Collingwood Forever

Building the best online sports museum in the world

Collingwood Football Club is Australia’s largest and most famous sporting club. With over 2m fans and 80,000 members, they are a leader in Australian sport, hospitality and entertainment.

The Business Problem

Collingwood wanted to celebrate its 125+ year history in a meaningful and sustained way. Collingwood Football Club needed an archive of players over the past 123 years.

PENSO's Solution

PENSO built forever.collingwoodfc.com.au, the best and most comprehensive online sports museum in the world. The website features player biographies, commentaries, articles, images, artwork and over 47,000 player match statistics along with data on nearly 2,500 matches from 116 seasons against 19 teams from 1897 to 2013.

As part of the project, PENSO developed the brand name, brand mark and identity for Collingwood Forever, taking inspiration from Collingwood’s “golden era” of the “Machine Team” of the late 1920s. This era’s art deco styling inspired the design of the branding, website and other “Collingwood Forever” materials and activations.

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Disciplines

Digital Design
UX Strategy
Web Development

Facts & Figures

116 years of match data

1,474 wins by the club

1,206 individual player profiles

30,235 Collingwood goals recorded

The Result

Collingwood Forever is continually evolving with the creation of new articles, video, social features and comparison tools, offering fans an immersive Black & White experience.