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Premier League: Matchweek 10 Kit Review

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We are now in double figures for Matchweeks and over a quarter of the way through the season as Matchweek 10 is now completed.

As always you can find last week Matchweek’s review – here

The current Kit Overview for Premier League is below, we now have all 60 shirts released… still waiting for confirmation of the shorts that will be used with Luton Town’s 3rd.

Matchweek 10 Fixtures

Total Kits Used

  • Kits Worn in Total – 64 (+4 from Matchweek 9)
  • Goalkeeper Kits – 50 (+3 from Matchweek 9)

New Kits this Matchweek

For the second Matchweek in a row, there were four new kit looks on show….

Sheffield United made an interesting Kit Choice to their visit to Arsenal, going for the first time this season with their light grey / off white 3rd kit paired with alternative red socks… The Blades have gone with their Yellow Away Kit for all their games on the road this season and maybe this would have been a better choice this week, as this look did create somewhat of an overall clash!

Newcastle United used their Away Kit in its default (Green / White / Green) look for the first time this season at Wolverhampton Wanderers

Everton used their wonderful 3rd Kit for the first time in their victory at West Ham United, the kit is part of the 100th Anniversary Celebration for Hummel and is a variation of their classic “Mexico” design. I wrote a detailed piece on all those kits which you can find here!

Fulham complete the new outfield kits on show this week, debutting their neon pink Away Kit at Brighton & Hove Albion, a kit ot brighten up those dreary winter days…!

There were also three new goalkeeper used for the first time this weekend… with Chelsea using the green version of the Nike Template for the first time and in the game at The London Stadium saw both Keepers in new kits, with West Ham United using the Pink Umbro template as seen by all Umbro Teams in the Premier League now and Everton moving from their green keeper kit for the first time this season by using their Black / Blue alternative kit!

This takes up to 50 Goalkeeper Used this season so far.

Kit Highlights

We will start as always with Manchester United “Sock Watch”, this weekend in the Manchester Derby it was a return the most recent Adidas Teamwear socks, with just the Adidas Logo… this was the 2nd time they have worn these socks with their Home Kit.

Liverpool have worn their Home Kit in their opening TEN GAMES, so currently have the longest running Kit Streak in the Premier League.

My favourite Kit Match Up of the weekend was the game between Brighton & Hove Albion and Fulham, although the Brighton Home Kit is not one of my favourite kits of the season, the match up with the vibriant Fulham Away gave us a nice balance in kit looks and for me just worked well on the eye!

Kit Stats

Overall we have seen 13 Home Kits, 5 Away Kits and 2 3rd kits in action in this Matchweek, this was the second week in a row that we have seen this breakdown.

However there was one Home, Away and 3rd Kit Variation on show this weekend!

  • Manchester United, Home with Teamwear Socks (New Logo)
  • Luton Town, Away with Home Shorts & Socks, 2nd Time this variation has been used this season
  • Sheffield United, 3rd with alternative red socks.

As mentioned above Liverpool have now worn their Home Kit for all 10 games so far, therefore using just the one kit this season! This run is likely to end next weekend when they visit Luton Town so a change kit will be used there.

Sheffield United have used change kits in all five their Away games this season, using their Away kit four times and 3rd kit for the first time this weekend!

Kit Grid – Up to 30th October

Kit News

The Arsenal x Maharishi collection was released in the last week, Maharishi were founded in London in 1994 and are known for using camouflage as in the heart of their designs. Another example of The North Londoners branching their “kits” across from the standard playing and training gear, with these items likely to be used as Pre-Match kit.

To the other side of North London, Tottenham Hotspur launched their “Legacy” Number initiative for their kits, this is wear players wear a unique number on their kit, the number represents their place in order of players to represent the club, something originally seen in Cricket and recently seen used by England National Football Team as well… will more clubs follow this lead, time will tell?

The Numbers will be on the back of the shirts, above the players name – See “805” for Son below!

That wraps up Matchweek 10 plenty new kits on show and some interesting Kit News for the week.

Let me know your thoughts in the comments below or at @Kit_Geek and Matchweek Kit Review will return next week.

