Premier League: Matchweek 5, Kit Review

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 2, Kit Review

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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Premier League: Matchweek 27, Kit Review

The Premier League returns after last weekend’s FA Cup 4th Round, with these matches played across three days on Saturday 21st February and Monday 23rd February 2026.

They are the return fixtures of the round of fixtures played in Matchweek 12 , which was the first round of mid-week games this season on between the 22nd and 24th November 2025.

You can find last round of fixtures report here

The Kit Overview for Premier League is below:

Matchweek 27 Fixtures

Total Kits Used

  • Kits Worn in Total – 101 (No New Kit this Matchweek)
  • Goalkeeper Kits – 70 (+1 New Kits this Matchweek)

There were no new outfield kits on show this Matchweek, the first one of the season.

There was one new Goalkeeper Kit Look used this weekend, Brighton using white socks

Kit Highlights

This Matchweek was the first of this season NOT to feature a new Kit Look, well an outfield look that is as we did see a new Goalkeeper Kit. For comparison, last season the first Matchweek where there was no new outfield kit was Matchweek 19 (4th to 6th January 2025).

Chelsea debuted their new front of shirt sponsor, IFS a provider of Industrial AI. In the communication about this deal, it is described as a Multi-Year partnership, however it is only confirmed as a front of shirt detail for the remainder of the 2025 / 26 season.

James Milner broke the record for the most Premier League games played this weekend, his start from Brighton & Hove Albion against Brentford was his 654th Game across 23 seasons. He carried “654” on his boots and there was also a hand-written gesture within the collar of this match shirt… will we see something more official in the coming weeks?

Newcastle United playing at Manchester City was an interesting kit story, we often see Manchester City play teams in darker shades of blue with no change, however this game saw Newcastle United change into blue, probably the least likely of the their kits to be used but it still worked for me, maybe this was used as a change of luck after wearing their Home Kit in their recent Carabao Cup Semi-Final game earlier this month.

My favourite “Kit Match Up” of the Matchweek was the game between Nottingham Forest and Liverpool, with two classic looking kits on show, I was secretly hoping we would see Liverpool in their 3rd Kit (all green variation), to replicate the opening “Super Sunday” fixture in 1992 (Forest also wearing a kit that resembles that look) but this match up was worked very well.

Kit Stats

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

There two Kit variations used in this Matchweek.

  • Fulham – Away, All Fluro Green, 5th time used
  • Manchester United – Home, with alternative black shorts, 4th time used

Kit Grid – Up to 23rd February

Kit News

The main news was the announcement of the Chelsea front of shirt sponsorship deal which as mentioned above as part of the weekly highlights.

Puma launched their final official Premier League Ball of the season, called the “Thrill” Ball, this will be used in the final games of the season. This is the first season that Puma have been supplying balls in the Premier League and this will be 4th ball launched this season, with the original ball used at the start of the season, the winter yellow ball and an unused orange “Snow” Ball.

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Champions League 25/26: Match 7, Kit Review

For the second time we are seeing the expanded Champions League have it’s final fixtures in January, with the seventh round of fixtures being played on Tuesday 20th January and Wednesday 21st January 2026.

The current Kit Overview for Kits worn by The Champions League Teams.

Match 7 Fixtures

Total Kits Used

  • Kits Worn in Total – 107
  • 2 New Kits used this Matchweek

New Kits this Matchweek

The 2 new kits this week were the following:

AS Monaco in their Away

Pafos in 3rd Kit with Away socks

Kit Highlights

Bayer Leverkusen remain the only team to wear a single kit look in this phase of the competition.

AS Monaco wore a change kit for the first time in this season’s Champions League, having worn 3 different Home Kit looks in their previous 6 games. This then being their 4th different kit look, the joint most so far this season.

Manchester City wore their 4th Kit for the 3rd time, they have now worn this kit has much as their Home Kit in the competition this season.

Newcastle United wore an alternative Home Kit look at Home against PSV Eindhoven, wearing white shorts and socks.

Benfica have only worn their Home Kit in the competition so far this season, they wore alternative red shorts for the 2nd time playing Juventus.

My favourite Kit Match of the week was the game between Sporting CP and PSG, the PSG 3rd Kit is one of my favourite kit looks of the season, combined with the classic Sporting look was always going to be a great Kit Match up.

