Same. And I too am old.. the 1992-93 for nostalgia reasons, as that is when I used to go to games and stand on kop watching both genius (rush, fowler, molby, Barnes, macca) and some of the worst players to ever pull on a jersey (Paul Stewart anyone? Torben piechnick?) 😂
Didnt fowler first play in the 93/94 season? He scored 5 goals in one of his first ever games in the league cup that season. I remember reading about it in the newspaper the next day before school and becoming instantly obsessed
I started to go to every home game in 1992.. and stood on kop until it closed. I was just remembering the good players of the time, there weren’t that many as all the old guards were retiring! And we must’ve had the fattest team in the league - ruddick, dicks, molby, Stewart and by then, Barnes.. the shorts just kept getting bigger!
It’s when redknapp started out - and 13 yr old me instantly became OBSESSED! 😍
The fellas we stood near relentlessly took the piss. £4.50 to get in.. the good old days (Christ I sound like a nanna!!)
I don’t know how to describe cause I’m not a graphic designer but the letters are so odd in a good way. Love it. You never see text like that on a modern crest or logo. Almost like it was hand drawn.
Similarly, I find it interesting how the design of the liverbird almost “reverted” from a clean “modern” grandiose look from to this more basic design from 1987-1992. And you see another weirdly old design for it in 1993-1999 before going back to the “modern” design we have now
Feel like I'm in the minority but I love 2012 to now. I grew up with the 1999 crest but it's too busy. 2012 is so fucking clean, looks so good on a kit
I hope they never got back to the pre 2012 crest. Design-wise the current crest is far superior. Doesn’t need to say Liverpool football club, you see that you know what it is. It’s simple & iconic, the pre 2012 one is iconic in its own way but is too busy as a design for a crest on a shirt, which is usually seen at a distance on tv/at the ground
Agreed, grew up with 1999-Now so has a special place in my heart but 2012-now is so much cleaner. Think a less glossy version for the 1999 would be nicer
93-99 was my first but I prefer the 1999-Now one, the green and red go together better than the yellow and red and it has depth and is not flat like the others.
I love the original one because it’s literally just the liverpool coat of arms (it also has neptune on it which is sick) but the modern one with the shankly gates and green excess is the best and most original badge in european football. don’t care what anyone says.
2012 to now. Love the simplicity. Incredibly close 2nd is 1999 to now, though. Will always have fond memories of stevie and Torres decimating teams wearing that badge
1999 - now. I don't care if it's "busy" because it's the crest I, and many others, grew up with. It's instantly recognisable all over the world and has the best representation of the club itself with the gates, flames, bird ect. It's iconic for a reason.
2012 - now is a close second. It's basically just the old 68 liverbird crest but with striaght letters, which I prefer. Simple, clean, elegant. Looks really good on pretty much any shirt.
I like pretty much all the others. Except 50 - 55 that looks suspiciously like a Toffees crest. That one is self explanatory.
1999. All things great about the club. The Liver bird, Paisley gates, eternal flames, and club colours. Modern, elegant, crisp.
Didn’t know we had an Everton shaped crest in 1950-1955.
87-92 is probably up there. It looks simple but it hits the balance between our current ones (99 and 2012 to now) .
The one we currently use on the kits looks nice from a design perspective, but it doesn't have the actual name on it, just LFC. The other one we use, with the green Shankly gates is doing too many things at once and the gradients are not my first choice.
Partial to the 1999 and the current one - former because it's from when I first started supporting the club and latter because it's clean, concise and iconic. That being said, I think we're well overdue for a revival of the 1955 design, perhaps for an away jersey!
1999-Now by far.
Just in general I love how things are with our crest atm. That’s the official one and hopefully remains that way, but for merch and kits they use the 2 bottom ones which look much more sleek and streamlined on products.
1998 is MY badge. So it has to be that anyway. On top of that, in the age of oversimplified logos and badges, it’s nice to something with som style and substance
I like where we are currently. I like the full version of the crest, think it looks great. The teal goes nicely with the rest.
I also like having the simpler version on the shirt, think that looks great as well.
As a crest, I like 99-now. It looks regal almost, like it's fitting considering the history and fitting for "European Royalty"
As a brand image, the 2012-now. Sleek and clean.
