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Kit News, Edition 1 – A Hummel renaissancei

May 26, 2019May 26, 2019Posted in Kit NewsTagged Adidas, Football, Football Kits, Hummel, Kit Geek, Kit News, Kits, Ligue 1, Nike, Premier League, Puma, Serie A, SoccerLeave a comment

Kit news is coming thick and fast, so I thought it was a good opportunity to have a look at what we have seen over the past few days in terms of Kit News.

Confirmed Kits

Middlesbrough – Hummel have delivered a look in the new home kit for Middlesbrough that is a return to a classic look for Boro and one that synonymous with the club.

Inter Milan – Striped kits are always difficult to deliver something new or give a fresh approach to the design, however Inter Milan are a club that often looked to do this over the years and this effort from Nike for 2019/20 is something different and does stand out from the others

Cambridge United – A new Kit deal for Cambridge United with Hummel and the first home Kit is a real classic in design, a clean and simple look on The U’s traditional amber and black. Looks like Hummel will be bigger players in the kit market in 2019/20 and if what we have seen so far is anything to go by we should be in for a treat.

Leicester City – The launch of Leicester City’s away and 3rd kits was no surprise with these kits leaked a few weeks ago. The Away, a pink version of the kit worn by Germany in 2018 World Cup and 3rd Kit, a dark grey version of the Adidas Tiro 19 template. After the introduction of their new home kit in the final game of the season, this completes the kits for the Foxes in 2019/20.

Olymique de Marseille – OM in the second season with Puma have seen the launch of their new home kit sees an introduction on sky blue pinstripe with an all white kit. The kit is also being marketed as 120th Anniversary kit.

AS Roma – Nike have returned to a more classic look for AS Roma this coming season, with the traditional red shirt being paired with white shorts and red socks. There is some “lightening” detailing on the collar, inspired from Roman iconography, which is also continued into name/number fonts for the season.

Ipswich Town – Quick to move on from their recent relegation from Championship, Ipswich Town have launched both their new Home and Away kits from Adidas, both kits from the Adidas template catalogue and the away sees a return to red/navy stripes. A big change with the kits is the sponsor, moving away for black and pink logo to a plain white one that fits with the overall aesthetic of the shirt. It is also worth highlighting that the Children’s versions of the kits will have a local charity as sponsor.

Preston North End – The final kit that I am looking at this first edition of Kit News, is the Nike kit for Preston North End, this template looks like a return to Nike Legend template, most known for its use by several teams in 2002 World Cup, this particular version really reminds me of the England Rugby Union kit worn when they clinch the World Cup in 2003.

Other News:

Aston Villa after a solitary season with local designer Luke1977 (which delivered some amazing kits) have signed a 3 year deal with Kappa
Burnley FC are rumoured to be wearing Umbro next season after leaked photos seen on Twitter
Millwall to have a brown away kit based on their sponsor, chocolate manufacturer Huski
A new badge for FC Nantes
Leaked Arsenal / Adidas kits
New sponsor for PSG

I will follow up with Edition 2 over the coming weeks, let me know your thoughts at Twitter @Kit_Geek or on the comments below.

Premier League – Kits by Fixtures

May 17, 2019Posted in Premier League Kit LogTagged Football, Football Kits, Kit Geek, Kit Log, Kit Variations, Kits, Premier LeagueLeave a comment

Those that have been following me on Twitter and seen previous post know that I keep a log of the kits worn in games with a Kit Grid, an example can be seen here – Premier League, Kit Grid (Match Day 26 to 35)

I also wanted to share you with you the kits worn at each Match Day as a reference point.

Match Day 1 to 3 (10th August to 27th August)

Match Day 4 to Match Day 7 (1st September to 1st October)

Match Day 8 to Match Day 10 (5th October to 29th October)

Match Day 11 to Match Day 14 (3rd November to 2nd December)

Match Day 15 to Match Day 20 (4th December to 30th December)

Match Day 21 to Match Day 24 (1st January to 30th January)

Match Day 25 to Match Day 28 (2nd February to 27th February

Match Day 27 includes

Chelsea v Brighton & Hove Albion played on 3rd April

Match Day 29 to Match Day 32 (2nd March to 31st March

Match Day 30, includes:

