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Premier League: Matchweek 5, Kit Review

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Matchweek 5 is now completed with this weekend’s fixtures again being played over three days between Friday 18th September and Sunday 20th September and this will be the final round of fixtures before the extended International Break over the next two weeks.

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 5 Fixtures

Total Kits Used

  • Kits Worn in Total – 53 (6 New Kits this weekend)
  • Goalkeeper Kits – 53 (5 New Kits)

New Kits this Matchweek

New Outfield Kits:

  • Chelsea – Away
  • Aston Villa – Home wth claret (3rd) socks
  • Brighton & Hove Albion – 125th Anniversary Kit
  • Hull City – 3rd
  • Liverpool – Away
  • Manchester United – Away

New Goalkeeper Kits:

  • Arsenal – Grey Adidas Template
  • Brighton & Hove Albion – Black Nike Template
  • Coventry City – Green Hummel Template
  • Hull City – Orange
  • Manchester United – Pink Adidas Trefoil Template

Kit Highlights

Brighton & Hove Albion wore a special kit this weekend to celebrate their 125th Anniversary, inspired by the kit they first wore in 1901. The Kit was originally launched in May 2026, and has tonal detailing to give it that classic look. It’s yet to be confirmed if this is the only time we will see this kit this season.

Three teams wore change kits for the first time this weekend, Chelsea, Liverpool and Hull City.

Chelsea have worn an alternative Home Kit look in the opening game of the season, however this was the first time they moved away from their blue shirts, Liverpool wore their Away Kit in it’s default look with red shorts and Hull City wore their 3rd Kit after launching it last week.

There have been 3 teams that have now worn 4 different Kit looks in their opening 5 games, Aston Villa, Brighton & Hove Albion and Manchester United.

Brighton have worn, Home, Away (with Home Socks), 3rd and 125th Anniversary Kit

Manchester United have worn Home, Home with white socks, 3rd and debuted their Away in Premier League this weekend.

Aston Villa have worn, Home, Away with white shorts & socks, 3rd with white socks and Home with Claret socks at Tottenham Hotspur this weekend.

Arsenal wore their 4th different Goalkeeper Kit of the season, wearing the Grey Adidas Template for the first time, this is registered as their first choice Goalkeeper ths season.

My favourite “Kit Match Up” of the Matchweek was the game between Newcastle United and Hull City, the Newcastle home kit is one of my favourite kits for the season and paired up with Hull’s 3rd kit (in its debut) was as nice match up!

Kit Stats

Overall we have seen 13 Home Kits, 4 Away, 2 Third Kits and 1 Special Kit in action.

There were two Kit Variations used in this Matchweek

  • Aston Villa – Home with alternative claret socks
  • Ipswich Town – Away with alternative “ecru” socks, 2nd time used

Kit Grid – Up to 20th September

Kit News

AFC Bournemouth have launched a dedicated European Kit to celebrate their first ever venture in European competitions, they received a lot of critism for their sponsor size / colour for their domestic home kit, something the club have addressed and made a commitment to improve next season, click here for more details.

This kit was likely already in production after these complaints so no changes could be made!

We now have a bit of break, with International Football taking centre stage for the next two weeks and Premier League Returns on weekend of 10th October 2026, but stay tuned for new articles during this time.

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Premier League: Matchweek 4, Kit Review

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Matchweek 4 is now completed with this weekend’s fixtures again being played over three days between Saturday 12th September and Monday 14th September, with European Fixtures and Carabao games coming before and after this round of games, the season is well and truly in full swing now.

