How Gotham’s 2025 championship ring reflects past glory and future ambition
A championship ring is, by design, a glittering tribute to a season well won. But Gotham FC’s 2025 ring, a sequel to its 2023 edition, does more than commemorate a second title. It gestures, with swagger, towards a future still under construction.
“If the ring could speak, what would it say? That’s the challenge. You can’t rely on words, so the design itself has to carry the story” says Ryan Ford, vice president of professional sports sales at The Champions Collective, the company that designed
A championship ring is, by design, a glittering tribute to a season well won. But Gotham FC’s 2025 ring, a sequel to its 2023 edition, does more than commemorate a second title. It gestures, with swagger, towards a future still under construction.
“If the ring could speak, what would it say? That’s the challenge. You can’t rely on words, so the design itself has to carry the story” says Ryan Ford, vice president of professional sports sales at The Champions Collective, the company that designed both of the club’s championship rings.
For more than 70 years, the 129-year-old jewelry maker has produced championship rings, beginning with the one it created for the Detroit Lions’ 1952 NFL title. That established an enduring American sports tradition: jewelry that symbolizes on-pitch success. The company made all six of the New England Patriots’ Super Bowl rings and admits it is more challenging to make those items when teams win titles in quick succession.