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Premier League 2023/24: End of Season Kit Report

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The 2023 / 24 Premier League season ended on Sunday 19th May 2024 with Manchester City securing their 4th Premier League on the final day of the season, pipping Arsenal to title. At the foot of the table, the three promoted teams from last season Luton Town, Burnley and Sheffield United found themselves dropping back down to the Championship.

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 69% of the time (61% Default, 8% Variations)
  • Away Kit used 19% of the time (14% Default, 5% Variations)
  • 3rd Kit used 12% of the time (8% Default, 4% Variations)
  • 110 different Kit Variations worn by the 20 teams
  • Home Kits – 37.3% of total Kit Variations used:
    • 21 Home Kits worn (1 teams wearing 24/25 Home Kit this season)
    • 20 Home Kit variations used
  • Away Kits – 34.6% of total Kit Variations used:
    • 20 Away Kits worn
    • 18 Away Kit variations used
  • 3rd Kits – 28.1% of total Kit Variations used:
    • 16 3rd Kits used
    • 15 3rd Kit variations used
    • 4 Teams did not use default 3rd kit, Arsenal, Manchester United, Sheffield United wearing alternative socks and Brighton & Hove Albion wearing alternative shorts
  • Goalkeeper Kits:
    • 61 Goalkeeper used
    • 3 Teams (Arsenal, Brentford and Liverpool) in 4 different Goalkeeper Kits
    • Liverpool in 24/24 GK Kit

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:

  • One Team in 11 Kit variations
    • Manchester United: Home Kit x6, Away Kit x3, 3rd Kit x3
  • One Team in 10 Kit variations
    • Luton Town: Home Kit x2, Away x4, 3rd Kit x4
  • Two Teams in 7 Kit variations
    • Newcastle United: Home Kit x2, Away Kit x2, 3rd Kit x3
    • Nottingham Forest: Home Kit x2, Away Kit x2, 3rd Kit x3
  • Three Teams in 6 Kit variations
    • Aston Villa: Home Kit x3, Away Kit x2, 3rd Kit
    • Brighton & Hove Albion: Home Kit x2, Away Kit x3, 3rd Kit x1
    • Everton: Home Kit x3, Away Kit x2, 3rd Kit
  • Six Teams in 5 Kit variations
    • Brentford: Home Kit, Away Kit x2, 3rd Kit x2
    • Crystal Palace: Home Kit, Away Kit x2, 3rd x2
    • Fulham: Home Kit x2, Away Kit, 3rd Kit x2
    • Sheffield United: Home Kit x2, Away Kit x2, 3rd Kit
    • Tottenham Hotspur: Home Kit x2, Away Kit x2, 3rd Kit
    • West Ham United: Home Kit x2, Away Kit x2, 3rd Kit
  • Six Teams in 4 Kit variations
  • One Teams in 3 Kit variations (Home, Away, 3rd)
  • Most variations of Home Kit – 6
    • Manchester United
  • Most variatons of Away Kit – 4
    • Luton Town
  • Most variations of 3rd Kit – 4
    • Luton Town
  • Two Teams did not wear any Kit Variations, just default Home, Away or 3rd Kits
    • Burnley
    • Liverpool (also wore 24/25 Home Kit)
  • Most worn Home Kit – 30, Chelsea (2 Variations)
  • Most worn Away Kit – 15, Sheffield United (2 Variations)
  • Most worn 3rd Kit – 8, AFC Bournemouth, Brentford (2 Variations) and Manchester United (2 Variations)
  • Arsenal, Brentford and Liverpool used 4 Goalkeeper Kit variations including 24/25 GK Kit for Liverpool
  • Most worn GK Kit – 29, Everton (Green GK Kit)

Something new that I have created for this season is an overview of when each of the new kits were first worn, for example… Aston Villa four different kit variations in their opening four games, two Home Kits and two Away Kits…!

Match 1 to Match 19

Match 20 to Match 38

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 – @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 6 Home Kit variations are all included in the “Home Kit” Table and based on “Points per Game” used ratio.

Please also note, as these are the match performances in each kit, I have not taken into account the points deductions for Everton and Nottingham Forest.

Home Kits

No surprises at the top of table, with Manchester City heading the table up with 2.37 points per game in their Home Kit, followed by Arsenal (2.32) and Liverpool (2.22). Manchester City scoring 64 Points in Home Kits.

Only the three relegated teams scored less than a point a game when in their Home Kit.

Away Kits

Arsenal are the stand out team in their Away Kit this season, 2.58 points per game and huge 31 points in total (out a possible 36), Manchester City the only other team above 2 points per game (2.33).

Wolverhampton Wanderers ended the season with 1.67 points per game in their Away Kit are another team to call out, finishing with the 4th best performance here, after having the 4th worst performance in their Home Kit!

There were only 8 teams with a better record than a point per game, Sheffield United who wore their Away 15 times in 19 Away games, only managed 6 points here at 0.40 points per game!

3rd Kits

Champions Manchester City were the only team to have a 100% win record in a kit, with 6 points from the 2 games in their 3rd Kit!

Another 4 teams managed to scored over 2 points per game and over, with Liverpool 2.25, Aston Villa, Chelsea and Wolverhampton Wanderers all scoring 2 points per game!

