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Premier League, Top Trumps – 2022/23

Jul 13, 2023Posted in General, Premier League Kit LogTagged England, Football, Football Kits, Kit Geek, Kit Log, Kits, Premier League, Soccer, Top Trumps1 Comment

I like to look at Football Kits and Kit Stats in many ways, one way that I wanted to revisist for the previous seasons was a Top Trump format.

So for those of a certain age will know all about Top Trumps, so for this set I have looked at the kits of each of the 20 Premier League Teams, Home, Away and Third kits and stats around these kits, the stats I have picked are the following:

League Games Worn – How many league games was the kit (and variations) worn in 22 / 23 Season
Variations of Kit – The number of variations of that kit were worn in 22 / 23 Season
Games Won – Number of games won wearing the kit(s)
Points Won – Numner of points won wearing the kit(s)
Points per game – The average number of points per game (total points / games worn) per kit

I have highlighted the “Top Trump” in each section in “Gold and Black”.

The cards by each team….

There they are, 60 Top Trump cards… any surprises there, Arsenal’s points per game in their 3rd Kit, Manchester United having joint highest points scored in a Kit.

What would you consider as the overall “Top Trump” card, Manchester City Home Kit or something else?

Are there any other stats that you think I should haved used for future Top Trump looks at Football Kits.

Please let me know over at @Kit_Geek on Twitter or in the comments below.

You can find full kit review for the 2022/23 Premier League Season here and last season’s Top Trumps here

Premier League 2022/23 – End of Season Report

May 28, 2023May 30, 2023Posted in General, Kit History, Premier League Kit LogTagged Arsenal, Chelsea, England, EPL, Football, Football Kits, Kit Geek, Kit Log, Kits, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Newcastle United, Premier League, Soccer, Tottenham Hotspur2 Comments

The 2022 / 23 Premier League season ended on Sunday 28th May 2023 with Manchester City securing their 3rd Premier League in a row with 3 games still to play. At the foot of the table, Everton survivied with a final day victory which means that Leicester City and Leeds United will be joining already relegated Southampton.

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 73% of the time (67% Default, 6% Variations)
Away Kit used 15% of the time (12% Default, 3% Variations)
3rd Kit used 12% of the time (9% Default, 3% Variations)
109 different Kit Variations worn by the 20 teams
Home Kits – 43.1% of total Kit Variations used:
- 25 Home Kits worn (5 teams wearing 23/24 Home Kit this season)
- 22 Home Kit variations used
Away Kits – 29.4% of total Kit Variations used:
- 19 Away Kits worn
- 13 Away Kit variations used
- Aston Villa did not use registered Away kit, wearing 2 different variation
3rd Kits – 26.6% of total Kit Variations used:
- 19 3rd Kits used
- 10 3rd Kit variations used
- Manchester United did not use registered 3rd kit, wearing alternative shorts
Goalkeeper Kits:
- 68 Goalkeeper used
- 2 Teams (Liverpool and Manchester City) in 5 different Goalkeeper Kits
- 4 Teams in 4 Goalkeeper Kits (Arsenal / Leicester City / Liverpool in 23/24 GK Kits)

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:

Two Teams in 9 Kit variations
- Manchester United – Home Kit x6, Away Kit x2, 3rd Kit
- Newcastle United – Home Kit x3, Away Kit x3, 3rd Kit x2, 4th Kit
Two Teams in 8 Kit variations
- Leeds United – Home Kits x2, Away Kit x2, 3rd Kit x4
- Southampton – Home Kit x4, Away Kit x3, 3rd Kit
West Ham United in 7 Kit variations – Home Kit x3, Away Kit x2, 3rd Kit x2
Five Teams in 6 Kit variations
- Aston Villa – Home Kit x3, Away Kit x2, 3rd Kit
- Chelesa – Home Kit x2, Away Kit x2, 3rd Kit x2
- Crystal Palace – Home x2 (including 23/24 Kit), Away Kit x2, 3rd Kit x2
- Everton – Home Kit x3, Away Kit x3, 3rd Kit
- Fulham– Home Kit x3, Away Kit, 3rd Kit x2
Two Teams in 5 Kit variations
- Arsenal – Home Kit x2 (including 23/24 Kit), Away Kit x2, 3rd Kit
- Liverpool – Home Kit x2 (including 23/24 Kit), Away Kit, 3rd Kit x2
Four Teams in 4 Kit variations
Four Teams in 3 Kit variations
Most variations of Home Kit – 6
- Manchester United
Most variatons of Away Kit – 3
- Newcastle United
- Southampton
Most variations of 3rd Kit – 4:
- Leeds United
Six Teams did not wear any Kit Variations, just default Home, Away or 3rd Kits
- AFC Bournemouth
- Brentford
- Leicester City (Including 23/24 Home Kit)
- Manchester City (Including 23/24 Home Kit)
- Nottingham Forest
- Wolverhampton Wanderers
Most worn Home Kit – 31, Wolverhampton Wanderers
Most worn Away Kit – 9, Nottingham Forest
Most worn 3rd Kit – 9, Brentford and Manchester City
Most worn 4th Kit – 1, Newcastle United
Liverpool and Manchester City used 5 Goalkeeper Kit variations including 23/24 GK Kits
Most worn GK Kit – 31, Tottenham Hotspur (Yellow GK Kit)

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.

Home Kits

No surprises at the top of table, with Manchester City heading the table up with 2.48 points per game in their Home Kit, followed by Arsenal (2.31) and Manchester United (2.21). Both Manchester Clubs scoring 62 Points in Home Kits.

Chelsea can sum up their disappointing season by scoring less 1 point per game (0.93), only managing 28 points in their 30 games in their home kit, one of four teams (Everton, Leicester City and Southampton) in managing less than 1 point per game.

