In May of 1936 the team adopted their first crest. It was a blue hexagon with a red skirt with letter C crossed with a coal hammer. In 1946, when the sports society and the team were renamed from Stakhanovets into Shakhtar, the club crest acquired the signature ДСО «Шахтер» and a picture of a gob pile and a pile-driver.
In the sixties two crossed hammers appeared in the centre and a signature «Шахтер» Донецк around the logo.
Approximately since that time (except for several seasons at the beginning of the 90-s) the crest has been on the players' T-shirts. In 1989 artist Viktor Savilov on the event of the club restructuring offered a draft variant of a logo with elements of the ball and pith.
In 1997 the crest design was slightly altered. It remained the club’s official symbol till 2007.
On 5 December 2007 FC Shakhtar presented its new crest that had been designed by the Italian company Interbrand