Manchester United managed 14 points in their 3rd Kit, the most points scored here.

We also had 3 teams that failed to score a point in their 3rd Kit, relegated teams Sheffield United and Burnley were joined by Premier League Runners Up Arsenal, only wearing their 3rd kit once and losing at Fulham.

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:

Lets start with Manchester United, who for the second season in a row wore a staggering 6 different Home Kit Variations, again like last season this mainly due to the socks worn, with 3 different pairs of black socks worn with the Home Kit this season, with the default pair (white cuffed with pattern), and 2 pairs of Teamwear socks, one with Adidas wordmark and one with just Adidas “3 Stripes”

And with 5 different change kit used as well, makes a total of 11 Different Kit looks used this season, this includes two different looks of the 3rd Kit, however they were one of the four teams that did use their 3rd Kit in it’s default look, which was with red socks.

Although Luton Town ended the season relegated from the League, they have provided football fans with plenty of entertainment through out the season, including us Kit Lovers… Their three kits were proved to be very interchangable and they ended up using 10 Different Kit Variations this season, with two Home Kit Looks, four Away Kit and four 3rd Kits, all maintaining the overall Luton Town feel to the kits… thank you to Denis at Museum of Jerseys for this wonderful overview of the kits, which can also be found here.

The most worn outfield kit look was Brighton & Hove Albion’s Home Kit which was worn 28 times out of the 38 Games, this kit was also worn once with white shorts and socks at Luton Town, so Home was worn 29 times in total. Chelsea did wear their Home Kit 30 times in total, with 26 in it’s default look and 4 times with alternative blue socks but as a single look the Brighton Home Kit takes it!

Arsenal ended the season wearing their Away Kit 12 times in their 19 Away games, and amassed 31 Points out of 36, winning 10 of the games in this wonderful kit..!

Liverpool were unbeaten in their Away Kit, playing 7 games winning 3 and drawing 4 of those matches.

The single most worn kit of the 2023/24 Premier League Season, was a goalkeeper kit and the first choice kit of Everton, which was worn in 29 of the 38 games this season!

Sheffield United gave us one of my favourite kit “Easter Eggs” of the season, they wore alternative red socks with Home, Away and 3rd Kits this season, with none of the kits having red socks as part of their default look!

Compared to previous seasons it was a fairly uneventful period for goalkeeper kits in 23/24, no mash ups, no unusual elements to the kits and with 15 teams in the expected 3 goalkeeper kits, there were two clubs (Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest) who used just 2 kits all season and another two clubs, Arsenal and Brentford who used 4 kits… Liverpool also used 4 Goalkeeper kits, with their 24/25 Kits being used in the final game of the season.

Arsenal – used 3 different templates, but one with Black Shorts (the default look for The Gunners) and Green Shorts, as seen by several other Adidas Supplied clubs.

Brentford – were the only team to use 4 different kit looks for their goalkeepers.

There we have it…

The Premier Leagues’s End of Season Kit report for 2023/24, please let me know your favourite kit highlights from this division on the comments below or over at @Kit_Geek

You can find other End of Season Reports below and of course the Matchweek Kit Reviews from each of the 38 Matchweek’s of this Premier League Season!

Championship: End of Season Report

League One: End of Season Report

League Two: End of Season Report

Finally in our latest Episode (No.27) of Football Kit Podcast we discuss the good and bad of the 2023/24 Season in terms of Kits, you can find it here

Thank you for reading and thank you for continued support!

Premier League: Matchweek 38 Kit Review

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So that’s it, Matchweek 38 and in turn the Premier League has been completed for another season! Manchester City lifting their 4th Title in a row on the final Matchweek, and Luton Town joining Sheffield United and Burnley in dropping out of the Top Flight. These fixtures being the reverse games from Matchweek 5 from back in September.

As always you can find last week Matchweek’s review – here

The current Kit Overview for Premier League is below.

Matchweek 38

Total Kits Used

  • Kits Worn in Total – 110 (+1 new kit from last Matchweek)
  • Goalkeeper Kits – 61 (+1 new kit from last Matchweek)

New Kits this Matchweek

There was just the one new kit on show in the final round of fixtures, with Liverpool showcasing their new Home Kit for 2024/25 Season.

And of course, their new first choice goalkeeper kit, which is the new Nike Goalkeeper Template in Black.

Kit Highlights

In the final games of the season, there was a record made for this season… with 8 teams in different variations of kits and all 5 Away kits on show were alternative away kit looks for their default looks!

The only two teams not in alternative looks were Wolverhampton Wanderers and West Ham United.

Tottenham Hotspur, started and ended their season in Away Kit with Home Socks…

My favourite Kit Match Up of the weekend was the game between Chelsea and AFC Bournemouth, the Chelsea home kit has grown on through out this season and the AFC Bouremouth Away kit with alternative navy socks is a great look and this match up works well for me.

Kit Stats

Overall we have seen 15 Home Kits and 5 Away Kits in action.