Tottenham Hotspur v Crystal Palace on 3rd April
Brighton & Hove Albion v Cardiff City on 16th April
Watford v Southampton on 23rd April
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Arsenal on 24th April
Manchester United v Manchester City on 24th April

Match Day 33 to Match Day 36 (2nd April to 28th April)

Match Day 33 Includes:

Tottenham Hotspur v Brighton & Hove Albion on 23rd April

Match Day 37 and Match Day 38 (3rd May to 12th May)

For some detailed analysis, please check out my previous post – Premier League, End of Season Kit Report

Also, I have recently contributed to this article looking at some of kits worn in 2018/19 Premier League season on Footy.com with Phil Delves which made it all the way to the lofty heights of Talksport – click here …………*FAME AT LAST, KINDA*

Finally check out this stunning graphic from Museum of Jerseys , not only is this documenting all kits worn this season but also all Goalkeeping kits and Officials strips.

Premier League, End of Season Kit Report

May 14, 2019May 14, 2019Posted in Premier League Kit LogTagged England, EPL, Football, Football Kits, Kit Geek, Kit Log, Kit Variations, Kits, Premier League, Soccer2 Comments

Sunday 12th May 2019 saw a remarkable season come to a close, with Manchester City and Liverpool slugging out blows over these final weeks of the season like two heavy weight boxers trading punched in the 12th Round….

Anyway enough of this and to what you are here for, the Kit review of the season.

Kit Stats

760 Kits worn (380 games)
112 variations of kits, which are broken down by the following
Home Kits – 42%, 24 Home kits worn (AFC Bournemouth, Chelsea, Crystal Palace and Leicester all wearing their 2019/20 Home Kit in their last home game) and 23 variations of Home kit
Away Kits – 30%, 19 Away kits worn (Manchester United only team not to wear their designated away kit) and 15 variations of Away kit
3rd / 4th Kits (thanks Fulham) – 28%, 18 3rd/4th Kits worn and 13 variations of 3rd Kit

Overview

Match Day 1 to 19

Match Day 20 to 38

Kit Variations

Everton and Fulham both wore 9 variations of kits this season
Everton – 4 Home Kits, 1 Away and 4 3rd Kits
Fulham – 4 Home Kits, 2 Away, 2 3rd and 1 4th Kit
Manchester United and West Ham United wore 8 variations of kit
Manchester United – 3 Home Kits, 2 Away kits and 3 3rd kits (they also did not wear their designated away kit combination of Pink / Black / Pink)
West Ham United- 4 Home Kits, 1 Away Kit and 3 3rd Kits
Most variation of Home Kit – 4 (Everton, Fulham, West Ham United)
Most variation of Away Kit – 3 (AFC Bournemouth, Burnley, Cardiff City)
Most variation of 3rd Kit – 4 (Everton)
Fulham used a 4th Kit once (which in turn meant they wore 4 kits in the first 5 games)
Watford are the only team to use no variation and only two different kits all season
Leicester City wore their home kit 32 times, only wearing change kits against teams in Blue or Blue / white stripes – the least unnecessary changes

Kit Log

Below is a graphic looking at who what against whom, this is something that I will be looking at in more detail over the coming days, so watch this space.

As in my previous post about The Championship – The Championship, End of Season Kit Report I mentioned my favourite kit match up of the season, for me this was a tough call this season but one of my favourite kits to take the field was Chelsea’s home shirt and when they played Crystal Palace at home, palace wore blue socks with their away to produce for a stunning kit mash up.

As mentioned, there will be additional posts coming up over the coming days but please let me know your thoughts, favourite kits and comments about 2018/19 Premier League Season by using the comments field below or via Twitter – @Kit_geek

Premier League – Kit Grid (Match Day 18 – 25)

Feb 8, 2019Posted in Premier League Kit LogTagged EPL, Football Kits, Kit Geek, Kit Log, Kits, Premier LeagueLeave a comment

A quick update on the Premier League Kit Grid, this is documenting the 2018/19 Season Premier League fixtures in one place.

To see the previous update, have a look at my previous post – Premier League – Kit Grid catch up (MD 14 to 17)

Match Day 18

Match Day 19 and Match Day 20

Match Day 21

Match Day 22

Match Day 23

Match Day 24

Match Day 25

As always I will continue to update this Kit Grid on after every round of fixtures and share this on Twitter – @Kit_Geek

Please share your thoughts and comments below or on my twitter account.

