The 2025 / 26 The Championship Season came to a close on Saturday 2nd May 2025, with Coventry City securing the title with two games still to be played, the 2nd Automatic Promotion place went to Ipswich Town on the final day of the season with Ipswich Town, Millwall and Middlesbrough all able to get automatic promotion on the final day, with Southampton and Hull City completing the Playoffs with Millwall and Middlesbrough for the final promotion place.
I am taking my annual in depth look at the kits worn during the league stage of the season (not including Play Offs).
Overview of Kits Worn
Kit Stats
- 1104 Kits worn (552 Games)
- 96 Different Kit variations used by the 24 teams.
- Home Kits – 29% of Kit variations used
- 28 Home Kits worn in total
- 4 Home Kit variations worn
- Away Kits – 36% of variations used
- 34 Away Kits worn in total
- 10 Away Kit variations worn
- 3rd Kits – 32% of variations worn
- 31 3rd Kits worn in total
- 7 3rd Kit variations worn
- Special Kits – 3% of variations worn
- 3 Special Kits worn in total
Kit Log – Match 1 to Match 23
Kit Log – Match 24 to Match 46
Kit Variations
Looking in more detail at the kit variations worn by the Championship Teams
- 3 Teams wore 6 Kit Variations
- Preston North End: Home, Away x3, 3rd x2
- Sheffield Wednesday: Home, Away x3, 3rd x2
- Southampton: Home x2, Away, 3rd x3
- 3 Teams in 5 Kit Variations
- Coventry City: Home, Away x2, 3rd, 4th
- Hull City: Home x2, Away x2, 3rd
- Sheffield United: Home x2, Away x2, 3rd
- 9 Teams wore 4 Kit Variations
- Blackburn Rovers: Home, Away, 3rd, 150th Anniversary Kit
- Bristol City: Home, Away, 3rd x2
- Derby County: Home, Away x2, 3rd
- Ipswich Town: Home, Away x2, 3rd
- Leicester City: Home, Away, 3rd x2
- Millwall: Home, Away, 3rd x2
- Queen’s Park Rangers: Home, Away x2, 3rd
- Stoke City: Home x2, Away, 3rd
- Watford: Home, Away, 3rd, Elton John Special Kit
- 9 Teams wore 3 Kit Variations (Home, Away, 3rd Kits)
- Most Variations of Home Kit – 2 Kits
- Hull City: Default & All Amber (Away shorts)
- Sheffield United:Default & Home / Away socks
- Southampton: Default & Home / 3rd Shorts
- Stoke City: Default & Home / 3rd Shorts
- Most Variations of Away Kit – 3 Kits
- Preston North End:
- Default
- Away / 3rd shorts
- Away / 3rd shorts & socks
- Sheffield Wednesday
- Default
- Away / Black shorts
- Away / Black shorts & 3rd socks
- Preston North End:
- Most Variations of 3rd Kit – 3 Kits
- Southampton
- Default
- Away / Black shorts (Home)
- Away / Black shorts & White socks (Home)
- Southampton
- 10 Teams only used Kits with no variations
- Most worn Home Kit – 40, Norwich City
- Most worn Away Kit – 17, Blackburn Rovers
- Most worn 3rd Kit – 9, Derby County
Something that I like to shaare which is an overview of when each of the new kit looks were first worn, for example… Blackburn Rovers wore their Away Kit, Home Kit and then 3rd Kit in their first three games
Match 1 to Match 23
Match 24 to Match 46
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 Socials.
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Kit Highlights and Summary
In 2025 / 26 Championship season teams wore 96 Kits, this was an increase on the number kits compared to last season where 95 Kits were worn, this was the highest in the EFL.
The single most worn Kit in the League was Norwich City’s Home Kit, which was worn 40 times, no surprise to tell you that this is the 3rd Season in a row that Norwich City have topped this list, an increase from last season by 1 game but 1 game less the 41 times worn in 23 / 24 Season. They also wore their Home Kit in their opening 16 games of the season, which was the longest “Kit Streak” in The Championship
There was just four Home Variations used in The Championship, a huge reduction from the ten used last season.. the four were from Hull City (worn 4 times), Sheffield United (worn twice), Southampton and Stoke City (both worn just once).
“Kit Mash Ups” was a theme across the EFL, with 13 Clubs using mash up looks (using elements from different kits to create a kit look).
Hull City were a club that used their Home and Away Kits well to create different Kit Looks, with four of their five Kit Variations worn this season being made up of Home / Away Kit Elements, this was well used as it maintains the traditional club colours. They also used all five of their kit looks this season in a span of six games (between their 24th and 29th games).
Preston North End were another team to use their kits well for seamless mash ups, however it was with their Away and 3rd Kits they created these five different looks from the two kits, with three different Away and two different 3rd variations, and of course with their Home Kit making them joint highest for Kit Variations.
Southampton were another team with six Kit Variations in total and also used two kits to make up the majority of these looks, for The Saints it was Home and 3rd Kits that were paired together to create five different looks, two Home Kit and three 3rd Kits.
Sheffield Wednesday were the final of the three clubs with six different Kit Variations, this interesting kit usage here was the use the black shorts, from last season’s 3rd Kit. These shorts wore worn with both Away and 3rd Kits this season and made up three of the six overall Kits worn by The Owls.
There were plenty of examples of socks being changed to avoid a kit clash, with some working better than others! Teams playing at Portsmouth and West Bromwich Albion making the majority of these reasons for changing.
Watford’s “3rd Kit” was an interesting Kit Tale of the season, initally launched in September as a celebration of their Former Chairman, Honary Life President and lifelong Fan Elton John, the kit included details to celebrate the flamboyant Star. The Kit was worn at Home against Blackburn Rovers on 13th September
and was then worn a further eight times with Kelme branding taking the place the “E” branding!
Another “Special” Kit worn this season was the 150th Anniversary Kit worn by Blackburn Rovers, which was inspired by the club’s first-ever kit, and was worn against Wrexham on 1st January 2026.
Champions Coventry City ended the season wearing a version of their classic brown Admiral Kit of the 70s. It was released a few months before the end of the season, so it is not clear whether it was always planned to be worn or seen as a celebration of the League trimuph, the actual kit is the same template as they worn as their Home Kit in 2022 / 23 season.
There we have it, The Championship’s End of Season Kit report for 2024 / 25, please let me know your favourite kit highlights from this division on the comments below or over on my Socials.
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