How are the colors of a soccer/football team jersey chosen?

Question

How are the colors chosen?

Answer 1

Fozio is wrong about England. There is no such thing as "local municipality flags or colours" in England. Unlike Italy, it was never historically a collection of independent city states, so although local differences exist they are not based on any historical seperation.

Club emblems in England sometimes use the emblem of their town or city's local authority..Liverpool's use of the mythical "liver bird" is taken from the city council's emblem. But many other clubs do not.

English clubs chose their basic colours based on the personal preferences of the people who originally founded the club, nothing more than that. Almost all of these are now at least 100 years old, so the club colours have become traditional.

Answer 2

The Azzurro of Italy's jersey comes from the official color of the Royal Family of Italy before monarchy was changed into government in the 1900's. We still use the blue to commemorate the history if Italy. Mostly teams choose the color by the color of the flag, or the national colors...any other way i don't know.

Answer 3

Flags and other merchandize are actually created based on the jersey colors and not vise versa. Now to answer your question, In most cases it is a random choice that depends on choosing a color and design that is unlike that of any other club. Clubs try to create their own distinct brand identity that differentiates them from the rest in their country. In some cases clubs try to have a very localized approach in order to appeal to the local fans and they use the colors of their municiplity or town flags. This is common in England - Liverpool, South Hampton. In Italy to a lesser extent especially in division 2 - Ascoli, Parma etc.

In general most clubs do not follow a certain branding rule. They are after a new and distinct look and that is basically it.

PS: I am from Liverpool and I know for a fact that the club colors are based on the Liverpool council flag that has not changed since 1829. England was never divided, but towns until the late 19th century had their own town/ city council which controled the current town/ city affairs and each had a flag. Again, I emphasise, in most cases it is random, but in certain cases, they are based on local town colors (when applicable)

Answer 4

Hi Juve,
Australia's colours of green and gold are representative of our national flora emblem, the Wattle tree. All our sporting teams adopt these colours. In the 1800's the colours were by legislation the colours of the flag, but teams chose to wear colours representing something Australian rather than the colours of the union jack. I guess it was something to do with independence from England. I think in the early 1900's, the legislation was actually changed and documented to support the green and gold.

Answer 5

for a national team it's usually based on the national flag color..

makes me wonder about the italian jersey..

and what's with the azzuri thing?? blue??

where's the color blue in the italian flag??

Answer 6

Some are according to the team flag, but teams like Italy i don't know sorry!

Answer 7

they are usually the colors of the flag of the country, or a color that represents the country. :) im not sure if thats the answer you were looking for, lol.

Answer 8

i would choose Black,Blue and Orange........cool colours hehe


anyways my flag's colours r yellow red and blue....neah!

Answer 9

national flag mostly...