100 Kits in the Premier League & 2 shades of Grey

Feb 5, 2019Feb 6, 2019Posted in Premier League Kit LogTagged EPL, Football, Football Kits, Premier League1 Comment

Kit enthusiasts and general football stat geeks, mark the day……

Monday 4th February.

On a cold winter’s night at the London Stadium, Liverpool took to the field in their grey third kit for the fourth time in 2018/19 season but for the first time wore a darker shade of grey socks, which gave us the 100th variation of kit worn this season.

I shared on twitter last night an overview of the all the kits worn – see here

Overview:

Stats:

Looking at some of the stats around the kits:

Home – 40 worn (20 first choice, 20 variations)
Away – 33 worn (19 first choice, 14 variations)
3rd/4th – 27 worn (15 first choice, 12 variations)

Most variations:

Fulham – 9 (Home – 4, Away – 2, 3rd – 1, 4th – 2)
Everton – 7 (Home – 2, Away – 1, 3rd – 4)
Manchester United – 7 (Home – 3, Away – 2, 3rd – 2)
West Ham United – 7 (Home – 4, Away – 1, 3rd – 2
Burnley – 6 (Home – 2, Away – 3, 3rd – 1)
Cardiff City – 6 (Home – 2, Away – 3, 3rd – 1)

In terms of the least variation used, there are only two teams that have not varied from their registered kits. Leicester City who have used all three registered kits this season and Watford, who are often criticised for their inconsistent use of an away kit are the only team to use just two kits this season.

Looking at last seasons kit data – I wrote an article at the end of last season – Premier League Kit Log – Kit Variations about that. There was 95 variations used then, this however does include the kits worn in the final games of the season by Chelsea, Everton, Liverpool and Manchester City who wore their 2018/19 kits in their final home games of that season. I would expect we would see something similar this season, so this will add to this number.

Also Manchester United are also yet to wear either their registered Away and 3rd Kits this season, only variations of these. If they use these, the away (Pink – Black – Pink) and 3rd (Navy – Darker Navy – Darker Navy), apologies for the poor colour description, then that would take Manchester United level with Fulham with 9 kit variations, however there is a game coming up Southampton v Fulham, where we could see another variation in Fulham’s away kit (Navy – White – White), which would take them to 10!

All of this is just looking at outfield kits, maybe I should also take a look at the Goalkeeper kits worn….. watch this space!

As always, let me know your thoughts by either using the comments field below or via twitter @Kit_Geek

Premier League – Kit Log Update

Jan 4, 2019Posted in Premier League Kit LogTagged Football, Football Kits, Kit Geek, Kit Log, Kits, Premier League1 Comment

The Premier League is now past the half way point of the season, so it is time to take stock and look at some of the kits worn and some of the data behind the kits.

Kit Log:

What the teams have worn so far:

We have seen the 57 of the 58 registered kits (There is no Watford or Wolverhampton Wanderers 3rd kits registered), the only kit yet to be seen is Tottenham Hotspur’s away kit, it has made an appearance in the League Cup at West Ham United.

Forget the 39th game, as Kit enthusiasts we have a 59th Kit…. Fulham have also used a Black 4th Kit twice this season at Brighton & Hove Albion and Huddersfield Town (in different variations).

Kit Usage:

Home Kit – 73% (65% Full kit, 8% Variation)
Away Kit – 17% (12% Full Kit, 5% Variation)
3rd/4th Kit – 10% (7% Full Kit, 3% Variation)

Kit Variations:

So far in the 2018/19 season we have seen the 20 teams use 98 different kit variations. There is no surprise to see that the team with the most variations used is Fulham, with 9 different kit variations used, 4 Home kits, 2 Away kits, 1 3rd kit and 2 4th Kits used in their 21 games so far.

Everton, Manchester United and West Ham United have each used 7 variations of kits.

On the other end of the spectrum, Watford with 2 variations have only used their Home and Away kits so far this season.

Result Data:

Another area I like to look into is the results when different kits are worn, is a team more successful in their away colours than their home, etc. For this I have combined any variations and only looking at Home, Away and 3rd (4th) kits. I have created a league table of the kits and based position on a “Points Per Game” basis.