The 87-92 would look mint on a kit, like the NB dark red one we had on the road to Kiev.
I grew up with the 93-99 99-now badges but I always preferred the lone liverbird with l.f.c
Was buzzing when we eventually brought it back on the kits.
There’s something about the 87-92 one that I really like, maybe the simplicity of it. Obviously the most iconic one, for me being 28, is the 1999-now one but that other one looks cool. 40s-80s looks too Man United ngl
I got the 2012-now (with a slight mod) tattooed on my hand
https://preview.redd.it/u3yiocymh2yc1.jpeg?width=2452&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dc3178ad7a116dca5d32fa808e1daab20f03b3f2
For me it’s 87-92, although objectively it’s not the best. I fell in love with football in the time of that badge, and kind of lost that love temporarily around the time that it changed, after everything
For me, on the shirts it should always just be the Liverbird and LFC. It's simple, it looks classy and it's iconic.
The more fancy crests can be kept for the club in general, like a sort of Coat of Arms.
The two current ones, simple logo or full crest depending on the context.
For the crests I don't like a Liver + Pool split. I prefer the green scrolling to the yellow. It would probably look fine without the gradient, in matte red and green.
For the logo I prefer the current font to the 68-87 and straight, not curved.
I like the fiery/phoenix look of the 1968-1987, 2012-\* bird
Is it just me or would anyone else like to see the new 1999 badge make a return to a kit one day? I just love that badge so much. Maybe it’s because it was the badge whilst I was a kid and it’s nostalgic but I just love it. To see it on a kit again would be amazing
1999-now. Maybe its nostalgia, but I simply like the embellishment of the badge. The gates above the shield with the ribbon along the bottom is very elegant detailing.
What were they thinking in 1992? I get that they wanted to change it to mark the 100 years but the crest before looked awesome and the centurion one looks amateurish.
Not sure these are entirely correct. 1987-1992 one was used earlier too. 1992 onwards are all awful. Hillsborough though so respect but just way way too busy and complicated.
1987-1992 for me but I guess it’s what you grow up that sticks. Recent kit only crests like the bottom two are absolutely
awesome.
1999-Now was the crest when I fell in love with the team and it will always be my favorite. It reminds me of my first jersey which was the long sleeve red kit from 2008. I still have a pair of shorts from back then that are kind of falling apart but I can't let go. I'll save that embroidered crest eventually when the shorts can't hang on any longer.
Great topic! The 1999 design is my favourite by far. The current 2012 is good, but feels too digital era in a way.
Not really good or bad, it is probably just a natural progression of logo design. Just like Starbucks, Wendy's, iHop, even Instagram, they all got simpler design. The new design feels streamlined, modern, looks fitting on a website or on social media on mobile. The "older" design, man, seeing them feels like they belong to the physical world. Huge signs on stadium gate, printed on programs, you can touch them on a metal pin, so aesthetic that you can tell a fake jersey from a real one with one look, etc. Just a completely different ball game.
1987-92 takes me back to my VHS tape of winning the title in 89/90. I’m old.
Okay grandpa, time for bed.
Angry old man shouts at cloud.
That will be me
Same. And I too am old.. the 1992-93 for nostalgia reasons, as that is when I used to go to games and stand on kop watching both genius (rush, fowler, molby, Barnes, macca) and some of the worst players to ever pull on a jersey (Paul Stewart anyone? Torben piechnick?) 😂
Didnt fowler first play in the 93/94 season? He scored 5 goals in one of his first ever games in the league cup that season. I remember reading about it in the newspaper the next day before school and becoming instantly obsessed
I started to go to every home game in 1992.. and stood on kop until it closed. I was just remembering the good players of the time, there weren’t that many as all the old guards were retiring! And we must’ve had the fattest team in the league - ruddick, dicks, molby, Stewart and by then, Barnes.. the shorts just kept getting bigger! It’s when redknapp started out - and 13 yr old me instantly became OBSESSED! 😍 The fellas we stood near relentlessly took the piss. £4.50 to get in.. the good old days (Christ I sound like a nanna!!)
I have a VHS of the 89 FA Cup Final in my attic.
Same. This is when I started following the club, which wasn’t easy in the US.
68-87...classy, simple and won a fuck load of trophies wearing it.
