Brentford FC Primary Logo
Brentford Football Club, located in West London, England has a long and storied history. The club’s primary logo has seen several iterations over the years as it continues to evolve with the times.
The original Brentford FC logo was first used in 1889 when the team was founded by Fred Hargreaves and his brother-in-law Henry Price. It featured a simple shield shape containing two crossed bees back to back on top of an orange background with white lettering spelling out “BFC” for Brentford Football Club above them. This design remained unchanged until 1934 when it underwent its first major redesign which saw the shield replaced by a more modern circular crest featuring three bees flying around an orange football surrounded by laurel leaves and topped off with another set of white letters reading “BRENTFORD F C” along its perimeter edge.
In 1967, this version of their crest changed again as they adopted their current look which features four blue stripes running across an orange circle that is bordered in black at its edges; inside are two yellow bees facing each other while perched atop a football encircled within green laurel leaves once more making up part of the overall design composition. The words "BRENTFORD FOOTBALL CLUB" can be found written below this image completing what remains today as one of English soccer's most recognizable logos worldwide since then.
2017 - Present
A black, yellow, and white bumble bee centered on a white circle background, with a red border with white and black trim. Wordmark “BRENTFORD” and “FOOTBALL CLUB” encircled in white with the split year of 1889 in white.
1994 - 2017
A shield with four quadrants. One quadrant is red and white stripes, next to a red beehive with two yellow and black bees. Also, three swords in gold and white with a gold crown above and a wordmark “Football Club” in white on a black background. A banner across the top with the wordmark “BRENTFORD” in white.
Design by Bees supporter Andrew Henning.
1975 - 1994
A new shield with a castle fortress at the top below is a wordmark “Brentford FC” in black. The red and white stripes are centered with a football at the bottom.
A celebration of ‘the fortress’ Griffin Park, when, in the 1929 – 1930 season the club went on a record-breaking run of 21 home wins.
1972 - 1975
In the center of this crest is red and white stripes with a bumblebee below surrounded by the wordmark “BRENTFORD F.C.” and “FOUNDED 1888” in black.
1965 - 1972
A white with gold and black trim, on the shield, is a wordmark on top and bottom “BRENDORD” and “FOOTBALL CLUB” in red. In the center of the shield are four quadrants with two being red and white stripes, three swords in gold on a red background, and a beehive with 5 stars above in red.
1909 - 1965
A red shield with three swords with a crown on top.
The Middlesex coat of arms.
1893 - 1909
A white with a gold trim shield with initials “BFC” and an up and down diagonal thick line.
The first Brentford crest, introduced shortly after the Club was formed as an offshoot of Brentford Rowing Club