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Premier League: Matchweek 6, Kit Review

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The Premier League is back after the extended International Break for the last couple of weeks. This round of fixtures being played over three days between Saturday 10th October and Monday 12th October.

The current Kit Overview for Premier League is below:

We have 59 out of 60 Kits released so far… with just Ipswich Town to officially release their final Kit! See below details about Hull City’s and Chelsea’s 3rd Kit that was launched this week.

Matchweek 6 Fixtures

Total Kits Used

  • Kits Worn in Total – 56 (3 New Kits this weekend)
  • Goalkeeper Kits – 59 (6 New Kits)

New Kits this Matchweek

New Outfield Kits:

Fulham Away Kit.

Nottingham Forest Away

Newcastle United 3rd

New Goalkeeper Kits:

  • Fulham – Yellow Adidas Trefoil Template
  • Leeds United – Blue Adidas Trefoil Template
  • Manchester City – Yellow Puma Template
  • Manchester United – Yellow Adidas Template
  • Nottingham Forest – Pink Adidas Trefoil Template
  • Newcastle United – Orange Adidas Template

Kit Highlights

Nottingham Forest and Newcastle United joined three other teams (Aston Villa, Brighton & Hove Albion, Manchester United) in wearing their 4th Kit Variation of the season, with the first use of their Away Kit, this is the most variations from a team so far this season.

Both Manchester City and Manchester United wore their 4th different Goalkeeper Kits of the season at the weekend, and both were yellow kits! Newcastle United also wore their 4th different keeper kit of the season.

Tottenham Hotspur wore their Away Kit for the 2nd time this season and in both instances mashed up the kit with their white home socks.

Brentford, Everton, Newcastle United and Nottingham Forest continue to wear change kits in all their Away games so far this season (3 games).

Coventry City wore a Home Kit with pink detailing to support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, see below for a full shirt they are releasing. I have not counted this a seperate kit as the overall design is the same as their regular home kit.

My favourite “Kit Match Up” of the Matchweek was the game between Crystal Palace and Nottingham Forest. The Forest Away Kit this season is a lovely look but one I am not too sure we will see much of, so it was nice to see it action action Palace who are in white as first choice colours this season.

Kit Stats

Overall we have seen 13 Home Kits, 5 Away and 2 Third Kit in action this weekend.

There was just one Kit Variation used in this Matchweek

  • Tottenham Hotspur – Away with Home socks, 2nd time used.

Kit Grid – Up to 12th October

Kit News

Newcastle United have announced a revamped version of their Club Crest, which was chosen by the fans and will be introduced across the club over the coming months and will appear on their Kits from Next Season (2027/28).

Coventry City have launched a limited edition pink version of their current Home Shirt in aid of Brest Cancer Awareness. Proceeds from the shirt will go to the charity, along with other activities supporting them through out October.

It is being rumoured that Nike are reducing the number of “Elite” clubs in their roster from next season, with Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur being two of just six European Clubs in this bracket of support from the US Supplier, more details can be found here (via our friends at Footy Headlines).

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Premier League: Matchweek 18, Kit Review

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The Premier League is rapidly closing in the half way point of the season, and these were the seventh round games of nine over a six week period, with the “Boxing Day” fixtures looking different this year being completed between Friday 26th December and Sunday 28th December 2025.

You can find last weekend’s report here

The Kit Overview for Premier League is below:

Matchweek 18 Fixtures

Total Kits Used

  • Kits Worn in Total – 88 (+2 Kit this Matchweek)
  • Goalkeeper Kits – 66 (+1 New Kits this Matchweek)

There were two new kit looks on show this weekend.

Newcastle United wore white socks with their Home Kit.

Fulham wore their Home shirt with alternative black shorts and socks.

There was one new Goalkeeper Kits used this weekend:

  • Sunderland – Black Goalkeeper Kit (Pink / Cyan Detailing)

Kit Highlights

Newcastle United have now worn 7 Kit looks this season, the joint highest in Premier League (with Aston Villa & Manchester United), wearing 2 Home, 3 Away and 2 3rd Kit Variations.