Home Kits

No surprise to see current league leaders Liverpool on top here, having picking up 44 points from the 17 games where they have worn their Home Kit, only dropping 7 points here (including their first defeat of the season against Manchester City on 3rd January).

The rest of the table very much reflects the current league standings, with the only real difference is Fulham who perform much better in their Home kit and sees them in 16th place rather than their current 19th place.

Away Kits

The Away kit table gives us a different leader with Newcastle United, who only using their away kit once so far this season (at Huddersfield Town) and winning, giving them a maximum points per game of 3.

Leicester City, who in wearing their current away kit of grey with gold detail, have won 3 and drawn 1 in the kit’s four appearances and sit 2nd in the Away Kit league with 2.5 P.P.G. average.

At the bottom we see both Everton and Fulham, who have suffered defeats in their two outings in their away kits this season.

3rd (4th) Kits

Finally in the 3rd (4th) Kit table, we see both Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur with 3 wins in 3 in the 3rd Kits, there are also 100% records for Chelsea and Manchester City, however these kits have only made 1 appearance so far this season.

AFC Bournemouth, Huddersfield Town, Leicester City and West Ham United are yet to score a point so far this season their 3rd kits.

Kit Grid:

An overview of who wore what against whom.

A larger version can seen on my Twitter account – here

So there we have it, a (slightly late) mid season review of the Premier League kits worn so far this season, some of my kit highlights:

Fulham using a 4th Kit (and 9 different variations)
Interesting variations (mash ups) used, Southampton Away shirt with black shorts/socks at Crystal Palace, Arsenal using red socks with away kit at Brighton & Hove Albion and Liverpool using home socks with grey 3rd kit at Burnley.
Wolves in all Gold
Everton using their 3rd kit in 4 different combinations

Let me know your highlights and views on the comments or via twitter @Kit_Geek

Premier League – Kit Grid catch up (MD 14 to 17)

Dec 21, 2018Dec 21, 2018Posted in Premier League Kit LogTagged Football, Football Kits, Kit Geek, Kit Log, Kits, Premier League1 Comment

As many of you already know, I enjoy documenting the kits worn in Premier League and look at who wears what against whom, from this I developed my Kit Grid, which takes the Home and Away format that is often seen with match results but as a Kit Geek, I took that one step further.

See my initial post about this here – Premier League – Kit Grid, Match Day 13

As well as updating the Kit Log and sharing via Twitter, @Kit_Geek I wanted to also share the recent Match Day Updates here as well.

Match Day 14

Match Day 15

Match Day 16

Match Day 17

I will continue to update the Kit Grid and share via Twitter but let me know you thoughts about this, I am looking to also create something similar for the Championship, so watch this space.

Premier League – Kit Grid, Match Day 13

Nov 27, 2018Posted in Premier League Kit LogTagged England, EPL, Football, Football Kits, Kit Geek, Kit Log, Kits, Premier League1 Comment

I am always keen to find new ways to document what kits have been worn.

This is based on the Home / Away grid sometimes used for match results, it fits my basic kit illustrations well, which helps……

Home Team is vertical axis and then reads across, the away team on the horizontal axis and read down.

Therefore you can see AFC Bournemouth v Arsenal from Sunday 25th November as the game on the top left hand corner (well below the blanked out fixture) and West Ham United v Wolverhampton Wanderers from 1st September on bottom right (this time above the blacked out fixture).

This is up to Match Day 13, I will continue to document the Kits worn in the Premier League in my usual ways but will also update this version weekly for that overall snapshot.

As this may be a little small to read, check out my tweet below for larger image.

#PremierLeague Kit Grid after Match Day 13. pic.twitter.com/SaUOuyjf4U

— Football Kit Geek (@kit_geek) November 27, 2018

Please let me know what you think, I have already made some changes based on the feedback received when I started to develop this.

Premier League, Match Day 5 – Kit Review

Sep 17, 2018Posted in Premier League Kit LogTagged Crystal Palace, EPL, Football, Fulham, Kit Geek, Kits, Manchester United, Premier LeagueLeave a comment

The Premier League is now in full flow, the recent weekend (15th – 17th September) or known as “Match Day 5” in some corners has now been and gone with no great surprises in terms of results but did give us some interesting talking points in terms of kits, so lets dive in and have look at some of the kit talking points in more detail.

