As the World focuses on more important issues, football it righly taking a breaking until things are safer for us all.  I wanted to take a little bit of your time in this period to look at the kits worn so far in the 2019/20 Championship Season (the 2nd Tier of English football league pryamid).

We are currently over three quarters of the way through the season, with each team playing 37 games, which gives us a total of 444 games and 888 kits worn in total by the 24 competing teams.

Kit Stats

• 888 Kits worn
• 115 variations of kit worn
• 39% Home kits (21% Full Home, 18% Variation)
• 40% Away kits (19% Full Away, 21% Variation)
• 18% 3rd kits (10% Full 3rd, 8% Variation)
• 3% Special / Commemorative Kits

Kit Variations

Barnsley – Birmingham City – Blackburn Rovers – Brentford

Bristol City – Cardiff City – Charlton Athletic – Derby County – Fulham

Huddersfield Town – Hull City – Leeds United – Luton Town – Middlesbrough

Millwall – Nottingham Forest – Preston North End – Queen’s Park Rangers – Reading

Sheffield Wednesday – Stoke City – Swansea City – West Bromwich Albion – Wigan Athletic

The “Intereting” siutation that is seen in The Championship is use or more acuratley the lack of use of home kits, with only 21% of kits used in 2019/20 (so far) being a team’s full home kit, that means a staggering 79% of all kits worn being away kits, 3rd kits, Home kit variations and special commemorative kits, a great example being that of West Bromwich Albion who have worn change kits (19) more than their home kit (18) this season and have yet to wear their home kit in an away fixture this season, several other teams have only worn their home kits once or twice away from their home ground and in many cases with obvious kit clash.

Some Kit Call outs

Some things that I want to take some time to call out in particular with Championship team’s kit usage:

Luton Town have worn 9 different kits this season (3 Home variations, 3 Away variations and 3 Third kit variations), although they have worn 9 different kits, it also shows the mix and match flexibilty of their current kit range, with changes only using shorts / socks from their other kits not bespoke shorts / socks.

Four teams have worn 4 different variations of one kit, Blackburn Rovers (3rd Kit), Bristol City (Away), Reading (Away) and Sheffield Wednesday (Away), these kits all worn in different combinations with white shorts / socks.

The “Atheltic Effect”, Charlton Atheltic and Wigan Athletic are the only teams in The Championship to wear just two kits, only wearing their full home and away kits in their 37 games, Charlton even have a registered 3rd Kit that has not been used so far.

Nottingham Forest’s Away kit has been worn in three different variations, the full all blue kit and with two different pairs of white shorts, first worn against Luton Town were the shorts from the home kit (with red trim) and when playing against Brentford Macron supplied them with white shorts with a blue trim to match their blue away kit.

Special Kits

There have been three special commemorative kits worn by teams this season:

Brentford – Griffin Park Special Kit (which has been worn three time, 1 at home and 2 away as a 3rd Kit)

Bristol City – 125th Anniversary Kit

Leeds United – Centenary Kit (1919-2019)

Kit Log

My kit log of every game in the Championship 2019/20 season, so you can see who as worn what against whom.

Please let me know your Kit Highlights from The Championship, what are your favourite kits in the League, let me know at @Kit_Geek or via the comments below.