Away Kits

Newcastle United’s Champions League qualifying season was supported by their performance in their Navy Away kit, worn in 3 different variations The Magpies managed 2.67 points per game in their 6 games.

Arsenal scored the most points in an Away Kit, they managed 18 points in their two away kit looks which was used across 10 games in total.

Only 7 teams managed more than 1 point per game, with Everton who only secured their Premier League status on the final game scored 1.4 points per game in their away kit and remained unbeated in their two away kit looks this season.

Fulham, who used their away kit 3 times, did not manage to score any points in these games.

3rd Kits

Rumour has it that Mikel Arteta did not like the Arsenal Pink 3rd kit this season, however in its two appearences they won both games giving the kit a maximum 3 points per game.

Champions Manchester City, who were the joint highest wearers of a 3rd kit this season score 20 points in total, finishing 2.22 points per game.

Fulham were more productive in their 3rd kit, were the 4th highest points per game scorers in 3rd kits, with a total of 9 points won in 5 games wearing 2 variations of their 3rd Kit.

There were 3 teams that did not score any points in their 3rd Kit (Leeds United x5, Southampton, x5 and Nottingham Forest x2).

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 wore a staggering 6 variations of their Home Kit, the key to this was the socks… they started the season using alternative black away socks and it was not until teams returned from the World Cup on 27th December where the default Home Socks were finally used… see the difference in the socks below? One of the Kit Mysteries of 2022/23 Season

The other four looks for Manchester United were…

As briefly mentioned above, another Kit Mystery for the season is Arsenal 3rd Kit, initally popular with fans when it was first released, however it only made two appearences this season (both victories) and was used in two of Arsenal’s first three games, so its final use in the Premier League was on 20th August in the game against Bournemouth… rumour was the Mikel Arteta did not like the kit but there is no confirmation of that!

Newcastle United ended the season unbeaten in their change kits, they played a total of 12 games in change kits.

6 games in Away Kit (3 Variations)
5 games in 3rd Kit (2 Variations)
1 game in 4th Kit

Leeds United, ended the season with the most variations of a 3rd Kit, using 4 different looks in just 5 games unfortunatley not scoring a point in any of these looks but as a Kit Geek, I did enjoy they use of this kit!

This season was the first since 2019/20 where a 4th Kit was used. However Newcastle United’s 4th was not a traditonal 4th Kit but a training shirt that was matched prepared and partnered with Home Shorts and Socks, the reason being that their designated kits of this season were all considered to clash when they visited Brighton & Hove Albion in just the second game week of the season and their first away game!

Crystal Palace did not use their 3rd Kit in the Premier League in 2021/22 season and it took until their 23rd game of this season against Brentford in February to wear one this time, a total of 651 days and 64 League games between wearing 3rd Kits (both Black with Red / Blue details).

There were some interesting Kit Mash Ups used this season…

Arsenal, using grey Goalkeeper Socks with their Black Away kit… a look they used three times against Manchester United, Liverpool and Brentford!

When Manchester City visited Crystal Palace, their goalkeeper socks were considered a clash with Crystal Palace’s, so Ederson took to the field in white outfied away socks of Palace!!

Leeds United, followed a similar look to Arsenal when they played Manchester United with their Goalkeeper look using grey socks with their black keeper kit, they wore this look in both games against Manchester United… which were in the space of 4 days!

There we have it, The Premier Leagues’s End of Season Kit report for 2022/23, 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.

Championship – 2022 / 23 End of Season Report

League One – 2022 / 23 End of Season Report

League Two – 2022 / 23 End of Season Report

Premier League, Top Trumps – 2021 / 22

Jul 14, 2022Posted in General, Premier League Kit LogTagged EPL, Football, Football Kits, Kit Geek, Kit Log, Kits, Premier League, Soccer, Stats, Top Trumps1 Comment

I like to look at Football Kits and Kit Stats in many ways, one way that I wanted to revisist for the previous season was a Top Trump format.

League Games Worn – How many league games was the kit (and variations) worn in 21 / 22 Season
Variations of Kit – The number of variations of that kit were worn in 21 / 22 Season
Games Won – Number of games won wearing the kit
Points Won – Numner of points won wearing the kit
Points per game – The average number of points per game (total points / games worn) per kit

The cards by each team….

There we have it, any surprises in there, Brighton’s Points per game, Leicester City’s lack of games won in their Away and 3rd Kit?

What would you consider as the overall “Top Trump” card, Liverpool Home Kit or Manchester City Home Kit or something else?

Are there any other stats that you think I should haved used for future Top Trump looks at Football Kits.

Please let me know over at @Kit_Geek on Twitter or in the comments below.

My initial attempt at this was for 2018 / 19 Season can be found here

Premier League 2021/22 – End of Season Report

May 23, 2022May 23, 2022Posted in Kit History, Kit News, Premier League Kit LogTagged EPL, Football, Football Kits, Kit Geek, Kit Log, Kits, Premier League7 Comments

The 2021 / 22 Premier League season ended on Sunday 22nd May with a thrilling last round of fixtures which ended with Manchester City pipping Liverpool to the title, winning their 4th Premier League in the last five seasons. At the foot of the table, Leeds United survivied with a final day victory which means that Burnley will be joining already relegated Norwich City and Watford.