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 4 Fixtures

Total Kits Used

  • Kits Worn in Total – 47 (6 New Kits this weekend)
  • Goalkeeper Kits – 48 (8 New Kits)

New Kits this Matchweek

New Outfield Kits:

  • Nottingham Forest – 3rd (Default look)
  • Brentford – 3rd
  • Everton – 3rd
  • Arsenal – 3rd with alternative yellow socks
  • Brighton & Hove Albion – 3rd
  • Newcastle United – Away (Default look)

New Goalkeeper Kits:

  • Arsenal – Blue Adidas Template
  • Aston Villa – Yellow Adidas Template
  • Chelsea – Green Nike Template
  • Everton – Blue
  • Fulham – Blue Adidas Template
  • Hull City – Pink
  • Sunderland – Orange
  • Newcastle United – Pink Adidas Trefoil Template

Kit Highlights

9 Teams have worn 3 different kits in their opening 4 games – Arsenal, Aston Villa, Brentford, Brighton & Hove Albion, Everton, Manchester United, Newcastle United, Nottingham Forest, Sunderland.

With 5 of these using Home, Away and 3rd Kits (AVL, BRE, BHA, EVE, SUN).

Hull Cuty and Liverpool remain the only teams to wear just their Home Kit so far this season.

All teams have worn at least 2 Goalkeeper Kits, with teams in 3 Keeper looks in the 4 games so far (ARS, AVL, BOU, CHE, EVE, LIV, MCI, NEW).

Nottingham Forest wore their 3rd Kit in its default look with navy short and socks for the first time.

Brighton & Hove Albion wore their 3rd Kit for the first time, this is the first “new” 3rd Kit they have for 10 years, in this time they always used the previous seasons Away Kit as their 3rd Kit.

Arsenal wore their 3rd kit for the 2nd time (both of their away games so far), this time with alternative yellow socks.

Hull City broke their run of wearing the same kits (both outfield and goalkeeper) in all games when their goalkeeper wore an alternative kit for the first time this season, the pink kit was worn against Chelsea.

My favourite “Kit Match Up” of the Matchweek was the game between Coventry City and Brighton & Hove Albion, Brighton debuted their 3rd for this season, and the match up with the wonderful Coventry kit worked well.

Kit Stats

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

There was just one Kit variation used in this Matchweek

  • Arsenal – 3rd with alternative yellow socks

Kit Grid – Up to 15th September

Kit News

Hull City launched their 3rd Kit for this season, with a look that is inspired by 1930s, including a club crest from this time. If you want a more indepth look at this kit, then check out our friend Les from @HullCityKits who provides all the details you need about this kit here. The kit was debuted in Carabao Cup game at Sunderland on 8th September.

Chelsea completed their Kit Set with their much anticipated 3rd Kit, based on the change kit from the 90s and includes the retro style club crest.

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Premier League: Matchweek 2, Kit Review

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Matchweek 2 is now completed, with all teams now playing Home and Away, with this weekend’s fixtures again being played over four days between Friday 28th August and Monday 31st August.

The current Kit Overview for Premier League is below:

We have 57 out of 60 Kits released so far… with just 3 Teams left to officially release their final Kits!

Matchweek 2 Fixtures

Total Kits Used

  • Kits Worn in Total – 35 (15 New Kits this weekend)
  • Goalkeeper Kits – 37 (17 New Kits)

New Kits this Matchweek

As this was the second week of the season, there were plenty of new kits on view…

  • Manchester City – Away
  • Nottingham Forest – 3rd with alternative white shorts & socks
  • Everton – Away
  • Tottenham Hotspur – Home
  • Newcastle United – Away with alternative white shorts
  • Chelsea – Home
  • Brighton & Hove Albion – Away with Home Socks
  • Leeds United – Home
  • Brentford – Away
  • Sunderland – Home
  • Fulham – 3rd
  • Manchester United – Home
  • Ipswich Town – Away with alterntive ecru socks
  • Aston Villa – Home
  • Arsenal – 3rd

Kit Highlights

Five teams wore the same kit for Matchweek 2 as the opening fixtures of the season, AFC Bournemouth, Coventry City, Crystal Palace, Hull City and Liverpool, with Coventry City and Hull City playing each other.

There were even less Goalkeeper Kits seen over both weekend, with just Fulham, Hull City and Sunderland wearing the same keeper kit, this means Hull City are the only team to wear the same kits (outfield and goalkeeper) over the opening two games.

Brighton & Hove Albion gave us the first of what could be a number of mash ups this season with their Home and Away kits, wearing Away Kit with Home socks for a white / white / blue kit variation.

