📸 Barcelona change iconic crest to keep with the times | OneFootball

Barcelona have updated their famous badge for the first time in sixteen years but have stayed true to their roots.

The LaLiga champions revealed the adaptation on Thursday evening which remains subject to member approval.

While the crest predominantly looks as it did and keeps the same shape, the FCB acronym in the centre of the badge has been removed completely while the ball has been switch to a more central position in a badge which now boasts ‘greater reproduction capacity’, which the club claims is ‘increasingly more important world of digital media’.

A statement released by the club, read: “FC Barcelona is changing its crest in order to adapt to modern times. Since the design was last updated in 2002, the context, society and technology have changed enormously, and the symbols identified with the club need to evolve too.

“This evolution stays faithful to the historical elements of the crest: the city, Barcelona; the country, Catalonia; the club, the ‘blaugrana’ colours; and the ball. But the new design now has greater reproduction capacity, especially in the increasingly more important world of digital media.

“The most striking changes are an increase in the balance and impact of the team colours, the greater presence of a central and iconic element of the Barça style of play, namely the ball, the homogenisation of the forms and colours, and the disappearance of the FCB acronym.”

If accepted by members, the badge will come into effect for the 2019/20 season.