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 74% of the time (68% Default, 6% Variations)
Away Kit used 16% of the time (14% Default, 2% Variations)
3rd Kit used 10% of the time (9% Default, 1% Variations)
101 Kits different Kit Variations worn by the 20 teams
Home Kits – 42.6% of total Kit Variations used:
- 21 Home Kits worn (Arsenal wearing 22/23 Home Kit this season)
- 22 Home Kit variations used
Away Kits – 30.7% of total Kit Variations used:
- 20 Away Kits worn
- 11 Away Kit variations used
3rd Kits – 26.7% of total Kit Variations used:
- 18 3rd Kits used
- 9 3rd Kit variations used
- Crystal Palace did not use 3rd Kit in 21/22
- Manchester United did not use registered 3rd kit, only variations (x3)
Goalkeeper Kits:
- 65 Goalkeeper used
- Arsenal used Away Kit as a Goalkeeper kit for the second season running
- Wolverhampton Wanderers were only team to use alternative socks with Goalkeeper kits, using alternative black socks for both 2nd / 3rd choice Keeper Kits

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:

Manchester United in 11 Kit variations – Home Kit x4, Away Kit x4, 3rd Kit x3
Aston Villa in 8 Kit variations – Home Kit x4, Away Kit x2, 3rd Kit x2
Two Teams in 7 Kit variations
- Arsenal – Home Kits x4 (including 22/23 Home Kit), Away Kit, 3rd Kit x2
- Newcastle United – Home Kit x3, Away Kit x3, 3rd Kit
Three Teams in 6 Kit variations
- Brighton & Hove Albion – Home Kit x2, Away Kit x2, 3rd Kit x2
- Everton – Home Kit x3, Away Kit, 3rd Kit x2
- West Ham United – Home Kit x3, Away Kit, 3rd Kit x2
Five Teams in 5 Kit variations
- Burnley – Home Kit, Away Kit x2, 3rd Kit x2
- Chelsea – Home Kit x2, Away Kit x2, 3rd Kit
- Leeds United – Home Kit x2, Away Kit x2, 3rd Kit
- Manchester City – Home Kit x2, Away Kit x2, 3rd Kit
- Southampton – Home Kit x3, Away Kit, 3rd Kit
Most variations of Home Kit – 4:
- Arsenal (inclucing 22/23 Home Kit)
- Aston Villa
- Manchester United
Most variatons of Away Kit – 4:
- Manchester United
Most variations of 3rd Kit – 3:
- Manchester United
- However they did not wear their default 3rd Kit (Dark Blue shirts, Black shorts, Yellow socks)
Six Teams did not wear any Kit Variations, just default Home, Away or 3rd Kits
- Burnley
- Crystal Palace (only wore Home and Away Kits)
- Leicester City
- Liverpool
- Norwich City
- Watford
Most worn Home Kit – 32, Norwich City and Wolverhampton Wanderers
Most worn Away Kit – 14, Brentford
Most worn 3rd Kit – 6, Burnley
No Fourth Kit used this season, second season in a row.
Wolverhampton Wanderers used 5 Goalkeeper Kit variations
Three teams used 4 Goalkeeper Kit Variations
- Arsenal (including outfield Away Kit)
- Brentford
- Manchester City

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

Home Kits

As you would expect Manchester City and Liverpool head up the “Home Kit” table with a points per game score of 2.44 and 2.43 respectively, Arsenal making up the top three with 1.96 points per game in their Home Kits.

Liverpool scored the most points overall, with 73 points in their 30 games in their home kits.

Only two teams scored under 1 point per game in their Home Kit and again no surprises that it was the relegated Teams of Watford and Norwich City.

Away Kits

The top two slots in the Away Kit table are again taken up by Manchester City and Liverpool, however here there was a larger gap between the two, with “City” scoring 16 points in the six games away kits were used, only dropping points once in the draw at Crystal Palace, the most points won in an Away kit.

Tottenham Hotspur had a good season in their change kits, ended undefeated in their away kit to complete the top 3 in the “Away Kit” Table, Brighton & Hove Albion also ended the season unbeaten in their away kit wearing the kit 7 times in total and scoring 13 points to end joint 5th with Chelsea in this table.

There were 7 teams who averaged 1 point or lower in their away kit, including Mid table finishers Brentford, Crystal Palace and 8th placed Leicester City who only managed 4 points in their away kit.

3rd Kits

The 3rd Kit table has a different look to it, with Chelsea who only wore their 3rd Kit once in The Premier League and were victorious end with a maxium 3 points per game, Tottenham Hotspur (unbeaten in their 3rd Kit) finished second with 10 points from 4 games, only dropping points in their draw with Southampton.

Manchester City scored the most points again, completing the change kit league double!

Two teams scored “0” points in their 3rd Kit, with Aston Villa (5) and Watford (2), with a total of 9 teams scoring an average of 1 point or lower, this does not include Crystal Palace did not use their 3rd Kit.

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:

Crystal Palace only used two kit variations through out the season, just their home and away kits, this meant we did not see their wonderful 3rd kit in action in the Premier League, it was used in the Cup however.

Wolverhampton Wanderers went 23 League games in row in their home kit, this meant the last time they wore a change kit was on Saturday 11th December 2021 against Manchester City. They wore their home kit a total of 32 times, which was joint highest in the Premier League this season.

In their first season in The Premier League, Brentford wore change kits in 18 of their 19 away games, wearing their away kit 14 time and 3rd kit 4 times, the only time they wore their home kit away from The Community Stadium was against Manchester City on Wednesday 9th February 2022.

Tottenham Hotspur ended the season unbeaten in change kits, wearing their away kit 3 times (2 wins and 1 draw) and their 3rd kit 4 times (3 wins and 1 draw). A great season for two designs that have divided kit lovers but in this Kit Geek’s opinion are two great looking kits.

Brighton & Hove Albion wear undefeated in their “Hyper-Turq” Away kit, wearing it a total of 7 times (3 wins and 4 draws), interestingly they only worn the default version of the kit with black shorts once, at Everton.

