I'm grateful to Martin Johnston, General Manager of Peterhead FC, who has submitted a photograph of the team's 1946-47 strip which provides us with details about the design of the crest worn around this time. If it was used it may have appeared in August 1988 at Old Trafford when Everton were beaten 1-0 by Manchester United in the Mercantile Trophy, a one-off competition organised to mark the centenary of the Football League, but I've not been able to confirm this. Earlier this month Macclesfield Town were wound up in the Insolvency & Companies Court. Scottish Premiership: Aberdeen, Celtic, Dundee United, Hamilton Academical. Scottish League One: Falkirk, Clyde, Cove Rangers, Dumbarton, Airdrieonians, East Fife, Montrose*, Partick Thistle. Sam, who was involved in the efforts to save the club, provided me with a detailed account of the events that followed their expulsion and argued that the club was not wound up and that the team now once again playing as Darlington FC, is the direct descendant of the club formed in 1883 and not, as I had stated, a phoenix club. Our St Petersburg Elf, Pavel Shalaev, recently sent me a link to the Football & the First World War website which has a fine collection of team photographs dating from the years immediately before and after the war. I would really appreciate help from the HFK Elves on this one! Club crests and sponsors' logos I am, as always, happy to set the record straight and have reinstated the Quakers' section in line with my policy for former members of the Football League. Football history. From these I've been able to make the following updates: Bradford City (socks corrected on graphics 1909-1920), Derby County (1912-13 collar added), Huddersfield Town (1914-15 added), Leeds United (1920-21 added), Leicester Fosse (1914-15 added), Middlesbrough (epaulettes enlarged on 1913-1936 graphics), Newcastle United (1914-15 added). In 1978 Motherwell organised a competition for younger supporters to design their strip for the 1978-79 season. (Photograph may be subject to copyright. are the intellectual property of their respective owners. They changed to navy and white stripes shortly afterwards. Harrogate Town (1964-65, 1998-99 added, 1977-78 socks corrected). Dec 20, 2017 - Historical Kits graphics brought to you by http://www.historicalkits.co.uk. The latest additions: Everton, Leicester City, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Middlesbrough, Millwall, Newcastle United, Northampton Town. (Cutting from the National Newspaper Archive.). From these I've been able to make the following updates: Bradford City (socks corrected on graphics 1909-1920), Derby County (1912-13 collar added), Huddersfield Town (1914-15 added), Leeds United (1920-21 added), Leicester Fosse (1914-15 added), Middlesbrough (epaulettes enlarged on 1913-1936 graphics), Newcastle United (1914-15 added). Club crests and sponsors' logos The royal blue shorts worn at Preston North End (reported in the Athletic News 3 March 1890) are therefore an anomoly. (Photograph Phil Harrison Official Club Historian.). Stenhousemuir had been inactive during the war but did participate in the Scottish Southern League B Division in 1945-46. Next week I'll resume work on historical material. This strip, worn by Stockport County in 1968-69, has always been one of my favourites. There is some confusion over their name: according to the scottishleague.net forum the press misinterpreted the name as Alloa Athletic FC (they were in fact Alloa Association Football Club) and the name stuck. (Photograph Aberdeen FC Official Website.). In the interim, the club was penalised 17 points by the EFL for repeated late payment of their players and failing to fulfill two of their fixtures. I have just one thing to say to the people at Nike and the FA who decided to introduce a blue change strip - Belo Horizonte 29 June 1950. Historical Football Kits; Commercial. Our St Petersburg Elf, Pavel Shalaev, recently sent me a link to the Football & the First World War website which has a fine collection of team photographs dating from the years immediately before and after the war. View Premier League kits by club and season, from 1992/93 to 2019/20. Lee Gauntlett has discovered that Aston Villa wore blue shirts in the FA Cup against Arsenal in January 1931 who wore white, while Roger Pashby has found this photograph from 1933 that definitively shows the light blue bands on Villa's heavy, woollen change jersey. Football