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The Heat Press ’25: Kit Round Up, 27th June

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It’s back…..!

As we approach the end of June, teams are now starting to kick off their pre-season training and of the course the Club World Cup is still in full swing with the completion of the group stages, I thought it was time to dust off The Heat Press and take a look at some new kits….

To pass these summer weeks I will take a weekly (or maybe more) look at the Kits launched across the English Leagues and beyond, the discussion points and anything else Kit Related that comes up. I will only share those kits that have been officially released, as there are plenty of leaks that do the rounds but we will keep this official.

You will also find my Kit Overview illustrations for each of the four divisions.

Premier League – 11 / 60 Kits

New Kits:

Everton, Home: The first kit to be worn at The Hill Dickinson Stadium, which takes inspiration from the new stadium’s location on the banks of the River Mersey and shows a ‘wave’ that flows throughout the shirt. Blue socks will also return as first choice colour, the first time since 2014 / 15 season, although they were navy blue, this is time royal blue socks will be used in the kit’s default look since 2012 / 13.

Tottenham Hotspur, Away: Tottenham Hotspur have followed up their Home Kit, by launching their Away Kit, this is all black kit with a subtle checked pattern within both the shirt and shorts, the kit is being labeled as “In Darkness we Dare” which is a spin on the club’s motto “To do is to dare”. The first team in Premier League to launch Home and Away kits.

Wolverhampton Wanderers, Home: The second season with Sudu as manufacturer and it’s another classic looking Wolves kit, simple but effective, I like that they keep the Home Kits simple and it works well in my eyes, nice collar too and detailing within the shirt.

Championship – 6 / 72 Kits

New Kits:

Preston North End, Away: A fairly standard offering from Castore in terms of the Home Kit, some nice details within the shirt which take inspiration from Deepdale. The talking point here is the sponsor, Spud Bros… but from my point of view, they are local company supporting their local team, so fair play to them, much more appealing than a betting company, so a win from this Kit Geek.

Millwall, Home: If you follow me on Social Media you will know that I’m a Millwall fan, so been waiting for this one, last season’s Home Kit was wonderful, one of my favourite Millwall kits of all time, so any kit this season will have some big shoes to fill in my eyes…! And they have delivered, a simple and clean look, something classical about this shirt with it’s central placement of logos, one happy Millwall Fan here.

West Bromwich Albion, Home: Macron 2nd season with WBA, an interesting collar and some additional detailing in the socks, which also contain a single stripe.

League One – 14 / 72 Kits

New Kits:

Bradford City, Away: Bradford City launched their new Away Kit at the end of last week, and its light, almost metallic all blue look on the road this season, paired with a Pink 3rd Kit which was released at the end of last season! This kit also carries “UK City of Culture” detail on this shirt.

Northampton Town, 3rd Kit: Its the 3rd Kit first up for Northampton Town and another almost metallic futuristic look in League One, with aqua green, gray kit and detailed with neon yellow… a nice look, that works well for me.

Cardiff City, Home: New Balance remains as Cardiff’s kit manufacturer for a 4th season, and this season will see the club play in pinstripes with white shorts and blue socks!

League Two – 18 / 72 Kits

New Kits:

Shrewsbury Town, Home: A nice looking kit, based on one worn by the club between 1983 and 1985. Some nice details within the shirt and the red trim is something that I particularly like and works for me. Oxen delivering some nice designs again.

Cambridge United, Away: Umbro and Cambridge United are a partnership that have consistently delivered and this season looks to continue that trend, with new Home Kit launched last week and the Away proving to be a classic look that will work perfectly as a change kit!

Cambridge United, 3rd: The full kit set is completed for Cambridge, with this black kit which is paired with gold shorts and black socks, a nice balance from Home Kit.

This week’s Kit News…..

Chelsea wore their 2025 / 26 Away Kit for the first time in the Club World Cup Group Game against ES Tunis. The Kit was worn with alternative socks, rather than the Green default socks.

It appears the Brentford x Joma deal is confirmed, with the launch of their training range this week.

Barnsley have confirmed they are moving away from Puma have signed a new Kit deal with Oxen, who now will supply at least three teams in League One this season and four in total in EFL.

