One of the football stories of this year so far has been North Macedonia’s victory over Italy which sent the European champions out of the Qatar 2022 qualification playoffs.

Whilst the Southeastern-European side fell at the next hurdle - Portugal - their famous victory will resonate through the years and, while they haven’t made it to the upcoming World Cup, they’ve more than merited their appearance in the Crest Redesign Competition Weekly (CRCW) earlier in ’22.

The Canadian Premier League has had a lot of kit fanciers talking in recent weeks, and the 285th edition of the Crest Redesign Competition Weekly (CRCW) earlier this year focussed on Langford’s Pacific FC.

Less than four years into a club’s lifespan perhaps seems a little early for a makeover, but the 2022 pacesetters are gaining fans and with that comes the interest of the kit- and crest-design communities.

As always, the Crest Redesign Competition Weekly (CRCW) has a spectacular stage running as we speak, but 2022 has delivered several outstanding winners - including in the Israel Football Association edition.

The Israeli logo has been controversial for a while, owing to its uncanny similarity to the version sported by Ireland, so it was well-deserving of the DF challenge treatment.

The Crest Redesign Competition Weekly (CRCW) takes in football teams from around the world and, consequently, the last stage to close in 2021 was dedicated to a club plying their trade in the A(ustralian)-League.

Your correspondent is not so into Australian football, or “soccer”, and has been known to mistakenly refer to the Western Sydney side as the “Warriors” rather than “Wanderers”. Here’s hoping the Wanderers' notable appearance in CRCW will finally put that error to bed.

Last month, our Crest Redesign Competition Weekly (CRCW) challenge gave us a stage dedicated to Prva HNL (Croatian) side HNK Šibenik.

Once again, we were treated to a whole range of styles - the ultra-minimalist through to bloody battles for focal-point status - and the voting saw several entrants registering respectable totals.

There can be few stages of the Crest Redesign Competition Weekly with a more varied selection of styles than this one from late last year.

Stage 281 - dedicated to the Liga Venezolana’s Atlético Venezuela CF - had everything from modern, ultra-minimalist entries to timeless classics with an almost heraldic overtone, and it was perhaps unsurprising that four participants scored over 20 points in the voting.