Margate F.C. - Colours and Crest

Colours and Crest

Margate's current colours are blue shirts with white trim and blue shorts, but the team have worn a number of other colour combinations. The club's earliest known colours were black and white stripes. By the 1920s the club had adopted plain white shirts (with the team having the appropriate nickname of "The Lilywhites") but in 1929 changed its colours to amber and black. In 1949 the colours changed once again to blue and white. During the Thanet United era, the team wore plain white shirts, but when the club's name changed back to Margate in 1989, the blue kit was re-adopted.

The club's current crest is a simplified version of the coat of arms of the town of Margate, incorporating a lion conjoined to a ship's hull (a reference to the arms of the Cinque Ports) and the white horse emblem of Kent. Previous crests have included the full town arms, the letters "M.F.C." above a lighthouse, and the letters "M.F.C." superimposed on a football.

Margate's shirts have borne various sponsors' logos but the most notable was that of the pop group Bad Manners, whose name appeared on the team's kit as part of a sponsorship deal with their record label in the late 1990s. Lead singer Buster Bloodvessel was running a hotel in Margate at the time and actually joined the football club's board of directors.