Miscellany Series (Vision Sports Publishing 2007). League Two: Grimsby Town, Cheltenham Town (shorts/socks confirmed), Tranmere Rovers. The world's largest database of English football. Welcome to FootballHistory.org, a website about football history including competitions, teams and players. That wraps it up for the Premier League and EFL apart from some former members. At first glance the players are wearing two different shirt styles, but when I examined it more closely I noticed two players are in quartered tops. Former Members: Stockport County, Wrexham (socks confirmed). Our kit history now extends back to the formation of the original Harrogate AFC in 1919, pictured left. It appears likely that they were finally stung by press criticism of the scruffy appearance of the English national team into providing uniform kits in 1932. Browse Kitbag for official La Liga kits, shirts, and football kits! Kit History of the Home Nations. Armed with this material I have been able to update a lot od detailing on shirts between 1982 and 1999. Prior to the game, in accordance with FA Cup rules, the clubs agreed their colours for the match. This nicely fills a gap in the record for the early 20th century. Early football teams played in kit that was not dissimilar to that of cricket, and generally considered of shirt, flannel trousers, strong boots and a cap. Wigan Athletic applied for membership: competition was fierce and it took three ballots before the issue was decided - Shrewsbury and Scunthorpe were elected and Wigan would have to wait. In fact it is an archive photograph dating from 5 September 1885 when Albion still wore cardinal red and light blue jerseys. An unnamed sportswear manufacturer wrote, "As showing the superior quality of our football jerseys, we have again been favoured with instructions from the Scottish Football Association to supply jerseys for the great international matches - Scotland v England (primrose and pink), Scotland v Ireland (marone [sic]), Scotland v Wales (royal blue)." Sam, who was involved in the efforts to save the club, provided me with a detailed account of the events that followed their expulsion and argued that the club was not wound up and that the team now once again playing as Darlington FC, is the direct descendant of the club formed in 1883 and not, as I had stated, a phoenix club. (Photograph FIFA. In September these were replaced by shirts with plain collars but with the team heading towards relegation, the new design was dropped and the shirts from the previous season were reintroduced in February. Championship: Huddersfield Town, Birmingham City, Stoke City, Derby County, Nottingham Forest, Reading, Millwall (shorts detailing corrected), Sheffield Wednesday. With the help of Sam Walsh and Phil Harrison I have been able to add no fewer than 27 new graphics to the Harrogate Town section and added detailing to several more. Sponsorship Opportunites; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF SPONSORS; Squad. League One: Portsmouth, Milton Keynes, AFC Wimbledon, Oxford United. At the time my work took me around the country so I contrived to have time to call in on libraries and book shops around the UK. The database of the National Football Archive includes match-by-match line-ups and goal scorers for English Football League and Premier League clubs from the 1888-89 season to the present day. It's my opinion that these jerseys were worn throughout 1930-33 and that the journalist quoted above just missed out (or his sub-editor removed) a reference to the claret band. Scottish Premiership: Hibernian, Kilmarnock, Livingston, Motherwell, Rangers, Ross County, St Johnstone, St Mirren. Should have checked their Rothman's. Week Ending 29 August - More on the New Boys. On 11 April the Liverpool Echo reported, "A real bolt from the blue has happened in regard to the FA Cup final....Now the FA has ruled that both clubs shall leave blue entirely out of the picture.". Former Members: Stockport County, Wrexham (socks confirmed). Each season hundreds of new kits are launched but woe betide a club that gets it wrong, as was proved by Cardiff’s radical shift to red from the traditional blue back in 2012. Last month I was taken to task by Sam Clarke over my Darlington section where I stated that the club was effectively wound up when it was expelled from the Conference in 2012, relegated to the ninth tier and made to change its name to Darlington 1883. In