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Page created: 30th June 1996 Last updated: 16th April 2016
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Croatia - Unofficial Flags

• Unofficial variant 1
• Unofficial variant 2
• Unofficial variant 3
• Unofficial variant 4
• Unofficial variant 5
• Supporters' flags
  • Supporters' flag 1996
  • Supporters' flag 1998
  • Supporters' flag 2008

During the history there is a large number of Croatian flags that were never official, weather homemade ad hoc for some occasion or mass produced. Some of them are presented here.

• Croatia

Unofficial variant 1

Tricolour with the coat of arms of the Triunite Kingdom (Croatia, Dalmatia, Slavonia) is in use since 1848 in many variations and artistic renditions.

Unofficial variant 2

Tricolour with the coat of arms that beside the three contains also the coat of arms of Bosnia was used since around 1930's by right political groups and also by the Hrvatski Domobran society in USA.

Unofficial variant 3

Tricolour with large chequy shield became popular especially after 1945 among Croat emigrants abroad, in many different shield shapes and with variable order of red and white cheques.

Unofficial variant 4

Tricolour with simple coat of arms in the white stripe is used since almost 1848, but became especially popular in late 1980's and in 1990, and was especially fond among right parties and among Croats abroad (including Bosnia and Herzegovina).

Unofficial variant 5

Tricolour with a shield with tricolour crest was sometimes seen in Zagreb in 1990's, probably being a imported from abroad before the independence.

Supporters' flags

Supporters' flag 1996

Chequy flag with one cheque being chequed again was used by football supporter during European championship England 1996.

Supporters' flag 1998

Tricolour with chequy edges was used by football supporters during World cup France 1998. The flag is shown on a photo on a Croatian post stamp issued in 1998 to commemorate the success of Croatia on the Cup.

Supporters' flag 2008

In connection with the European football (soccer) championship of 2008 in Austria and Switzerland, a "supporters' flag" was widely promoted by commercial companies (mostly by various newspapers) being a banner of arms of Croatian, a red and white chequered flag. The design was used with several minor differences. The one shown here contains 5×10 squares, was sold in size 50×100 cm. Similar flag was sold as a car window flag in size ca. 30×45 cm, having 4×6 squares (including newspapers Večernji list logo in the first red square) and another variant having ca. 6×10 squares. Usually each of the variants was accompanied with equally sized Croatian national flag.
Somewhat different variant, being white flag with chequy border of two rows of squares around the edges, ca. 10x20, with blue 3D effect letters reading HRVATSKA over the top chequy border and CROATIA over the bottom; sometimes including the Croatian football association logo in the middle and sometimes (more othen) the middle being left blank.

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