Carlisle United who were relegated into National League last season, launched their new home kit and its another look to the past with Umbro, this time taking one of their classic Away kit looks but giving it a home kit spin as they look to bounce back to League Two this season!

You might wonder why the announcements of Liverpool’s new signings has been using last season’s Nike Kits, the new deal with Adidas does not start until 1st August, so all activity including pre-season friendlies in July will be in Nike playing and training kits.

Manchester City used their alternative shorts and socks with their Home Kit in the final World Club Cup Group game against Juventus, the navy shorts and socks give a really interesting look that I think works well with the navy details within the shirt, a look I hope we see in Premier League this season!

Let me know your thoughts in the comments below or over at my Socials…

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Premier League 2024 / 25: One Kit Wonders

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The 2024 / 25 Premier League season ended with total of 113 different kits used by the 20 teams, you can find details of all of those kits in my in depth End of Season Kit Review, however of those 113 kits there was 33 kit looks that only got one appearance, these are our “One Kit Wonders”!

Thirteen teams used a kit look just once and for those regular readers and followers, there is no guessing which team provided the most of these….. lets take a closer look at these kits!

Arsenal – 2 Kits

Kicking off with Arsenal, the two kits they used just the once were in games 36 and 37 of the season, wearing alternative white shorts / socks with their Away kit and then in their final home game of the season they wore they 25 / 26 Home Kit.

Aston Villa – 10 Kits

Aston Villa who wore 13 Kits in total make up over 30% of the “One Kit Wonders” this season, with 10 Kits they wore just the single time! They had two Home Kit looks worn once, three Away Kit looks including a look they wore on the opening day of the season (sky blue shorts / socks) and the default Away look (with sky blue shorts), each of the four combinations of 3rd Kit usage was used just once and finally they wore their 25 / 26 Away Kit (with alternative white socks) in their final game of the season.

AFC Bournemouth – 2 Kits

Bournemouth were another team that used two different kits twice both kits were worn on visits to the Manchester clubs, with alternative purple shorts worn with their Away Kit against United and in Bournemouth’s final Away game of the season they used alternative red socks with their Home Kit playing City.

Brentford – 1 Kit

One of my Kit oddities of the season was the the appearance of Claret Socks with Brentford’s Away Kit 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…!

Chelsea – 1 Kit

Chelsea are the only team in this list that wore a default kit look just once, their 3rd kit was only used once in Premier League at Brighton & Hove Albion.

Everton – 2 Kits

Everton wore three different variations of their Away Kit, two of these were seen just once, with yellow socks at Manchester City and yellow shorts at Chelsea!

Leicester City – 2 Kits

Leicester City used variations of Home Kit (with 3rd socks) and 3rd Kit with Navy socks, and as Everton were used at Manchester City and Chelsea.

Liverpool – 1 Kit

Liverpool just used the one alternative variation this season and this was the use of white socks with their Away kit at Brentford, these were bespoke alternative socks for this kit.

Manchester United – 5 Kits

Manchester United used ten different looks this season, five of these looks were used just once… with one Home Kit look, two Away and two 3rd Kits, all looks used bespoke alternatives to each of the kits, no mash ups.

Newcastle United – 3 Kits

With Newcastle United being another team using ten kit variations through the season they were always going to have a couple of kit looks used just the once, however it was only their Away Kit looks (white shorts / socks and navy short / white socks) that make up their 24 / 25 kit set that were used just the once, the third single use kit was their 25 / 26 Home Kit which they debuted in the final game of the season.

This also means that the Toon Army also wore the most kit variations multiple times, with 7 different kit looks being worn more than once.

Nottingham Forest – 2 Kits

Nottingham Forest wore their 3rd Kit in four different kit combos with white and sky blue shorts and socks, two of these looks were used once, blue shorts and white socks at Aston Villa and white shorts / socks at Crystal Palace.

Tottenham Hotspur – 1 Kit

Tottenham Hotspur used alternative navy socks with both Home and Away Kit, the Away kit look was used just the once at Southampton, this was also one of two victories in their Away Kit in eight games in total it was used.

West Ham United – 1 Kit

On the final day of the season West Ham United used their Home Kit with alternative sky blue shorts, this was their 3rd different Home Kit look of the season but the only time these shorts were used.