As mentioned above, there were 8 Kit variations used in this Matchweek

  • Everton, All Blue Home Kit, 4th time used this season
  • Newcastle United, Away with white socks for 3rd time
  • Manchester United, Home with white socks for just 2nd time
  • Nottingham Forest, Away with alternative white shorts & socks, 2nd time
  • AFC Bournemouth in Away with Navy socks, 2nd time this season
  • Aston Villa, All white away kit, 3rd time used
  • Fulham in Home Kit with alternative white socks, 8th time
  • Tottenham Hotspur in Away with white (home) socks, 4th time

Kit Grid – Final Grid

Kit News

A couple of next season’s kit have been offically launched in the week, with Arsenal and Manchester City however due to Premier League rules (apparently) with the title winners not confirmed in the final games teams will have to wear their default registered kits

Arsenal’s 2024/25 Home Kit is wonderful, bringing back the “Cannon” for the Home Kit for the first time in 30 years, it is the same template we have seen with the International Kit releases, with navy blue being used across the “shardes” in the shirt and shorts, giving a nice overall balance to the kit.

Manchester City’s new Home Kit also has navy detailing, within the collar and cuffs, which contain a motif of “0161” the phone area code of Manchester. Navy Blue is more prominent in the over kit, with the socks being Navy Blue and alternative shorts also being in navy!

And there we have it, the weekly Kit Reviews for 2023/24 Season, hopefully you have enjoyed them and would like them to return next season!

Let me know your thoughts in the comments below or at @Kit_Geek 

The full End of Season Report will be out soon…!

Premier League – Matchweek 34

Premier League – Matchweek 29 (Part II)

Premier League – Matchweek 35

Premier League – Matchweek 36

Premier League – Matchweek 37

Also my End of Season Reports for EFL are out now…

Championship: End of Season Report

League One: End of Season Report

League Two: End of Season Report

Premier League: Matchweek 37 Kit Review

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Matchweek 37, the penultimate week of the season has now been completed. These fixtures being the reverse games from Matchweek 4.

As always you can find last week Matchweek’s review – here

The current Kit Overview for Premier League is below.

Matchweek 37

Total Kits Used

  • Kits Worn in Total – 109 (no new kits)
  • Goalkeeper Kits – 60 (no new kits)

New Kits this Matchweek

There were no new kits on show this Matchweek, which is no surprise… we are waiting to see if we will have any 2024/25 kits on show in the final round of fixtures this season.

Kit Highlights

Brentford won for the first time this season in their Away Kit, this was the 7th time the kit was worn this season with 1 draw and 5 defeats in the previous 6 outings this season… the Kit was alao worn 6 times in Premier League last season with no victories, so it looks like in it’s last usage in its 2 year life cycle it was finally worn in victory.

Brighton & Hove Albion wore their 3rd Kit for just the second time this season (last season’s Away Kit) both occasions have been with alternative white shorts.

Liverpool remain unbeaten in the League in their Away Kit, playing 7 times with 3 wins and 4 draws.

My favourite Kit Match Up of the weekend was the game between Manchester United and Arsenal, an all Adidas affair and seeing the Arsenal Kit on show for probably the final time is reason enough to be my favourite kit match of the week, a modern classic in my eyes!

Kit Stats

Overall we have seen 12 Home Kits, 5 Away Kit and 3 3rd Kit in action.

There were 2 Kit variations used in this Matchweek

  • Luton Town, Away Kit with Home shorts & socks, the 4th time this look has been used
  • Brighton & Hove Albion in 3rd Kit with white shorts, 2nd time

Kit Grid – Up to 14th May 2024

Kit News

Burnley have annouced their new kit partnership with Castore, as previously reported Castore have taken over the licence to supply kits to a number of British Clubs from Umbro, so this appears to be the first of these changes.

The club announced it was a multi-year deal with Castore starting from 2024/25 Season, full details can be found on the club’s site and it’s offical annoucement here.

It has been reported that Chelsea have missed the deadline in confirming their front of shirt sponsorship for their 2024/25 kits. This means that the initial launch of their new kits are likely to be blank much like this season where they only confirmed “Infinite Athlete” once the season had kicked off… one to keep an eye on over the next few weeks.

Let me know your thoughts in the comments below or at @Kit_Geek I will be back next week with the final weekly review and of course the big one, the full season report…!

Premier League – Matchweek 33

Premier League – Matchweek 34

Premier League – Matchweek 29 (Part II)

Premier League – Matchweek 35

Premier League – Matchweek 36

Also my End of Season Reports for EFL are out now…

Championship: End of Season Report

League One: End of Season Report

League Two: End of Season Report

EFL, The Championship 23/24: End of Season Kit Report

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The 2023/24 The Championship Season came to a close on Saturday 4th May 2024, with Leicester City securing the title on 29th April and Ipswich Town confirming their promotion as runners up on the final day of the season, making it back to back promotions for The Tractor Boys. Leeds United, Southampton, West Bromwich Albion and Norwich City will compete in the Playoffs for the final promotion place.

I wanted to take a look at the kits worn during the league stage of the season (not including Play Offs).

