The 2024 / 25 The Championship Season came to a close on Saturday 3rd May 2025, with Leeds United securing the title in stoppage time on the final day of the season from Burnley, with both teams amassing a staggering 100 points. Sheffield United, Sunderland, Coventry City and Bristol City will compete in the Playoffs for the final promotion place.
I am taking my annual in depth look at the kits worn during the league stage of the season (not including Play Offs).
Overview of Kits Worn
Kit Stats
- 1104 Kits worn (552 Games)
- 95 Different Kit variations used by the 24 teams.
- Home Kits – 34% of Kit variations used
- 32 Home Kits worn in total
- 8 Home Kit variations worn
- Away Kits – 35% of variations used
- 33 Away Kits worn in total
- 10 Away Kit variations worn
- 3rd Kits – 29% of variations worn
- 24 3rd Kits worn in total
- 4 3rd Kit variations worn
- Special Kits – 2% of variations worn
- 2 Special Kits worn in total
Kit Log – Match 1 to Match 23
Kit Log – Match 24 to Match 46
Kit Variations
Looking in more detail at the kit variations worn by the Championship Teams
- Luton Town in 9 Kit Variations: Home x3, Away x3, 3rd x3
- Plymouth Argyle in 6 Kit Variations: Home x4, Away, 3rd
- Sheffield Wednesday in 5 Kit Variations: Home x2, Away x2, 3rd
- 12 Teams wore 4 Kit Variations
- Cardiff City: Home, Away x2, 3rd
- Coventry City: Home, Away, 3rd x2
- Hull City: Home, Away, 3rd, Special
- Middlesbrough: Home, Away, 3rd, Special
- Millwall: Home, Away x2, 3rd
- Oxford United: Home, Away x2, 3rd
- Portsmouth: Home, Away x3, 3rd
- Preston North End: Home, Away, 3rd x2
- Sheffield United: Home x2, Away, 3rd
- Stoke City: Home, Away x2, 3rd
- Swansea City: Home, Away x2, 3rd
- Watford: Home x2, Away, 3rd
- 9 Teams wore 3 Kit Variations (Home, Away, 3rd Kits)
- Most Variations of Home Kit – 4 Kits
- Plymouth Argyle:
- Default Home
- Home with Home Shorts & white (Away) socks
- Home with black (3rd) shorts & white (Away socks)
- Home with Black (3rd shorts) and Home socks
- Plymouth Argyle:
- Most Variations of Away Kit – 3 Kits
- Luton Town
- Default All Navy Away
- Away with Orange (Home) socks
- Away with White (3rd) socks
- Luton Town
- Most Variations of 3rd Kit – 3 Kits
- Luton Town
- Default All White 3rd
- 3rd with Navy (Home) shorts
- 3rd with Navy (Home) shorts and Navy (Away) socks
- Luton Town
- 11 Teams only used Kits with no variations
- Most worn Home Kit – 39, Norwich City
- Most worn Away Kit – 14, Leeds United
- Most worn 3rd Kit – 12, Hull City and Millwall
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… Burnley wore 3rd Kit, Home Kit and then Away Kit in their first three games
Match 1 to Match 23
Match 24 to Match 46
Kit Grid
Below is a graphic of what kits where worn against what teams, its one that I share on a weekly basis on my Twitter Account – @Kit_Geek
Kit Highlights and Summary
In 2024 / 25 Championship season teams wore 95 Kits, this was an increase on the number kits compared to last season where 85 Kits were worn, this is the joint with League One with the fewest number of Kit Variations seen this season with Luton Town using nine Kit Variations, 9.5% of the total Kits used in The Championship
The single most worn Kit in the League was Norwich City for the second season in a row, who wore their Home Kit in 39 of the 46 League games, however this was a reduction from last season having worn their Home Kit 41 times in 23 / 24 Season.
Luton Town were the Kit Lovers Team of the Championship, with a perfectly matched set of kits that was able to be mix and matched, providing nine different looks with some wonderful mash ups!
Plymouth Argyle were another team that made good use of their Kit Set, using 3rd Shorts (Black) and Away Socks (White) to provide alternative Home Kit Variations with white / black shorts and socks.
A theme seen within The Championship was the use of the Kit Set to create new looks, several teams used their Kit in this way, Luton Town and Plymouth Argyle above, there were other notable examples.
Watford made good use of their Black Away Kit shorts and socks, to keep kit looking very much to the club colours.
Preston mashed up their 3rd Kit (shirt) and Away (shorts and socks), to give a different Kit Look at Sheffield Wednesday but one that tonally worked perfectly.
Also Cardiff City, Coventry City, Millwall, Oxford United, Portsmouth, Sheffield United, Sheffield Wednesday, Stoke City and Swansea City, used another set of socks to create a different Kit Look, with most of these looks being used against Sheffield Wednesday!
Sheffield Wednesday’s Away Kit was an interesting story this season. When released it was shown with black / white socks, that were nice in their design, something a little different, however during the season we did not actually see these socks in action, rather plain white ones worn four times with their Away Kit (and used three times for an alternative Home Kit Look).
There were two “Special Kits” on show in the 2024 / 25 Season…
Hull City wore a special 120th Anniversary Kit against Cardiff City on 28th September.
Middlesbrough wore a “No more Red” Kit, which was a charity kit against Knife Crime, this was worn against Coventry City on 2nd November
There we have it, The Championship’s End of Season Kit report for 2024 / 25, please let me know your favourite kit highlights from this division on the comments below or over on my Socials.
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