There we have all the 33 Kits worn just once in the Premier League this season.

Let me know your thoughts in the comments below or over at my Socials…

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FA Cup – 2024 / 25

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!

Let me know your thoughts in the comments below or over at my Socials…

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Premier League 2024 / 25: End of Season Kit Report

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The 2024 / 25 Premier League season ended on Sunday 25th May 2025 with Liverpool having secured their 2nd Premier League back in April with four games still to play and finished 10 points clear of second placed Arsenal. At the foot of the table, for the second season in a the three promoted teams from last season Leicester City, Ipswich Town and Southampton found themselves dropping back down to the Championship.

As the season has ended, I will follow my now traditional in depth look into the kits worn through this season, some stats and information behind these kits and some highlights over the season.

Kit Stats

  • 760 Kits worn (380 Games)
  • Home Kit used 72% of the time (65% Default, 7% Variations)
  • Away Kit used 17% of the time (13% Default, 4% Variations)
  • 3rd Kit used 11% of the time (8% Default, 3% Variations)
  • 113 different Kit Variations worn by the 20 teams
  • Home Kits – 37.2% of total Kit Variations used:
    • 22 Home Kits worn (2 teams wearing 25 / 26 Home Kit this season)
    • 20 Home Kit variations used
  • Away Kits – 33.6% of total Kit Variations used:
    • 20 Away Kits worn
    • 18 Away Kit variations used (1 team wearing 25 / 26 Away Kit Variation this season)
  • 3rd Kits – 29.2% of total Kit Variations used:
    • 18 3rd Kits used
    • 15 3rd Kit variations used
    • 2 Teams did not use default 3rd kit, Brighton & Hove Albion did not use their 3rd Kit, Southampton did not use in default look
  • Goalkeeper Kits:
    • 74 Goalkeeper used
    • 2 Teams (Arsenal and Manchester United) in 7 different Goalkeeper Kits
    • 1 Team (Aston Villa) in 5 Different Goalkeeper Kits
    • 4 Teams (Liverpool, Manchester City, Newcastle United and Southampton) in 4 different Goalkeeper 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:

  • One Team in 13 Kit variations
    • Aston Villa: Home Kit x4, Away Kit x5, 3rd Kit x4
  • Two Team in 10 Kit variations
    • Manchester United: Home Kit x4, Away x3, 3rd Kit x3
    • Newcastle United: Home Kit x3, Away x4, 3rd x3
  • Three Teams in 7 Kit variations
    • Everton: Home Kit x3, Away Kit x3, 3rd Kit
    • Nottingham Forest: Home Kit x2, Away Kit, 3rd Kit x4
    • West Ham United: Home Kit x3, Away Kit x2, 3rd Kit x2
  • One Team in 6 Kit variations
    • Arsenal: Home Kit x2, Away Kit x2, 3rd Kit x2
  • Five Teams in 5 Kit variations
    • AFC Bournemouth: Home Kit x2, Away Kit x2, 3rd Kit
    • Chelsea: Home Kit x2, Away Kit x2, 3rd
    • Fulham: Home Kit x2, Away Kit, 3rd Kit x2
    • Leicester City: Home Kit x2, Away Kit, 3rd Kit x2
    • Tottenham Hotspur: Home Kit x2, Away Kit x2, 3rd Kit
  • Four Teams in 4 Kit variations
  • Four Teams in 3 Kit variations
    • Brighton & Hove Albion did not use a 3rd Kit, but x2 Home & Away
  • Most variations of Home Kit – 4
    • Aston Villa
    • Manchester United
  • Most variations of Away Kit – 4
    • Aston Villa (5 if you include 25 / 26 Away Kit used on last game)
    • Newcastle United
  • Most variations of 3rd Kit – 4
    • Aston Villa
    • Nottingham Forest
  • Two Teams did not wear any Kit Variations, just default Home, Away or 3rd Kits
    • Crystal Palace
    • Ipswich Town
    • Southampton
  • Most worn Home Kit – 34, Wolverhampton Wanderers (2 Variations)
  • Most worn Away Kit – 15, Southampton
  • Most worn 3rd Kit – 10, Nottingham Forest (4 Variations)
  • Arsenal and Manchester United used 7 Goalkeeper Kit variations including 24/25 GK Kit for Arsenal
  • Most worn GK Kit – 30, Everton (Green GK Kit) and Leicester City (Green GK Kit)

Kit Variation by each team

Something that I have created last season which provided to be popular was an overview of when each of the new kits were first worn, for example… Brentford wore Home Kit and Away Kit in their first two games and then 3rd Kit in game four.