Fulham wore their 6th Kit Look of the season, this now includes Home Kit in all White / Black Combinations.

Tottenham Hotspur have worn their 3rd Kit for the last three Away Games in a row.

My favourite “Kit Match Up” of the Matchweek was the game between Chelsea and Aston Villa, Villa in alternative claret socks gave this match up a nice overall balance.

Kit Stats

Overall we have seen 14 Home Kits, 3 Away and 3 Third Kits in action.

There were four Kit variations used in this Matchweek.

  • Newcastle United – Home, with alternative white socks
  • Everton – Away, with alternative navy socks, 2nd time used
  • Fulham – Home, with alternative black shorts & socks
  • Aston Villa – Home, with claret socks, 2nd time used

Kit Grid – Up to 28th December

Kit News

There was no significant Premier League Kit News this week.

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Premier League: Matchweek 11, Kit Review

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The Premier League has now reached the final International Break of 2025, with the 11th round of fixtures completed between Saturday 8th November and Sunday 9th November 2025.

You can find last week’s report here

The Kit Overview for Premier League is below:

Matchweek 11 Fixtures

Total Kits Used

  • Kits Worn in Total – 72 (+3 Kit this Matchweek)
  • Goalkeeper Kits – 63 (+1 Kits this Matchweek)

New Kits this Matchweek

There were two new kit looks on show this weekend.

Fulham wore alternative black shorts with their Home Kit.

Burnley wore their Away Kit with Home socks for an all Sky Blue look.

Newcastle United 3rd Kit with alternative orange shorts and socks.

There was one new Goalkeeper Kits used this weekend:

  • Manchester United – Green Adidas Template

Kit Highlights

Fulham wore their 3rd different Home Kit look of the season (4th overall), with alternative black shorts at Everton.. they have worn their default (All White) look six times and with alternative black socks once.

Burnley’s Green Goalkeeper kit becomes the first kit to be worn 10 times this season, having been worn in 10 of the 11 opening games of the season. Overall Burnley worn their 4th Kit of the season this weekend, having worn a mash up of Away with Home Socks.

Crystal Palace and Sunderland both remain undefeated in their Home Kits this season so far, with Sunderland wearing their Home look in 7 games (4 wins / 3 draws) and Crystal Palace in 6 games (2 wins / 4 draws) – Arsenal are also unbeaten in their Home Kit but did not wear it this weekend.

My favourite “Kit Match Up” of the Matchweek was the game between Sunderland and Arsenal, the Arsenal Away with it’s red trim give a nice overall balance to the kit looks on show.

Kit Stats

Overall we have seen 14 Home Kits, 3 Away and 3 Third Kit in action.

There were three Kit variations used in this Matchweek.

  • Fulham – Home, with alternative Black Shorts
  • Burnley – Away with Home socks
  • Newcastle United – 3rd, with alternative orange shorts & socks

Kit Grid – Up to 9th November

Kit News

For Remembrance Day 2025 Sunderland will use a bespoke warm-up shirt that pays tribute and proceeds from each shirt sold will be donated to each of three partner charities

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Premier League: 2024 / 25, My Favourite Kit Observation by Team

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If you are reading this then I am sure you have already seen my End of Season Kit Report for 2024 / 25 Premier League and taken the all the details here around Kit Usage this season and many of you will know about the Kit Stats that I share on my Socials through out the season.

I wanted to build on that and spend a little time with each of the 20 Teams and call out my favourite Kit Stat, Kit Tale, Story or general call out all the teams, although there are some teams with plenty to discuss regarding their kits, this will be my favourite observation per team.

Arsenal

7 Goalkeeper kits were worn by Arsenal, including the only “Mash Up” Goalkeeper Kit of the season, using the Yellow and Black versions of the Adidas Template to produce this wonderful look!