Kit Stats

Overall we have seen the following kits…

  • 24 Home Kits
  • 4 Away Kits
  • 6 3rd Kits
  • 1 “Cup” Kit
  • 1 4th Kit

There were just 6 Kit Variations seen this week…

  • Galatasaray – Home with Away Shorts, 2nd time used
  • Union Saint-Gilloise – 3rd with Home Socks, 2nd time used
  • Pafos – 3rd with Away socks
  • Juventus – Home with alternative white shorts & socks, 3rd time used
  • Benfica – Home with alternative red shorts, 2nd time used
  • Newcastle United – Home with alternative white shorts & socks, 2nd time used

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Premier League: Matchweek 22, Kit Review

The Premier League returns after last weekend’s FA Cup 3rd Round Games, with these fixtures played across three days on Saturday 17th January and Monday 19th January 2026.

They are the second set of return fixtures this season, with these previous games being played in Matchweek 4, played on the weekend of 13th / 14th September 2025.

You can find last round of fixtures report here

The Kit Overview for Premier League is below:

Matchweek 22 Fixtures

Total Kits Used

  • Kits Worn in Total – 94 (+2 Kit this Matchweek)
  • Goalkeeper Kits – 68 (+2 New Kits this Matchweek)

There were two new kit looks on show these matches.

West Ham United wore their Home with alternative claret socks.

Arsenal wore their Away Kit with alternative grey socks.

There were two new Goalkeeper Kits used this weekend:

  • Burnley – Pink
  • Newcastle United – Pink Adidas Trefoil Template

Kit Highlights

West Ham United wore their 6th Kit Variation of the season, and their 3rd different Home Kit look. Along with 2 different Away Kit looks and a single 3rd Kit.

Arsenal wore their 5th different Kit variation of the season, with the 2nd different Away Look this weekend… they have now worn, 1 Home Kit, 2 Away and 2 3rd Kit Looks!

Interestingly they shared on their Social Media the reason for the change of socks, with Premier League making the request due to impacts of colour blind supporters.

There were two new Goalkeeper looks this weekend, they were both Pink Kits with Burnley using their 3rd choice Goalkeeper Kit for the first time and Newcastle United in the Pink version of the Trefoil Keeper’s Template (their 5th Different Goalkeeper look used this season so far).

My favourite “Kit Match Up” of the Matchweek was the game between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Newcastle United, Newcastle’s 3rd kit gave a nice balance with the “Old Gold” Wolves shirts.

Kit Stats

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

There were three Kit variations used in this Matchweek.

  • West Ham United – Home with alternative claret socks
  • Arsenal – Away with alternative grey socks
  • Everton – Away with alternative navy socks, 3rd time used

Kit Grid – Up to 20th January

Kit News

A couple of Premier League Teams wore special Kits in last weekend’s FA Cup Games.

Tottenham Hotspur wore a commemorative kit, celebrating their 1901 FA Cup win.

Everton wore a 4th Kit, it is unclear whether this kit will be seen in the Premier League this season.

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Premier League: Matchweek 20, Kit Review

The Premier League hits the New Year and we are officially in the second half of the season, and these were the eighth round games of nine over a six week period, with the fixtures played across two days on Saturday 3rd January and Sunday 4th January 2026.

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The Kit Overview for Premier League is below:

Matchweek 20 Fixtures

Total Kits Used

  • Kits Worn in Total – 91 (+2 Kit this Matchweek)
  • Goalkeeper Kits – 66 (No New Kits this Matchweek)

There were two new kit looks on show this weekend.

Nottingham Forest wore their Away Kit with alternative navy shorts and socks

Burnley wore their Home Kit with Away socks

Kit Highlights

For the second Matchweek in a row, 17 Teams wore their Home Kit, with 15 in default look and 2 in alternative Home Kit Looks.

Nottingham Forest wore their 6th Different Kit Look of the season so far, this was their 3rd different Away Kit variation.

Burnley wore their 5th different Kit Variation of the season, there are the only team in the Premier League this season to use “Kit Mash” up and now they have done it twice, having worn Away Kit with Home socks at West Ham United, this weekend they wore Home Kit with Away Socks at Brighton & Hove Albion.

Brentford wore their Home Kit in an Away game for the first time this season, in their 10th Away Match of the campaign.

A couple of interesting Kit notes from Newcastle United this weekend…

Firstly, Fabian Schär marked his 250th appearance for the club with a special detail on his match shirt.

Secondly, Nick Pope wore their 3rd Choice Goalkeeper Kit, the yellow Trefoil Template, this is the first time that we have seen this template used when the team are NOT wearing their 3rd Kit (other teams have worn same colour in standard and Trefoil Templates to get around this).