There were three teams that wore four distinct goalkeeper kits…

Arsenal

Brentford

Manchester City

There we have it, The Premier Leagues’s End of Season Kit report for 2021/22, 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.

Championship – End of Season Report

League One – End of Season Report

League Two – End of Season Report

Premier League 2020/21 – End of Season Kit Report

May 24, 2021May 24, 2021Posted in Premier League Kit LogTagged EPL, Football, Football Kits, Kit Log, Kit Variations, Kits, Premier League4 Comments

Starting on 12th September 2020 and finishing on 23rd May 2021, the 2020/21 season was completed within the quickest amount of time in Premier League history, which we saw the 380 games completed in just 253 days and concluded with Manchester City winning their third title in four seasons.

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 71% of the time (63% Full, 8% Variations)
Away Kit used 16% of the time (13% Full, 3% Variations)
3rd Kit used 13% of the time (11% Full, 2% Variations)
109 Kits different Kit Variations worn by the 20 teams
Home Kits – 42% of total Kit Variations used:
- 23 Home Kits worn (Brighton & Hove Albion, Leicester City, Liverpool wearing 21/22 Home Kits this season)
- 23 Home Kit variations used
Away Kits – 31% of total Kit Variations used:
- 21 Away Kits worn (Arsenal, Everton wearing 21/22 Aways Kits this season)
- 13 Away Kit variations used
- Manchester United did not use registered Away kit, only variations (x3)
3rd Kits – 27% of total Kit Variations used:
- 18 3rd Kits used
- 11 3rd Kit variations used
- Brighton & Hove Albion did not use 3rd kit in 20/21
- Chelsea did not use registered 3rd kit, only variations (x2)
Goalkeeper Kits:
- 66 Goalkeeper used
- 5 Teams used 21/22 Goalkeeper kits (All teams that debuted their new kits)
- Arsenal used Away Shirt as Goalkeeper shirt
- Manchester United only team to use alternative socks with Goalkeeper kit (Home Kit with alternative socks at Leeds United)

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:

Manchester United in 11 variations of Kit – Home Kit x5, Away Kit x3, 3rd Kit x3
Aston Villa in 8 variations of Kit – Home Kit x3, Away Kit x3, 3rd Kit x 2
Two Teams in 7 variations of Kit
- Everton – Home Kit x4, Away Kit, 3rd Kit, 21/22 Away Kit
- West Ham United – Home Kit x4, Away Kit, 3rd Kit x2
Five Teams in 6 variations of Kit:
- Brighton HA – Home Kit x2, Away kit x3, 21/22 Home Kit
- Chelsea – Home Kit x2, Away Kit x2, 3rd Kit x2
- Fulham – Home Kit x4, Away Kit, 3rd Kit
- Sheffield United – Home Kit, Away Kit x2, 3rd Kit x3
- Southampton – Home Kit x2, Away Kit, 3rd Kit x3
Most variations of Home Kit:
- 5, Manchester United (Including 2 different pairs of Black socks used)
- Everton, Fulham, West Ham United used 4 variations of Home Kit
Most variatons of Away Kit:
- 3, Aston Villa, Brighton HA and Manchester United
- Manchester United did not full Away (all dark green, only variations with white shorts / socks)
Most variations of 3rd Kit:
- 3, Manchester United, Sheffield United and Southampton
Wolverhampton Wanderers and West Bromwich Albion only two teams not to use any Kit Variations, just their standard Home, Away and 3rd Kits
Most worn Home Kit – 32, Wolverhampton Wanderers
Most worn Away Kit – 12, West Bromwich Albion
Most worn 3rd Kit – 9, Burnley
No Fourth Kit used this season, first time since 2017/18
Arsenal used 5 Goalkeeper Kit variations, including away shirt as part of all white GK Kit

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 – https://twitter.com/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 5 Home Kit variations are all included in the “Home Kit” Table and based on “Points per Game” used ratio.

Home Kit

As expected Manchester City head up this table with 2.28 Points, 0.45 points more than Manchester United. The three relegated teams within the bottom three positions, Burnley the only other team with less than 1 point per game in their Home Kit.

Away Kit

Liverpool head the Away Kit Table, with 2.25 points per game for their 4 uses of “Teal” Away kit, Leicester City and Manchester United both with 2.00 points per game but Leicester City in their away 5 times compared to Manchester United’s 4.

Newcastle United scored 13 points in their away kit, which was the highest in the league throughout the season but their 8 uses average 1.63 points per game.

Wolves only used their away kit once in 2020/21 and lost, so did not score a single point in their away kit, a total of 8 teams average less than point per game in their away kit, including West Ham who finished 6th in the League

3rd Kit

Manchester City finished the season with a 100% win record in their 3rd Kit, with 7 wins and maximum 3.00 points per game.

Sheffield United and Fulham did not score a point in their 3rd kits, with Sheffield United losing all 6 games in their Green / Gold Kit.

Brighton & Hove Albion did not use a 3rd Kit this season (their black away from 2019/20 was registered as their 3rd kit),

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:

Manchester United used two different pairs of black socks with their Home Kit, the original sold which had the same “flecked” pattern as the home shirt and contained the wording “Manchester United” and were only worn in the first game of the season at Home against Crystal Palace, the 2nd pair of black socks used were standard Adidas Teamwear socks and used throughout the rest of the season in the league

Arsenal first Premier League team to use an outfield shirt as a Goalkeeper Kit, when it was deemed that their 3 goalkeeper kit options were two much of clash for their game against Wolverhampton Wanderers, Aresenal used their away shirt to create an all white goalkeeper kit

Leno using Arsenal’s Away kit as a GK Kit

When Manchester United visited Liverpool on 17th January 2021 they elected to use their dark green away kit, however it was consided that the two teams would be indistinguishable for those fans with colourblindness. Manchester United used white socks to break these colours up.