Aston Villa

The most kit variations used by a single team with 13 Kits in total but only 3 of these were worn more than once… Home Kit (Default Look) 23 times, Away with Home Shorts (All White) 3 times and Home with alternative claret shorts / socks was worn twice.

AFC Bournemouth

Alternative red socks worn at Manchester City in their final Away game of the season, this was the Club’s only variation look of their Home Kit this season.

Brentford

Brentford wore just one alternative variation from their three Kits this season and that was the appearance of Claret Socks at West Ham United. Initially it was believed that visitors had used a pair of change socks from their hosts but closer inspection shows that these were standard Umbro Teamwear socks, not from West Ham Kit room…!

Brighton & Hove Albion

Brighton & Hove Albion scored the most points in a change kit in the Premier League this season, having scored 19 points in their Away Kit (worn in 14 games).

Chelsea

Chelsea only used their 3rd Kit once in the Premier League this season, worn at Brighton & Hove Albion. In fact this Kit was only worn twice domestically this season, both games against Brighton and within the same week (8th February, FA Cup and 14th February, Premier League).

Crystal Palace

Only variation of kit used by the club this season was in FA Cup Final, with their Home Kit paired with alternative white socks.

Everton

Everton wore their Away Kit in just four game this season but they did that using three different looks, with alternative yellow short and socks used.

Fulham

Fulham were another team that used a change kit just four time, this being their 3rd Kit, which they used twice with alternative white socks (although they do not appear to be Home socks as not carrying the FFC above the Adidas logo).

Ipswich Town

Ipswich Town’s Home was the single most worn outfield kit look this season, being worn 30 times in total.

Leicester City

Leicester City used alternative navy socks with 3rd Kit at Chelsea, a look that worked really well and my favourite for The Foxes this season.

Liverpool

Liverpool used the Nike Goalkeeper template in four different colours, the only Nike supplied team to do so (five if you included the green kit which they also wore with and without the inverted Nike Swoosh logo)!

Manchester City

Another team to wear four Goalkeeper kits was Manchester City, their fourth kit was one that partially created via AI with design input from Ederson, Stefan Ortega, and Rico Lewis, this was part of the promotional advertising for a competition for fans to design their 3rd Kit for 2026 / 27 season!

Manchester United

Manchester United were one of three teams to hit double figures for their Kit Variations this season, each of their three kits used light coloured short variations (White – Home, Light Grey – Away, Off White – 3rd).

Newcastle United

Newcastle United were one of the teams with double digit Kit Variations, wearing 10 Kit looks in total including all possible combinations of their Away Kit with its default and alternative shorts / socks.

Nottingham Forest

Most points scored in 3rd Kit, 16 Points in the 10 games (and 4 Variations) worn.

Southampton

Wore change kits in 18 of the 19 Away games, wearing their Away Kit in 15 Games and 3rd Kit in 3 Games, their 3rd Kit was worn with alternative white shorts in all games rather than the default pink shorts.

Tottenham Hotspur

Tottenham Hotspur had two kit variations used this season, one with Home and one with Away but both used the same pair of alternative Navy Socks.

West Ham United

West Ham wore their Home socks with each of their 3 kits, as default with their Home Kit 22 times, twice with their Away Kit and 4 times with their 3rd Kit.

Wolverhampton Wanderers

Wolves spent the final half of the season in their Home Kit, wearing it in the final 19 games. The last time they wore a change kit was 29th December and in total wore a change it just once in 24 games in six months, wearing alternative Old Gold Shorts on the road in the second half of the season in all but 1 game!

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Premier League: Matchweek 30 Kit Review

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The Premier League returns after the International Break and the weekend’s FA Cup Quarter-Finals and we are now in the final stages of the season with Matchweek 30.

Much like we have seen over the past few weeks these were the reverse fixtures from two different Matchweeks, with seven games from Matchweek 15 and three games from Matchweek 19

You can find last week’s report here

The Kit Overview for Premier League is below.

