The 2024 / 25 League One Season came to a close on Saturday 3rd May 2025, with Birmingham City securing the title with a record breaking 111 Points and Wrexham’s rise through the leagues making it three promotions in a row as runners up. Stockport County, Charlton Athletic, Wycombe Wanderers and Leyton Orient 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 – 28% of Kit variations used
- 27 Home Kits worn in total
- 3 Home Kit variations worn
- Away Kits – 37% of variations used
- 35 Away Kits worn in total
- 11 Away Kit variations worn
- 3rd Kits – 34% of variations worn
- 32 3rd Kits worn in total
- 8 3rd Kit variations worn
- Special Kit – 1% of variations used
- 1 Special Kit worn
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 League One Teams
- Lincoln City in 7 Kit Variations: Home, Away x3, 3rd x2, Special
- Bristol Rovers in 6 Kit Variations: Home, Away x3, 3rd x2
- 3 Teams in 5 Kit Variations
- Barnsley: Home, Away x3, 3rd
- Bolton Wanderers: Home x2, Away x2, 3rd
- Shrewsbury Town: Home, Away x2, 3rd x2
- 10 Teams wore 4 Kit Variations
- Birmingham City: Home, Away, 3rd x2
- Blackpool: Home x2, Away, 3rd
- Charlton Athletic: Home, Away, 3rd x2
- Exeter City: Home, Away, 3rd x2
- Mansfield Town: Home x2, Away, 3rd
- Peterborough United: Home, Away, 3rd x2
- Reading: Home, Away, 3rd x2
- Wigan Athletic: Home, Away x2, 3rd
- Wrexham: Home, Away x2, 3rd
- 9 Teams wore 3 Kit Variations
- Most Variations of Home Kit – 2 Kits (3 Teams)
- Blackpool
- Default Home
- All Tangerine, 3rd shorts
- Bolton Wanderers
- Default Home
- All White, Away shorts
- Mansfield Town
- Default Home
- Home with white Away socks
- Blackpool
- Most Variations of Away Kit – 3 Kits (3 Teams)
- Barnsley
- Default Away
- Away with Red (Home) socks
- Away with Red (Home) shorts
- Bristol Rovers
- Default Away
- Away with Blue (Home) socks
- Away with Green (3rd) socks
- Lincoln City
- Default Away
- Away with Black (3rd) shorts
- Away with Black (3rd) shorts & socks
- Barnsley
- Most Variations of 3rd Kit – 2 Kits (8 Teams)
- Birmingham City
- Default 3rd
- 3rd with White (Away) socks
- Bristol Rovers
- Default 3rd
- 3rd with Black (Away) socks
- Charlton Athletic
- Default 3rd
- 3rd with Yellow (Away) socks
- Exeter City
- Default 3rd
- 3rd with Black (Home) shorts
- Lincoln City
- Default 3rd
- 3rd with White (Away) socks
- Peterborough United
- Default 3rd
- 3rd with Blue (Home) socks
- Reading
- Default 3rd
- 3rd with Blue (Home) socks
- Shrewsbury Town
- Default 3rd
- 3rd with White (Away) socks
- Birmingham City
- 9 Teams only used Home, Away kits and 3rd Kits with no variations
- Most worn Home Kit – 37, Bolton Wanderers (36 Default / 1 Variation)
- Most worn Away Kit – 16, Charlton Athletic (all Default) & Lincoln City (10 Default / 6 Variation)
- Most worn 3rd Kit – 11, Exeter City (9 Default / 2 Variation)
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… Blackpool wore Away Kit, Home Kit and then 3rd 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 / 24 League One season teams wore 95 Kits, this was an increase in the number kits compared to last season where 85 Kits were worn, as it stands this is the joint with the Championship with the fewest number of Kit Variations seen this season.
The most worn Kit in the League was Bolton Wanderers who wore their Home Kit in 37 times, wearing in it’s default look 36 times and with away shorts once, for an all white look. Peterborough United also wore their Home Kit 36 Kits, but did not wear any variations of their Home Kit.
Lincoln City wore change kits in all 23 Away games in their League One Campaign, wearing their all white Away Kit 10 times, their all black 3rd Kit 5 times and “Mash Ups” of these two kits in another 8 games!
For the second season in a row Charlton Athletic wore their change kits in 22 of their 23 away games, the only game which they wore their Home Kit away from The Valley was the game against Cambridge United on 12th April 2025.
Northampton Town, also matched this record of 22 of their 23 games in changes kit, their only use of Home Kit in an Away game was also at Cambridge United, on 29th March 2025.
Blackpool were another team on the road not to use their default Home Kit, wearing All Tangerine (using their 3rd shorts) when in their Home Kit away from Bloomfield Road
Bristol Rovers wore three variations of their Away kit, each one a different pair of socks. Home, Away and 3rd socks all used!
Huddersfield Town provided some interesting Kit Usage this season, however it was not them directly.. there was eight teams that had to use alternative socks when playing at Huddersfield (who use Black socks with their Home Kit), Birmingham City, Bolton Wanderers, Bristol Rovers (see above), Charlton Athletic, Lincoln City, Peterborough United, Wigan Athletic and Wrexham all used alternative socks.
Wrexham wore their Away at Home against Crawley Town on 21st September, this was to remember the 266 men who lost their lives in the Gresford Colliery Disaster on September 22, 1934.
There were some examples of Charity Kit Usage in League One this season.
Lincoln City, had the only dedicated Charity Kit worn on 25th January 2025.
Mansfield Town kept their tradition for support raise awareness for World Down’s Syndrome Day by wearing their Away socks with their Home Kit on 8th April 2025.
Stevenage wore their Charity 3rd Kit at Home on 18th April, they had worn this Kit on two previous occasions but this was the only time it was worn at Home.
There we have it, League One’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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