page_title: Banner
section_title: Sports banners
hierarchical_section_title: Banner / Sports banners
caption_attribution_description: TIFO FC Nantes Atlantique
context_page_description: A banner can be a flag or other piece of cloth bearing a symbol, logo, slogan or other message. A flag whose design is the same as the shield in a coat of arms is called a banner of arms. Also, a bar-shaped piece of non-cloth advertising material sporting a name, slogan, or other marketing message.
  Banner-making is an ancient craft. Church banners commonly portray the saint to whom the church is dedicated.
  The word derives from Old French baniere, from Late Latin bandum, which was borrowed from a Germanic source. Cognates include Italian bandiera, Portuguese bandeira, and Spanish bandera.
context_section_description: Sports fans often buy or make banners to display in the grandstands. Team banners typically contain the logo, name or nickname, motto and the team colors. Banners on individual competitors can contain a picture or drawing of the player. Sports banners may also honor notable players or hall-of-fame athletes and commemorate past championships won. These types of sports banners are typically hung from rafters in stadiums. The Miami Heat, an NBA Team, hangs division titles and championship banners at the top of the rafters in their home stadium, American Airlines Arena. Similar to other sports banners, they feature the color palette of the team's logo, the logo, names of players, and championship winning years.  In North American indoor professional sports, the previous season's champion traditionally does not install their awarded championship banner until moments prior to their first home game of the season that follows, in a procedure that is chiefly referred to as "raising the banner".
  Uruguay's Club Nacional de Football supporters made a 600 x 50 metre banner that weighs over 2 tonnes; they claim it is the largest in the world. It was unveiled in April 2013 in a Copa Libertadores football match at the Estadio Centenario.
caption: FC Nantes banner
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