One thing we wanted to keep an eye on was the Liverpool goalkeeper sock situation, last week using white socks (alternative 3rd kit socks), this weekend’s Home game against Nottingham Forest saw a return to the standard emerald green socks.

My favourite “Kit Match Up” of the Matchweek was the game between Tottenham Hotspur and Newcastle United, the Newcastle United Away kit is a nice look this season, and worn with alternative white shorts gave us a nice white v navy balanced match up!

Kit Stats

Overall we have seen 12 Home Kits, 6 Away and 2 Third Kit in action.

There was four Kit variations used in this Matchweek

  • Nottingham Forest – 3rd with alternative white shorts & socks
  • Newcastle United – Away with alternative white shorts
  • Brighton & Hove Albion – Away with (blue) Home socks
  • Ipswich Town – Away with alternative “ecru” socks

Kit Grid – Up to 31st August

Kit News

There were four new Kit releases this week, with Everton, Liverpool, Manchester City and Nottingham Forest all launching their 3rd Kts for this season!

Chelsea have started each of the last three seasons with no front of shirt sponsorship before ending the season in the final weeks with different sponsors, this season it’ll be just one week with no sponsor as they annouce US Crypto Company Circle Internet Group, Inc as their primary sponsor this season. Nice to see the sponsor in yellow to match the detailing in their Home Shirt.

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EFL, The Championship 2025/26: End of Season Kit Report

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The 2025 / 26 The Championship Season came to a close on Saturday 2nd May 2025, with Coventry City securing the title with two games still to be played, the 2nd Automatic Promotion place went to Ipswich Town on the final day of the season with Ipswich Town, Millwall and Middlesbrough all able to get automatic promotion on the final day, with Southampton and Hull City completing the Playoffs with Millwall and Middlesbrough for the final promotion place.

I am taking my annual in depth look at the kits worn during the league stage of the season (not including Play Offs).

Overview of Kits Worn

Kit Stats

  • 1104 Kits worn (552 Games)
  • 96 Different Kit variations used by the 24 teams.
  • Home Kits – 29% of Kit variations used
    • 28 Home Kits worn in total 
    • 4 Home Kit variations worn
  • Away Kits – 36% of variations used
    • 34 Away Kits worn in total
    • 10 Away Kit variations worn
  • 3rd Kits – 32% of variations worn
    • 31 3rd Kits worn in total
    • 7 3rd Kit variations worn
  • Special Kits – 3% of variations worn
    • 3 Special Kits worn in total

Kit Log – Match 1 to Match 23

Kit Log – Match 24 to Match 46

Kit Variations

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

  • 3 Teams wore 6 Kit Variations
    • Preston North End: Home, Away x3, 3rd x2
    • Sheffield Wednesday: Home, Away x3, 3rd x2
    • Southampton: Home x2, Away, 3rd x3
  • 3 Teams in 5 Kit Variations
    • Coventry City: Home, Away x2, 3rd, 4th
    • Hull City: Home x2, Away x2, 3rd
    • Sheffield United: Home x2, Away x2, 3rd
  • 9 Teams wore 4 Kit Variations
    • Blackburn Rovers: Home, Away, 3rd, 150th Anniversary Kit
    • Bristol City: Home, Away, 3rd x2
    • Derby County: Home, Away x2, 3rd
    • Ipswich Town: Home, Away x2, 3rd
    • Leicester City: Home, Away, 3rd x2
    • Millwall: Home, Away, 3rd x2
    • Queen’s Park Rangers: Home, Away x2, 3rd
    • Stoke City: Home x2, Away, 3rd
    • Watford: Home, Away, 3rd, Elton John Special Kit
  • 9 Teams wore 3 Kit Variations (Home, Away, 3rd Kits)
  • Most Variations of Home Kit – 2 Kits
    • Hull City: Default & All Amber (Away shorts)
    • Sheffield United:Default & Home / Away socks
    • Southampton: Default & Home / 3rd Shorts
    • Stoke City: Default & Home / 3rd Shorts
  • Most Variations of Away Kit – 3 Kits
    • Preston North End:
      • Default
      • Away / 3rd shorts
      • Away / 3rd shorts & socks
    • Sheffield Wednesday
      • Default
      • Away / Black shorts
      • Away / Black shorts & 3rd socks
  • Most Variations of 3rd Kit – 3 Kits
    • Southampton
      • Default
      • Away / Black shorts (Home)
      • Away / Black shorts & White socks (Home)
  • 10 Teams only used Kits with no variations
  • Most worn Home Kit – 40, Norwich City
  • Most worn Away Kit – 17, Blackburn Rovers
  • Most worn 3rd Kit – 9, Derby County