Aston Villa who used 8 Kit variations overall, at one stage used 7 different kit variation in 8 games which included 6 kits in 6 games.

There we have kit, the end of season report for 2020/21 Premier League season, let me know your favourite kit details and thoughts in the comments below or over at Twitter – https://twitter.com/kit_geek

Premier League 2019/20 – End of Season Kit Report

Jul 29, 2020Posted in Premier League Kit LogTagged EPL, Football, Football Kits, Kit Geek, Kit Log, Kit Variations, Kits, Premier League, SoccerLeave a comment

On Sunday 27th July 2020, 354 Days since the season kicked off on 9th August 2019 the longest Premier League season concluded with Liverpool winning their first top flight league title in 30 years.

This is time for me to look into some more detail the kits worn throughout the season and some of the information and stats behind these kits.

Kit Stats

760 Kits Worn (380 games)
113 Different kits worn
Home Kits – 45%, 29 Home kits worn (9 teams using 2020/21 Home Kit) and 22 variations of Home kit used
Away Kits – 30%, 21 Away kits worn (AFC Bournemouth and Chelsea using 2020/21 Away Kit) and 13 variations of Away kit used
3rd Kits – 22%, 18 3rd kits worn and 7 variations of 3rd Kit worn
4th Kits – 3%, 3 4th Kits worn
73 Different Goalkeeper Kits worn (12 2020/21 GK Kits worn)

Two designated kits from 2019/20 season were not used, Liverpool Away was not used with the “halved” socks, only plain white and Southampton 3rd Kit was not used with is assigned navy socks but home kit socks.

Overview

Match Day 1 to Match Day 19

Match Day 20 to Match Day 38

Kit Variations

Manchester United wore 9 variations of Kits – x3 Home, x3 Away, x3 3rd
Four teams wore 7 variations of Kits (Chelsea, Everton, Sheffield United, West Ham United)
Chelsea – x3 Home Kits (inc. 20/21 Home), x3 Away Kits (inc. 20/21 Away), x1 3rd Kit
Everton – x4 Home Kits, x1 Away Kit, x1 3rd Kit, x1 4th Kit
Sheffield United – x2 Home Kits, x4 Away Kits, x1 3rd Kit
West Ham United – x4 Home Kits (inc. 20/21 Home), x2 Away Kit, x1 3rd Kit
Most variations of Home Kit – 4, Everton
Most variations of Away Kit – 4, Sheffield United
Most variations of 3rd Kit – 3, Manchester United
Three teams used a 4th Kit (Burnley, Everton, Southampton)
Norwich City only team not to use a variation of their kits (3 Kits worn)
Wolverhampton Wanderers only used change kits 6 times (x4 Away, x2 3rd)
Cheslea wore 6 different goalkeeper kits (inc 3 from 20/21)
Tottenham Hotspur wore 5 different goalkeeper kits all from 19/20
Southampton only wore 2 Goalkeeper kits

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 – https://twitter.com/kit_geek

Kit Tables

I also like to look at the points won by each kit, I have grouped these into (Home, Away and 3rd/4th “Kit Tables” so all variations of kit will be included in its group, the scoring is based on a points per game ratio.

Home Kit

No suprises here, with Liverpool heading the table with 2.66 “Points Per Game” in their home kit a massive 0.55 points more than Manchester City in 2nd place.

The three relegated teams are also at the foot of the table in the Home Kit usage as well.

Away Kit

The Away table does give us a different looking table, Chelsea heading up this group with Liverpool both scoring 2.60 points per game, with matching records of 13 points from 5 games.

Southampton, who achieved the most points in change kits in the Premier League are in 5th Place with 1.62 points per game.

Leicester City, who only used their away kit twice and managed just the one draw are 2nd bottom here, with Aston Villa with 0.14 points per game are at the foot of the table with just 1 point from the seven games in their away kit.

3rd/4th Kit

Liverpool complete the clean sweep, heading up the 3rd/4th Kit group with 2.25 points per game, here they tied with Manchester City, with identical records of 9 points from 4 games.

It’s a different story for Leicester City here, with their 3rd kit being much more successful than their away kit, coming in 3rd place here with 1.80 points per game.

Arsenal and Everton, only managed one point in their 3rd Kit (and 4th Kit in Everton’s case), scoring just 0.33 points per game and Norwich who did not score a single point in their 3rd Kit are bottom of the pile.

I always like to round these reviews up by looking back and picking the game that had my favourite kit match up, for the 2019/20 Premier League Season I have chosen a game that took place towards the end of the season during “Project Restart”, Newcastle United v Tottenham Hotspur. The overall look worked well, the details of the red numbers on the Newcastle Home kit is one that I will always enjoy and with Tottenham wearing their wonderful 3rd Kit (probably my favourite kit in 19/20 Premier League season), the whole look worked for me and was very pleasing to the eye!

What are your favourite kit match up of the season and your overal kit highlights, let me know your thoughts and comments below or over on Twitter – https://twitter.com/kit_geek

Premier League One Kit Wonders – 2019/20

Jul 23, 2020Jul 31, 2020Posted in General, Premier League Kit LogTagged Adidas, EPL, Football, Football Kits, Kits, Nike, Premier League, Soccer, umbroLeave a comment

As we approach the final round of fixtures of the 2019/20 Premier League season, its always to time to take stock and look back the season and reminisce over the good and bad of the latest season.

There will be plenty of looking back at the season from me over the coming weeks but I wanted to kick this off by looking back at those kits that were only worn once this season.

So far we have seen 107 different kits worn in the Premier League and in this post I want to call out the 24 Kits that have been worn just once, our “One Kit Wonders”.

