Sporting Clube de Portugal - uncouthly, “Sporting Lisbon” - are one of the Iberian nation’s “Três Grandes” and it was an honour to have them feature in the 404th stage of the Crest Redesign Competition Weekly (CRCW).

Arguably, the honour was reversed by the execution of the stage, which attracted great attention - we extend a welcome to newcomers - and delivered an array of beautiful team badges.

Sporting Clube de Braga may not have the same clout as Benfica, Porto and Sporting [Clube de Portugal] - indicated by their losing out to the lattermost in the one-word moniker stakes - but they hold their own in Portuguese football and can count plenty of glorious moments in their history.

Nothing like the honour of featuring in a stage of the Kit of the Week (KOTW) challenge, of course, and lots of the big guns got involved when it came to providing Os Arcebispos with shirts for an alternate reality.

The 403rd stage of the Crest Redesign Competition Weekly (CRCW) was won by Aegon, with a supremely classy badge, but that far from tells the full story.

Montpellier Hérault Sport Club (HSC) have a particularly colourful history, with a solitary French Ligue 1 triumph - so far - coming in 2011-12, and the entries mirrored the variation in styles and fortunes that the southern-based side have experienced over the years.

Cusco Fútbol Club, who play in Peru’s Liga 1, have spectacular iconography thanks to their proximity to Machu Picchu - Cuzco’s an UNESCO World Heritage Site dontcha know - so the 352nd stage of the Kit of the Week (KOTW) challenge, dedicated to “Los Cusqueños”, was bound to be a fun one.

Surprisingly, it lacked a little in terms of quantity, but there was never a chance of it struggling in the quality stakes. Kevski77 combined black and gold with an Andes-silhouette-inspired look and a little colour, rozzimos ran with the colour to nod to Vinicunca - or “Montaña Arcoíris” (“Rainbow Mountain”) - and, really, we could highlight every design entered, as they were all superb in their own ways.

With some teams who feature in the Crest Redesign Competition Weekly (CRCW), it’s very hard to distance the creativity from the current team badge.

Not impossible, and in the 402nd stage of our long-running contest, Ochoa510 went ultra-minimalist and ultra-modern with their Real Sociedad effort, and to great effect, but generally there was a basis of faithfulness once the voting page was populated.

The 350th stage of the Kit of the Week (KOTW) challenge was dedicated to San Miguel-based Salvadoran Primera División side Club Deportivo (CD) Águila.

Of course we got some wonderful black-and-orange designs for Negronaranjas, perhaps with more variety in style than we’ve ever seen before, but that wasn’t the full story.