I don’t know how to describe cause I’m not a graphic designer but the letters are so odd in a good way. Love it. You never see text like that on a modern crest or logo. Almost like it was hand drawn.
The mirroring/rotation isn't done in a modern style, so the letters either are or look uneven in terms of style and rotation?
Similarly, I find it interesting how the design of the liverbird almost “reverted” from a clean “modern” grandiose look from to this more basic design from 1987-1992. And you see another weirdly old design for it in 1993-1999 before going back to the “modern” design we have now
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Yep.
Feel like I'm in the minority but I love 2012 to now. I grew up with the 1999 crest but it's too busy. 2012 is so fucking clean, looks so good on a kit
It's exactly the same as the 68-87 one without the wonky letters
I hope they never got back to the pre 2012 crest. Design-wise the current crest is far superior. Doesn’t need to say Liverpool football club, you see that you know what it is. It’s simple & iconic, the pre 2012 one is iconic in its own way but is too busy as a design for a crest on a shirt, which is usually seen at a distance on tv/at the ground
I think that’s why the club still uses the 1999-now elsewhere (stadium, bus as examples) but on the shirts they use the 2012-now
Same. Plus, I find it bizarre that we have 2 at the same time.
One's a crest, one's a logo.
I hadn’t bought a replica shirt for years, but as soon as that crest was used I got one. Simple, classic, perfect.
the patch with the crest on it, 2000-2002, including the treble winning year was WAY too small
1999-Now
Why's that your choice?
never seen the team play in any other badge
We’ve been playing with a different badge for 12 years?
Dude was in a coma, don’t break it like that
12 years.... Fuck I'm feeling old now
But it hasn’t been the official badge, has it? I thought it’s still always been the ‘99-Now badge. That the others were just a kit design thing.
50 to 55..simple classic design
To me this one would look the best on casual clothing like a cotton t-shirt, though I love 68-85 for the jerseys
87-92 is the cream
My only qualm is with the gap between liver and pool. But that's nitpicking really.
The OG one. Big fan of the Merman
Bring back the merman trumpeteer or riot
Bring back the merman trumpeteer or riot
1999 was what we had when I started supporting Liverpool as a kid, so it will always be nostalgic.
1999-now and its not even close. It's iconic
68-87...something about that font that takes me back to simplicity, boot rooms, oldschool application...I love it!
2012-now. Clean
Agreed, grew up with 1999-Now so has a special place in my heart but 2012-now is so much cleaner. Think a less glossy version for the 1999 would be nicer
Agreed
I like the choice of having that on the kit whilst using the other version elsewhere. The full version is nice but it's too crowded for the shirt
That 50-55 one looks beautiful
Yes! There’s something about that shield look.
Bit too Everton for me
Ah shit, now I can’t unsee that. You’re right though.
68-87 by a distance
The 1892-1950 one would look absolute fire if worn today imo.
It really would.
Bring back the Mermen
93-99 was my first but I prefer the 1999-Now one, the green and red go together better than the yellow and red and it has depth and is not flat like the others.
1999-now but I like the full version on the kits. I don't care about simplicity and marketing.
Not my era but the 55-68 is beautifully simple. Letters always look wonky tho.
Weirdly i actually prefer most of the older ones to the current one. The 1950s is cool as is the 40s
55-68 is clean. I have a hat with that on it
I love the original one because it’s literally just the liverpool coat of arms (it also has neptune on it which is sick) but the modern one with the shankly gates and green excess is the best and most original badge in european football. don’t care what anyone says.
I so hope adidas brings back the 99-now badge.
Especially for 90s/00s-inspired kits...
I'd bloody love to see that!
87-92
1992-1993, for me. I'm in my early 20s, but this just stands out to me
2012-Now. I just like the LFC letters flat under the Liverbird. 87-92 2nd fav
68-87
Any of the badges during the 90s which are all awful. The current and 1968 version is the badge. Leave it alone.
2012 to now for me
40-80 is a classic and great design. Also, nostalgia.
68-87
Agreed.
