Hammarby IF - Crest and Colours

Crest and Colours

At the founding of Hammarby Roddförening the club choose to have the club badge consisting of a white flag with three green horizontal lines. The reason was that the two blue and red lines on a white flag was used by two competing rowing clubs. Choosing the colour green was becouse it was said that green is the colour of hope. Hammarby RF added a third stripe when they discoverd that Göteborgs RF had a greenwhite flag with two stripes.

In 1915 when the football section of Hammarby RF started, determined in the first meeting that the kit would look as following: white hat with a five-pointed green star, white shirt with HIF-mark on its chest, white shorts and black socks.

After the merger with Johanneshovs IF 1918, changed its football team apparel. Now it was Johanneshovs tiger striped shirts, blue shorts and black socks with yellow stripes. In the 60's they changed out the blue pants with black. It is said that it was "Nacka" Skoglund, who, when he came back from Italy in 1964, brought with him black pants when he thought that the blue pants looked awful.

1978, 60 years after the merger with Johanneshov, changed it to kits with white shirts, green shorts and white socks. 1997, the "tiger stripes" back, however, in the reinvention of green and white colors and with green pants and white socks. Since then, it is the green-white-striped in force, except for 2002, when it had all-white jerseys. To and from, the yellow-black colors returned in the away and third kits even after 1978.