Match 1 to Match 19

Match 20 to Match 38

Kit Grid

Below is a graphic of what kits where worn against what teams, its one that I share on a weekly basis on my Twitter Account – @Kit_Geek

Kit Tables

One area I like to look at is a team’s performance in their kit, I have created the below tables (Home, Away and 3rd Kit), all shirt variations are included in each section, e.g. Aston Villa and Manchester United’s four Home Kit variations are all included in the “Home Kit” Table and based on “Points per Game” used ratio.

Home Kits

No real surprises here, with Liverpool heading up the points per game table, although in comparison to last season three teams (including Liverpool) scored a better points per game average than 2.17 of this season. Liverpool also scored the most points with 63!

The three relegated teams all scored under a point per game!

Away Kits

Again, no surprises at the top of this table with Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea heading the top 3 with the top 2 the only teams to average more than 2 points per game in their Away Kit.

Brighton & Hove Albion scored the most points this season in their Away Kit, with 19 points, a win on the final day in this kit at Tottenham Hotspur meant they finished with more points than Crystal Palace.

There are some of the traditionally larger teams towards the bottom here, 11 teams in total averaged 1 point of less per game in their Away with Aston Villa and Manchester City both only averaging 1 point per game and further six teams scoring less than a point per game, including Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur.

Southampton, who wore their Away Kit the most amount of times this season (15 games), only managed 1 win, 1 draw to score just 4 points in this kit this season.

3rd Kits

The 3rd Kit points per game table gave us Manchester City at the top with 2.4 points per game. Fulham in 2nd place and overall 5 teams scoring 2 points or more on average in their 3rd Kit.

Nottingham Forest scored the most points in their 3rd kit, with 16 point in it’s 10 uses (also the most worn 3rd Kit).

Chelsea (1 game) and Tottenham Hotspur (2 games) failed to score a point in their 3rd Kit and Brighton & Hove Albion did not use their 3rd (2023 / 24 Away Kit) at all this season.

Summary and Highlights

There was a slight increase in the number of kits worn this season from last year, with 113 Different Kits used compared to the 110 of 2023 / 24 season, however that does include the use of 3 kits from next season (Arsenal, Aston Villa, Newcastle United) compared the 1 (Liverpool) from this time last year!

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 Aston Villa, they used an incredible 13 different Kit Looks this season, this is the most that have been used by a single team in a season since I have been keeping this records. They wore this season’s kits in 12 different looks and then debuted next season’s Away kit in their final game of the season.

The used their Home Kit in four different variations…

Away Kit in four different variations….

and 3rd Kit also in four different variations….

Manchester United used once less Kit Variation than last season but still managed to use 10 different looks this season, this was made up of four Home Kit looks…. and three looks for both Away and 3rd Kits.

Newcastle United’s first season back with Adidas, gave us ten different kit variations in the League this season, including four combinations of their wonderful Away Kit.

Wolverhampton Wanderers used alternative “Old Gold” shorts in nine games in total this season and all of these have taken place since they changed their Manager in December (is this Vítor Pereira’s preference on the road?) and have only worn a change Kit Once in 24 games, their final use of change kit was on 29th December 2024 at Tottenham Hotspur and ended up in their Home Kit in 34 of the 38 games.

The single most worn outfield kit look was Ipswich Town’s Home Kit which was worn 30 times this season.

Nottingham Forest used their 3rd Kit in four different looks this season, they also secured the most points in 3rd Kits, with 16 points won in it’s 10 games worn as the team qualified for European Football for the first time in 30 years.

One of interesting Kit Stories of the season was use of claret socks by Brentford when they played 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…!

Southampton wore change kits in 18 of their 19 Away games this season, their only use of Home Kit away from St.Mary’s in the Premier League was their game at Wolverhampton Wanderers on 9th November (Matchweek 11).