Kit Stats

  • 1104 Kits worn (552 Games)
  • 86 Different Kit variations used by the 24 teams.
  • Home Kits – 38% of Kit variations used
    • 33 Home Kits worn in total (Including 1 Kit from 24/25 Season)
    • 7 Home Kit variations worn
  • Away Kits – 32% of variations used
    • 27 Away Kits worn in total
    • 3 Away Kit variations worn
  • 3rd Kits – 27% of variations worn
    • 23 3rd Kits worn in total
    • No 3rd Kit variations worn
  • Special Kits – 3% of variations worn
    • 3 Special Kits worn in total

Overview of Kits Worn

Kit Log – Match 1 to Match 15

Kit Log – Match 16 to Match 30

Kit Log – Match 31 to Match 46

Kit Variations

Looking in more detail at the kit variations worn by the Championship Teams

  • Queen’s Park Rangers in 6 Kit Variations: Home x5 (Including 24/25 Home Kit), Away
  • 2 Teams wore 5 Kit Variations
    • Plymouth Argyle: Home x2, Away x2, 3rd
    • Swansea City: Home x2, Away, 3rd, Special Kit
  • 8 Teams wore 4 Kit Variations
    • Birmingham City: Home x2, Away, 3rd
    • Bristol City: Home, Away, 3rd, Special Kit
    • Leeds United: Home, Away x2, 3rd
    • Preston North End: Home, Away, 3rd, Special Kit
    • Southampton: Home, Away x2, 3rd
    • Stoke City: Home x2, Away, 3rd
    • Sunderland: Home x2, Away, 3rd
    • West Bromwich Albion: Home x2, Away, 3rd
  • 13 Teams wore 3 Kit Variations (Home, Away, 3rd Kits)
  • Most Variations of Home Kit – 4 Kits
    • QPR: Hoops with white shorts & socks – Blue shorts & socks – White shorts / blue socks – Blue Shorts / White socks
  • Most Variations of Away Kit – 2 Kits
    • Leeds United: All Blue – Blue / Blue / Aqua Blue
    • Plymouth Argyle: All White – White / White / Green
    • Southampton: White / Turquoise / White – White / Turquoise shorts & socks
  • Most Variations of 3rd Kit – 1 Kits
    • No Team in a 3rd Kit Variation
  • 13 Teams only used Home, Away kits and 3rd Kits with no variations
  • 1 Teams in just Home and Away Kits, with variations used
  • Most worn Home Kit – 41, Norwich City
  • Most worn Away Kit – 18, Hull City
  • Most worn 3rd Kit – 14, Preston North End

Something new that I have created for this season is an overview of when each of the new kits were first worn, for example… Hull City wore their 3rd Kit in their first game, Home Kit in their 2nd game and Away Kit in their 3rd game..!

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 Twitter Account – @Kit_Geek

Kit Highlights and Summary

In 2023/24 Championship season teams wore 85 Kits, this was a decrease in the number kits compared to last season where 99 Kits were worn, this is the joint with League One with the fewest number of Kit Variations seen this season. Ironically the only team with no 3rd Kit, just Home and Away had the most variations used.

The single most worn Kit in the League was Norwich City, who wore their Home Kit in 41 of the 46 League games.

Despite being the only club in the Championship with no 3rd Kit, Queen’s Park Rangers used the most kit looks in the league this season, which included 5 different Home Kit Looks. This does include their 2024/24 Home Kit which they debuted in their final Home game of the season, but they did use their 23/24 Home Kit in four different variations across 32 games, using all possible combinations of blue / white shorts and socks.

A theme seen within The Championship was the use of Change Kit / Alternative Socks to create new looks, QPR as seen above but also Birmingham City (Away Socks), Plymouth Argyle (Away), Stoke City (Alternative Red Socks), Swansea City (3rd) and West Brom Albion (3rd).

There were only three Away variations worn by Championship clubs, with Leeds United, Plymouth Argyle and Southampton all doning alternative socks (Plymouth using Home Socks) during the season. Southampton and Plymouth also using alternative socks in both fixtures between the clubs.

I want to call out Hull City Kits this season, for me they have delivered the perfect three kit looks for them this season and probably my favourite set of Kits across the English Leagues, they used their Home Kit 26 times, Away Kit 18 times including wearing it once at Home in their final Home game of the season, their 3rd was worn just twice, shame!

There were three “Special Kits” on show in the 2023/24 Season…

Bristol City in a 1974 Heritage Kit

Preston North End in a Sir Tom Finney Special Kit

Swansea City in 30th Anniversary Kit of their first appearence at Wembley in Autoglass Trophy

There we have it, The Championship’s End of Season Kit report for 2023/24, please let me know your favourite kit highlights from this division on the comments below or over at – @Kit_Geek

You can find other End of Season Reports below when they are published…!

Premier League – End of Season Report

League One – End of Season Report

League Two – End of Season Report

Premier League: Matchweek 36 Kit Review

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Matchweek 36 has now been completed, and we are that stage of the season where most teams have just one more Home Game Each.. so a chance of new kits on show in the coming weeks (more on that below). The fixtures from this weekend are a mix of games from Matchweek 7 (7 games from there) and Matchweek 2 (3 games from there).. the fixture computer must of had a funny turn when coming this round of games!

As always you can find last week Matchweek’s review – here

The current Kit Overview for Premier League is below.

