Editing FC Basel (section)

==Colours and logo==
FC Basel's traditional kit is a red and blue shirt. Due to the fact that some of the founders were members of the "Basler Ruder-Club", whose colors were red and blue, they adopted those colours for their new club. FC Basel's outfit is completed by blue shorts with gold trim and blue socks with red trim. From this comes the nickname "''RotBlau''" which is [[Swiss German]] and German for "RedBlue". Their away kit is all white with two stripes down the middle, the left being red and the right being blue. FC Basel's kits were formerly manufactured by [[Nike, Inc.|Nike]], however in the summer of 2012 a new contract was formed with [[Adidas]] to produce the kits until 2017. The main sponsor is [[Novartis]], a multinational pharmaceutical company which is based in the city of Basel. On the inside tag of the jerseys is inscribed "Rot isch unseri Liebi, Blau die ewigi Treui, Basel unseri Stadt." This roughly translates to "Red is our love, blue the eternal loyalty, Basel our city."

According to a legend, the famous "Blaugrana" colours of Barcelona have been said to have originated from the Rotblau colours of FC Basel. This legend evolved because [[Joan Gamper]], founder of both [[FC Zürich]] and [[FC Barcelona]] had played two friendly games for FC Basel against Mulhouse and Strasbourg on short visits, as he did for other Swiss clubs, too.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lütscher |first=Michael |title=Eine Stadt, ein Verein, eine Geschichte |publisher=Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung |year=2010 |isbn=978-3-03823-643-6}}</ref> FC Barcelona today based on accounts of the Gamper family assumes, the colours had been taken from the rugby team of the [[Merchant Taylors' Boys' School, Crosby|Merchant Taylors' School]] near Liverpool.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Santacana |first=Carles |date=2016-12-27 |title=The origins of FC Barcelona's colours |url=https://www.fcbarcelona.com/en/news/813829/the-origins-of-fc-barcelonas-colours |access-date=2023-07-31 |website=FC Barcelona |archive-date=9 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709185949/https://www.fcbarcelona.com/en/news/813829/the-origins-of-fc-barcelonas-colours |url-status=live }}</ref>

For the 2008–09 season, Basel changed their shirt to resemble the traditional Barcelona shirt (red and blue vertical stripes). Barcelona changed theirs to one half of the shirt red, the other blue, which happens to resemble the traditional Basel shirt.

[[File:FC Basel.png|thumb|right|100px|Old FC Basel logo without the two stars]]
Basel's current logo is a shield, the left half red and the right half blue. The shield is outlined with gold and in the centre in gold letters it reads "FCB", for "Football Club Basel" or "Fussballclub Basel". The logo is worn in the centre of the shirt opposed to on the traditional left-hand side. Like the club colours of Basel, the logo has a striking resemblance to that of Barcelona's. There are theories that suggest that the founder of Barcelona, being at one time the captain of Basel, reincorporated the logo of Basel to that of Barcelona. The resemblances seem clear: both logos seem to incorporate the shield design, as do most other clubs. Most notably, however, is the FCB acronyms on both logos and the red-blue colours, outlined in gold. Additionally, the football that lies on the left side of the Basel logo seems to be the exact shape, type and colour as that of the Barcelona logo in the bottom centre. Because of this, many say that Basel was the inspiration in the process of founding Barcelona.