World Cup Flags Worst To Best

As an English business it’s a disgrace we’re ranking our own country 31st on this list. We’ll probably get not one lead from this blog as a result. Even though the St George’s Cross makes us think of the glory Euro 96 days and ‘football’s coming home’ the flag itself is dull and overshadowed by the more exciting and colourful Union Jack. Lets hope England’s fortunes are better in the football side of the tournament.

Slightly more interesting with three colours used but still very dull and rather uninspiring. Disappointing for a country known for its extraordinary palaces.

While people go crazy for the Nigeria world cup kit, their actual flag is underwhelming. Green is a fairly underused colour on flags, especially in this world cup so we give some credit here, but overall fairly disappointing from the Nigerian’s.

Finally, our first exciting flag with a bit more more going on. The issue we have with this is the random placement of the stars and the fact it’s plagiarising the union jack in the top left corner. The epitome of a good effort but poor delivery.

Credit to Denmark for the slight left alignment of the cross on their flag. The red and white work nicely but still nothing too inspiring.

A strong but basic colour scheme. Black, yellow and red in thick blocks work well to combine for a solid but not spectacular flag.

Similar to the Belgium flag a very solid mix of three colours. What pips the Belgian flag is the strong presence of yellow given precedent at the top of the flag.

Germany does a fantastic job of mixing black, yellow and red. Somehow they just do it better than Belgium with a more imposing list of pantone colours.

Starting to get sexier at this point. Strong red background combined with a nice moon and star in a white circle. Feel like they could have done a little bit more with it, but still a lot better than the previous ones.

A country known for its beautiful people produces a strong flag. A winning combination of yellow and blue with the left aligned cross scores some good points with the Signify judges.

Simple, understated but strong. The Tunisia flag is similar to this but feels a bit cluttered and like too much is going on in a small space. Morocco follows a clean layout with a strong red and dark green star to beat out it’s north african rival.

Iceland takes what Sweden and Denmark are doing with the left aligned cross and one ups them with the use of three colours. Perhaps not as sexy as the yellow and blue of Sweden but a more interesting mix of colours.

Peru has a fairly basic flag but a very exciting crest in the middle. The coat of arms features a llama (very cool) a tree and a  centered cornucopia representing prosperity. Strong argument Peru could be ranked higher than this, let us know if you agree?

Portugal is an iconic flag with a strong mix of red and green combined with a coat of arms displaying the words ‘this is my beloved blissful homeland’. How beautiful.

Switzerland sneaks into a high spot with a fairly basic design but hosts two unusual features. First of it has an unusual plus sign right in the middle as well as the fact it’s a square design rather than rectangular. Clean but memorable. Think Apple.

The colours of this flag are rather dull but the presence of an outrageous eagle known as the ‘Eagle of Saladin’ pushes this close to the top 10.

Gosh, it’s getting hard to choose between these now. South Korea’s flag is so unusual and different which is what we love, but is it actually that good? The flag is designed to mean balance and is called taegukgi which is also pretty cool. Solid work, if not a bit unusual South Korea.

A cool and fun mix of colours with a star right in the middle. Strong and fun as a flag and a worthy first entrant to the Signify top 10.

We absolutely love the Panama flag but it just feels a bit random. Great colours, creative and interesting but without any real purpose or meaning behind it. Feel like an interesting crest could have propelled this into the top 5. Alas.

Solid mix of red, blue and white with a crest including a two headed eagle and a crown. A very commanding and strong flag all round.

A snake fighting an eagle what a battle. This alone secures Mexico a top ten spot. The rest of the flag is nicely coloured with the Italian’s feeling slightly ripped off that their effort has been one upped.

Fantastic mix of red and yellow with a beautiful coat of arms. The flag is known as ‘bandera de espana’ which makes it sound even sexier. Unlucky to miss out on the top 5.

Well deserving of the top 5. In the battle of tentacled sun’s Uruguay beats out its south american rival. Argentina oozes coolness with the blue and white and sun in the middle. It’s an iconic flag and deserves its spot at #5 on the Signify Digital rankings.

An extremely iconic flag that is unlucky to miss out on the top 3 due to harsh marks from the Signify judges. ‘Ordem e progresso’ on the famous planet means ‘order and progress’ which is inspiring and worthy motto.

The Costa Rica flag has everything. A great colour mix, different size lines and a cool emblem with the coat of arms. It’s interesting, sleek, sexy and frankly the full package. Well done Costa Rica.

(We would like to bring up that a rival article from talksport incorrectly listed the Costa Rica flag without the coat of arms. How dare they)

A tentacle sun in the top left hand corner combined with a sleek blue and white stripe combo. What an absolute beauty. Distinguishable and sleek from Uruguay getting them a well earned silver medal.

And the winner is Croatia! Signify has a soft spot for the beautiful balkan nation and its flag beats out all the other 31 with this absolute stunner. The beautiful mix of red, white and blue combined with the sublime red and white emblem of the croatian navy gives a sleek, cool and historic win. Also, how can you not love the golden goat with red horns?

Congratulations to Croatia.