Nickname(s):Aseguradores(The Insurers),El Verde Capitalino (The Capital Greens)
Founded:1982
Stadium:Estadio Metropolitano de Techo
Capacity:10,000
1982-2025
2026-Present
Internacional de Bogotá Crest History
The crest history of La Equidad underwent its most dramatic transformation in 2026, when the long-established Bogotá club was rebranded as Internacional de Bogotá. The change introduced not only a completely new crest but also a new name and colour palette, ending more than four decades of the familiar green-and-gold La Equidad identity.
The crest used from 1982 to 2025 was closely connected with the origins of La Equidad and its relationship with the Seguros La Equidad insurance organisation.
It took the form of a rounded triangular shield outlined in gold, with green, white and gold forming the principal colour scheme.
Across the upper section was a broad green panel containing the word equidad in lowercase white lettering.
The use of the name rather than initials made the club immediately identifiable and reinforced the close relationship between the football team and the organisation from which it originated.
The central section contained a distinctive green three-part circular symbol, giving the badge an almost corporate appearance that reflected the institutional origins of the club.
To the right were several vertical gold stripes, providing additional contrast against the predominantly white background.
Green became inseparable from La Equidad's football identity and contributed to the nickname El Verde Capitalino, The Capital Green.
The club was also widely known as Los Aseguradores, The Insurers, a direct reference to its origins within the insurance sector.
For more than four decades, this green-and-gold identity accompanied La Equidad's development from a relatively modest Bogotá football project into an established professional club.
A fundamental change began in January 2025, when the club was acquired by an international investment consortium led by Al Tylis and Sam Porter. The new ownership group subsequently developed plans for a complete repositioning of the institution.
In December 2025, it was officially announced that La Equidad would become Internacional de Bogotá, with the new identity taking effect for the 2026 season.
The transformation was deliberately comprehensive.
The name La Equidad disappeared from the badge, the traditional green colour was abandoned and the long-serving shield was replaced by a completely new emblem.
The 2026–present crest uses a palette of black, white and gold. According to the club, white represents unity, black represents the strength and resilience of Bogotá, and gold represents greatness and references the cultural heritage surrounding the legend of El Dorado.
The upper section prominently displays the new name INTERNACIONAL DE BOGOTÁ in bold black lettering, making the connection with Colombia's capital the central element of the new identity.
Below the lettering appears a stylised black Andean condor with its wings spread across the badge.
The condor is particularly significant because it is Colombia's national bird, while its use within the new emblem also connects the club with the natural environment surrounding Bogotá.
Behind the condor are stylised forms representing Bogotá's Cerros Orientales — the Eastern Hills, one of the defining geographical features of the Colombian capital. The club describes the mountains as symbols of origin, territory and its connection with the land.
At the centre of the bird appears a small red-and-white detail, providing one of the few strong colour accents within the otherwise black-and-gold composition.
The lower portion of the crest terminates in a pointed gold shield, preserving a subtle connection with traditional football heraldry despite the otherwise highly modern design.
The redesign was intended to create an identity based much more explicitly around Bogotá itself. The club describes Internacional de Bogotá as a new-generation project designed to represent the diversity, resilience and international character of the Colombian capital.
This makes the transition particularly significant from a crest-history perspective.
Many football rebrands retain traditional colours, initials or historic symbols, but the transformation from La Equidad to Internacional de Bogotá removed almost every major element of the previous visual identity.
Green and gold became black, white and gold.
The abstract Equidad symbol was replaced by the Andean condor and Bogotá's Eastern Hills.
The word equidad disappeared and was replaced by INTERNACIONAL DE BOGOTÁ.
Even the philosophy behind the badge changed: where the old crest reflected the club's institutional and insurance-company origins, the new emblem is deliberately centred on city identity and geography.
The club nevertheless presents Internacional de Bogotá as the next chapter of the organisation that began with La Equidad in 1982, rather than ignoring that history altogether. Its official history describes the new project as an evolution that honours the earlier club while establishing a new identity for the future.
The two crests shown here therefore represent one of the clearest visual transformations in modern Colombian football.
Internacional de Bogotá Club History
La Equidad was founded in Bogotá in 1982 as a football project connected to the Colombian cooperative insurance company Seguros La Equidad. Over the following four decades, the club developed from an amateur company team into an established member of Colombian professional football before undergoing a fundamental transformation into Internacional de Bogotá for the 2026 season.
The club's origins were very different from those of Bogotá's traditional giants, Millonarios and Independiente Santa Fe.
Rather than emerging from an established social or sporting institution, La Equidad developed within the cooperative movement associated with Seguros La Equidad.
The club initially concentrated on amateur and youth football, gradually building a sporting structure capable of competing at increasingly high levels of the Colombian game.
This institutional background became fundamental to its identity.
La Equidad became known as Los Aseguradores — The Insurers, while its characteristic green colours produced another nickname, El Verde Capitalino — The Capital Green.
A major step occurred in 2003, when La Equidad entered Colombia's professional second division, Categoría Primera B.