Matchweek 36

Total Kits Used

  • Kits Worn in Total – 109 (+1 from Matchweek 35)
  • Goalkeeper Kits – 60 (+1 from Matchweek 35)

New Kits this Matchweek

There was one new kit on show this weekend, with Nottingham Forest using alternative socks with their 3rd Kit, we have seen these socks before but they were worn with alternative shorts as well, interesting against Brentford who wear the same colour combination as Sheffield United… so I guess they did not like the look of the shorts to use them again!

In the Midweek Game between Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur (delayed from MW26), Tottenham used the Green Nike Goalkeeper Template for the first time this season.

Kit Highlights

This matchweek saw five teams in 3rd Kits, the joint most worn in one round of fixtures, however this was the first time this season where we saw three teams in 3rd Variations with Fulham, Nottingham Forest and Manchester United.

My favourite Kit Match Up of the weekend was the game between Luton Town and Everton, a nice balance between the two kits and likely the last time we will see this wonderful Everton 3rd Kit in action!

Kit Stats

Overall we have seen 14 Home Kits, 1 Away Kit and 5 3rd Kit in action.

There were a total of 4 Kit variations used in this Matchweek

  • Fulham, in 3rd Kit with alternative pink shorts & socks, 2nd time this season
  • Nottingham Forest, 3rd Kit with alternative orange socks
  • Aston Villa, Home Kit with alternative claret shorts & socks, 4th time seen this season
  • Manchester United in 3rd Kit with white socks, the 7th time used

Kit Grid – Up to 7th May 2024

Kit News

The first offical Kit Launch for 2024/25 has happened and there is no surprise that it is Liverpool. Their much leaked home kit is now available for Pre-Order for 16th May, this suggests that we will see this kit in action (a regular occurance for Liverpool) with the likely game being the final game of the season against Wovlerhampton Wanderers. I will be interested to see the kit in action and initially quite like the yellow / white side flashes, which are also on the shorts’ side panels, an element of the kit that was not seen in the leaked images..!

Another club that may debut their 2024/25 Home Kit before the end of the season is Manchester City who are making plans to wear the new kit against West Ham United on the final game of the season, HOWEVER… it has been reported that they will ONLY wear their new kit if… the Premier League Title has been secured at that point either by themselves or another club, if the title race goes down to that final round of fixtuers then they will wear this season’s kit.

Let me know your thoughts in the comments below or at @Kit_Geek 

Premier League – Matchweek 32

Premier League – Matchweek 33

Premier League – Matchweek 34

Premier League – Matchweek 29 (Part II)

Premier League – Matchweek 35

Something new for 2024 is my Facebook Page, which you can find here so please give have a look and give me a follow / like.

Also my End of Season Reports for EFL are out now…

Championship: End of Season Report

League One: End of Season Report

League Two: End of Season Report

Premier League: Matchweek 35 Kit Review

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Matchweek 35 has now been completed and have April’s fixtures, so we are now into the last month of the 2023/24 Season. The fixtures from this weekend were the reverse fixtures from Matchweek 6 way back in September and the new kit looks continue to be seen..!

As always you can find last week Matchweek’s review – here

The current Kit Overview for Premier League is below.

Matchweek 35

Total Kits Used

  • Kits Worn in Total – 108 (+1 from last Matchweek)
  • Goalkeeper Kits – 59 (+1 from last Matchweek)

New Kits this Matchweek

There was one new outfield kit this Matchweek, Luton Town wore their 3rd Kit with Away shorts, this is their 4th different 3rd Kit look and their 10th overall this season!

There was also a new Goalkeeper look seen this Matchweek, the first new Goalkeeper Kit since Matchweek 22, with Arsenal’s David Raya wearing green shorts with the green Adidas Goalkeeper Template, the default look for Arsenal this season of this colourway was with black shorts, so this is the first time we have seen all green this season, the 4th Goalkeeper Kit look of the season for The Gunners!

Kit Highlights

Arsenal wore alternative red socks with their Home Kit in the North London Derby, this was the first time they have worn this kit look since Matchweek 11.

Liverpool remain undefeated in their Away Kit in League this season, the only team to remain unbeaten in their Away Kit, having played 6 games, winning 3 and drawing 3.

My favourite Kit Match Up of the weekend was the game between Newcastle United and Sheffield United, a nice balance between the two kits, Sheffield United’s Away kit is a nice clean change kit and has worked well on the road as look for The Blades.

Kit Stats

Overall we have seen 15 Home Kits, 4 Away Kits and 1 3rd Kit in action.

There were a total of 3 Kit variations used in this Matchweek

  • Luton Town 3rd Kit with white (Away) Shorts
  • Chelsea, Home Kit with alternative Blue socks, 4th time used this season (2nd game in a row)
  • Arsenal, Home Kit with alternative Red socks, 4th time used

Kit Grid – Up to 29th April 2024

Kit News

No Premier League Kit News this weekend, we starting to see leaks of next season’s shirts but we at Kit Geek Towers will only share those when they are offically released, which I am sure we will start seeing in the coming weeks with several teams often in new kits in their final games of the season…!

Let me know your thoughts in the comments below or at @Kit_Geek 

Premier League – Matchweek 31

Premier League – Matchweek 32

Premier League – Matchweek 33

Premier League – Matchweek 34

Premier League – Matchweek 29 (Part II)

Something new for 2024 is my Facebook Page, which you can find here so please give have a look and give me a follow / like.

