Premier League: Matchweek 8 Kit Review

The Premier League reaches Matchweek 8 and it’s second International Break of the season, overall a reasonably quiet week in terms of Kits in terms of usage and new but let’s take a look at the Kits from this weekend.

As always you can find Matchweek 7’s review – here

The current Kit Overview for Premier League is below, we now have all 60 shirts released… still waiting for confirmation of the shorts that will be used with Luton Town’s 3rd.

Matchweek 8 Fixtures

Total Kits Used

Kits Worn in Total – 56 (+1 from Matchweek 7)
Goalkeeper Kits – 47 (+1 from Matchweek 7)

New Kits this Matchweek

As we start to get into the season, the new kits on show contunue to slow down and this was seen again this week where there was just one new kit look on show.

Tottenham Hotspur used their 3rd kit for the first time in the Premier League, having worn the Kit in the Carabao (League) Cup against Fulham.

1 New Goalkeeper Kit:

Burnley – Two Tone Blue (worn against Luton Town on 3rd October)

Kit Highlights

Again, as last week there is only place to start, is Manchester United “SOCK WATCH” ….

And it is the Teamwear socks again with the Adidas Wordmark… this is two games in a row for these socks, so could they be the sock of choice from now on… who knows!

Another notable Kit Highlight from this game was that Brentford have been in change kits for all their away games so far, using their 3rd Kit for the third time this season at Manchester United, and used change kits four times overall.

Sheffield United continued their use of their away kit when playing on the road this season, their yellow second choice kit was used for the fourth time.

My favourite kit match up of the weekend was the game between Brighton & Hove Albion and Liverpool, mainly because both clubs have only used their Home / Primary Kits so far in the Premier League this season, so this match up means that run will continue into Matchweek 9!

Kit Stats

Overall we have seen 15 Home Kits, 3 Away Kits and 2 3rd kits in action in this Matchweek.

However there were just one variation on show!

Manchester United in those teamwear socks again

We still have two teams who have only worn 1 kit this season in the opening 8 games

Brighton and Hove Albion
Liverpool

And again Everton have used just the one Goalkeeper kit

Kit Grid – Up to 3rd October

Kit News

There has been both confirmation of Newcastle United leaving Castore and rumours of Aston Villa ending their deal with the manufacturer earlier but it looks a current Premier League Club will be joining their stable from next season, with Everton set to move to them when their deal with Hummel coming to an end this season. This has been reported in the media with sources at the club confirming this.