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Premier League: Matchweek 6 Kit Review

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The Premier League hits it sixth week of the season and it is time to have a more in depth look at the kits worn this weekend and some interesting kit usage to take a look into.

As always you can find Matchweek 5’s review – here

The current Kit Overview for Premier League is below, we now have all 60 shirts released… with Luton Town’s 3rd shirt being unveiled in the last week, shorts are still to be confirmed and we are assuming the socks were the navy socks worn at Chelsea.

Matchweek 6 Fixtures

Total Kits Used

  • Kits Worn in Total – 54 (+6 from Matchweek 5)
  • Goalkeeper Kits – 45 (+3 from Matchweek 5)

New Kits this Matchweek

There were another 6 new kit looks on show this weekend…

Fulham in Home Kit with alternative white socks, their first kit variation of the season.

Wolverhampton Wanderers debuted their 3rd kit for this season.

Nottingham Forest in alternative red shorts with their Home Kit, creating a classic all red look, something not seen used by the team since 2019/20 season.

Manchester United used their wonderful 3rd kit for first time this season, it was used with alternative white socks (default being red), to give a nice all white look.

Tottenham Hotspur, used their home shirt with alternative navy shorts and socks (these are not the Away shorts / socks) and contain similar pattern to home kit.

Newcastle United used their 3rd kit for the first time and were another team that used alternative shorts and socks, to create a Navy / Yellow / Yellow look (default being Navy / Navy / White) and what a debut it was!!

3 New Goalkeeper Kits:

  • Arsenal – Green with black shorts
  • Newcastle United – All Blue
  • Sheffield United – All White

Kit Highlights

Let’s start with Manchester United, who used their 6th different kit variation in their first 6 games… with four home kits (check out last week’s report about those socks), one away and this 3rd kit from Saturday’s game against Burnley…

Another Kit that was used for the first time this season was Arsenal’s green goalkeeper kit, I want to call this one out as although it is the standard Adidas Goalkeeper template, this is only version of the kit seen in the Premier League that has different colour shorts paired with it, with black shorts being the default look!

My favourite kit match up of the weekend was Manchester City against Nottingham Forest, Forest in all red is a great look in my eyes for the club, especially combined with those Adidas stripes and matched against Man City’s home kit gave a nice overall match up for me!

There were only two games this weekend with both teams in their default Home Kits…

Brentford v Everton and Brighton & Hove Albion v AFC Bournemouth

Kit Stats

Overall we have seen 16 Home Kits, 1 Away Kit and 3, 3rd kits in action.

However there were plenty of variations on show, with six alternative looks seen this weekend, five already mentioned above as they were new looks for their respective teams.

  • Fulham / Nottingham Forest / Manchester United / Tottenham Hotspur / Newcastle United
  • Aston Villa used alternative claret socks for the 2nd time this season

There are still only two teams who have only worn 1 kit this season in the opening 6 games.

  • Brighton and Hove Albion
  • Liverpool

And again Everton have used just the one Goalkeeper kit

Kit Grid – Up to 24th September

Kit News

The final Kit release of the 2023/24 Premier League Season has now happened with Luton launching their 3rd shirt this week, the shirt design being based on the aerial view of their Kenilworth Road Stadium.

However we still do not know what the full kit will look it, although the navy socks used at Chelsea appear to be part of this kit, will it “All Navy” or maybe pink shorts to match the pink detailing on shirt and socks.

Newcastle United who returned to the Champions League last week, confrmed that they will wear a slighlty different design of home shirt in that competition, with UEFA rules requiring a space for the nameset when the stripes are of “Light / Dark” combinations. I am very glad to see the red numbers remaining, in my humble opinion Newcastle United should always use a red namset with their home kit.

That wraps up Matchweek 6 and a lot to consider from this recent round of fixtures.

Let me know your thoughts in the comments below or at @Kit_Geek and Matchweek 7 will be out next week!

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Premier League: Matchweek 4 Kit Review

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Matchweek 4 is now complete and we have made past the Transfer Deadline Day and to the first International Break of the season, all 20 teams were in action this weekend and again we have some Kit talking points.