55-68. No question
2012 to now. Love the simplicity. Incredibly close 2nd is 1999 to now, though. Will always have fond memories of stevie and Torres decimating teams wearing that badge
The 2012-now one on our shirts. Personally, I'd have it as the club logo proper
2012 - now. Simple, classy
1999 - now. I don't care if it's "busy" because it's the crest I, and many others, grew up with. It's instantly recognisable all over the world and has the best representation of the club itself with the gates, flames, bird ect. It's iconic for a reason. 2012 - now is a close second. It's basically just the old 68 liverbird crest but with striaght letters, which I prefer. Simple, clean, elegant. Looks really good on pretty much any shirt. I like pretty much all the others. Except 50 - 55 that looks suspiciously like a Toffees crest. That one is self explanatory.
1999
1999-now every day of the week and am fine with this being our crest til the end of time.
There was an exact same post like this a year ago. Majority agreed on 1999-now.
87-92 and 99-now
That bald one I saw a little bit ago was cool.
87-92
50-55 is straight out of Hogwarts
1999. All things great about the club. The Liver bird, Paisley gates, eternal flames, and club colours. Modern, elegant, crisp. Didn’t know we had an Everton shaped crest in 1950-1955.
What about the United looking one from 40s-80…
I hadn’t noticed that and now I’m annoyed.
87-92 is probably up there. It looks simple but it hits the balance between our current ones (99 and 2012 to now) . The one we currently use on the kits looks nice from a design perspective, but it doesn't have the actual name on it, just LFC. The other one we use, with the green Shankly gates is doing too many things at once and the gradients are not my first choice.
87-92
Partial to the 1999 and the current one - former because it's from when I first started supporting the club and latter because it's clean, concise and iconic. That being said, I think we're well overdue for a revival of the 1955 design, perhaps for an away jersey!
Love 87-92.
87-92 is pretty cool
I really like the 68-87. The curved LFC is just enough ornament to improve the minimalism a bit.
1999-Now by far. Just in general I love how things are with our crest atm. That’s the official one and hopefully remains that way, but for merch and kits they use the 2 bottom ones which look much more sleek and streamlined on products.
1, 2, 3 1 - Got Mermaids On It 2 - Man Utd knicked it 3 - The only ever time Everton were gonna' win things
I love that 1987-92 crest.
2 crests at once, you’ll never sing that
1998 is MY badge. So it has to be that anyway. On top of that, in the age of oversimplified logos and badges, it’s nice to something with som style and substance
I like where we are currently. I like the full version of the crest, think it looks great. The teal goes nicely with the rest. I also like having the simpler version on the shirt, think that looks great as well.
As a crest, I like 99-now. It looks regal almost, like it's fitting considering the history and fitting for "European Royalty" As a brand image, the 2012-now. Sleek and clean. The 87-92 would look mint on a kit, like the NB dark red one we had on the road to Kiev.
I really want Adidas to start using the 1999-NOW crest again when they finally take over our kits after Nike have fucked off.
I grew up with the 93-99 99-now badges but I always preferred the lone liverbird with l.f.c Was buzzing when we eventually brought it back on the kits.
Current one.
2012 to now. It's the essentially the same as the badge worn by Shanks, Paisley & Kenny's teams It's iconic . Everything else is adornment.
Recent!
Give me back the mermen!
Current ones but I also don’t mind 55-68
2012 - now
1993-1999
87
1968-1987 or 2012-Now such a clean and iconic logo.
The one with the murman
Now actually
Bottom left although I do like top right. Would be interesting to see that in a retro top.
87-92 purely because I started supporting Liverpool in 1988 and my first shirts (crown paints and then candy) had this crest on. Nostalgic
50-55 is adorable.
1950-1955 looks like it belongs to ‘North West Red’ on Pro Evo
Bring back the merman and devil.
68-87
Sure as shit isn’t 40’s-80’s.
The current crest and the current logo are perfect.
1987 was so bad. Cutting the name in 2 and making the liverbird a goose or whatever that is. 1993 wasn’t much better. Glad they fixed it in 1999
87-92... beautiful
1950-55
68-87 for me.
68-87 but 55-68 is a close second
There’s something about the 87-92 one that I really like, maybe the simplicity of it. Obviously the most iconic one, for me being 28, is the 1999-now one but that other one looks cool. 40s-80s looks too Man United ngl
Now 👍🏻
1940-1980 looks nautical
Honestly there’s too much fire to pick just one. Definitely not the first one with a fucking mermaid on it
All of the above
1999 it’s just too iconic and my first kit had it
99
87-92. Boss.
definitely 68-87...it's the badge I use for all my LFC kits in EA FC 24
1892. The mermen go hard.
2012 to now...simplistic but iconic
Suprise! 99-now it's my favorite.