Matchweek 30 Fixtures

Total Kits Used

  • Kits Worn in Total – 101 (+3 New Kits this Matchweek)
  • Goalkeeper Kits – 70 (No New Kit this Matchweek)

New Kits this Matchweek

There were three new kits on show this Matchweek.

Fulham wore their 3rd Kit in it’s default look (with purple socks) for the first time.

Manchester United wore their Away kit with alternative gray socks.

Leicester City in Home Kit with 3rd socks.

Kit Highlights

On Tuesday 1st April, with Fulham and Manchester United both wearing new kit looks, this meant that we reached 100 Kits for this Premier League Season, this was completed in 292 Games.

Manchester United’s Away Kit look, was their 9th Kit Variation of the season, joint 2nd highest in the league this season so far.. they have now worn, four Home Kit looks, two Away Kit and three 3rd Kit looks, it was also their 2nd new look in their last two Premier League Games.

4 in 4… Both Aston Villa and Leicester City have now worn four different Kit Looks in their last four game, Aston Villa with Home, and variations of Away, 3rd and Home Kits being worn and Leicester in Away, a 3rd Kit look with alternative socks, Home Kit, and this week’s Home Kit with 3rd Kit socks.

Crystal Palace wore their 3rd Kit for just the second time this season in the Premier League.

Wolverhampton Wanderers have now worn their Home Kit for 11 games in a row, they have worn alternative Old Gold Shorts in 5 of those games but not used a change kit since Matchweek 19, back on 29th December!

My favourite Kit Match Up of this Matchweek was the game between Brighton & Hove Albion and Aston Villa, seeing Villa in this Adidas Kit in “All” Claret is wonderful thing, so this makes this a great kit match up!

Kit Stats

Overall we have seen 16 Home Kits, 2 Away Kits and 2 3rd Kits

There were three Kit Variations used this Matchweek

  • Manchester United – Away with alternative gray socks
  • Leicester City – Home with 3rd socks
  • Tottenham Hotspur – Home with alternative navy socks, 2nd time used

Kit Grid – Up to 4th April

Kit News

It is being reported that Brentford will be moving from Umbro, with a new deal with Joma starting from the summer, no official announcement as yet but it looks like the successful relationship between the two clubs is coming to an end.

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Premier League: Matchweek 13 Kit Review

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The Premier League Matchweek 13 is completed, a third of the way through the season and the return of Friday Night Football for just the 3rd time this season, let’s take a deeper look into the kits worn this weekend.

You can find last week’s report here

The current Kit Overview for Premier League is below.

Matchweek 13 Fixtures

Total Kits Used

  • Kits Worn in Total – 69 (+2 Kits this Matchweek)
  • Goalkeeper Kits – 60 (+1 Kits this Matchweek)

New Kits this Matchweek

There were two new Kit looks this Matchweek..

Southampton wore their 3rd kit for the first time in the Premier League this season, having worn it in the Carabao Cup in the same look with alternative white shorts.

Aston Villa wore their Away shirt with Home shorts and socks for another away kit look for them this season!

The one new goalkeeper kit on show:

  • Crystal Palace – Fluro Yellow

Kit Highlights

Aston Villa are fast becoming my favourite team on the road this season, wearing the 4th different variation of their Away Kit this season, only wearing it look the one time. They are using the home kit to mash up their looks, we still have yet to see their 3rd kit used in the Premier League.

My favourite Kit Match Up of the weekend was the game between Tottenham Hotspur and Fulham, the Fulham away this season is a great look and worked well match up at Tottenham!

Kit Stats

Overall we have seen 15 Home Kits, 3 Away Kit and 2 3rd Kits

There were three variations seen this weekend

  • Southampton – 3rd with alternative white shorts
  • Aston Villa – Away with home shorts & socks
  • Everton – All Blue, 2nd time used this season

Kit Grid – Up to 1st December

Kit News

There was no significant Premier League Kit News this weekend and will be back on Friday after the first round of mid-week fixtures of this season!