This is the fourth weekly review of the kits in the Premier League, you can find last week’s here

The current Kit Overview for Premier League is below, we now have 58 out of the 60 Kits released so far… just 2 to go…Chelsea and Luton Town 3rd Kits.

Matchweek 4 Fixtures

Total Kits Used

  • Kits Worn in Total – 42 (+5 from Matchweek 3)
  • Goalkeeper Kits – 40 (+5 from Matchweek 3)

New Kits this Matchweek

There were another 5 new kit looks on show this weekend…

Aston Villa – Default Away Kit Look

AFC Bournemouth – 3rd Kit

Fulham – 3rd Kit

Manchester United – Away Kit

Newcastle United – Away Kit with Home socks (white)

5 New Goalkeeper Kits:

  • Burnley (Pink)
  • Manchester United (Yellow)
  • Sheffield United (Black)
  • Tottenham Hotspur (Yellow)
  • West Ham United (Yellow)

Kit Highlights

Two teams, Aston Villa and Manchester United have worn 4 kits in the opening 4 fixtures of the season…

Aston Villa, in two home kit looks (different socks) and two away kit (different shorts).

Manchester United in three Home Kit Looks (Alternative Shorts / Socks used) and 3rd Kit.

Staying with Manchester United and their game with Arsenal once again brought up the issue of “red / green” kit clashes and their impact on colour blind football fans, fellow Co-Host of Football Kit Podcast Denis from Musuem of Jerseys showed the impact of this on those fans (1 in 12 Male and 1 in 200 Female) with this powerful graphic to show the kit clash.

My favourite kit match up of the weekend was the game between Manchester City and Fulham, Fulham in their 3rd kit for the first time and together with Manchester City’s home kit gave a nice balance of colours on show.

Kit Stats

Overall we have seen 13 Home Kits, 5 Away Kits and for the first time this season more than one 3rd kit, with 2 seen in action. There were just two kit variations used, both away kits.

  • Tottenham Hotspur who used home socks with their away for the 2nd time this season
  • Newcastle United who also used home socks (white) in their first use of their away kit in Premier League

There are still four teams who have only worn 1 kit this season

  • Brighton and Hove Albion
  • Burnley
  • Chelsea
  • Liverpool

And just two teams who have used just 1 Goalkeeper kit

  • Brighton and Hove Albion
  • Everton

This means that Brighton and Hove Albion are the only team this season to use the same kit look for whole team in the opening four games of the season.

Kit Grid – Up to 28th August

Kit News

There were four kit launches over the past week.

Chelsea Away kit, an interesting black kit with blue pattern.

Everton 3rd Kit, part of the 100 Year Hummel celebrations and many of their teams having verisons of their famous “Mexico” template and return of the simple “Prince Rupert’s Tower” which was also seen on their 3rd Kit from last season.

Fulham 3rd Kit, it had been rumoured all summer that Fulham would use their away kit from last season as their 3rd kit for this year, so the release of a new third kit took a lot people by surprise but have delivered a really nice black kit with pink details and will have alternative pink shorts and socks for plenty of kit options…. interesting it’s a different shade of pink seen in the away kit, I would have thought similar shades would have been used to mix / match away and 3rd kits.

Tottenham Hotspur 3rd kit, an interesting choice of colour Spurs’ 3rd kit this season, described as “natural tone” in colour, it appears to be almost a pale brown which is a colour that has some history with Tottenham kits.

Finally we got confirmation from last week’s teasing information that Adidas will return to produce Newcastle United kits from next season, news that has seemed to delight fans and kit lovers alike.

There we have it, all of Kit thoughts from this weekend.

Let me know your thoughts in the comments below or at @Kit_Geek and Matchweek 4 Review will be published after next round of games after the International Break

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Premier League 2022/23 – End of Season Report

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The 2022 / 23 Premier League season ended on Sunday 28th May 2023 with Manchester City securing their 3rd Premier League in a row with 3 games still to play. At the foot of the table, Everton survivied with a final day victory which means that Leicester City and Leeds United will be joining already relegated Southampton.