Arsenal

Southampton v Arsenal, 25th June 2020

Arsenal’s popular away kit, that pays homage to the classic “Brusied Banana” kit, was worn in their 2-0 victory at Southampton with yellow shorts, giving an all yellow look which was also used with the “Bruised Banana” kit against Southampton back in 1991.

AFC Bournemouth

Watford v AFC Bournemouth, 26th October 2019

Bournemouth’s draw at Watford saw the south coast team pair their home shirt with white shorts and socks, giving them a classic AC Milan look.

Wolverhampton Wanderers v AFC Bournemouth, 24th June 2019

One of the (minor) impacts of “Project Restart” was that some clubs had sponsorship deals ending, which in turn saw new kits launched with a significant number of games still to play. Bournemouth was one of these teams, who wore their 2020/21 Home kit from Umbro (with holding sponsor Vitality). This was worn with white shorts and socks in the 1-0 defeat at Wolves in June.

Manchester United v AFC Bournemouth, 4th July 2020

The visit to Manchester United saw Bournemouth use their 2020/21 away kit from Umbro, with a graphic of the famous Bouremouth Pier sublimated onto the aqua shirts, similar to the Manchester United umbro shirt from 1994/96 which had Old Trafford on their shirts. It did not prove a lucky shirt with The Cherries losing 5-3 in this kit’s only appearence.

Brighton and Hove Albion

Newcastle United v Brighton and Hove Albion, 21st September 2019

With Brighton’s away kit being all black it meant that The Seagulls reached into the back of the Kitman’s cupboard at The Amex to pull out 2018/19 away kit to be used as this season’s third kit. In this drawn game it was worn for the only time this season with white shorts.

Aston Villa v Brighton and Hove Albion, 19th October 2019

Brighton’s second “One Kit Wonder” was their home kit worn with blue socks in a defeat at Aston Villa.

Burnley FC

West Ham United v Burnley FC, 8th July 2020

When Burnley visited a fellow Claret/Blue wearing West Ham, it was deemed that their away kit (All Sky Blue) and 3rd Kit (Green/Black) were not enough of a contrast to hosts home kit, Umbro created a one off white shirt to be worn with white shorts and socks to make a “4th Kit”, one of three 4th Kits seen this season and has a 100% win ratio in its use.

Chelsea

Crystal Palace v Chelsea, 7th July 2020

Chelsea’s new sponsorship deal with “3” started on the 1st July, this meant the 2020/21 kits were brought into action at the end of this season. The pale blue away kit saw it first and only appearence of this season in the 3-2 victory at Crystal Palace.

Everton

Crystal Palace v Everton, 10th August 2019

Looking way back to first round of fixtures of the 2019/20 season, Everton were asked by the Premier League to use their third kit from 2018/19 as the “coral” away and navy 3rd kits supplied by Umbro were seen to be too much of a clash to their visit to Crystal Palace, the game ended in a draw and is the one of the three “4th” kits seen used this season.

Manchester United v Everton, 15th December 2019

Everton’s second “One Kit Wonder” was the variation of their home kit, worn with blue shorts that The Toffees wore in their drawn game at Manchester United.

Leicester City

West Ham United v Leicester City, 28th December 2019

Leicester City often use variations of their home kit to avoid unnecessary use of their change kits, their 2-1 win at West Ham saw using their home kit with white socks, a combination only used once this season.

Manchester United

Southampton v Manchester United, 31st August 2019

Manchester United have worn their 3rd kit three times in the Premier League this season, in three different variations, the first worn with white shorts (bespoke to this kit, not the home shorts which have red Adidas stripes) at the drawn game at Southampton.

Sheffield United v Manchester United, 24th November 2019

The second use of the 3rd kit was at Sheffield United with bespoke white shorts and socks, the game ended in a thrilling 3-3 draw.

Arsenal v Manchester United, 1st January 2020

The final appearence of the Manchester United 3rd kit was its only use in its first choice all black variation, the game at Arsenal ended in defeat which means they did not win a single game using their 3rd Kit in the League this season.

Sheffield United

Chelsea v Sheffield United, 31st August 2019

Sheffield United’s versitle white away kit has been used in four different combination this season, the use of white shorts and red (home kit) socks was only used the once, to give us a nice looking kit, the red socks work really well with red Adidas stripes on side panels and shorts, the red flowing through out the kit. The game ended in a draw in what has been an inspresive return to the Top Flight for The Blades.

Newcastle United v Sheffied United, 21st June 2020

Sheffield United’s second “One Kit Wonder” was a variation of their home kit, combined with away shorts and socks to give us an overall “white” feel to their home kit. The kit did not prove a lucky one with the game ending in a 0-3 defeat.

Southampton FC

Newcastle United v Southampton, 8th December 2019

Southampton’s use of their 2018/19 3rd Kit at Newcastle United was called for due to the three kits registered for 2019/20 all clashing with Newcastle’s home kit, this is third and final 4th Kit used this season and the only one that was used by the losing team, the kit was combined with home shorts and socks.

Tottenham Hotspur

Wolverhampton Wanderers v Tottenham Hotspur, 15th December 2019

Tottenham’s visit to Wolves in December saw them use their home socks with their away kit, to give us a Navy/Navy/White variation, tying in nicely with Nike’s Vapor Template’s use of contrasting socks. The game ended in victory for Spurs with an injury time winning goal.

Watford

Newcastle United v Watford, 31st August 2019

Watford are another team that used their away kit from 2018/19 as a 3rd kit for 2019/20, the only appearence of this kit was their visit to Newcastle United back in August. This is the least used 3rd in the League and its only use ended in a draw.

Wolverhampton Wanderers v Watford, 28th September 2019

The second “One Kit Wonder” from Watford was a variation of their away kit used with white socks which was seen in their defeat at Wolves.

