FC Zürich 125th Anniversary
The season 2021-22 was a very special one for FC Zürich, because marked the club’s 125th anniversary. In addition, fans returned to the stadium for the first time since the end of the Covid-19 pandemic. And to cap this all off, later that same year an extra dose of joy was added with the side winning the league title.
I was in charge of developing a commemorative emblem and defining all the visual identity around it.
I took a look at the club’s history and used two logos from the club’s golden years (1960-1981) as a reference and combined them to create the anniversary emblem.
Client: FC Zürich
Year: 2021-2022
Zürich, Switzerland and sports during the last 125 years.
An extensive visual research
The evolution of FC Zürich’s emblem
Using the visual research to choose a typeface
Emblem design
Bonus track:
Emblem adaptation
In order to commemorate the league titles of both the women and men teams I adapted the anniversary emblem to a champions emblem.
Since this was the 13th title for the men team, I integrated these numbers within the word Meister, which means champions in German. In the case of the women team, this was their 23rd title and these numbers were also integrated within the Meister word. In addition, the women team also won the Swiss Cup.