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Premier League: Matchweek 31 Kit Review

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Matchweek 31 was the third round of Midweek Fixtures this season (outside of Christmas Period) with all teams being in action over three days. This round of fixtures being the reverse games of Matchweek 15 back in December, which was also a Midweek Round of fixtures.

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

The current Kit Overview for Premier League is below, we now have confirmation that Luton Town’s 3rd kit is paired with navy (same as Home Kit) shorts.

Matchweek 31 Fixtures

Total Kits Used

  • Kits Worn in Total – 105 (+2 from Matchweek 30)
  • Goalkeeper Kits – 58 (No change from Matchweek 30)

New Kits this Matchweek

There were two new kit look in these midweek fixtures…

Everton were in their Home Kit with alternative blue socks for the first time this season, a classic Everton look of Blue / White / Blue.

Luton Town used their 3rd Kit in it’s default look of all navy for the first time, their 2nd new look in 2 games!

Kit Highlights

Everton using a new kit variation for their home kit meant that is five different kit looks in the last five games.. and six in last seven!

Fulham have worn four kits in the last four games, with two different home and 3rd Kit looks!

Another team with four kits in four games is Luton Town with the use of the default All Navy 3rd Kit for the first time, this also means that Luton have used nine kits in total this season so far, the 2nd Highest in the Premier League!

My favourite Kit Match Up of this weekend was the game between Brentford and Brighton & Hove Albion, the use of alternative white shorts and socks gives a nice overall balance to the Kit Look, two nice kits!

Kit Stats

Overall we have seen 16 Home Kits, 3 Away Kits and 1 3rd Kit in action for these games.

There was there were four Kit Variations on show…

  • Everton in Home Kit with alternative blue socks
  • Fulham, in Home Kit with alternative white socks, the 6th time this look has been used this season
  • Brighton & Hove Albion in their Away Kit with white shorts and socks, the 3rd time used
  • Aston Villa in Home Kit with claret shorts and socks, also the 3rd time used

Kit Grid – Up to 5th April 2024

Kit News

As well has having a new kit provider in Adidas, Aston Villa have reportedly signed a new front of shirt sponsorship deal with Betano a Greek Betting Company, with a new crest also in the pipeline it will be a completey new look for The Villians next season!

Newcastle United look like they will be wearing a special one off kit in their game against Tottenham Hotspur on 13th April, as well has having a charity sponsor for the game it is reported that The Magpies will wear a kit “unique from any other in club’s history“… one to keep an eye on in the next week!

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Premier League – Matchweek 29

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Premier League: Matchweek 30 Kit Review

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Premier League Returns after The Internationl Break with Matchweek 30, there was 8 games on 30th March the joint most games in one single day so far this season. This round of fixtures being the reverse games of Matchweek 8 back in October.

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

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

Matchweek 30 Fixtures

Total Kits Used

  • Kits Worn in Total – 103 (+3 from Matchweek 29)
  • Goalkeeper Kits – 58 (No change from Matchweek 29)

New Kits this Matchweek

Even as we reach Matchweek 30 we are seeing new Kit Looks used by teams, this week there were three new kit variations used…

West Ham United used alternative sky blue shorts with their Home for the first time this season to give us a classic Hammers look, these are also the same shorts that we have seen used with the Away Kit as an alternative this season, this is the 5th kit variation used this season by West Ham.

Fulham used their 3rd Kit with alternative pink shorts and socks to give us a nice looking kit against Sheffield United, the 5th kit look used by them this season.

Luton Town used their 8th Kit Variation of the season, another “mash up” on show, using the 3rd shirt with Home shorts and socks for a nice Navy / Navy / Orange look!

Kit Highlights

Although I do not include this as a variation of kit, as the actual kit remains the same Tottenham Hotspur used a charity sponsor in their game against Luton Town, the shirt sponsorship was in support for Philippines-based breast cancer charity “I Can Serve” and supported by regular sponsor AIA.