As the season has ended, I will follow my tradition of taking a more in depth look into the kits worn through this season, some stats and information behind these kits.

Kit Stats

  • 760 Kits worn (380 Games)
  • Home Kit used 73% of the time (67% Default, 6% Variations)
  • Away Kit used 15% of the time (12% Default, 3% Variations)
  • 3rd Kit used 12% of the time (9% Default, 3% Variations)
  • 109 different Kit Variations worn by the 20 teams
  • Home Kits – 43.1% of total Kit Variations used:
    • 25 Home Kits worn (5 teams wearing 23/24 Home Kit this season)
    • 22 Home Kit variations used
  • Away Kits – 29.4% of total Kit Variations used:
    • 19 Away Kits worn
    • 13 Away Kit variations used
    • Aston Villa did not use registered Away kit, wearing 2 different variation
  • 3rd Kits – 26.6% of total Kit Variations used:
    • 19 3rd Kits used
    • 10 3rd Kit variations used
    • Manchester United did not use registered 3rd kit, wearing alternative shorts
  • Goalkeeper Kits:
    • 68 Goalkeeper used
    • 2 Teams (Liverpool and Manchester City) in 5 different Goalkeeper Kits
    • 4 Teams in 4 Goalkeeper Kits (Arsenal / Leicester City / Liverpool in 23/24 GK 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:

  • Two Teams in 9 Kit variations
    • Manchester United – Home Kit x6, Away Kit x2, 3rd Kit
    • Newcastle United – Home Kit x3, Away Kit x3, 3rd Kit x2, 4th Kit
  • Two Teams in 8 Kit variations
    • Leeds United – Home Kits x2, Away Kit x2, 3rd Kit x4
    • Southampton – Home Kit x4, Away Kit x3, 3rd Kit
  • West Ham United in 7 Kit variations – Home Kit x3, Away Kit x2, 3rd Kit x2
  • Five Teams in 6 Kit variations
    • Aston Villa – Home Kit x3, Away Kit x2, 3rd Kit
    • Chelesa – Home Kit x2, Away Kit x2, 3rd Kit x2
    • Crystal Palace – Home x2 (including 23/24 Kit), Away Kit x2, 3rd Kit x2
    • Everton – Home Kit x3, Away Kit x3, 3rd Kit
    • Fulham– Home Kit x3, Away Kit, 3rd Kit x2
  • Two Teams in 5 Kit variations
    • Arsenal – Home Kit x2 (including 23/24 Kit), Away Kit x2, 3rd Kit
    • Liverpool – Home Kit x2 (including 23/24 Kit), Away Kit, 3rd Kit x2
  • Four Teams in 4 Kit variations
  • Four Teams in 3 Kit variations
  • Most variations of Home Kit – 6
    • Manchester United
  • Most variatons of Away Kit – 3
    • Newcastle United
    • Southampton
  • Most variations of 3rd Kit – 4:
    • Leeds United
  • Six Teams did not wear any Kit Variations, just default Home, Away or 3rd Kits
    • AFC Bournemouth
    • Brentford
    • Leicester City (Including 23/24 Home Kit)
    • Manchester City (Including 23/24 Home Kit)
    • Nottingham Forest
    • Wolverhampton Wanderers
  • Most worn Home Kit – 31, Wolverhampton Wanderers
  • Most worn Away Kit – 9, Nottingham Forest
  • Most worn 3rd Kit – 9, Brentford and Manchester City
  • Most worn 4th Kit – 1, Newcastle United
  • Liverpool and Manchester City used 5 Goalkeeper Kit variations including 23/24 GK Kits
  • Most worn GK Kit – 31, Tottenham Hotspur (Yellow GK Kit)

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. Manchester United’s 6 Home Kit variations are all included in the “Home Kit” Table and based on “Points per Game” used ratio.

Home Kits

No surprises at the top of table, with Manchester City heading the table up with 2.48 points per game in their Home Kit, followed by Arsenal (2.31) and Manchester United (2.21). Both Manchester Clubs scoring 62 Points in Home Kits.

