Despite recent troubles, Valencia Club de Fútbol, of Spain’s La Liga, have a glittering history both domestically and abroad, and their aesthetic identity gets concept designers very excited.

So, yes, a Kit of the Week (KOTW) challenge stage was more than warranted, and it was wonderful.

A challenge bouncing between club and international sides, the 322nd stage of the Crest Redesign Competition Weekly (CRCW) centred on the Canadian national team.

There has been consternation over Canada not having new kits at the 2022 World Cup, but we were focused on the badge they wear, with some brilliant suggestions.

The 323rd stage of the Crest Redesign Competition Weekly (CRCW) was centred on current Romanian Liga I (SuperLiga) top dogs FCV Farul Constanța.

Managed and owned - in the main - by Romania legend Gheorghe Hagi, with fellow Romania legend Gheorghe “Gică” Popescu club president, the side has a hugely complicated past, but we like to keep things relatively simple on DF - great team badges and straightforward democracy.

The 270th stage of the Kit of the Week (KOTW) challenge saw another win for fayed, as well as a fantastic selection of HNK Rijeka designs.

The Croatian side were spoilt for choice, should they have elected to engage with any of the designers, as the standard was particularly high.

Some weeks the Crest Redesign Competition Weekly (CRCW) is about huge teams, others minnows; we’ll leave you to decide which category stage 321 - cue Ted Rogers hand gesture* - falls into.

Accra’s Hearts of Oak are certainly big in Ghana. They have a barrowful of domestic titles and even one CAF Champions League win to their name, but they’re far from a household name internationally and that adds a little intrigue to a CRCW stage.

All the Kit of the Week challenge stages are fun, some are more impressive than others, and some - like the Palmeiras stage - are so undeniably spectacular that we could talk about them for months after they’ve closed.

And here we are. We shouldn’t be surprised that the Brazilian side with the Italian origins got DF members excited, as big a club as they are, but we couldn’t have predicted the brilliance that was to ensue once they were announced as the fantasy client.