Also my End of Season Reports for League One and League Two are out now…

League One: End of Season Report

League Two: End of Season Report

EFL, League One 23/24: End of Season Kit Report

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The 2023/24 League One Season came to a close on Saturday 27th April 2024, with Portsmouth securing the title on 16th April and Derby County getting promoted as runners up on the final day of the season. Bolton Wanderers, Peterborough United, Oxford United and Barnsley will compete in the Playoffs for the final promotion place.

I wanted to take a look at the kits worn during the league stage of the season (not including Play Offs).

Kit Stats

  • 1104 Kits worn (552 Games)
  • 85 Different Kit variations used by the 24 teams.
  • Home Kits – 36% of Kit variations used
    • 31 Home Kits worn in total (Including 1 Kit from 24/25 Season)
    • 6 Home Kit variations worn
  • Away Kits – 38% of variations used
    • 32 Away Kits worn in total
    • 8 Away Kit variations worn
  • 3rd Kits – 26% of variations worn
    • 22 3rd Kits worn in total
    • 3 3rd Kit variations worn

Overview of Kits Worn

Kit Log – Match 1 to Match 15

Kit Log – Match 16 to Match 30

Kit Log – Match 31 to Match 46

Kit Variations

Looking in more detail at the kit variations worn by the League One Teams

  • 6 Teams in 5 Kit Variations
    • Barnsley: Home, Away x2, 3rd x2
    • Blackpool: Home x2, Away x2, 3rd
    • Cambridge United: Home x3, Away x2
    • Charlton Athletic: Home, Away x2, 3rd x2
    • Reading: Home, Away x2, 3rd, Home 24/25
    • Wycombe Wanderers: Home, Away x2, 3rd x2
  • 3 Teams wore 4 Kit Variations
    • Cheltenham Town: Home x2, Away, 3rd
    • Exeter City: Home, Away x2, 3rd
    • Stevenage: Home x2, Away, 3rd
  • 13 Teams wore 3 Kit Variations
  • 2 Teams wore just 2 Kit Variations
  • Most Variations of Home Kit – 3 Kits
    • Cambridge United: Amber / Black / Black – Amber / Black / Amber – All Amber
  • Most Variations of Away Kit – 2 Kits
    • Barnsley: All White – White / White / Red
    • Blackpool: White / Orange / White – All White
    • Cambridge United: All White – White / Black / Black
    • Charlton Atletic: All Navy – Navy / Navy / White
    • Exeter City: Grey / Grey / White – Grey / Grey / Black
    • Reading: All Grey – Grey / Grey / Blue
    • Shrewsbury Town: All Red – Red / Red / White
    • Wycombe Wanderers: Green & White Stripes / Green / White – Green & White Stripes / Green / Green
  • Most Variations of 3rd Kit – 2 Kits
    • Barnsley: All Black – Black / Black / White
    • Charlton Athletic: White / Black / White – All White
    • Wycombe Wanderers: Red / White / Red – Red / White / White
  • 11 Teams only used Home, Away kits and 3rd Kits with no variations
  • 5 Teams in just Home and Away Kits, with variations used
  • Most worn Home Kit – 40, Cambrige United, (34 Default / 6 Variations)
  • Most worn Away Kit – 17, Charlton Athletic (15 Default / 2 Variations)
  • Most worn 3rd Kit – 11, Peterborough United

Something new that I have created for this season is an overview of when each of the new kits were first worn, for example… Exeter City their Away Kit in their first game, Home Kit in their 2nd game and 3rd Kit in their 3rd game..!

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 Twitter Account – @Kit_Geek

Kit Highlights and Summary

In 2023/24 League One season teams wore 85 Kits, this was a decrease in the number kits compared to last season where 102 Kits were worn, as it stands this is the joint with the Championship with the fewest number of Kit Variations seen this season. It was also the only League that had clubs with just two kit variations used, the Home Kit and Away Kit.

The single most worn Kit in the League was from Bristol Rovers who wore their Home Kit in 37 of 46 games, only wearing their away strip twice in the final 22 games of the season.

Cambridge United were one of six teams that wore five different kit variations this season, the most in League One however they were the only club to do this with just Home and Away Kits, wearing three different variations of their Home Kit..! Using this variations meant that they used their Home Kit 40 times out of the 46 games, alternative amber socks were used both Home and Away to create alternative kit variations.

The two clubs to wear just two kits this season in both EFL and Premier League were in League One, they were:

Carlisle United, who wore their Home Kit 36 times and Away Kit 10 times.

Fleetwood Town, who wore their Home Kit 34 times and Away Kit 12 times.

Charlton Athletic wore their change kits (and variations of them) in 22 of their 23 away games, the only game which they wore their Home Kit away from The Valley was the game against Reading on 10th February 2024.

There were instances of clubs wearing change kits in Home Games this season, with five clubs changing from their default home kit.

Bristol Rovers wore a 140th Anniversary Celebration Kit at Home to Cheltenham Town.

Cheltenham Town wore a charity 3rd Kit against Shrewsbury Town.