Chelsea can sum up their disappointing season by scoring less 1 point per game (0.93), only managing 28 points in their 30 games in their home kit, one of four teams (Everton, Leicester City and Southampton) in managing less than 1 point per game.

Away Kits

Newcastle United’s Champions League qualifying season was supported by their performance in their Navy Away kit, worn in 3 different variations The Magpies managed 2.67 points per game in their 6 games.

Arsenal scored the most points in an Away Kit, they managed 18 points in their two away kit looks which was used across 10 games in total.

Only 7 teams managed more than 1 point per game, with Everton who only secured their Premier League status on the final game scored 1.4 points per game in their away kit and remained unbeated in their two away kit looks this season.

Fulham, who used their away kit 3 times, did not manage to score any points in these games.

3rd Kits

Rumour has it that Mikel Arteta did not like the Arsenal Pink 3rd kit this season, however in its two appearences they won both games giving the kit a maximum 3 points per game.

Champions Manchester City, who were the joint highest wearers of a 3rd kit this season score 20 points in total, finishing 2.22 points per game.

Fulham were more productive in their 3rd kit, were the 4th highest points per game scorers in 3rd kits, with a total of 9 points won in 5 games wearing 2 variations of their 3rd Kit.

There were 3 teams that did not score any points in their 3rd Kit (Leeds United x5, Southampton, x5 and Nottingham Forest x2).

Summary and Highlights

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 Manchester United, who wore a staggering 6 variations of their Home Kit, the key to this was the socks… they started the season using alternative black away socks and it was not until teams returned from the World Cup on 27th December where the default Home Socks were finally used… see the difference in the socks below? One of the Kit Mysteries of 2022/23 Season

The other four looks for Manchester United were…

As briefly mentioned above, another Kit Mystery for the season is Arsenal 3rd Kit, initally popular with fans when it was first released, however it only made two appearences this season (both victories) and was used in two of Arsenal’s first three games, so its final use in the Premier League was on 20th August in the game against Bournemouth… rumour was the Mikel Arteta did not like the kit but there is no confirmation of that!

Newcastle United ended the season unbeaten in their change kits, they played a total of 12 games in change kits.

  • 6 games in Away Kit (3 Variations)
  • 5 games in 3rd Kit (2 Variations)
  • 1 game in 4th Kit

Leeds United, ended the season with the most variations of a 3rd Kit, using 4 different looks in just 5 games unfortunatley not scoring a point in any of these looks but as a Kit Geek, I did enjoy they use of this kit!

This season was the first since 2019/20 where a 4th Kit was used. However Newcastle United’s 4th was not a traditonal 4th Kit but a training shirt that was matched prepared and partnered with Home Shorts and Socks, the reason being that their designated kits of this season were all considered to clash when they visited Brighton & Hove Albion in just the second game week of the season and their first away game!

Crystal Palace did not use their 3rd Kit in the Premier League in 2021/22 season and it took until their 23rd game of this season against Brentford in February to wear one this time, a total of 651 days and 64 League games between wearing 3rd Kits (both Black with Red / Blue details).

There were some interesting Kit Mash Ups used this season…

Arsenal, using grey Goalkeeper Socks with their Black Away kit… a look they used three times against Manchester United, Liverpool and Brentford!

When Manchester City visited Crystal Palace, their goalkeeper socks were considered a clash with Crystal Palace’s, so Ederson took to the field in white outfied away socks of Palace!!

Leeds United, followed a similar look to Arsenal when they played Manchester United with their Goalkeeper look using grey socks with their black keeper kit, they wore this look in both games against Manchester United… which were in the space of 4 days!

There we have it, The Premier Leagues’s End of Season Kit report for 2022/23, please let me know your favourite kit highlights from this division on the comments below or over at Twitter – @Kit_Geek

You can find other End of Season Reports below.

Championship – 2022 / 23 End of Season Report

League One – 2022 / 23 End of Season Report

League Two – 2022 / 23 End of Season Report