Two other kits were also worn 30 times, these were the goalkeeper kits of Everton and Leicester City (both shades of green for the traditionalists out there).

Compared to last season, the Goalkeeper Kit Usage was very different with 72 different Goalkeeper kits used, this is an increase of 18% with 61 Kits used last season.

Both Arsenal and Manchester United wore 7 different Goalkeeper Kits this season.

Arsenal wore three of the standard Adidas Templates, two of their 3rd Kits (Adidas Trefoil), their new 2025 / 26 kit in their final Home game of the season and this wonderful Mash Up of their yellow and black keeper templates.

Manchester United’s 7 Goalkeeper Kits were made up of their three standard templates and they had use of three different 3rd Kit looks (Adidas Trefoil), their 7th look was their use of Green Adidas Trefoil Kit which was first used with the regular green template socks (one for the more eagle eyed Kit spotters out there).

Aston Villa, Liverpool, Manchester City and Southampton all used four different Goalkeeper Kits this season, all using different looks with no mash ups.

There we have it…

Premier League’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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You can find other End of Season Reports below and of course the Matchweek Kit Reviews from each of the 38 Matchweeks of this Premier League Season on this site.

Championship: End of Season Report

League One: End of Season Report

League Two: End of Season Report

FA Cup: 2024 / 25

Premier League: Matchweek 28 Kit Review

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The Premier League returns after last weekend’s FA Cup fixtures,

Another round of Midweek fixtures this week and as last weekend’s games these were the reverse fixtures from two different Matchweeks and the reverse from Matchweek 27, with three games from Matchweek 12 and seven games from Matchweek 14

You can find last week’s report here

The current Kit Overview for Premier League is below.

Matchweek 28 Fixtures

Total Kits Used

  • Kits Worn in Total – 97 (+2 New Kits this Matchweek)
  • Goalkeeper Kits – 70 (No New Kit this Matchweek)

New Kits this Matchweek

There were two new kits on show, both variations of team’s 3rd Kits.

Aston Villa used their 3rd Shirt with alternative white shorts and socks.

Leicester City used alternative navy socks with their 3rd Kit.

Kit Highlights

Aston Villa hit the milestone of 10 Kit Variations used this season, with their 3rd Kit with alternative white shorts and socks. They have worn three Home Kits, four Away Kits and now three 3rd Kit looks.

The have reached this in just 29 games in total and apart from Home Kit (worn 19 times) all kits have just been worn the once with the exception of all white away look which has been worn twice!

Liverpool won their 15th Game of the season in Premier League in their Home Kit in 20 games wearing the kit, this is the most wins in a kit, and is five more than the next highest is Arsenal in Home Kit who have 10 wins!

My favourite Kit Match Up of this Matchweek was the game between Chelsea and Leicester City, this one is all about socks for me, as regular readers and followers will know I do have a soft spot for contrasting socks, so with both teams in this case in this look it was always going to be this game for me this weekend.

Kit Stats

Overall we have seen 12 Home Kits, 3 Away Kits and 5 3rd Kits

There were four Kit Variations used this weekend, all 3rd Kits!

  • Aston Villa – 3rd with alternative White Shorts & Socks
  • Leicester City – 3rd with alternative navy socks
  • Arsenal – 3rd with alternative aqua socks, 4th time used
  • Newcastle United – 3rd with alternative green shorts & socks, 2nd time used

Kit Grid – Up to 11th March

Kit News

We have finally got confirmation the kit deal between Liverpool and Adidas, with the “multi-year partnership” starting on 1st August 2025, reportedly worth £60m per year.

This will be the third time that Adidas have supplied kits for Liverpool, 1985 to 1996 and then again 2006 to 2012. With the deal starting in August it will be interesting to see what Liverpool use in their Pre-Season Friendly matches in July…!

Let me know your thoughts in the comments below or over at my Socials…

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Premier League – Matchweek 24

Premier League – Matchweek 25

Premier League – Matchweek 26

Premier League – Matchweek 27

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Champions League – Kit Overview, League Phase

England Kit History – 2000 to 2009

England Kit History – 2010 to 2019

England Kit History (Reference Page)

Premier League: Matchweek 22 Kit Review

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The Premier League games are coming thick and fast, with another round of fixtures completed after last week’s Midweek Fixtures. These were the reverse fixtures from Matchweek 2.