Exeter City wore their 3rd Kit at Home against Leyton Orient to celebrate 20 years of their Fan Trust Ownership.

Leyton Orient themselves wore their away kit at home against Barnsley, this was due to Barnsley’s white Away kit being damaged in a Bus Fire in the weeks before their fixture, so it agreed that the home team would change to their Away kit to also avoid any colourblind kit clashes.

Stevenage wore their charity 3rd kit at home against Burton Albion.

There we have it, League One’s End of Season Kit report for 2023/24, please let me know your favourite kit highlights from this division on the comments below or over at Twitter – @Kit_Geek

You can find other End of Season Reports below when they are published…!

Premier League – End of Season Report

Championship – End of Season Report

League Two – End of Season Report

EFL, League Two 23/24: End of Season Kit Report

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The 2023/24 League Two Season came to a close on Saturday 27th April 2024, with Stockport County securing the title, with Wrexham as runners up who make it back to back Promotions and the final automatic spot being secured by Mansfield Town. MK Dons, Doncaster Rovers, Crewe Alexandra, and Crawley Town will compete in the Playoffs for the final promotion place.

I wanted to take a look at the kits worn during the league stage of the season (not including Play Offs).

Kit Stats

  • 1104 Kits worn (552 Games)
  • 106 Different Kit variations used by the 24 teams.
  • Home Kits – 38% of Kit variations used
    • 41 Home Kits worn in total
    • 17 Home Kit variations worn
  • Away Kits – 35% of variations used
    • 37 Away Kits worn in total
    • 13 Away Kit variations worn
  • 3rd Kits – 24% of variations worn
    • 25 3rd Kits worn in total
    • 5 3rd Kit variations worn
  • Special Kit – 3% of variations worn
    • 3 Special Kit worn

Overview of Kits Worn

Kit Overview

Kit Log – Match 1 to Match 15

Kit Log – Match 16 to Match 30

Kit Log – Match 31 to Match 46

Kit Variations

Looking in more detail at the kit variations worn by the League Two Teams

  • Crawley Town wore 8 Kit Variations: Home x3, Away x3, 3rd x2
  • 2 Teams wore 7 Kit Variations
    • Newport County: Home x2, Away x3, 3rd, Special Kit
    • Salford City: Home x3, Away, 3rd x3
  • 3 Teams wore 6 Kit Variations
    • AFC Wimbledon: Home, Away x3, 3rd, Special Kit
    • Morecambe: Home x4, Away x2
    • Walsall – Home x2, Away x3, 3rd
  • 3 Teams wore 5 Kit Variations
    • Crewe Alexandra: Home x2, Away x2, 3rd
    • Grimsby Town: Home x2, Away x2, 3rd
    • Harrogate Town: Home x2, Away x2, 3rd
  • 6 Teams wore 4 Kit Variations
  • 9 Teams in just 3 Kit Variations
  • Most Variations of Home Kit – 4 Kits
    • Morecambe: Red / White / Red – Red / White / White – All Red – Red / White / Black
  • Most Variations of Away Kit – 3 Kits
    • AFC Wimbledon: All White – White / Blue / Blue – White / Blue / White
    • Crawley Town: Green / Black / Green – Green / White / Green – Green / Black / Black
    • Newport County: All White – White / Black / White – White / Black / Black
    • Walsall: All White – White / Red / White – White / Red / Red
  • Most Variations of 3rd Kit – 3 Kits
    • Salford City: White – Black – Black / White – Black – White / All White
  • Sutton United in 4 different kits with no variations
  • 7 Teams only used Home, Away kits and 3rd Kits with no variations
  • 3 Teams in just Home and Away Kits, with variations used
  • Most worn Home Kit – 39, Stockport County
  • Most worn Away Kit – 16, Harrogate Town / Colchester United (11 Default / 5 with White Socks)
  • Most worn 3rd Kit – 12, AFC Wimbledon

Something new that I have created for this season is an overview of when each of the new kits were first worn, for example… AFC Wimbledon wore their Home Kit in their first game, 3rd Kit in their 3rd game and Away Kit in their 4th game..!

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 Twitter Account – @Kit_Geek

Kit Highlights and Summary

In 2023/24 League Two season teams wore 106 Kits, this was an increase in the number kits compared to last season where 93 Kits were worn, in fact this number of kits was passed just under half way through the season on 23rd December 2023. League Two was only beaten by the Premier League in the number of Kit Variations used in the English Leagues this season.

The most worn Kit in the League was from Champions Stockport County who wore their wonderful Home Kit in 39 of 46 games, only changing 7 times throughout the whole season..!

Harrogate Town wore change kits in all their away games this season, wearing their Away Kit 16 times and 3rd Kit 7 Times in two different variations…!

Between Match 40 and Match 44, AFC Wimbledon wore 5 different kits in 5 games, this included Home Kit, 2 variations of their Away Kit, 3rd Kit and Special Charity Kit.. these games were over 3 weeks between 23rd March and 13th April.

There were three “Special Kits” used in League Two this season, each of them Charity Kits…

AFC Wimbledon for War Child and their own community charity.

Newport County for Motor Neurone Disease Association.

