Premier League: Matchweek 6 Kit Review

The Premier League hits it sixth week of the season and it is time to have a more in depth look at the kits worn this weekend and some interesting kit usage to take a look into.

As always you can find Matchweek 5’s review – here

The current Kit Overview for Premier League is below, we now have all 60 shirts released… with Luton Town’s 3rd shirt being unveiled in the last week, shorts are still to be confirmed and we are assuming the socks were the navy socks worn at Chelsea.

Matchweek 6 Fixtures

Total Kits Used

Kits Worn in Total – 54 (+6 from Matchweek 5)
Goalkeeper Kits – 45 (+3 from Matchweek 5)

New Kits this Matchweek

There were another 6 new kit looks on show this weekend…

Fulham in Home Kit with alternative white socks, their first kit variation of the season.

Wolverhampton Wanderers debuted their 3rd kit for this season.

Nottingham Forest in alternative red shorts with their Home Kit, creating a classic all red look, something not seen used by the team since 2019/20 season.

Manchester United used their wonderful 3rd kit for first time this season, it was used with alternative white socks (default being red), to give a nice all white look.

Tottenham Hotspur, used their home shirt with alternative navy shorts and socks (these are not the Away shorts / socks) and contain similar pattern to home kit.

Newcastle United used their 3rd kit for the first time and were another team that used alternative shorts and socks, to create a Navy / Yellow / Yellow look (default being Navy / Navy / White) and what a debut it was!!

3 New Goalkeeper Kits:

Arsenal – Green with black shorts
Newcastle United – All Blue
Sheffield United – All White

Kit Highlights

Let’s start with Manchester United, who used their 6th different kit variation in their first 6 games… with four home kits (check out last week’s report about those socks), one away and this 3rd kit from Saturday’s game against Burnley…

Another Kit that was used for the first time this season was Arsenal’s green goalkeeper kit, I want to call this one out as although it is the standard Adidas Goalkeeper template, this is only version of the kit seen in the Premier League that has different colour shorts paired with it, with black shorts being the default look!

My favourite kit match up of the weekend was Manchester City against Nottingham Forest, Forest in all red is a great look in my eyes for the club, especially combined with those Adidas stripes and matched against Man City’s home kit gave a nice overall match up for me!

There were only two games this weekend with both teams in their default Home Kits…

Brentford v Everton and Brighton & Hove Albion v AFC Bournemouth

Kit Stats

Overall we have seen 16 Home Kits, 1 Away Kit and 3, 3rd kits in action.

However there were plenty of variations on show, with six alternative looks seen this weekend, five already mentioned above as they were new looks for their respective teams.

Fulham / Nottingham Forest / Manchester United / Tottenham Hotspur / Newcastle United
Aston Villa used alternative claret socks for the 2nd time this season

There are still only two teams who have only worn 1 kit this season in the opening 6 games.

Brighton and Hove Albion
Liverpool

And again Everton have used just the one Goalkeeper kit

Kit Grid – Up to 24th September

Kit News

The final Kit release of the 2023/24 Premier League Season has now happened with Luton launching their 3rd shirt this week, the shirt design being based on the aerial view of their Kenilworth Road Stadium.

However we still do not know what the full kit will look it, although the navy socks used at Chelsea appear to be part of this kit, will it “All Navy” or maybe pink shorts to match the pink detailing on shirt and socks.

Newcastle United who returned to the Champions League last week, confrmed that they will wear a slighlty different design of home shirt in that competition, with UEFA rules requiring a space for the nameset when the stripes are of “Light / Dark” combinations. I am very glad to see the red numbers remaining, in my humble opinion Newcastle United should always use a red namset with their home kit.