Is that one of yours, imonfourfourtwo?

Sue them!!!

"Nobody screws 7 like soccer"

Haha, no that's funnily enough from BigFooty.

haha yeah the Seven staff are probably regulars there.

Michael Taylor Design has launched a new project this year to re-design the A-League and then create a new tiered football system with a second and third division. He will also be adding expansion teams to the A-league as requested by "Expand the A-League" FB page.









Existing teams:

Central Coast Mariners


Melbourne Victory


Newcastle United Jets


Brisbane Roar


Adelaide United


Melbourne City


Perth Glory


Western Sydney Wanderers


Wellington Phoenix


Sydney FC


New teams:

Canberra United


Auckland City


AFC Geelong


North Queensland Fury








Tasmania United


Cairns Flying Foxes ( Was originally going to be Cairns Taipans but changed once designer was aware of the basketball team by the same name )



Sporting Fremantle


Darwin FC


Ipswich Dons


Christchurch Saints


Gold Coast United


Brisbane Strikers


Sunshine Coast Heat FC


Ballarat Red Devils


Adelaide City


Wollongong Wolves


South Melbourne


Sydney Olympic FC


Domestic Cups



"So this was included in the first post, and some of you really wanted to know about the domestic cups. The top two are the leagues. The Westfield FFA Cup currently exists, and is between all the teams in the A-League and the teams that qualify from the regional leagues. The Kiwi Cup would be a round robin between the 3 New Zealand teams.

But the State Cup is new. I had this idea very early on. The premise would be an 8 team tournament featuring one from each state and territory. The teams would qualify in their own state before the final tournament."



"Here's a breakdown of teams from the two leagues I made. Clearly the top 3 have a tougher time, but it would even out with expanded qualification from lower leagues. Just something I had an idea for, and thought I should share for the finale."



More to come.

He is also seeking ideas for clubs for the second division and third division and has put up a form you can fill out for your ideas: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1LwomQh4S_1WO21BO-LYDD5QcqulBDsxLVk6EAl1uC2k/viewform

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Love it.

Although SFC and Nix are missing as existing teams...

Liking the overall design process. Although to be honest, I always preferred the Canberra Athletic crest that Dale used to use.

Yeah they are coming.

As for Canberra Athletic, I saw that crest, it was nice, I must say I was very impressed with this crest, it is simple yet very to the point uniquely Canberra. It also follows along the same lines as the W-league team. I would however pick a different name to Canberra United if it was me. I like the sounds of something a long the lines of Canberra Highlanders or something. There is already Adelaide United and Newcastle United Jets in the league.

New designs for Sydney FC and Wellington now up.

Most of the A-League logo's suck balls. Why put so much detail into the logo's ? flyingigproductions.com.au is UTTER TRIPE

this: WOW , just WOW putting a soccer ball in a logo, amazing


Take a good in depth search of overseas club logos and see that a lot just have 2 things... CLUB or CLUB & FC with tiny insignia or such

two or 3 colours and your usual tones for shadows and lines.

Use of colours is also a problem especially for the team kits. Light BLUE? Mid Grey? fucking come on... who the fuck uses such bland colours for team colours. You guys have no brains, typical pragmatic black and white idiots at the top of everything in there field in Australia. You guys are fucking idiots

Get some proper art people in please, these are all shit. By art people I mean people with the gift for art, not people who haven't got a creative bone in there body sitting behind Adobe Photoshop looking at folder of downloaded copies of every other teams logos from around the world and pumping out this utter shit. So what you jag one good logo out of your ass out of 1000.

ahaha, how did get the transperancy squares Adobe Photoshop typically uses for transparency, actually into the club kit design. lol

Now we have A-League players running around looking like they've been actually created straight out Photoshop!

Amateurs...

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wow such hate :P Chill out man, people just want to express ideas.

Anyway, Auckland FC now added.

Its clear that most of even the A-League kits have too much detail incorporated into the designs. But maybe that's the only way they can get sponsors on board.

Majority of the striping is stupid, diagonal stripes across the front, large weird looking shapes.. fucking awful..

What's the link Volrath2002 ?

I get your point. There are some strange looking jerseys in the A-League this season, Wellington's away jersey springs to mind, but there are also very simple jerseys thrown into the mix too, look at CCM or Brisbane Roar. I would argue even the Sydney FC home jersey is a plain pin stripe jersey, just has a woppa of an ugly sponsor on the front ( sorry webjet but bloody hell it is a shoker ). Victory's jerseys have pretty much stayed the same all along the life of the A-League with the 'V' getting ever so shorter but they again have a very akward looking major sponsor on the front of both the home and away jerseys. WSW have a very simple hoops jersey but the NRMA logo stands out more because it is larger than last season's.

I think the biggest problem with a lot of the kits comes down to not so much overall design but more how the sponsors logo's do not mesh well with the overal style of te shirt. And to that end Michael Taylor has done quite a nice job on his kits to simplify and/or clean up a lot of the front of shirt major sponsorship. He has also removed some of the clutter from the front too by moving the league crest/logo to the arm sleave. Something I know a lot of people are in favour of. By memory I think it is Australia and Austria who are the two nations who have their football leagues play with the league crest/logo on the front of kits. So I guess what I am trying to say is simply there needs to be a holistic approach to kit design, don't just design a kit and just slap on the sponsorship, crest and league logo.

This is the link to the A-League post, just look at the right hand menu to see each of the team posts: http://sportslogospot.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/a-league.html

Spot on mate, even the nike logo is way too big. Sponsors logo's probably here to stay but a lot of these A-League Jersey's would look so much better if there was 1 very tiny logo on the shorts and shirt. They are fucking everywhere and too big

Not a fan of this http://sportslogospot.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/a-league-auckland-city.html

Keep the kit th@ dark blue I like it. keep the whole kit that colour pants and shorts. chuck a small nike logo on it and give them an alternate colour instead of white for their away kit. Like yellow. something bright that kicks the league in the ass when they are playing away.

Not a fan of these SHoulder pad lines, and stripes throughout the kits. I don't even like the V on the Victory Jersey and that should be burnt into people's minds by now, just never sat right for me.

Actually if Victory wanted to remove it I think they could get away with the V in the logo sticking out in small logo on the left side of the shirt. Maybe as if like, it looks as if its protruding out of the logo, like. But who knows where you'd go from thei r with the rest of it. Obviously you wouldn't want every teams kit looking all the same. WSW is a great striped kit. Dunno what \variants they have in EPL etc although i've probably seen most. ...anyway

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The First Division is now completed with AFC Geelong and North Queensland Fury added.

Second dvision to come next.

The completed set of Michael Taylor Design's redesign of the A-League is now up in full on the first post of the thread. Check it out