Last modified: 2005-08-26 by antonio martins
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![[FC Porto flag]](../images/p/pt@fcp.gif)
This is the flag of the internationally known soccer club Futebol
Clube do Porto, showing the older arms of
the city over a blue old-fashioned foot ball, all on spanish fess
(1+2+1) of blue, white, blue.
António Martins, 06 Mar 1999
According to the club’s official website, the current
emblem was created in october 1922, by club’s player Augusto Baptista
Ferreira alias Simplício, defacing the previous emblem
with the contemporary Oporto city arms.
Therefore, from 1922 to 1935 the club and the city shared fairily
similar symbols.
António Martins, 26 Jun 2002
Still to be discovered are the 1893-1910 emblem(s), if any; the
adoption date of the color blue as the club’s color; and the adoption
date of the flag itself, plus any previous versions.
António Martins, 26 Jun 2002
![[FC Porto emblem]](../images/p/pt@fcp).gif)
It is interesting to note that the dragon, the mythical club pet of Futebol Clube do Porto, is taken from the crest of the 1837-1935 Oporto arms (in turn taken from the national greater arms), added to the club’s emblem only in 1922, 29 years after the foundation of the club; its color, moreover, is green, as any proper heraldic wyvern (serpe) should — and not blue, something which typically upsets the typical supporter:
Green is footballwise associated with Porto’s rival, Sporting, and thus the dragon is often depicted in alternative colors, either in shameless blue or in more discrete variants, such as golden. Anders Tornberg’s image of Porto’s logo is an example of that:
António Martins, 26 Jun 2002