West Ham United

Wolverhampton Wanderers v West Ham United, 4th December 2019

West Ham’s home kit from Umbro was a popular one with fans, when worn against Wolves it was paired with sky blue shorts and socks for a variation that still gives a strong West Ham feel, this did not prove sucessful on the pitch, with the game ending in defeat.

Newcastle United v West Ham United, 5th July 2020

This is the 3rd variation of West Ham’s home kit, this time combined with sky blue socks was used in the drawn game at Newcastle United.

Manchester United v West Ham United, 22nd July 2020

In the final away game of the season at Manchester United, West Ham used their away kit with change Sky Blue shorts, to give us again an alternative but classic West Ham look. The game ended in a draw.

Wolverhampton Wanderers

AFC Bournemouth v Wolverhampton Wanderers, 23rd November 2019

Wolves’ home kit in 2019/20 was paired with black shorts and socks, surprisingly an alternative of the kit was only used once this season with “old gold” socks in the victory at Bournemouth.

The 24 games in which our “One Kit Wonders” were worn, saw 6 wins, 10 draws and 8 defeats.

There are still the final ten games of the season to be played, so there may be some changes to this final list, Brighton in particular I can see using their home kit with blue socks in their game at Burnley, Sheffield United may use a different variation of their 3rd kit in their game at Southampton and at the moment Manchester City have only used their 2020/21 Home kit once in their victory at Watford but with their final game being at home at likely to wear this kit again in this game which is why I have not included in them in this overview.

Let me know what your favourite “One Kit Wonder” of the 2019/20 Premier League Season at https://twitter.com/kit_geek

UPDATED – MATCH DAY 38

On the final round of fixtures of season, we saw six teams launch their new home kits…. increasing our “One Kit Wonders” to 30…. All fixtures took place on 26th July.

Arsenal

Arsenal v Watford

Arsenal’s victory at relegated Watford give us the first view of the new Adidas 2020/21 Home kit, a darker shade of red than 19/20 version with the use of red socks as first choice!

Brighton & Hove Albion

Burnley v Brighton & Hove Albion

Brighton’s new home kit is a really interesting change from their traditional look, one the club has used in the past as points but something new and fresh for their 2020/21 Premier League campaign, its debut was victorious one with a 2-1 win at Burnley.

Leicester City

Leicester City v Manchester United

Leicester City revert to all blue for 20/21 season with this Adidas Convido 20 Template! Their 2-0 defeat cost the team and this kit a place in the Champions League next season.

Newcastle United

Newcastle United v Liverpool

Newcastle’s 2020/21 Kit sees the magpies use thinner stripes than 19/20, but the red numbers remain (something I love to see in a Newcastle Kit) and check out them socks…!!! Its first outing ended in 3-1 defeat to Champions Liverpool.

Southampton

Southampton v Sheffield United

Southampton are ditchng the stripes in 2020/21 in favour of a sash…. I love a sash, so this looks great in my eyes, Southampton ended the season in style beating high flying Sheffield United 3-1.

West Ham United

West Ham United v Aston Villa

West Ham are our final team introducing their new kit in 2019/20 season, a return to white shorts and socks paired with a more traditional looking shirt, the drawn game with Aston Villa saw the visitors stay up on the last day of the season.

So there we have it, the 30 “One Kit Wonders”, our final record sees 9 wins, 11 draws and 10 defeats!

Premier League – Kit Log and all the information you might need!

Nov 1, 2019Posted in Premier League Kit LogTagged England, EPL, Football, Football Kits, Kit Geek, Kit Log, Kit Variations, Kits, Premier League, SoccerLeave a comment

We are now over a quarter of the way through the season, so this feels like the ideal time to take a deeper look into the Kits worn so far in the 2019/20 season.

Followers to my Twitter account – @Kit_Geek will know that I do keep weekly updates on kits via the “Kit Grid” with some high level stats for those of you like me who like to see the numbers behind the kits worn.

Kit Grid, Match Day 10:

Kit Stats

10 Rounds of fixtures into the season, means 200 Kits worn. Taking a look at little at some of the overall kit stats:

Home Kits worn – 71% (65% Full Kits, 6% Home Kit variation)
Away Kits worn – 18% (14.5% Full, 3.5% Variation)
3rd Kits worn – 10.5% (8.5% Full, 2% Variation)
4th Kit worn – 0.5%

Looking at points won by teams in their Home, Away, 3rd (and 4th) Kits – This includes variations of each Kits.

Home Kits – 191 Point won, at an average of 1.35 Points per game
Away Kits – 45 Points won, at an average of 1.25 Points per game
3rd Kits – 34 Points won, at an average of 1.62 Points per game
4th Kit – 1 Point won, so 1 Point per game

So it appears that a team wearing their 3rd kit is likely to score more points, with 5 teams having 100% win records when in their 3rd choice outfit this season, those teams:

Liverpool (3 games)
Crystal Palace and Manchester City (2 games)
Bournemouth and Newcastle United (1 game)

Point per game by Team:

Home Kits

Away Kits

3rd / 4th Kits

Kit Variations

One thing I particularly like keeping an eye out for is variations of kits worn, below is the update by team and the kits they have worn in the League this season:

69 Variatons of Kit Worn
Liverpool have worn 5 variations of Kits (due to sock changes on Home / 3rd Kit)
9 Teams have worn 4 variations of Kits
8 Teams have worn 3 variations of Kits
Newcastle United and Norwich City have worn just 2 variations of their Kits, both being Home and 3rd Kits

Of the 59 Registered Kits, we have not seen 5 in the Premier League this season:

Chelsea 3rd Kit
Everton 3rd Kit
Leicester City 3rd Kit
Newcastle United Away Kit
Norwich City Away Kit

The Order that teams have worn Kits:

Goalkeeper Kits

Something new that I have been tracking this season is what the Goalkeepers are wearing this season, below are the Goalkeeper kits worn per game

55 Goalkeeper Kits worn in 2019/20

And there we have it, a fairly comprehensive view of the Kits worn in the Premier League so far in 2019/20.