Something that I like to shaare which is an overview of when each of the new kit looks were first worn, for example… Blackburn Rovers wore their Away Kit, Home Kit and then 3rd Kit in their first three games

Match 1 to Match 23

Match 24 to Match 46

Kit Grid

Below is a graphic of what kits where worn against what teams, its one that I share on a weekly basis on my Socials.

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Kit Highlights and Summary

In 2025 / 26 Championship season teams wore 96 Kits, this was an increase on the number kits compared to last season where 95 Kits were worn, this was the highest in the EFL.

The single most worn Kit in the League was Norwich City’s Home Kit, which was worn 40 times, no surprise to tell you that this is the 3rd Season in a row that Norwich City have topped this list, an increase from last season by 1 game but 1 game less the 41 times worn in 23 / 24 Season. They also wore their Home Kit in their opening 16 games of the season, which was the longest “Kit Streak” in The Championship

There was just four Home Variations used in The Championship, a huge reduction from the ten used last season.. the four were from Hull City (worn 4 times), Sheffield United (worn twice), Southampton and Stoke City (both worn just once).

“Kit Mash Ups” was a theme across the EFL, with 13 Clubs using mash up looks (using elements from different kits to create a kit look).

Hull City were a club that used their Home and Away Kits well to create different Kit Looks, with four of their five Kit Variations worn this season being made up of Home / Away Kit Elements, this was well used as it maintains the traditional club colours. They also used all five of their kit looks this season in a span of six games (between their 24th and 29th games).

Preston North End were another team to use their kits well for seamless mash ups, however it was with their Away and 3rd Kits they created these five different looks from the two kits, with three different Away and two different 3rd variations, and of course with their Home Kit making them joint highest for Kit Variations.

Southampton were another team with six Kit Variations in total and also used two kits to make up the majority of these looks, for The Saints it was Home and 3rd Kits that were paired together to create five different looks, two Home Kit and three 3rd Kits.

Sheffield Wednesday were the final of the three clubs with six different Kit Variations, this interesting kit usage here was the use the black shorts, from last season’s 3rd Kit. These shorts wore worn with both Away and 3rd Kits this season and made up three of the six overall Kits worn by The Owls.

There were plenty of examples of socks being changed to avoid a kit clash, with some working better than others! Teams playing at Portsmouth and West Bromwich Albion making the majority of these reasons for changing.

Watford’s “3rd Kit” was an interesting Kit Tale of the season, initally launched in September as a celebration of their Former Chairman, Honary Life President and lifelong Fan Elton John, the kit included details to celebrate the flamboyant Star. The Kit was worn at Home against Blackburn Rovers on 13th September

and was then worn a further eight times with Kelme branding taking the place the “E” branding!

Another “Special” Kit worn this season was the 150th Anniversary Kit worn by Blackburn Rovers, which was inspired by the club’s first-ever kit, and was worn against Wrexham on 1st January 2026.

Champions Coventry City ended the season wearing a version of their classic brown Admiral Kit of the 70s. It was released a few months before the end of the season, so it is not clear whether it was always planned to be worn or seen as a celebration of the League trimuph, the actual kit is the same template as they worn as their Home Kit in 2022 / 23 season.

There we have it, The Championship’s End of Season Kit report for 2024 / 25, please let me know your favourite kit highlights from this division on the comments below or over on my Socials.

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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

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