my post about the mystery white Everton shirt on 23 November I mentioned the possibility that it may have been worn in the 1988 Mercantile Trophy. If it was used it may have appeared in August 1988 at Old Trafford when Everton were beaten 1-0 by Manchester United in the Mercantile Trophy, a one-off competition organised to mark the centenary of the Football League, but I've not been able to confirm this. Dundee (2019-20 shorts corrected): Stockport County (1991-92, 1992-93, 1998-99 detailing added/altered): Crawley Town (1996-97 added): Bury (1956-58 crest added): Nottingham Forest (1947-48 added): New Brighton (1924-28 corrected, 1927-38 socks amended): Bolton Wanderers (2002 anniversary kit stripes amended): Millwall (1975-77 warm & cold weather shirts now presented, authentic 1994 crest added): Cheltenham Town (1993-95 added): Gillingham (1980-81 collar corrected): Crawley Town (1998-99 shorts/socks confirmed): Salford City (1997-98 added): Burnley (2000-01, 2001-02 drop-sleeve detail added): Week Ending 26 September - 2020-21 Update. Former Members: Berwick Rangers, East Stirlingshire. At the time my work took me around the country so I contrived to have time to call in on libraries and book shops around the UK. Northern Ireland wore an all-white strip against Austria earlier this month. Berwick Rangers (1990-91, 1991-92, 1992-94 dates and detailing amended). This nicely fills a gap in the record for the early 20th century. Rangers (1st, 2nd, 3rd), St Mirren, Kilmarnock, Hamilton Academical, St Johnstone, Hibernian, Motherwell. A complete player database ensures that every player is … ), Week Ending 19 September - 2020-21 Update. are the intellectual property of their respective owners. After Bury were expelled from the EFL in August 2019 I wrote "it is only a matter of time before history repeats itself.". Their kit manager seems to have been a belt, braces, safety pins and another belt sort of chap as he laid on no fewer than four alternatives for the team to choose from. Berwick Rangers (1990-91, 1991-92, 1992-94 dates and detailing amended). Exclusive discounts are available from several of our retail partners using these codes at checkout: Premier/English Football League | Scottish Professional Football League. Four years later Wales met Scotland and in 1879 the Welsh team played England for the first time. In my post about the mystery white Everton shirt on 23 November I mentioned the possibility that it may have been worn in the 1988 Mercantile Trophy. In September 1982 Aberdeen travelled to Albania to play Dinamo Tirana in the European Cup-Winners Cup and wore this one-off strip, basically identical to their regular outfit but with contrasting V necks and cuffs. From the simplicity of the earliest kits of the late 19th/early 20th Century to the slick, sponsor laden, brand name kits of today, each club’s page on this website gives you an instant visceral history of your team. Rangers (1st, 2nd, 3rd), St Mirren, Kilmarnock, Hamilton Academical, St Johnstone, Hibernian, Motherwell. (Photograph FIFA. See more ideas about historical, bristol rovers, football kits. Read More 50 Years of Top Flight Kits Posted on 23rd May 2020 Step 2 Copy those folders to: \Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2018\graphics\kits\ Create folders "graphics" and "kits" if they don't exist already.Step 3 Run Football Manager 2018 and go to: Preferences > Interface Make sure that you tick the check box on the page called 'Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences' and un-tick then box saying 'Use … At first glance the players are wearing two different shirt styles, but when I examined it more closely I noticed two players are in quartered tops. Premier League: Aston Villa, Crystal Palace. Pictured here is the Sulphurites team from 1956-57, currently the only confirmed strip we have prior to 1985 but I hope to rectify this shortly. The royal blue shorts worn at Preston North End (reported in the Athletic News 3 March 1890) are therefore an anomoly. You can watch footage of the match here on the BFI website. Scottish Championship: Ayr United, Dundee. In fact it is an archive photograph dating from 5 September 1885 when Albion still wore cardinal red and light blue jerseys. Next week I'll resume work on historical material. The material on this site is copyright © Historical Football Kits, all rights reserved. After going through my own source material I realised that there were