Just for your information, this blog stands against the new club crest, as it goes directly against the club's very own charter, which was completely ignored by the club executives.
Below, a translation of the Article number Five of the club charter, which treats about the symbols and emblems of the club. As a guideline, the original design of the club's crest as displayed in Os pacatos leirienses em meio século de desporto amador, by Alda Sales Machado Gonçalves.
1 — The club's crest must follow the guidelines presented in the club charter. The following description use approximate terms in heraldic notation:
The escutcheon MUST use the "modern French" shape, argent.
On chief argent a flattened version of a mural crown, masoned with five towers argent. The towers doors and windows changed shape and form with the time.
Castle on fess (no color and drawing position specified, the castle with the mount was used from 1966 to 2024, but the mount was sometimes tinted or not, once again, it is not specified), with the characters U D L on honour point (once again, no color specified, both red and black were used for the characters at many points of the club's history).
On dexter base a gyronny of eight, argent and gules, on sinister base a fleur-de-lis argent on azure.
2 — The main color on home kits, flags, pennants and other club equipment is white.
3 — The main color for alternate kits or secondary color for the club symbols is recommended to be garnet (the first União away kits were actually lended down shirts from the deactived football section of Ateneu de Leiria), but the use of such color is not mandatory (i.e. the last garnet away shirt was the 2021/22 one, the last away shirts were split between red and blue. Other colors used for away kits were red, blue, and dark blue, while last season União also used a gold shirt as third kit and even a pink shirt as fourth kit).
4 — Every single section and society promoted by the club must use the crest, flag and equipments mentioned in the previous paragraphs (important issue beucase the last club presidency press release stated the new crest will be used by all club sections).
If you want to support the cause for the reversion to the old crest, feel free to sign the petition below:
No comunicado em que é revelado o novo emblema do clube, (https://www.uniaodeleiria.pt/uniao-de-leiria-marca-inicio-de-uma-nova-era/), a UDL