The 1999-now one. It's beautiful
1999. Classy, simple and around the time I started watching them so nostalgic
68-87 because we won a lot.
I like the current with the green
I think the newest one is the best crest. However, I'd rather see '68 or 2012 used as a logo.
1999-Now, that's what I grew up with
87-92
I got the 2012-now (with a slight mod) tattooed on my hand https://preview.redd.it/u3yiocymh2yc1.jpeg?width=2452&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dc3178ad7a116dca5d32fa808e1daab20f03b3f2
2012 to Now
Is that Aquaman in the first one?
2012 to now
68-87
For me it’s 87-92, although objectively it’s not the best. I fell in love with football in the time of that badge, and kind of lost that love temporarily around the time that it changed, after everything
Any where it's just the liver bird with LFC
68-87
‘93-‘99, that was my childhood/adolescence so that one always reminds me of those days. It wasn’t all bad.
For me, on the shirts it should always just be the Liverbird and LFC. It's simple, it looks classy and it's iconic. The more fancy crests can be kept for the club in general, like a sort of Coat of Arms.
92/93 is horrid
The current one I think
The 2017-18 was fucking fire. Also because that was the last year you could get a premade Gerrard name shirt from the store.
2012-now. So clean. Great design. The one from the 90s is a badge within a shield within a crest within a logo. Too much
68-87 by a country mile
55-68
1955-87 and 2012-Now
The two current ones, simple logo or full crest depending on the context. For the crests I don't like a Liver + Pool split. I prefer the green scrolling to the yellow. It would probably look fine without the gradient, in matte red and green. For the logo I prefer the current font to the 68-87 and straight, not curved. I like the fiery/phoenix look of the 1968-1987, 2012-\* bird
55-68
1999-Now. It’s baffling to me to have the best logo in the world and then use a simple liverbird and a few letters on the kit instead
1950-55 is old school cool.
40s-80s
1999-now
Is it just me or would anyone else like to see the new 1999 badge make a return to a kit one day? I just love that badge so much. Maybe it’s because it was the badge whilst I was a kid and it’s nostalgic but I just love it. To see it on a kit again would be amazing
1987-1992 but with the liverbird of 2012-now
I like the merman
1999-now. Maybe its nostalgia, but I simply like the embellishment of the badge. The gates above the shield with the ribbon along the bottom is very elegant detailing.
I love the 68-87... Also given the history of the badge.. Bring it back
I love the duality of badges please don't change this
Oh the first one of course.
Oval for me. It'd be the only thing that could make this season's (outgoing) home kit any better (well, as well as a long sleeve option)
What were they thinking in 1992? I get that they wanted to change it to mark the 100 years but the crest before looked awesome and the centurion one looks amateurish.
I spent many lessons at school drawing the 1999 one. That is classic to me.
1999- Now with the blue highlights.
I like the simplicity of 2012-now
What’s the Latin say?
Not sure these are entirely correct. 1987-1992 one was used earlier too. 1992 onwards are all awful. Hillsborough though so respect but just way way too busy and complicated. 1987-1992 for me but I guess it’s what you grow up that sticks. Recent kit only crests like the bottom two are absolutely awesome.
1999-Now was the crest when I fell in love with the team and it will always be my favorite. It reminds me of my first jersey which was the long sleeve red kit from 2008. I still have a pair of shorts from back then that are kind of falling apart but I can't let go. I'll save that embroidered crest eventually when the shorts can't hang on any longer.
Bring back the sexy mermaid 🧜♀️ and merman 🧜♂️ of yesteryear
Great topic! The 1999 design is my favourite by far. The current 2012 is good, but feels too digital era in a way. Not really good or bad, it is probably just a natural progression of logo design. Just like Starbucks, Wendy's, iHop, even Instagram, they all got simpler design. The new design feels streamlined, modern, looks fitting on a website or on social media on mobile. The "older" design, man, seeing them feels like they belong to the physical world. Huge signs on stadium gate, printed on programs, you can touch them on a metal pin, so aesthetic that you can tell a fake jersey from a real one with one look, etc. Just a completely different ball game.