numerous errors, which, in my defence, arose because many of the photographs I was working from were of poor quality. Edinburgh City (1990-91, 1991-92, 1993-94, 1994-95, 1999-2000 added): Research by Peter Stevenson has allowed me to update Northampton Town's kit … The history of football (soccer) Football (or soccer as the game is called in some parts of the world) has a long history. Playing Squad; Contact Us; The Wee Rovers Lotto! You can watch footage of the match here on the BFI website. Nick from the splendid upthemaggies website has been in touch to confirm that Notts County were still refered to as "the chocolate and light blues" in the local press during 1889-90. Incidentally, the staunchly amateur FA insisted that players provide their own dark knickers and socks up until 1932. Back to Top. Scottish League Two: Stranraer, Elgin City, Cowdenbeath, Albion Rovers, Queen's Park, Stirling Albion*. Check out the evolution of England's soccer jerseys on Football Kit Archive. (Photograph may be subject to copyright. Although the photographic evidence is ambiguous, it appears that a clover-leaf crest was adopted for 1935-36 to celebrate their achievement in … I would really appreciate help from the HFK Elves on this one! This prompted me to look again at my photograph archive where I found this 1893-94 group showing the team posing with the committee and some impressive trophies. ), Steve Flanagan has found some interesting background to the strips worn in the 1933 FA Cup final between Everton and Manchester City. We have more today from Ian McConnel: Morton (1950-51 added), East Fife (1950-51 collar corrected, 1951-52 added), Raith Rovers (1950-Jan 1951 added, Feb-May 1951 socks corrected and four different strips worn in 1951-52 added - see right for March 1952 version) , Clyde (1950-52 added), St Mirren (1951-52), Heart of Midlothian (1950-51, Aug-Dec 1951 added), Third Lanark (1951-52 added), Elgin City (1949-54 detailing updated). League Two: Grimsby Town, Cheltenham Town (shorts/socks confirmed), Tranmere Rovers. ), Steve Flanagan has found some interesting background to the strips worn in the 1933 FA Cup final between Everton and Manchester City. Senior Scottish Elf, Alick Milne has submitted new evidence about the colours of the four clubs that amalgamated to form the modern Aberdeen FC in 1903. These included two sets of their familiar red shirts with white sleeves, two dozen red and white striped shirts (considered too narrow for their liking), two dozen borrowed from Sheffield United (with broader stripes) and two sets of shirts with broad red and white hoops. The photograph shows the Silkmen in happier times, 1969-70, when the team went on to win the FA Trophy. 30 October - More Scottish Post-War Updates. In September 2008 David France and Steve Flanagan confirmed that this was the team's official third shirt between 1986 and 1989 but it was never worn in a competitive match. Bernard Gallagher recently sent me this early photograph of West Bromwich Albion. Press cutting the British Newspaper Archive. Prior to the game, in accordance with FA Cup rules, the clubs agreed their colours for the match. Dundee (2019-20 shorts corrected): Stockport County (1991-92, 1992-93, 1998-99 detailing added/altered): Crawley Town (1996-97 added): Bury (1956-58 crest added): Nottingham Forest (1947-48 added): New Brighton (1924-28 corrected, 1927-38 socks amended): Bolton Wanderers (2002 anniversary kit stripes amended): Millwall (1975-77 warm & cold weather shirts now presented, authentic 1994 crest added): Cheltenham Town (1993-95 added): Gillingham (1980-81 collar corrected): Crawley Town (1998-99 shorts/socks confirmed): Salford City (1997-98 added): Burnley (2000-01, 2001-02 drop-sleeve detail added): Week Ending 26 September - 2020-21 Update. These included two sets of their familiar red shirts with white sleeves, two dozen red and white striped shirts (considered too narrow for their liking), two dozen borrowed from Sheffield United (with broader stripes) and two sets of shirts with broad red and white hoops. Unravelling the complex history of Aston Villa's kits in the Victorian period has been both challenging and rewarding and, although we have made a great deal of progress over the last two years, there are still some surprises to be found. Taken in April 1933 when Villa visited the Arsenal, this image shows the same jerseys that were worn in 1930-31. It's my opinion that these jerseys were worn