From Le Coq Sportif to Adidas - 11 iconic Sheffield United home kits
Older football fans will remember the days when kits were released every couple of seasons and clubs only had two strips to choose from.
By Ashley Booker
Published 8th Oct 2020, 12:54 BST
Updated 9th Oct 2020, 10:50 BST
But nowadays they are launched every summer, with some clubs releasing a third kit – even though they rarely get worn throughout the season.
Despite this, and whatever the costs, some fans will always rush out to buy a new shirt – whether it’s good, bad or downright ugly.
Here's a trip down memory lane to look back at 11 iconic Sheffield United home kits . . .
Here's a trip down memory lane to look back at 11 iconic Sheffield United home kits . . .
9. Le Coq Sportif 2006
The French kit suppliers came up with this traditional look for the Championship promotion winning campaign of 2005-06. Having opted for the white shorts, white socks look three years earlier, this time around they brought back the black shorts and black shirts vintage. It obviously did the trick as United went one better than 2003 and secured promotion to the top flight for the first time in 12 years. Photo: Nigel Roddis
German sportswear giant Adidas came along in 2014 and a year later produced this redesign for United's 125 year anniversary, providing a retro flashback with a red pinstripe and classic club crest - much like the early kits in the 1890s. On the pitch, things weren't too great to put it mildly. United finished 11th in League One under Nigel Atkins, who was sacked in May 2016 and replaced by Chris Wilder. The rest, as they say, is history. Photo: Jan Kruger
To be honest, we could have picked any one of the Adidas kits since 2016 but opted for this because, in a nutshell, it's the strip which United sported during their first season back in the Premier League after an absence of 12 years. It will be the kit Unitedites will look back on in years to come as the one their side played in when they took the top flight by storm and were in with a real chance of qualifying for European football right up until the final few weeks of the season. Yes, a classic it will be . . . Photo: Stephen Pond