Premier League: Matchweek 12 Kit Review

Matchweek 12 is completed and we are just under a third of the way through the season, time to take a deeper look into some of the kits worn this weekend in the Premier League.

As always you can find last week Matchweek’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 12 Fixtures

Total Kits Used

Kits Worn in Total – 73 (+3 from Matchweek 11)
Goalkeeper Kits – 53 (+1 from Matchweek 11)

New Kits this Matchweek

The new kit looks keep rolling in, with three new kits variations on show this week with a couple of default away kits seen for the first time and one incredible away kit alternative, there was also a new goalkeeper this week!

Tottenham Hotspur used their away kit in it’s default look of all navy blue for the first time this season, the kits previous outings have been with white (Home) socks.

Luton Town were the other team to use their away kit in its default look for the first time as well, the all white kit used at Manchester United for the first time, the interchangablilty of the Luton Town kits have meant this is the first time in the kits five uses the all white look has been used.

Sheffield United provided one of the best kit looks of the season so far with this combinaton used at Brighton & Hove Albion, the yellow away shirt paired with alternative red shorts and socks, given us a kit reminiscent of their away kit in the very first Premier League season!

Fulham gave us our only new goalkeeper look of the weekend, this is 3rd different keeper kit of the season and matches the others in the current Adidas Goalkeeper template in blue, the same kit used by Arsenal as an alternative goalkeeper kit.

Kit Highlights

First place to start this week with with Luton Town, who have worn four different kit looks in their last four games, with three different away kit looks and one home kit!

“Sock Watch” at Old Trafford, with Manchester United going for the Teamwear socks with the new Adidas logo this week, this is the 3rd time that these socks have been used this in Premier League this season!

Sheffield United continued their run of change kits in all away games this season, with their 3rd kit look on the road in their six games so far, this was the first point won in an away game for The Blades, therefore the first points in change kits this season… and well it gives me another excuse to share a picture of this kit!

My favourite Kit Match Up of the weekend was the game between Crystal Palace and Everton, this fixture has given us the only “halved shirt” derby of the season, with two cracking kits on show… it was always going to be my choice of Kit Match up of the weekend!

Kit Stats

Overall we have seen 12 Home Kits, 7 Away Kits and 1 3rd kits in action in this Matchweek.

However there was three variations on show

Manchester United, Home with white shorts and Teamwear (new Adidas Logo) black socks
Newcastle United used their away kit with alternative white socks for the second time this season
Sheffield United and that wonderful away kit look of Yellow / Red / Red

Kit Grid – Up to 14th November

Kit News

It is a quiet week on the Premier League Kit News front this weekend, with no stories reaching Kit Geek Towers this week, so what this space over the coming two weeks for any updates!

And Finally, the latest Episode (Ep.23) of The Football Kit Podcast is out now, in this episode we are joined by well known Kit Guru and all round good guy Phil Delves and discuss the Kits of the 00’s, often a forgotten decade when it comes to kit designs!