throughout 1930-33 and that the journalist quoted above just missed out (or his sub-editor removed) a reference to the claret band. In September these were replaced by shirts with plain collars but with the team heading towards relegation, the new design was dropped and the shirts from the previous season were reintroduced in February. (Credits Paul Briers/Football & the First World War). This strip, worn by Stockport County in 1968-69, has always been one of my favourites. The latest additions: Everton, Leicester City, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Middlesbrough, Millwall, Newcastle United, Northampton Town. This section provides an archive of the publications that HFK has made contributions to. Every team from the English and Scottish Leagues, including new 2011-12 season. While the shirts look plain white, this is an illusion caused by our old nemesis, orthographic film stock. Sound familiar? The 2020-21 Premier League/EFL gallery is now open. Background. Their kit manager seems to have been a belt, braces, safety pins and another belt sort of chap as he laid on no fewer than four alternatives for the team to choose from. Lee Gauntlett has sent me a cutting that describes Aston Villa wearing jerseys that were "white with blue hoops" against West Ham United on 6 February 1932. (Cutting from the National Newspaper Archive.). Championship: Luton Town, Preston North End, Cardiff City, Coventry City. Here is another odd variant, worn by Morton in a few matches during the 1983-84 season. The players are wearing black shorts but as it was not taken on a match day we cannot be certain that this was their regular strip. Nik Yeomans has now provided me with a match programme that has a photograph of the Manchester United - Everton tie in question which shows the Toffees in an all-blue strip. League Two: Morecambe, Harrogate Town, Forest Green Rovers*, Crawley Town (socks confirmed), Exeter City, Leyton Orient, Newport County, Stevenage (shorts & socks confirmed). League One: Doncaster Rovers, Plymouth Argyle. Clyde (Aug-Sept 1946, October 1946 added), Greenock Morton (1948-49 added - see left), Heart of Midlothian (March 1949-1950 added), Stirling Albion (1949-50 added), Queen of the South (1947-52 socks modified), Raith Rovers (1949-50 socks modified). Such was the furore unleashed that the decision was reversed within a year; the … Read Article Read More Ian McConnel has submitted another batch of minor amendments for Scottish clubs, this time for 2018-19. In 1872 England played Scotland in the first ever international. League One: Doncaster Rovers, Plymouth Argyle. And that, aside from one or two sponsorship details still to be announced, wraps it up for the 2020-21 season. 29 October - Scottish Post-War Kits. Tony Sealey found this photograph of the 1902-03 Blackburn Rovers team in The Sunday Pictorial (3 November 1929). Southampton (2018-19 3rd & 2019-20 4th corrected), Burnley (2019-20 4th kit added). Bernard Gallagher recently sent me this early photograph of West Bromwich Albion. SPFL Update: Alloa Athletic, Annan Athletic, Arbroath, Brechin City, Edinburgh City*, Forfar Athletic, Greenock Morton, Peterhead*, Stenhousemuir*. Exclusive discounts are available from several of our retail partners using these codes at checkout: Premier/English Football League | Scottish Professional Football League. Incidentally, while researching the background to this match I discovered that the Warriors were wound up in May 1919 and reconstituted as a new club to avoid paying their debts. This commemorative certificate presented to John Devey to mark his benefit match in 1896 shows a Villa player wearing a quartered shirt but I had previously dismissed this, assuming the artist had misinterpreted the term which at the time usually described what we know as "halved" shirts. Week Ending 12 September - 2020-21 Update. As the senior club, Everton thought they were entitled to retain a blue motif but they reckoned without the disdainful approach of the FA to the professional game. It is not clear why they are wearing hooped jerseys in this game as there was no reason for them to change their normal maroon tops but it is possible that as clothing was rationed, they could not get hold of these and wore hoops as a temporary alternative. On the left is the unfortunate Stenhousemuir goalkeeper, "supported" by one of his defenders, failng to stop a corner flying directly into his goal in high winds.