Upon their formation in September 1912, Monza's team wore long-sleeved, blue shirts with a white collar and cuffs.[3] The choice of blue was "forced"; a local cloth dealer, who was a football fan, gifted the newly founded club a piece of blue cloth he had not been able to sell for years.[3] Following World War I, in the 1919–20 Promozione, the countless washes faded the shirts' colours from blue to white and they were replaced with new, half-white and half-blue shirts with matching sleeves.[20] The club continued to wear the blue-and-white colours for 20 years until September 1932, when Monza changed their colours to red and white, which they have worn ever since.[28] The change came as a result of professor Giuseppe Riva's report addressed to the comune of Monza in May 1923, in which he discovered that the city's historical colours were red and white.[d][143] Monza debuted with their new colours in the Coppa del ventennio (Two-decades cup), a friendly tournament to mark Monza's 20-year anniversary.[144] The kit was a white shirt with a red vertical stripe in the middle and black shorts.[144] The team's away kit was the inverse of the home one; on occasions when Monza were to face a team also wearing red and white, they wore a blue kit.[144] Ever since, the home kit has been red and the away kit white;[145] prior to 1971, the home shirt was generally solid red and the away shirt white.[144] In the 1937–38 and 1961–62 seasons, Monza's home shirt was striped red-and-white.[144] Eleven players of Monza in two rows wearing red shirts with a thin white stripe facing the camera Monza's kits first featured the white vertical line in 1971; the Corona Ferrea was placed on the stripe as a logo. During the 1950s, the shorts were usually white and rarely black.[146] Goalkeepers wore black or grey kits.[144] In 1971, Monza's home kit underwent a slight but significant change: a vertical white band was added on the left-hand side, running through the length of the red shirt.[146] The band was red for the white away shirt.[146] The following year, the vertical band extended to the shorts and the kit numbers were displayed on the sleeves.[147] The Corona Ferrea (Iron Crown) was used as a logo at the top of the stripe on the chest.[148] In the seasons following Monza's Coppa Italia Serie C wins in 1974, 1975, 1988 and 1991, the cockade of Italy replaced the crown.[148] On 22 August 1979, during a 1979–80 Coppa Italia game against Milan, Monza displayed the players' names on top of the numbers on the back, a novelty at the time dubbed "all'Americana" (American style); the Italian Football Federation did not approve of the change and fined the club.[149] Monza first displayed a sponsor on their shirt in 1982, showing the text "Ponteggi Dalmine".[149] From 1981, the lateral white stripe was removed from the kit, making way for different forms of full-red shirts; the stripe returned sporadically for short periods in 1992, 2000, 2014[150] and since 2018.[151] In 2019, following the club's name change back to A.C. Monza, new Lotto shirts that included a small Autodromo logo on the back of the collar in reference to the Monza Circuit were unveiled.[152] On their 110th anniversary on 1 September 2022, Monza unveiled a light blue kit as their third colours for the 2022–23 season in honour of the club's first shirt.[153] Monza's first kit in 1912 was blue-and-white. In 1920 the kit changed to blue-and-white halves. The first red-and-white kit appeared in 1932. In 1937–38 and 1961–62, Monza wore stripes. Variations of a full-red shirt were worn between the 1930s and 2010s... ..which alternated with the white-stripe kit, first introduced in 1971. Badge A black and white illustration of an oval crown The Corona Ferrea has been used in Monza's badges since 1920. Monza's first crest was designed in 1920:[154] it depicted a blue shield with a red border, with a golden Corona Ferrea inside.[155] The text "A.C. Monza" was written in black inside a white horizontal band on top of the shield.[155] The crest remained in use until 1932, when Monza's colours changed to red and white.[155] In 1933, the badge became circular and was vertically divided into red and white halves, and included golden initials A.C.M. with the crown at the bottom.[156] During the 1937–38 season, the badge's shape was changed from a circle to an oval, keeping the same details.[156] It stayed the same until 1945, following World War II, when it changed to a rectangular shape that was divided into red and white halves.[156] The white half on the left featured the club's name and the founding year, while the crown was placed in the red half.[157] Following Monza's promotion to the Serie B in 1951, the crest again became oval shaped and the text's orientation was changed from vertical to horizontal.[158] This design lasted five years until Monza's merger with Simmenthal, when the logo became more detailed; the badge was shaped like an ox head, including the horns.[158] The colours were placed diagonally, similarly to the 1951 crest, with the letters S (for Simmenthal) and M (Monza) being placed on top of each other in the badge's centre.[158] The crown was placed above the letters.[158] After the end of the merger in 1966, the badge became a stylised golden Corona Ferrea with red details.[158] The epigraph of the club's name was placed in the inner circle.[158] In 1984, Monza's logo went back to a rectangular shape.[159] A white inverted chevron was placed inside, with the words "Calcio" and "Monza" placed on each side of the chevron.[159] A vertical sword, a reference to Estorre Visconti,[160] was placed inside the downwards-pointing triangle formed by the chevron.[159] The crown formed the hilt of the sword.[161] A red and white badge with "AC MONZA BRIANZA" written on it The badge used by Monza between 2004 and 2013 In 2000,[162] the logo changed to a rounded-bottom shield; a red crown was placed in the top third on a white background, while the bottom two-thirds contained the words "Calcio Monza 1912" written in white on a red background.[163] The logo remained until 2004, when a new crest was introduced: it was a more rounded red shield with white details; "AC Monza Brianza" was written on top, and a depiction of a sword "cutting through" a crown – both drawn in a minimalist style – was placed on the bottom.[162] Monza celebrated their 100th anniversary in the 2012–13 season. A modified version of the logo was announced to mark the occasion: a gold crown with red and white gems was placed on top of the crest. "MB" (standing for Monza Brianza) written in red was placed below the crest, surrounded by "2012" to the left, "1912" to the right and "100" on the bottom, all written in gold.[164] Starting from the 2013–14 season, Monza's logo included a red shield with the club's name ("AC Monza Brianza") in white capital letters inside.[160] The Corona Ferrea was placed above the shield and two white "Visconti" crossed swords were included inside the shield.[160] The logo underwent a minor redesign in 2015, when the two crossed swords were replaced with a vertical sword, and the text on top changed to "S.S.D. Monza", to reflect the club's name change.[165] In 2016 and 2019, the text in the badge was changed to "Monza" and "AC Monza", respectively.[162][122] In 2021, a thin red outline was added to the logo, enclosing the already present white border surrounding the red shield.[166] The same year, Monza published a brand manual, including information about the geometrical construction of the badge, the fonts used by the club, and their colour dubbed "Rosso Monza" (Monza Red; hex: #E4032E).[166] Anthem Since 2006, the club's officia
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