My favourite “Kit Match Up” of the Matchweek was the game between AFC Bournemouth and Arsenal, the Bournemouth Home Kit is one of my favourite this season, and paired with a classic looking Arsenal 3rd Kit gave us a nice overall match up and balance!

Kit Stats

Overall we have seen 17 Home Kits, 2 Away and 1 Third Kits in action.

There were three Kit variations used in this Matchweek.

  • Nottingham Forest – Away with alternative navy shorts / socks
  • Burnley – Home with Away socks
  • Manchester United – Home, with alternative black shorts, 3rd time used

Kit Grid – Up to 4th January

Kit News

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Premier League: Matchweek 19, Kit Review

Happy New Year to all you readers and followers out there….

The Premier League hits the New Year and this also marks the half way point of the season, and these were the seventh round games of nine over a six week period, with the fixtures played across 2025 and 2026 different this year being completed on Tuesday 30th December 2025 and Thursday 1st January 2026.

They were also the first set of return fixtures, with these previous games being played in Matchweek 15, earlier this month!

You can find last weekend’s report here

The Kit Overview for Premier League is below:

Matchweek 19 Fixtures

Total Kits Used

  • Kits Worn in Total – 89 (+1 Kit this Matchweek)
  • Goalkeeper Kits – 66 (No New Kits this Matchweek)

There was one new kit looks on show in these fixtures

Aston Villa wore their Away Kit with white alternative socks.

Kit Highlights

There were 17 Teams in these round of fixtures to wear their Home Kit, this was the most home kits seen in a single “Matchweek” so far this season.

Aston Villa wore their 8th Kit Variation of the season, this is highest now in the Premier League. They have worn 3 Different Home Kit looks, 3 Different Away Kit and 2 Different 3rd Kits.

They have also worn 4 different Kit Looks in their last 4 games!

Newcastle United wore white socks their blue goalkeeper kit for the 3rd time this season, in this case this was due to Burnley’s sky blue socks.

Tottenham Hotspur have now worn their 3rd Kit (Nike T90) four times in the last six games, all within the last month.

There was a nice symmetry with the game between Nottingham Forest and Everton, Everton in All blue this week was aligned with Forest in All Red when the two meet just a few weeks ago.

My favourite “Kit Match Up” of the Matchweek was the game between Manchester United and Wolverhampton Wanderers, not a lot going on in these fixtures, so went for this one purely for the good contrast between the Kits, should Wolves have worn their 3rd Kit, well we would not be here if these things did not happen, so its all okay with me.

Kit Stats

Overall we have seen 17 Home Kits, 1 Away and 2 Third Kits in action.

There were two Kit variations used in this Matchweek.

  • Everton – Home, All Blue, 3rd time used
  • Aston Villa – Away, with alternative white socks

Kit Grid – Up to 1st January

Kit News

There was no significant Premier League Kit News this week.

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Premier League: Matchweek 18, Kit Review

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.

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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

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Premier League: Matchweek 13, Kit Review

The Premier League rolls into December with the 13th round of fixtures of the season, and this is the second round games of nine Matches over the next six weeks, with these games completed between Saturday 29th November and Sunday 30th November 2025.

You can find last week’s report here

The Kit Overview for Premier League is below:

Matchweek 13 Fixtures

Total Kits Used

  • Kits Worn in Total – 76 (+3 Kit this Matchweek)
  • Goalkeeper Kits – 64 (+1 Kit this Matchweek)

New Kits this Matchweek

There were three new kits on show this weekend.

Newcastle United wore their Away Kit with alternative green shorts and alternative white socks.

Fulham wore their 3rd Kit for the first time this season.

Liverpool wore their Away Kit with alternative black socks.

There was one new Goalkeeper Kits used this weekend:

  • Manchester United – Yellow Adidas Template

Kit Highlights

Newcastle United wore their 6th Kit Variation of the season, the joint highest in the Premier League of the season, this was also the 3rd different look used for their Away Kit!

Both Fulham and Liverpool wore their 5th Different Kit looks of the season this weekend, Fulham wore their 3rd Kit for the first time and Liverpool wore a second different variation of their Away, with alternative Black Socks.

Manchester United made it 4 different Goalkeeper Kits in their last 4 games, with the use of the Yellow Adidas Template, this games was also the first defeat for Crystal Palace in their Home Kit this season.

Sunderland remain undefeated in their Home Kit this season, winning 5 and drawing 3 of the 8 games it has been worn in total.

My favourite “Kit Match Up” of the Matchweek was the game between Sunderland and Bournemouth, who used their wonderful Away Kit for just the second time this season, having worn it in the opening game of the season.