Everton made it four kits in four games when they used their 3rd Kit at AFC Bournemouth, it is also 5 Kits in 6 games which are all the of the Kit Variations The Toffees have used this season so far!

My favourite Kit Match Up of this weekend was the game between Newcastle United and West Ham United, the balance between the two kits works well, classic looking and timeless in their appearence, this really worked well for me!

Kit Stats

Overall we have seen 14 Home Kits, 3 Away Kits and 3 3rd Kits in action for these games.

There was there was four Kit Variations on show… three we were new kit looks above.

  • West Ham United, Home with alternative Sky Blue Shorts
  • Fulham, 3rd with alternative pink shorts and socks
  • Luton Town, 3rd with Home Shorts and socks
  • Manchester United in Away with alternative white shorts and socks, 2nd time used

Kit Grid – Up to 30th March 2024

Kit News

The big Premier League Kit News during the International Break was that Castore have purchased the Umbro Brand in the UK, now what does that mean? This is the statement regarding the purchase…

We are thrilled to announce that today, we have completed a deal with Umbro licensee, GL Dameck to sign an exclusive Umbro Professional Team Sports sub-license. This sub-licence allows us to market the Umbro brand in the UK, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, and Denmark.

Following a £145 million investment round in November 2023, we will continue to innovate in the elite sports market with this Umbro Pro Team licence marking its emergence as a multi-brand business.

As a brand with a rich history at the heart of sport and a deep and storied life in elite football, having created some of the most iconic strips of all time, Umbro has an exceptional legacy. Our digital expertise and highly agile global supply chain provides a model that has allowed us to disrupt the traditional dominance of Nike and adidas. The ability to now market and supply the Umbro brand for team sports will elevate both Umbro and Castore to new levels.

The agreement also signifies our first step towards a brand segmentation strategy, enabling us to take a significant position in the UK & European elite sports markets. 

Since our inception, we have rapidly grown to partner with over 50 leading sports teams worldwide through its digital first business model. We will now apply this digital expertise to the marketing of Umbro’s exceptional brand heritage and authenticity and further expand the Umbro partnership portfolio, with fans remaining at the core of its strategy.

From the start of the 2024/25 season we will have the exclusive right to seek to work with Umbro’s existing English Premier League team partnerships, including: AFC Bournemouth, Brentford, Luton Town and West Ham, as well as English Football League Clubs Ipswich Town, Huddersfield Town and Forest Green Rovers.

We will also supply, under the Umbro brand, to Heart of Midlothian in the Scottish Premiership, where Castore is already the global kit partner for Glasgow Rangers FC, and England Rugby men’s and women’s teams at a time of heightened interest in the sport during the Guinness Six Nations.

To me, this appears that the Umbro Brand will still exist but be produced by Castore, does that mean Castore will stop as a Kit Manufacturer, we will have to wait and see!

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Premier League – Matchweek 27

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Premier League: Matchweek 28 Kit Review

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Matchweek 28 is now completed, time to take a deeper look into the kits of the weekend with this round of fixtures being the reverse games of Matchweek 13

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

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

Matchweek 27 Fixtures

Total Kits Used

  • Kits Worn in Total – 100 (No change from Matchweek 27)
  • Goalkeeper Kits – 58 (No change from Matchweek 27)

New Kits this Matchweek

There were no new kits on show this weekend, the first time since Matchweek 17, and only the second Matchweek of the season where we have not seen any new outfield, however this is the first time we have seen no new outfield or Goalkeeper kits in a single Matchweek.

Kit Highlights

Luton Town wore their default Away Kit look for just the 2nd time this season at Crystal Palace, they have worn the away shirt in various kit mash ups for 8 times in total but this look was used for the first time since it debuted against Manchester United in Matchweek 12.

Fulham wore their 3rd Kit at Wolverhampton Wanderers, this was their first outing in this kit since Matchweek 9, which was 19 games ago!