Sutton United for Royal Marsden Cancer Charity

Although not a charity kit Mansfield Town wore Red Socks with their Home Kit for Down’s Syndrome Association awareness week, something they have also done in previous seasons.

Grimsby Town’s home kit, gives us a nice little kit quirk in League Two with several teams having wearing alternative socks due to the red socks worn by the club, last season there were 5 teams that used alternative socks when playing against The Mariners, this season that number was 6 plus Newport County wore white shorts as an alternative against them!

Morecambe with only a Home and Away Kits used 6 different kit variations, with 4 different Home Kit Looks and 2 Away Kits, using 2 Shirts, 3 pairs of shorts and 2 pairs of socks!

There we have it, League Two’s End of Season Kit report for 2023/24, please let me know your favourite kit highlights from this division on the comments below or over at Twitter – @Kit_Geek

You can find other End of Season Reports below when they are published…!

Premier League: End of Season Report

Championship: End of Season Report

League One: End of Season Report

Premier League: Matchweek 29 (Part II) Kit Review

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The Midweek Fixtures taking place on 23rd to 25th April 2024 are all fixtures from Matchweek 29, this was due to the FA Cup Quarter-Finals, and given that over half of MW29 fixtures were taking place this midweek, a Part II of that Matchweek was needed as a special round up…!

As always you can find last week Matchweek’s review – here

The current Kit Overview for Premier League is below.

Matchweek 29 Fixtures (Part II)

Total Kits Used

  • Kits Worn in Total – 107 (+1 from Matchweek 34)
  • Goalkeeper Kits – 58 (No change from Matchweek 34)

New Kits this Matchweek

There was one new kit and it was the final kit of the 60 Premier League Kits to be used this season, with Manchester City in their 3rd Kit for the first time in the League this season.

Kit Highlights

My favourite Kit Match Up of the remain Matchweek 29 Fixtures was the game between Manchester United and Sheffield United, a nice and clean Kit Match up, pleasing on the eye!

Kit Stats

Looking at Matchweek 29 as a whole we have seen 13 Home Kits, 6 Away Kits and 1 3rd Kit in action for the four games in this Matchweek.

There were a total of 2 Kit variations used in this Matchweek (all 10 fixtures)

  • Tottenham Hotspur in Away with Home Socks, 3rd time this season (From originial fixtures)
  • Chelsea, in Home Kit with alternative blue socks.. 3rd time

Kit Grid – Up to 26th April 2024

Kit News

Some interesting Kit News coming out of Liverpool this week, it has been reported that Adidas will be returning to be Kit Manufacturer for third time from the 2025/26 Season in an initial Five Year Deal, if true this would mean next season will be the last with Kits provided by Nike.

Adidas previously supplied the Liverpool Kits between 1985 & 1996 and then between 2006 & 2012… we await offical communication but so far this has gone down very will with Fans and Kit Lovers alike, full details can be found here…. (Image Credit to @TheShirtUnion)

Let me know your thoughts in the comments below or at @Kit_Geek 

Premier League – Matchweek 30

Premier League – Matchweek 31

Premier League – Matchweek 32

Premier League – Matchweek 33

Premier League – Matchweek 34

Premier League – 100 Kits

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Premier League: Matchweek 34 Kit Review

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Matchweek 34 was the final Matchweek without a complete set of fixtures due to the FA Cup Semi-Finals, with 7 of the 10 fixtures taking place! This round of fixtures being the reverse games of Matchweek 14 back in December, the remaining 3 fixtures will be taking place on 14th / 15th May 2024.

As always you can find last week Matchweek’s review – here

The current Kit Overview for Premier League is below.

Matchweek 34 Fixtures

Total Kits Used

  • Kits Worn in Total – 106 (No Change from Matchweek 33)
  • Goalkeeper Kits – 58 (No change from Matchweek 33)

New Kits this Matchweek

There were no new Kit Looks this Matchweek, we will see any new looks for before Clubs starting launching next season’s kits… watch this space!

Kit Highlights

Nottingham Forest were in their Home Kit with alternative red shorts for just the second time this season, the first being in Matchweek 6 back in September, a classic Forest look that we have not seen enough of on the road this season!

West Ham United wore their default Away Kit for the first time since Matchweek 13 at the end of November

My favourite Kit Match Up of this weekend was the game between Crystal Palace and West Ham United, a nice kit match up with The Hammers in their Away Kit!

Kit Stats

Overall we have seen 10 Home Kits, 2 Away Kits and 2 3rd Kits in action for these seven games.

There was just the one Kit Variation on show…

  • Nottingham Forest, Home Kit with alternative red shorts, 2nd time used this season!

Kit Grid – Up to 22nd April 2024

Kit News

Another week with no Premier League Kit News, we starting to see leaks of next season’s shirts but we at Kit Geek Towers will only share those when they are offically released, which I am sure we will start seeing in the coming weeks with several teams often in new kits in their final games of the season…!

Premier League Kit Review will return with “Part II” of Matchweek 29 which is taking place this week!

Let me know your thoughts in the comments below or at @Kit_Geek 

Premier League – Matchweek 29

Premier League – Matchweek 30

Premier League – Matchweek 31

Premier League – Matchweek 32

Premier League – Matchweek 33

Premier League – 100 Kits

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