You can find last week’s report here

The current Kit Overview for Premier League is below.

Matchweek 22 Fixtures

Total Kits Used

  • Kits Worn in Total – 90 (+3 new Kits this Matchweek)
  • Goalkeeper Kits – 68 (No new Kits this Matchweek)

New Kits this Matchweek

There were three new kit look in this weekend.

Liverpool used alternative socks with their Away Kit.

Aston Villa used their 3rd Kit with its default black socks for the first time in Premier League this season.

Tottenham Hotspur used alternative navy socks with their Home Kit at Everton.

Kit Highlights

Liverpool used an alternative kit look for the first time since 2022 / 23 season, which was also against Brentford, this game was just over 2 years ago on 2nd January 2023! This also means that Liverpool have worn four kits in the last four games.

Aston Villa, used their 9th Kit Variation of the season, the most kit looks used by a club in Premier League so far this season. The nine kits consist of three different Home Kit Looks, four Away and now two 3rd Kits..! They have worn two new kit looks in their last two games.

Southampton continued their of defeats in their Away kit, making it nine loses in nine games in their yellow and navy kit.

My favourite Kit Match Up of this Matchweek was the game between Everton and Tottenham Hotspur, when a club makes a small change to their kit to avoid a clash is something I can appreciate, so the navy socks enabling these clubs to remain in their traditional looks was a highlight for me this weekend.

Kit Stats

Overall we have seen 14 Home Kits, 3 Away Kits and 3 3rd Kits

There were three variations seen over these fixtures.

  • Liverpool – Away with alternative white socks
  • Tottenham Hotspur – Home with alternative Navy socks
  • Wolverhampton Wanderers- Home with alternative Old Gold shorts, 3rd time used

Kit Grid – Up to 21st January

Kit News

Manchester United have announced that they will be wearing a shirt with a charity sponsor later in the season. The game with West Ham United on May 10th, The Red Devils will wear a shirt with the sponsor “(RED)” on it, this is Qualcomm Technologies (owners of shirt sponsors Snapdragon) charity to highlight the campaign to strengthen health systems in the most vulnerable parts of the world, full details can be found on the club’s website – here

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Premier League: Matchweek 18 Kit Review

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The Premier League Boxing Day Fixtures are one of the highlights of the season, with all teams playing over two days after Christmas, lets take a deeper look into the kits worn in these games.

You can find last week’s report here

The current Kit Overview for Premier League is below.

Matchweek 18 Fixtures

Total Kits Used

  • Kits Worn in Total – 83 (+2 Kits this Matchweek)
  • Goalkeeper Kits – 66 (+2 Kits this Matchweek)

New Kits this Matchweek

There were two new Kit looks this Matchweek..

Everton wore alternative yellow socks with their Away Kit

West Ham United wore their Away in it’s default all black look for the first time.

Two new Goalkeeper Kits seen this weekend:

  • Aston Villa – Yellow Adidas Template
  • Manchester United – Black Adidas Trefoil Template

Kit Highlights

Manchester United have now worn 6 different Goalkeeper Kit looks this season, this includes 3 different Adidas Trefoil looks with their 3rd Kit.

Aston Villa were another team to wear a new goalkeeper kit, they used the yellow version of the current Adidas Template, their 4th different version and they have also each of these kits in the last 4 games!

West Ham United and Everton now have worn 6 Kit variations each, both joint 2nd Highest in Premier League so far this season!

Only four teams have worn the same kit in their last 2 games, Aston Villa Ipswich Town, Leicester City and Liverpool have worn their Home Kit in previous 2 outings!

My favourite Kit Match Up of the weekend was the game between Manchester City and Everton, contrasting socks is always a winner in my eyes, so both teams in this look makes this Kit Geek very happy!

Kit Stats

Overall we have seen 14 Home Kits, 4 Away Kits and 2 3rd Kits

There were three variations seen over these fixtures, one Home, one Away and one 3rd!