My favourite Kit Match Up of this weekend was the game between Arsenal and Brentford, with the visitors in the 3rd kit with alternative navy socks giving a nice overall balance to the Kits on show at The Emirates Stadium, this also means that both fixtures between these clubs have been my Kit Match Up of the week.

Kit Stats

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

There was there three Kit Variations on show this week.

  • Everton were in Home Kit, with alternative blue shorts and socks, the 3rd time they have been in all blue
  • Brentford in their 3rd Kit with alternative Navy Socks, the 2nd time this has been used
  • Newcastle United in Home kit with black socks, for the 5th time this season

Kit Grid – Up to 11th March 2024

Kit News

Everton has released a special Pre-Match Shirt which is in celebration of Club Captain Seamus Coleman 15 Years at the Club, the shirt uses Coleman’s shirt number of 23 to make up shamrock pattern’s to honour the Irishman.

Some European Kit New with Aston Villa, who had a slight change to their Kit Look in their Europa Conference Last 16 Game at Ajax on Thursday 7th March. Due to a change in Dutch Advertising regulatation last summer which impacted Betting Sponsorship, this meant a return to the front of the shirt for Acorns, a local children’s hospice charity that we have previously seen as headline shirt sponsor between 2008 and 2010.

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Premier League – Matchweek 23

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Premier League: Matchweek 26 Kit Review

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The first domestic cup of the season has been completed this weekend, with Liverpool lifting the Carabao Cup against Chelsea at Wembley on Sunday 25th February, due to this game it meant this is a slightly different look to the fixtures, with Liverpool playing Luton Town on Wednesday 21st February and the game between Cheslea and Tottenham Hotspur has yet to be arranged so expect to see that game towards the latter weeks of the season. However we are now two thirds of the way through the season with this round of fixtures being the reverse games of Matchweek 11

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

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

Matchweek 26 Fixtures

Total Kits Used

  • Kits Worn in Total – 99 (+1 from Matchweek 25)
  • Goalkeeper Kits – 58 (No change from Matchweek 25)

New Kits this Matchweek

There was just the one new kit on show this weekend.

Nottingham Forest used their Away Kit against Aston Villa, the shirt was paired with alternative white shorts and socks… this is the 99th Kit worn in the Premier League this season!

Kit Highlights

Manchester United “sock watch” continues and I happy to report that the default home socks have been used for the 2nd Home game in a row, so it appears the issues with their socks have now been resolved!

Staying at Old Trafford, Fulham recorded their first victory of the season whilst not wearing their default Home Kit, so far this season they have worn their Home Kit with alternative white socks 5 times and both Away and 3rd kits twice, so this their first victory not in their default Home Kit with black shorts and socks.

Brentford continued their losing streak in their away kit this season, with 4 losses in its 4 appearences, as many of you will know this was also last season’s away and it did not fair much better there with 3 draws and 3 losses in it’s 6 uses… will this be the last time we see this kit in action?

My favourite Kit Match Up of this weekend was again a difficult one to choose with no real stand out fixture, I have gone for Wolverhampton Wanderers and Sheffield United, the use of The Blades alternative red shorts and socks is something I have enjoyed in its two appearences this season and paired with the Old Gold and Black of Wolves works well!

Kit Stats

Overall we have seen 11 Home Kits, 5 Away Kits and x 3rd Kits in action in this Matchweek (9 Games)

There was there six Kit Variations on show this week, the joint highest so far this season (and still one fixture to play which is also likely to have Tottenham in Home Kit Variation against Chelsea)

  • Luton Town, in Away Kit with Home shorts, the 2nd time this look has been used this season
  • Nottingham Forest in Away with alternative white shorts & socks
  • Everton in Away with alternative salmon shorts & socks, 2nd time this season
  • Fulham in Home with white socks, 5th time this look has been used
  • Newcastle United in Home with black socks, 4th time this season
  • Sheffield United in Home with alternative red shorts and socks for 2nd time

Kit Grid – Up to 26th February 2024

Kit News

There was no new Premier League related Kit News this week, watch this space for news in the coming weeks.

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