Kit enthusiasts and general football stat geeks, mark the day……

Monday 4th February.

On a cold winter’s night at the London Stadium, Liverpool took to the field in their grey third kit for the fourth time in 2018/19 season but for the first time wore a darker shade of grey socks, which gave us the 100th variation of kit worn this season.

I shared on twitter last night an overview of the all the kits worn – see here

Overview:

Stats:

Looking at some of the stats around the kits:

• Home – 40 worn (20 first choice, 20 variations)
• Away – 33 worn (19 first choice, 14 variations)
• 3rd/4th – 27 worn (15 first choice, 12 variations)

Most variations:

• Fulham – 9 (Home – 4, Away – 2, 3rd – 1, 4th – 2)
• Everton – 7 (Home – 2, Away – 1, 3rd – 4) 
• Manchester United – 7 (Home – 3, Away – 2, 3rd – 2)
• West Ham United – 7 (Home – 4, Away – 1, 3rd – 2
• Burnley – 6 (Home – 2, Away – 3, 3rd – 1)
• Cardiff City – 6 (Home – 2, Away – 3, 3rd – 1)

In terms of the least variation used, there are only two teams that have not varied from their registered kits.  Leicester City who have used all three registered kits this season and Watford, who are often criticised for their inconsistent use of an away kit are the only team to use just two kits this season.

Looking at last seasons kit data – I wrote an article at the end of last season – Premier League Kit Log – Kit Variations about that.  There was 95 variations used then, this however does include the kits worn in the final games of the season by Chelsea, Everton, Liverpool and Manchester City who wore their 2018/19 kits in their final home games of that season.  I would expect we would see something similar this season, so this will add to this number.

Also Manchester United are also yet to wear either their registered Away and 3rd Kits this season, only variations of these.  If they use these, the away (Pink – Black – Pink) and 3rd (Navy – Darker Navy – Darker Navy), apologies for the poor colour description, then that would take Manchester United level with Fulham with 9 kit variations, however there is a game coming up Southampton v Fulham, where we could see another variation in Fulham’s away kit (Navy – White – White), which would take them to 10!

All of this is just looking at outfield kits, maybe I should also take a look at the Goalkeeper kits worn….. watch this space!

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