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Football Association (England)

located by Ron Lahav, 2 May 2005
from www.the-fa.org, located by Guillermo Tell Aveledo

The English Football Association's flag was spotted on the Association's web page and flying outside its headquarters at 16 Lancaster Gate, London, W2 3LW.

The flag is a plain white field with the traditional English Three Lions (King Richard's) and nine red-white roses (of the Lancaster-York peace in the XVth Century). This is the FA's, as well as the English national team's, badge.

This "three-lions-on-a-shirt" badge dates from the late XIXth Century English team international caps. Those caps, awarded to football players on becoming 'international', where at first intended to have been white (of white silk, indeed) with a red rose embroidered in the front (plain white jersey and trunks were the English team uniform up to the 1970s). Nonetheless, the original caps were made out of navy blue velvet with a red rose, which was subsequently substituted by King Richard's three lions.

Guillermo Tell Aveledo, 11 July 2000

Team flags

We have attempted to show only official team flags - i.e. those flying at official poles on the stadium, or at the team's headquarters. There are a lot of fan flags, but very few "official" flags.
Jose C. Alegria, 17 April 2005

Football teams "flag-rugs": Having checked with my source of all info regarding English football, the former President of the Everton Supporters Club, he informs me that for the past three or four years it has become the custom for those suppliers catering to various football supporters to issue throw rugs in the form of club flags. He does not know if they are officially sanctioned by the clubs themselves, but as he bought an Everton flag/rug at the Everton Club Shop he assumes that in that case at least he must assume that at least the club knows about it and has no objection to their flag being used in this manner.
Ron Lahav, 1 May 2005