as a Benfica tribute club in the Azores).

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Siena used this until very recently

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The city of Potosi in Bolivia specialises in these

Nacional Potosi



Real Potosi

[Ray de Galles]

How about this?

Yes, that worked.

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San Lorenzo de Almagro (Argentina)



Cerro Porteno (Paraguay)

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And a favourite industry/gridiron/football crossover

[Fussbudget]

Retford FC of Northern Counties East Division One take theirs from Fulham.

Proper belly laugh at that one. No offense to Fulham, but what an utterly bizarre choice of club and/or badge to emulate if they have no links to them. They've somehow managed to make a poor badge a hundred times worse as well (that clipart football is quite something)

[Forest Gump]

A few years ago Basildon United tried using Bolton Wanderers', but changed the colours to yellow and black and the W in BWFC to a U.

I wish I could find a copy, but they've done a pretty good job of deleting it everywhere.

[Southport Zeb]

A few years ago Basildon United tried using Bolton Wanderers', but changed the colours to yellow and black and the W in BWFC to a U.

I wish I could find a copy, but they've done a pretty good job of deleting it everywhere.

Barrow Wanderers have done the same sort of thing, changing a couple of the letters to red.

[Kevin S]

Retford FC of Northern Counties East Division One take theirs from Fulham.

I quite like the way the letters RFC are doing something like a rugby football club lineout.

[andrew7610]

VCD Athletic, from Crayford in south east London

[3 Colours Red]

A few years ago Basildon United tried using Bolton Wanderers', but changed the colours to yellow and black and the W in BWFC to a U.

I wish I could find a copy, but they've done a pretty good job of deleting it everywhere.

A little mock-up I made. Close?

[Stumpy Pepys]

SpVgg Haidhausen's badge looks suspiciously like Unterhaching's (sans bobsleigh).

[Forest Gump]

A little mock-up I made. Close?

Ha! Spot on. They even kept the rose in IIRC.

[Guy Profumo]

And of course, Shrewsbury Town famously binned off their loggerheads for a piece of clip art shamelessly looted by a chancer from a primary school in Scotland who charged them for the privilege.

(The chancer doing the looting, not the school.

Schools using clipart should be regarded as fair use)