I always like to end my kit round ups with my favourite Kit match up of the recent weeks, for me it was last week’s (26th October) game between Watford and Bournemouth. Bournemouth changing to white shorts and socks to avoid the clash with Watford’s…. giving us inadvertently a tribute to Luther Blisset.

Please let me know your thoughts, favourite kits and comments below or over on my Twitter Account – @Kit_Geek

Premier League – Kit Log 2019/20

Sep 3, 2019Posted in Premier League Kit LogTagged England, EPL, Football, Football Kits, Kit Geek, Kit Log, Kits, Premier League, SoccerLeave a comment

As we reach the first International Break of the 2019/20 season it feels like its a good time to take stock and have a look at the kits worn in the first four rounds of the season.

As always I like to look at the stats of the kits worn and information behind that.

Kit Stats

Home Kits – 69% (65% full, 4% variation)
Away Kits – 18% (17% full, 1% variation)
3rd Kit – 12% (11% full, 1% variation)
4th Kit – 1%

Teams with 3 kits worn – In Appearance

Arsenal (Away, Home, 3rd)
Burnley (Home, 3rd, Away)
Crystal Palace (Home, Away, 3rd)
Everton (4th, Home, Home variation)
Manchester United (Home, Home variation, 3rd variation)
Sheffield United (Away, Home, Away variation)
Tottenham Hotspur (Home, Away, Home variation)

Teams with 2 kits worn – In Appearance

Aston Villa (Home, Away)
Bournemouth (Home, 3rd)
Brighton & Hove Albion (Home, Away)
Chelsea (Home, Away)
Leicester City (Home, Away)
Liverpool (Home, 3rd)
Manchester City (Away, Home)
Newcastle United (Home, 3rd)
Norwich City (Home, 3rd)
Southampton (Away, Home)
Watford (Home, 3rd)
West Ham United (Home, Away)

Team with 1 kit worn

Wolverhampton Wanderers (Home)

Something we have seen twice this season (Everton at Crystal Palace and Watford at Newcastle United) is the Referee step in and ask teams to change their kits to avoid a clash.

Everton who wanted to use their Coral away kit but was advised by the Ref is would cause a clash of kit and with their then soon to be released 3rd kit being Navy Blue, it meant a return of last season’s white 3rd kit, as what will be a 4th kit this season. For me this white kit actually complements the current home kit in its desgin, so maybe should have been kept as a 3rd kit this season.

The second instance was with Watford, who wanted to use their Navy Blue away kit for the first time at Newcastle and with their home kit this season being Black / Yellow halved shirts, it meant a return of last season’s Green Away kit to be used as a 3rd kit, something the team did not have last season being one of only two teams to wear just a Home and Away kit.

The other one of those teams was Wolverhampton Wanderers, who currently are the only team to wear just one kit so far this season, however I would expect to see the team to use a rare 3rd kit when they play away at Watford on 1st January 2020, with their home and away kits both clashing with Watford’s halved shirts…. will we see the return of last season’s white away kit or something new?

Premier League – Goalkeeper Kits

Something new I am also keeping record of this season and inspired by Denis over at Museum of Jerseys (and the excellent Kit Tracker that Denis illustrates) are the Goalkeeper kits worn in the Premier League.

43 Different kits worn – (caviat here is that there are several template kits worn by teams, so many teams have same GK Kit)
Only Brighton & Hove Albion have worn just one kit so far this season (Mat Ryan)
Burnley, Manchester United, Newcastle United & Norwich City have all worn 3 kits in the opening 4 games

My favourite kit match up of the season so far was on 18th August when Sheffield United played Crystal Palace, for me a nice balance of tradition and modern kit design…. although if Arsenal had chosen to wear their away kit Liverpool rather than their 3rd kit then that would have been right up there…!

Let me know your thoughts and what your favourite Kit Match ups have been on the comments below or over at Twitter on @Kit_Geek

Football Kit Top Trumps – Premier League 2018/19

Jul 11, 2019Posted in Premier League Kit LogTagged EPL, Football, Fun, Kit Geek, Kits, Premier League, Soccer, Top Trumps1 Comment

It is time for one final review of the Home kits worn by the Premier League teams in the 2018/19 season, this time in the form of the classic “Top Trump” card.

I was torn on going for an opinion based scoring system based on design, aesthetics and general use, however I decided to go for a more factual based performance of the kit, so our ranking areas are:

League Games Worn
Variations of Kit
Games Won
Points Won
Points per game

So for your “pleasure”, here are the Home Kits worn in 2018/19 Premier League Season in Top Trumps!

Arsenal and AFC Bournemouth*

*AFC Bournemouth wore their 2019/20 Home kit in the last home game against Tottenham Hotspur, this game is NOT included in the data for their card (they won 1-0).

Brighton & Hove Albion and Burnley

Cardiff City and Chelsea*

*Cheslea wore their 2019/20 Home kit in the last home game against Watford, this game is NOT included in the data for their card (they won 3-0).

Crystal Palace* and Everton

*Crystal Palace wore their 2019/20 Home kit in the last home game against AFC Bournemouth, this game is NOT included in the data for their card (they won 5-3).

Fulham and Huddersfield Town

Leicester City* and Liverpool

*Leicester City wore their 2019/20 Home kit in the last home game against Chelsea, this game is NOT included in the data for their card (they drew 0-0).

Manchester City and Manchester United