Global Cebu F.C.

Foundation and early years (2000–2009)

Global FC was founded in March 2000 when a group of football enthusiasts from Tacloban formed a weekly football practice as their leisure activity. The group played their first weekly football games behind the Quezon City Hall, and later moving to the Sunken Garden football field inside the University of the Philippines Diliman. Then they began to participate in minor tournaments around Manila, including the Alaska Cup, the Kia Cup, and Ang Liga, under the name Laos F.C. (Tagalog: [ˈlɐʔos]; "has-beens", no relation to the country of Laos). After hiring football players from employees at a railway company Autre Porte Technique Global (APT Global), they decided in 2009 that the club would be renamed to Global Football Club. Dan Palami, the chief executive officer of the railway company, was hired as the owner of Global. Eventually, they joined the 2009 UFL Cup, with Smartmatic as their corporate sponsor. Global competed in Group B and finished third at the group stages, advancing them to the plate cup single-elimination tournament. Because of this, they would play at Division II in the United Football League. Global is one of the founding club members in the competition.

Global in the United Football League (2010–2016)

In 2010, Global made its debut in the inaugural season of the United Football League (UFL) as a Division II team. They went undefeated throughout the season to secure a promotion to Division I. They were…

The first team emblem was used from 2000 to 2011, during which time the club was known as Global F.C. The logo was a simple crest with the words "Global F.C." in front of a wireframe globe. The second logo, the revamped club logo, was used for a year during the latter portion of the 2011 UFL season. The crest was blue with yellow borders, displaying "Global F.C." on top and the year "2000" at the bottom. In the middle was a yellow gold globe. The third crest removed the foundation date and replaced it with the text "Global Football Club" around the globe. The club released its fourth logo on April 26, 2017, through its social media account when it joined the Philippines Football League as Global Cebu F.C. The new logo is derived from the third logo, with the text "Cebu" placed in the center of the crest. Three stars are also added to the top of the crest, which symbolizes the three national championships won by the club in the UFL. When the club adopted the name Global Makati F.C. on February 4, 2019, they maintained use of the crest when the club was known as Global Cebu F.C.; "Cebu" was replaced by "Makati". The club would rebrand itself that month as United Makati F.C. and a with new crest which was derived from the Seal of Makati. In March 2019, the club revert to its original Global Makati crest after United Makati separated from Global. In February 2020, the new club owners restore its original name "Global FC" and adopted a newly enhance logo removing the word…