Of teams wearing new kits in the league -

Liverpool did it last week and presumably today.

I'm pretty sure Spurs did it against Blackburn a few seasons back?

Manchester City wore their away kit at home to Middlesbrough when they could only draw 1-1 and miss out on the UEFA cup.

Speaking of "what a rip" kits - Villa have a black 3rd strip, to my knowledge-it has not been worn once, and the sponsor is being changed at the end of the season. It costs £50 to buy from the club shop too.

I'd be sad to see the back of our current away strip though, which is the best we've had since 1990.

harbinger of hope wrote:

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I am amazed it has happened as much as this and thankyou for your input.

However (looking at this pedantically) I must point out that during the years shown above, i notice they are all Cup finals. The FA Cup Final and certainly European Cup Final were normally always staged after the regular league season had finished. As opposed to Chelsea today, where they were in the last league game of the season. ie slightly earlier.

In recent seasons there seem to have been about 25% and upwards of teams in the PL and FL debut their new kit on the last game (or home game) of the season.

harbinger of hope wrote:

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The year when Wimbledon (RIP) changed their shirt sponser about 5 times in the same season? Although the kit style/colour did not change, was each kit with the different sponser name on the front sold?

I think that was Chelsea, not Wimbledon.

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What about the special Man Utd, Man City shirts from the derby this season? No idea if these were actually sold

They weren't.

Kowalski wrote:

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Here's another question, when was the last time a team wore a kit that they didn't sell as a replica?

Wales wore a one-off kit for the 2-1 away win over Denmark in the late Nineties. I blagged a replica from Lotto but none were sold.

Coversely, Wales have sold replicas of shirts they have only ever worn once (and possibly one they never wore. I will have to check 'True Colours' which really should be entry level reading for all these threads).

Until they were relegated from the Prem, Wimbledon were the team who had changed their kit more often than any other. Liverpool were next.

Which is weird, as Baddiel and Skinner led me to believe that MUFCPLC changed their kit every twenty seconds.

Harry Parsons wrote:

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harbinger of hope wrote:

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What about the special Man Utd, Man City shirts from the derby this season? No idea if these were actually sold

They weren't.

Small correction - the City one was, because it wasn't a 'special' shirt, it was just their normal one without the sponsor's logo - and should thus be available from the club shop. The United one wasn't sold because the club didn't want to be seen to be 'cashing in' on that particular part of the club's history. Which would be very noble if... well.

I doubt City sell sponsorless shirts (or many clubs. possibly those with alcohol sponsors remove them from children'skits),the shirt for the derby also had a 'Manchester Remembers' logo on it.

Spurs, Sunderland and Boro debuted new kits today, adding to Portsmouth, Chelsea and Liverpool (who switched to the old kit today after using the new one at Anfield last week)as clubs from the EPL getting the new kit out early

EIM wrote:

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Until they were relegated from the Prem, Wimbledon were the team who had changed their kit more often than any other. Liverpool were next.

Which is weird, as Baddiel and Skinner led me to believe that MUFCPLC changed their kit every twenty seconds.

I'm not sure you're correct, where are those facts from?

According to the exhaustive lists and illustrations of every kit in the very reliable 'True Colours' by John Devline, in the period 92/93 (start of the EPL) to 2005/6 Liverpool had 23 different kits to Man U's 26 (one of them reversible!).

I strongly doubt Wimbledon managed more than either.

Feh. Mere amateurs.

Birmingham City have had at least 38 in that time. One home, away and third kit every season, except for 92-93, when they had two home kits. As I said on the Spurs kit thread the other day, the last time Birmingham went into a new season without changing the shirt design it was 1989.

The seventeen home kits are here: http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Birmingham_City/Birmingham_City.htm

The away kits are also here, although they may have missed some: http://www.kitclassics.co.uk/kits/birm_c.gif

Those facts are from me, and are therefore correct, Harry.

Kowalski wrote:

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Here's another question, when was the last time a team wore a kit that they didn't sell as a replica?

I'll set the ball rolling in March 2002. Ipswich play at Blackburn, with their blue home kit and white away kit both clashing. The away kit expires in two months, we've already voted on the new one, but instead they produce a one-off black shirt, which is never seen again.

The only photo I can find is in the inset here:



Ipswich have a bit of history here in this respect. In 1997 both our kits clashed when we played Torquay, so we played in a white kit we never wore again, or sold. In 92/93 we had a gorgeous black and red striped kit that we wore about six times, but despite repeat requests, the club refused to put it on sale. When they finally did sell a third kit (used as a one off in 2003 against Palace) they limited the numbers, it sold out in two hours. We now have an official third kit, but it looks like it won't be replaced at the end of the season.

FC United took to the field in all blue against Fleetwood in the FA Cup this year. It was the first time, I think, that we'd worn our third kit and the shirt wasn't available to buy, nor would the club consider releasing it despite the high demand.

But such are the benefits of being a fan owned club, were merely voted to change the away kit from the beautiful white with black sash to the all blue from next season.

And here's a Fleetwood player so eager to get his hands on the shirt, he's trying to steal it from our midfield mentalist, Simon Carden.

in the very reliable 'True Colours' by John Devline

Not that reliable. He describes the shorts on Ipswich's current away kit as black, when they are in fact navy. Tsk.