  • Everton – Away with alternative yellow socks
  • Fulham – Home Kit with alternative black socks, 2nd time used
  • Manchester United – 3rd Kit with alternative off white shorts, 2nd time used

Kit Grid – Up to 22nd December

Kit News

There was no significant Premier League Kit news this week, although there are plenty of rumours and leaks for next seasons kits but as always this is something we will not share here until things are confirmed.

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

Thank you for all your support this year, and wishing you and your families a wonderful Christmas!

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Premier League: Matchweek 17 Kit Review

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The Premier League is one step closer to the half way stage of the season Here is our regular look at the Kits worn in this weekend.

You can find last week’s report here

The current Kit Overview for Premier League is below.

Matchweek 17 Fixtures

Total Kits Used

  • Kits Worn in Total – 81 (+4 Kits this Matchweek)
  • Goalkeeper Kits – 64 (+2 Kits this Matchweek)

New Kits this Matchweek

There were four new Kit looks this Matchweek..

Brighton & Hove Albion used alternative blue socks with their Home Kit.

Newcastle United wore their 3rd Kit with alternative aqua green shorts.

Wolverhampton Wanderers used their Home Kit with alternative “Old Gold” shorts for the first time this season.

AFC Bournemouth in alternative purple shorts with their Away Kit.

Two new Goalkeeper Kits seen this weekend:

  • Brentford – Green Umbro Template
  • Brighton & Hove Albion – Black Nike Template

Kit Highlights

Newcastle United now have the joint highest Kit Variations of the season, with their 7th Kit look in total, this being their 3rd different 3rd Kit look!

There have been more goalkeeper kits worn this season so far with 64 than the whole of last season with 61 Kits! Two new looks this week with Brentford and Brighton both wearing new looks this weekend (standard Umbro / Nike Templates).

Liverpool were the only Away team this weekend to wear their default home kit, Brighton and Wolves both in alternative elements of their Home for the first time this season.

My favourite Kit Match Up of the weekend was the game between Ipswich Town and Newcastle United, a nice match up with Newcastle United in their 3rd Kit, the balance of colours worked well and the alternative shorts of Newcastle were unexpected!

Kit Stats

Overall we have seen 13 Home Kits, 3 Away Kits and 4 3rd Kits

There were six variations seen over these fixtures, the most in one Matchweek so far this season.

  • Newcastle United – 3rd Kit with alternative aqua green shorts
  • Brighton & Hove Albion – Home Kit with alternative blue socks
  • Arsenal – 3rd Kit with alternative turquoise socks, 2nd time used
  • Wolves – Home with alternative old gold shorts
  • AFC Bournemouth – Away with alternative purple shorts
  • Southampton – 3rd Kit with alternative white shorts, 2nd time used

Kit Grid – Up to 22nd December

Kit News

There was no significant Premier League Kit news this week, although there are plenty of rumours and leaks for next seasons kits but as always this is something we will not share here until things are confirmed.

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

Thank you for all your support this year, and wishing you and your families a wonderful Christmas!

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Premier League: Matchweek 7 Kit Review

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We are now 7 Games into The Premier League season and we have reached the second International Break, so as those International Players meet up with their fellow countryman, sit back take 5 minutes and take a look back at the Kits from Matchweek 7.

You can find last week’s report here

The current Kit Overview for Premier League is below, with all 60 Kits now being confirmed

Matchweek 7 Fixtures

Total Kits Used

  • Kits Worn in Total – 51 (+4 Kits this Matchweek)
  • Goalkeeper Kits – 50 (+3 Kits this Matchweek)

New Kits this Matchweek

There were four new Kits seen this Matchweek..

Fulham used a change kit for the first time this season in the league with their Away kit at Manchester City.

Newcastle United used a variation of their 3rd kit, with alternative turquoise shorts and socks to match the detailing in the shirt.

Manchester United used their 3rd kit in it’s default look for the first time.

Tottenham Hotspur used their 3rd Kit for the first time in the league this season.

The 3 new goalkeeper kits on show

  • Liverpool – Yellow
  • Southampton – Purple
  • Newcastle United – Pink

Kit Highlights

Liverpool and Southampton both used their 4th Goalkeeper Kit variations of the season (in just 7 games). Southampton have now used Green, Orange, light orange and now Purple of the Puma template, with Liverpool using Black, Green, Purple and now Yellow.

