Starting on 12th September 2020 and finishing on 23rd May 2021, the 2020/21 season was completed within the quickest amount of time in Premier League history, which we saw the 380 games completed in just 253 days and concluded with Manchester City winning their third title in four seasons.

As the season has ended, I will follow my tradition of taking a more in depth look into the kits worn through this season, some stats and information behind these kits.

Kit Stats

• 760 Kits worn (380 Games)
• Home Kit used 71% of the time (63% Full, 8% Variations)
• Away Kit used 16% of the time (13% Full, 3% Variations)
• 3rd Kit used 13% of the time (11% Full, 2% Variations)
• 109 Kits different Kit Variations worn by the 20 teams
• Home Kits – 42% of total Kit Variations used:
  • 23 Home Kits worn (Brighton & Hove Albion, Leicester City, Liverpool wearing 21/22 Home Kits this season)
  • 23 Home Kit variations used
• Away Kits – 31% of total Kit Variations used:
  • 21 Away Kits worn (Arsenal, Everton wearing 21/22 Aways Kits this season)
  • 13 Away Kit variations used
  • Manchester United did not use registered Away kit, only variations (x3)
• 3rd Kits – 27% of total Kit Variations used:
  • 18 3rd Kits used
  • 11 3rd Kit variations used
  • Brighton & Hove Albion did not use 3rd kit in 20/21
  • Chelsea did not use registered 3rd kit, only variations (x2)
• Goalkeeper Kits:
  • 66 Goalkeeper used
  • 5 Teams used 21/22 Goalkeeper kits (All teams that debuted their new kits)
  • Arsenal used Away Shirt as Goalkeeper shirt
  • Manchester United only team to use alternative socks with Goalkeeper kit (Home Kit with alternative socks at Leeds United)

Overview of Kits Used

Kit Overview

Kit Log, Match 1 to Match 19

Kit Log, Match 20 to Match 38

Kit Variations

Looking in more detail at the Kit Variations worn by the Premier League Teams:

• Manchester United in 11 variations of Kit – Home Kit x5, Away Kit x3, 3rd Kit x3
• Aston Villa in 8 variations of Kit – Home Kit x3, Away Kit x3, 3rd Kit x 2
• Two Teams in 7 variations of Kit
  • Everton – Home Kit x4, Away Kit, 3rd Kit, 21/22 Away Kit
  • West Ham United – Home Kit x4, Away Kit, 3rd Kit x2
• Five Teams in 6 variations of Kit:
  • Brighton HA – Home Kit x2, Away kit x3, 21/22 Home Kit
  • Chelsea – Home Kit x2, Away Kit x2, 3rd Kit x2
  • Fulham – Home Kit x4, Away Kit, 3rd Kit
  • Sheffield United – Home Kit, Away Kit x2, 3rd Kit x3
  • Southampton – Home Kit x2, Away Kit, 3rd Kit x3
• Most variations of Home Kit:
  • 5, Manchester United (Including 2 different pairs of Black socks used)
  • Everton, Fulham, West Ham United used 4 variations of Home Kit
• Most variatons of Away Kit:
  • 3, Aston Villa, Brighton HA and Manchester United
  • Manchester United did not full Away (all dark green, only variations with white shorts / socks)
• Most variations of 3rd Kit:
  • 3, Manchester United, Sheffield United and Southampton
• Wolverhampton Wanderers and West Bromwich Albion only two teams not to use any Kit Variations, just their standard Home, Away and 3rd Kits
• Most worn Home Kit – 32, Wolverhampton Wanderers
• Most worn Away Kit – 12, West Bromwich Albion
• Most worn 3rd Kit – 9, Burnley
• No Fourth Kit used this season, first time since 2017/18
• Arsenal used 5 Goalkeeper Kit variations, including away shirt as part of all white GK Kit

Kit Grid

Below is a graphic of what kits where worn against what teams, its one that I share on a weekly basis on my Twitter Account – https://twitter.com/kit_geek

Kit Tables

One area I like to look at is a team’s performance in their kit, I have created the below tables (Home, Away and 3rd Kit), all shirt variations are included in each section, e.g. Manchester United’s 5 Home Kit variations are all included in the “Home Kit” Table and based on “Points per Game” used ratio.

Home Kit

As expected Manchester City head up this table with 2.28 Points, 0.45 points more than Manchester United. The three relegated teams within the bottom three positions, Burnley the only other team with less than 1 point per game in their Home Kit.

Away Kit

Liverpool head the Away Kit Table, with 2.25 points per game for their 4 uses of “Teal” Away kit, Leicester City and Manchester United both with 2.00 points per game but Leicester City in their away 5 times compared to Manchester United’s 4.

Newcastle United scored 13 points in their away kit, which was the highest in the league throughout the season but their 8 uses average 1.63 points per game.

Wolves only used their away kit once in 2020/21 and lost, so did not score a single point in their away kit, a total of 8 teams average less than point per game in their away kit, including West Ham who finished 6th in the League

3rd Kit

Manchester City finished the season with a 100% win record in their 3rd Kit, with 7 wins and maximum 3.00 points per game.

Sheffield United and Fulham did not score a point in their 3rd kits, with Sheffield United losing all 6 games in their Green / Gold Kit.

Brighton & Hove Albion did not use a 3rd Kit this season (their black away from 2019/20 was registered as their 3rd kit),

Summary and Highlights

There were plenty of discussion points through the season with the kits used, some of the highlights for me are the following:

Manchester United used two different pairs of black socks with their Home Kit, the original sold which had the same “flecked” pattern as the home shirt and contained the wording “Manchester United” and were only worn in the first game of the season at Home against Crystal Palace, the 2nd pair of black socks used were standard Adidas Teamwear socks and used throughout the rest of the season in the league

Arsenal first Premier League team to use an outfield shirt as a Goalkeeper Kit, when it was deemed that their 3 goalkeeper kit options were two much of clash for their game against Wolverhampton Wanderers, Aresenal used their away shirt to create an all white goalkeeper kit

When Manchester United visited Liverpool on 17th January 2021 they elected to use their dark green away kit, however it was consided that the two teams would be indistinguishable for those fans with colourblindness. Manchester United used white socks to break these colours up.

Aston Villa who used 8 Kit variations overall, at one stage used 7 different kit variation in 8 games which included 6 kits in 6 games.

There we have kit, the end of season report for 2020/21 Premier League season, let me know your favourite kit details and thoughts in the comments below or over at Twitter – https://twitter.com/kit_geek