The club progressed remarkably quickly.
In 2006, La Equidad won the Primera B championship, earning promotion to Colombia's top division for the first time.
The promotion transformed the club from a relatively little-known Bogotá project into a new competitor at the highest level of Colombian football.
La Equidad made its Categoría Primera A debut in 2007 and immediately surprised the established order.
During the 2007 Finalización, in only its first season in the top flight, La Equidad reached the championship final.
The opponent was Atlético Nacional, one of the most successful clubs in Colombia.
Nacional ultimately won the final, but La Equidad's appearance in the championship decider represented an extraordinary achievement for a recently promoted club.
Rather than disappearing after its breakthrough season, Los Aseguradores established themselves as regular competitors in the Primera A.
The club became particularly associated with disciplined organisation, careful recruitment and the development of players rather than the financial resources or enormous supporter bases enjoyed by Colombia's traditional powers.
La Equidad also achieved its first major top-level trophy during this period.
In 2008, the Bogotá club won the Copa Colombia, defeating Once Caldas in the final.
The cup victory represented the most important trophy of the La Equidad era and also opened the door to international competition.
During the following years, the club regularly competed for places in the championship play-offs and qualified for CONMEBOL tournaments.
Another opportunity to become Colombian champion arrived in the 2010 Apertura.
La Equidad reached the league final against Junior FC of Barranquilla.
Los Aseguradores won the first leg 1–0 in Bogotá, putting the club within reach of its first top-flight championship.
Junior recovered in the return match at the Estadio Metropolitano and ultimately won the championship, leaving La Equidad as runner-up for the second time.
Remarkably, the club reached another league final only a year later.
In the 2011 Apertura, La Equidad faced Atlético Nacional once again.
The two sides could not be separated over the final, and the championship was eventually decided by a penalty shoot-out.
Atlético Nacional prevailed, meaning La Equidad had now reached three Primera A finals — 2007, 2010 and 2011 — without winning the championship.
Nevertheless, reaching three finals within its first five seasons in the top division established La Equidad as one of the most remarkable new forces in Colombian football during that period.
The club also began building an international history through appearances in competitions such as the Copa Sudamericana.
Although La Equidad never captured a major CONMEBOL trophy, regular international qualification demonstrated how far the organisation had progressed from its amateur origins.
Home matches became associated primarily with the Estadio Metropolitano de Techo in Bogotá.
The relatively compact stadium created a very different environment from the enormous Estadio El Campín, home of Santa Fe and Millonarios.
This reflected La Equidad's position within Bogotá football more broadly.
While Millonarios and Santa Fe possessed decades of history and enormous established supporter bases, La Equidad represented a younger and more institutionally driven alternative within the capital.
The club never developed a rivalry comparable in scale to the Clásico Capitalino between Millonarios and Santa Fe, although matches against Bogotá's traditional clubs naturally carried additional local importance.
During the 2010s, La Equidad remained remarkably stable in the top division.
The club frequently qualified for the decisive stages of domestic competitions and continued producing and developing players who later moved to larger Colombian or international clubs.
Another major championship challenge arrived in 2021.
La Equidad reached the semi-final stage of the 2021 Apertura, once again demonstrating its ability to compete with clubs possessing substantially larger budgets and supporter bases.
By this stage, La Equidad had become one of the longest-established modern additions to Colombia's top division.
However, the institution entered a completely new phase in 2025.
An international investment group led by football investors Al Tylis and Sam Porter acquired the club, beginning a process intended to transform its sporting and commercial position.
The new ownership eventually decided that the club required an identity capable of developing a broader connection with Bogotá rather than remaining primarily associated with the La Equidad insurance organisation.
In late 2025, plans were unveiled to replace the historic La Equidad identity with a new name.
Beginning with the 2026 season, the club became Internacional de Bogotá.
The transformation represented one of the most substantial rebrandings in recent Colombian professional football.
The traditional green-and-white colours of La Equidad disappeared and were replaced by a new black, white and gold identity.
The historic Equidad crest was replaced by an emblem incorporating imagery associated directly with Bogotá, including an Andean condor and references to the mountains surrounding the Colombian capital.
The change also represented a fundamental shift in how the club presented itself.
La Equidad had been closely identified with its corporate and cooperative origins, while Internacional de Bogotá was conceived as a club whose identity would be centred much more explicitly on the city itself.
Despite the new name and visual identity, the professional organisation represents the continuation of the sporting institution previously known as La Equidad.
This means that the club's historical record includes the achievements accumulated during the La Equidad era rather than beginning entirely from zero in 2026.
The most important of those achievements remains the 2008 Copa Colombia.
Equally significant are the three appearances in Colombian championship finals in 2007, 2010 and 2011.
Although La Equidad never succeeded in winning the Primera A championship, reaching three finals so soon after promotion was an exceptional achievement for a club that had entered professional football only a few years earlier.
Its rise from Primera B champion in 2006 to top-flight finalist in 2007 remains one of the defining episodes in the club's history.