The Liverpool Goalkeeper Kit was the standard keeper template from Nike this season, however it did not use the rotated Nike “Tick” as seen on their 3rd Kit this season, thanks to our friend Jim for calling this detail out this weekend.

Newcastle United and Southampton continue to wear changes kits in all their Away games this season, with Southampton in their Away Kit in all of these games, Newcastle have used 3 different kit looks in their 4 Away games.

My favourite Kit Match Up of the weekend was the game between Manchester City and Fulham, two kits that worked just well together and Fulham in Red / Black just works as a change kit!

Kit Stats

Overall we have seen 13 Home Kits, 3 Away Kits and 4 3rd Kits

There was just the variations seen this weekend, mentioned above as they used for the first time

  • Newcastle United – 3rd with Alternative shorts and socks

Kit Grid – Up to 7th October

Kit News

It is being reported that Liverpool had already signed a new kit deal, returning to Adidas for a 3rd time, there is not much detail shared as yet but suggestions are that there will be a formal annoucement in early 2025, ready for the 2025/26 season and will initially be for 5 years up to 2030.

Let me know your thoughts in the comments below or at @Kit_Geek and I will be back after the International Break.

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Premier League: Matchweek 3 Kit Review

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Matchweek 3 is completed, the Transfer Window has been slammed shut and we have now made it to the first International Break of the 2024/25 Premier League season, so let’s take some time to look into the Kits worn this weekend!

You can find last week’s report here

The current Kit Overview for Premier League is below.

We have seen 58 out of 60 Kits released so far… with just Aston Villa and Wolverhampton Wanderers to confirm their 3rd Kits.

Matchweek 3 Fixtures

Total Kits Used

  • Kits Worn in Total – 35 (+3 Kits this Matchweek)
  • Goalkeeper Kits – 34 (+3 Kits this Matchweek)

New Kits this Matchweek

There were 3 new Kits seen this Matchweek..

Manchester City Away Kit

Tottenham Hotspur Away Kit

Liverpool 3rd Kit

There was also 3 new Goalkeeper Kits on show this weekend

  • Ipswich Town, Pink
  • West Ham United, Green
  • Liverpool, Green

Kit Highlights

For the 2nd week in a row, there was no variations (alternative shorts / socks) with the kits used, there has only been 1 used so far this season, after the time last season we had already seen 10!

There 5 teams that have only 1 kit so far this season – Chelsea, Fulham, Leicester City, Manchester United and Wolverhampton Wanderers.

The remaining 15 Teams have worn 2 kits over the opening 3 fixtures, no team in 3 kits in 3 games.

My favourite Kit Match Up of the weekend was the game between Manchester United and Liverpool, Liverpool in their 3rd Kit gave us a classic look for a classic Premier League fixture

Kit Stats

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

There were no Kit variations used in this Matchweek, the second week in a row.

Kit Grid – Up to 2nd September

Kit News

Nike released their 3rd Kits this week, all notably have the Nike Swoosh rotated 90′ on the shirt for change in look for the US Manufacturer and forms part of the “Together We Rise’ collection for it’s high profile clubs.

Chelsea’s 3rd Kit takes inspiration from Punk and Punk Rock which can find its origins in the West London region, a black kit with pink and yellow details throughout the kit.

Liverpool’s 3rd Kit is more a traditional look, with it’s white shirt, black shorts and white socks. The kit celebrates the women’s game and its acceleration in world sport.

Tottenham Hotspur’s 3rd Kit is an all-green Kit is inspired by local heritage, with references to the trees from which the name ‘Seven Sisters’ is derived

It was the 2nd Round of The Carabao Cup this past week, the time that Premier League Clubs enter the competition, and it gave us the first competive use of AFC Bournemouth, Brentford and Southampton’s 3rd Kits.

Newcastle United used alternative white socks with their Home Kit and most interestingly Brighton & Hove Albion using white shorts with their Home Kit at The Amex Stadium against Crawley Town

Let me know your thoughts in the comments below or at @Kit_Geek and I will be back with Matchweek 4’s review after the International Break!

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