Kit Stats

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

There were three Kit variations used in this Matchweek, all Away Kits.

  • Newcastle United – Away, with alternative shorts / socks
  • Manchester United – Away with alternative white socks, 2nd time used
  • Liverpool – Away with alternative black socks

Kit Grid – Up to 1st December

Kit News

Brentford have launched a special-edition shirt in collaboration with the band Hard-Fi, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the group’s Stars of CCTV album, the band’s frontman Richard Archer is a Brentford fan and season ticket holder. It has also been confirmed that the club will NOT wear this shirt in a game.

We are still waiting for news confirming the Chelsea / Oracle Front of shirt sponsorship, watch this space for updates.

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Champions League 25/26: Match 5, Kit Review

We are now over half-way through the League Phase of the Champions League this season, the fifth round of fixtures being played on Tuesday 25th and Wednesday 26th November 2025.

The current Kit Overview for Kits worn by The Champions League Teams.

Match 5 Fixtures

Total Kits Used

  • Kits Worn in Total – 98
  • 15 New Kits used this Matchweek

New Kits this Matchweek

The 15 new kits this week were the following:

  • Ajax – 3rd
  • Benfica – Home, All Red
  • Union Saint-Gilloise – Away (European Version)
  • Villarreal – Away
  • Barcelona – Away
  • Newcastle United – 3rd
  • Napoli – Away (European Version)
  • Athletic Club – Away
  • Monaco – Home with alternative red shorts / white socks
  • Bayern Munich – 3rd with green socks
  • Inter Milan – Home with white socks
  • Real Madrid – 3rd
  • PSG – 4th Kit
  • Tottenham Hotspur – 3rd
  • Club Brugge – 3rd

Kit Highlights

There are just two teams have just worn a single kit look in the five games so far, both from Germany – Bayer Leverkusen and Eintracht Frankfurt

The game between Ajax and Benfica was a game that gave us plenty of talking points in terms of kits. Firstly, Ajax were the Home Team and wore their 3rd Kit, the reason given for this was the lack of Kit Options from Benfica (who have a light grey Away Kit and white 3rd Kit).

This was also the 4th Kit Look Ajax have used so far in the competition (joint highest) and was the first alternative look worn by Benfica.

Two teams wore “European” Away Kits for the first time in the Champions League. Union Saint-Gilloise wore a plain white shirt (their domestic Away contains a map of the area in the body of the shirt) and Napoli wore an All White Away, with their domestic Away being cream in colour.

Newcastle United wore a change kit for the first time in Champions League this season, using their “Trefoil” 3rd Kit against Olympique Marseille.

Athletic Club wore their Away Kit at Slavia Prague, this was their 4th different Kit Look so far this season in the competition, the joint highest from a club.

It was 4th Kit v 3rd Kit, when Tottenham Hotspur visited PSG, who debuted their 4th Kit for this season (something we have seen them use in past few seasons in The Champions League). PSG are the first team to wear four distinct kits in the competition so far.

AS Monaco wore a different Kit variation for the first time this season, however it was still their Home Kit but paired with alternative shorts and socks, so red shorts and white socks, the opposite of their default look.

Bayern Munich wore their 3rd Kit for the second time in the competition, however this time with alternative green socks, rather than the default light gold / cream socks, this is the fourth Kit Look used so far.

There are eight teams that have now worn four kit looks in the opening five games, Galatasaray and Sporting CP (who used four in four games), Ajax, Athletic Club, Bayern Munich and PSG all mentioned above, with the other two teams Inter Milan (who wore white socks with their Home Kit) and Union Saint-Gilloise (European Away) making up the eight clubs.

My favourite Kit Match of the week was the game between Borussia Dortmund and Villarreal, the Spanish team are not one for changing their kit but against Dortmund was one of times when it was needed, so the Kit Match up looked good in action.

Kit Stats

Overall we have seen the following kits…

  • 19 Home Kits
  • 7 Away Kits
  • 7 3rd Kits
  • 2 “Cup” Kit
  • 1 4th Kit

There were just 4 Kit Variations seen this week…

  • Benfica – Home, All Red
  • Monaco – Home, alternative red short / white socks
  • Bayern Munich – 3rd, alternative green socks
  • Inter Milan – Home, white socks

Let me know your thoughts or other details you spotted this week in the comments below or at my socials.. X – @kit_geek or Bluesky – Kit Geek and I will be back after next round of Champions League games on the 9th and 10th December.

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