Fulham – 4th Kit of the season

There is only one place to start and that is Fulham who wore their 4th different kit of the season and in fact it has been 4 kits in 4 games, quite possibly a record within the Premier League era.

This run of kits started with the introduction of a red third kit in the game against Tottenham Hotspur at Wembley Stadium on 18th August 2018. This kit was no surprise giving that a change was needed with Fulham’s home and away kits not providing a contrast to Tottenham’s current home kit. This was not a new kit but last season’s third kit, updated with this season’s shirt sponsor.

In the next game, Fulham’s home game against Burnley played on 26th August 2018 there was no surprise that they would play in their traditional White shirts / Black shorts / White socks combination.

The next game, away at Brighton and Hove Albion on 1st September 2018 is the one that took the our little kit world by surprise, again as with the game against Spurs, Fulham’s home and away kits would potentially cause a clash with the blue and white stripes worn by Brighton but assumption would be that the red 3rd kit would then make an appearance providing an adequate alternative, however in this game they wore last season’s black away shirt with this season’s home shorts and socks, providing them with a 4th kit for the 2018/19 season.

This brings us to this past week (15th September 2018), where Fulham away at Champions Manchester City would see the first appearance of their new navy blue away kit, however the full away kit was not worn it was paired with what appears to be the home socks, the registered socks with their away kit this season are also navy blue.

I am unaware of a reason behind the choice of kits, particularly in the Brighton game but it creates good conversation and debate around this and football kits, for me a simple Kit Geek this is indeed a wonderful thing.

Crystal Palace – New 3rd Kit

As expected when Crystal Palace visited Huddersfield Town this season we would need to see an alternative to their Home and Away kits, this was launched at the weekend with a fantastic all yellow kit, with a faded red / blue stripe running down the centre of the shirt.

With the additional of this kit, I believe Crystal Palace have one of the best set of kits in the Premier League this season.

Away kit variations

Another area of the world of kits that I enjoy is those variations within a team’s kit, different shorts and socks worn with each kit. This weekend we saw six different variations for team’s kits, West Ham United and Arsenal wore variations of their home kits. Fulham (which we have already discussed), Manchester United, Cardiff City and Brighton & Hove Albion all wore variations of their away kits.

West Ham’s home kit combined with sky blue shorts and socks, is one that really works for me and a variation that I like to see on the pitch.

Manchester United wore their pink away kit for the second time game in a row and for the second time varied from the Pink – Black – Pink combination, this time surprisingly wearing white shorts with the Pink shirts and socks. I was surprised that when moving from the registered black shorts that they did use pink shorts as an alternative but the white seemed to work okay as a contrast.

Plenty of discussion points from this week’s Premier League fixtures in terms of Kits, let me know your thoughts on this.

Premier League, Kit Log – Match Day 2

Aug 22, 2018Aug 22, 2018Posted in Premier League Kit LogTagged EPL, Football, Football Kits, Kit Geek, Kit Log, Kits, Premier LeagueLeave a comment

We are now two games into the 2018/19 Premier League Season and based on what happened in the World Cup with the number of Countries using there both Home and Away in the opening games (World Cup Kit Log, Group Stage Round 2), I thought it would be a good time to look at the kits worn this season so far.

The Kit Log….

Surprisingly (well maybe just for me) we have seen 30 home kits worn out of a possible 40 kits from the first 20 games and of these 30 kits, 29 have been the full home kit with no variation, the only team to wear a variation of their home kit… Arsenal wore red socks when playing Chelsea on 18th August.

Kit Breakdown after Match Day 2:

Home – 75% (29 Full kits, 1 Variation – Arsenal)

Away – 12.5% (4 Full kits, 1 Variation – Burnley)

3rd – 12.5% (5 Full kits)

As we approach Match Day 3, there are 10 teams that have worn two different kits so far, will any of these make it 3 kits in 3 games…. West Ham United are likely to based on their fixture away at Arsenal and having not used their blue away kit yet.

Overall my initial feelings of the kits on show have been great, I always prefer to see a kit in action before passing any judgement but 2018/19 feels like a good season…. and my favourite kit so far…. Manchester City Away, worn against Arsenal on 12th August.