Kit Tracking: The season so far…
If you’ve been scratching your head, trying to remember what kit City wore at Cardiff or Bolton, then scratch no more. Here’s a breakdown of what the Tigers have worn in 2017/18 to date.
Primary kit: With Sportpesa front of shirt sponsor, Burflex back of shirt sponsor, EFL sleeve patches and numbers, and WWF patch on back of shorts.
Worn in 26 games, of which 8 wins, 8 draws, 10 defeats.
Primary shirts/socks with alternate shorts: With Sportpesa front of shirt sponsor, Burflex back of shirt sponsor, EFL sleeve patches and numbers, and WWF patch on back of shorts.
Worn in 4 games, all four were defeats.
Primary kit with additional WWF applique on front of shirt.
Worn once, in a draw.
Primary kit with additional front of shirt poppy applique.
Worn once, drawn game.
Primary kit with alternate ‘Kits for Africa’ sponsor patch.
Worn once, in a draw.
Primary kit with FA Cup and Trawler memorial sleeve patches.
One game, one defeat.
Change kit: With Sportpesa front of shirt sponsor, Burflex back of shirt sponsor, EFL sleeve patches and numbers, and WWF patch on back of shorts.
Three games, of which 1 draw, 2 defeats.
Third kit: With Sportpesa front of shirt sponsor, Burflex back of shirt sponsor, EFL sleeve patches and numbers, and WWF patch on back of shorts.
Three games, 2 wins, 1 defeat.
Aqua keeper kit
Worn 16 times.
Coral keeper kit
Worn 14 times
Blue keeper kit
Worn 9 times.
| Fixture | Kit |
| Championship Sa 5th Aug 2017 Aston Villa 1 City 1 |
Home kit, Aqua keeper kit |
| Championship Sa 12th Aug 2017 City 4 Burton 1 |
Home kit, Coral keeper kit |
| Championship Tu 15th Aug 2017 City 2 Wolves 3 |
Home kit, Coral keeper kit |
| Championship Sa 19th Aug 2017 QPR 2 City 1 |
Home kit, Coral keeper kit |
| League Cup Tu 22nd Aug 2017 Doncaster 2 City 0 |
Home kit, Coral keeper kit |
| Championship 25th Aug 2017 City 4 Bolton 0 |
Home kit, Coral keeper kit |
| Championship Fr 8th Sep 2017 Derby 5 City 0 |
Home kit with amber alt. shorts, Blue keeper kit |
| Championship Sa 16th Sep 2017 City 1 Sunderland 1 |
Home kit (with WWF appliques), Aqua keeper kit |
| Championship Sa 23th Sep 2017 Reading 1 City 1 |
Home kit, Aqua keeper kit |
| Championship Tu 26th Sep 2017 City 1 Preston 2 |
Home kit, Blue keeper kit |
| Championship Sa 30th Sep 2017 City 6 Birmingham 1 |
Home kit, Aqua keeper kit |
| Championship Sa 14th Oct 2017 Norwich 1 City 1 |
Away kit, Blue keeper kit |
| Championship Sa 21st Oct 2017 Barnsley 0 City 1 |
Third kit, Aqua keeper kit |
| Championship Sa 28th Oct 2017 City 2 Forest 3 |
Home kit, Aqua keeper kit |
| Championship Tu 31st Oct 2017 City 1 Middlesbrough 3 |
Home kit, Aqua keeper kit |
| Championship Sa 4th Nov 2017 Sheffield Utd 4 City 1 |
Away kit, Coral keeper kit |
| Championship Sa 18th Nov 2017 City 2 Ipswich 2 |
Home kit (with poppy appliques), Aqua keeper kit |
| Championship Tu 21st Nov 2017 Millwall 0 City 0 |
Home kit, Coral keeper kit |
| Championship Sa 25th Nov 2017 City 2 Bristol City 3 |
Home kit, Coral keeper kit |
| Championship Sa 2nd Dec 2017 Sheffield Weds 2 City 2 |
Home kit, Aqua keeper kit |
| Championship Sa 9th Dec 2017 City 3 Brentford 2 |
Home kit, Aqua keeper kit |
| Championship Sa 16th Dec 2017 Cardiff 1 City 0 |
Away kit, Coral keeper kit |
| Championship Sa 23th Dec 2017 Leeds 1 City 0 |
Home kit, Coral keeper kit |
| Championship Tu 26th Sep 2017 City 0 Derby 0 |
Home kit (with Kits For Africa sponsor), Aqua keeper kit |
| Championship Sa 30th Dec 2017 City 2 Fulham 2 |
Home kit, Aqua keeper kit |
| Championship Mo 1st Jan 2018 Bolton 1 City 0 |
Home kit with amber alt. shorts, Blue keeper kit |
| FA Cup Rd 3 Sa 6th Jan 2018 Blackburn 0 City 1 |
Home kit, Aqua keeper kit |
| Championship Sa 13th Jan 2018 City 0 Reading 0 |
Home kit, Aqua keeper kit |
| Championship Sa 20th Jan 2018 Sunderland 1 City 0 |
Home kit with amber alt. shorts, Coral keeper kit |
| FA Cup Rd 4 Sa 23th Jan 2018 City 2 Forest 1 |
Home kit, Aqua keeper kit |
| Championship Tu 30th Jan 2018 City 0 Leeds 0 |
Home kit, Blue keeper kit |
| Championship Sa 3rd Feb 2018 Preston 2 City 1 |
Home kit with amber alt. shorts, Blue keeper kit |
| Championship Sa 10th Feb 2018 Forest 0 City 2 |
Third kit, Coral keeper kit |
| FA Cup Rd 5 Fri 16th Feb 2018 Chelsea 4 City 0 |
Home kit (with Trawler memorial patches), Aqua keeper kit |
| Championship Tu 20th Feb 2018 Middlesbrough 3 City 1 |
Third kit, Coral keeper kit |
| Championship Fri 23th Feb 2018 City 1 Sheffield United 0 |
Home kit, Blue keeper kit |
| Championship Tu 27th Feb 2018 City 1 Barnsley 1 |
Home kit, Blue keeper kit |
| Championship Tu 6th Mar 2018 City 1 Millwall 2 |
Home kit, Coral keeper kit |
| Championship Sa 10th Mar 2018 City 4 Norwich 3 |
Home kit, Blue keeper kit |
City try a new look at Derby
City’s performance was ugly at Derby, as the Tigers’ automatic promotion hopes took a potentially fatal blow in a 4-0 defeat. Their sartorial showing was below par too, as City elected to pair the away kit’s white shorts and socks with the home shirt.
The mash-up seems an odd choice, inconsistent with how we’ve worn the home shirt with non-standard shorts so far this season. At Sheffield Wednesday in October, City used the amber alternate shorts (designed for use with the 2014/15 home kit) since the primary kit shorts of the home side are black. That look was replicated at Brentford in November, again to avoid a black shorts v black shorts clash and again at Bury in late January in the FA Cup 4th round.
City have also worn amber alternate shorts at Derby before, in 2011/12 in a 2-0 win and in 2012/11, another win, this time 2-1. The amber on white/white mash-up is the seventh look the Tigers have sported this season: in addition to the regular home kit (1), full away kit (2) and all-amber when away (3) ensembles, they’ve worn black home shorts with the white away shirts and socks (4, at Charlton), the white away shirts with home shorts and socks (5, at Forest) and the blueprint/scuba blue third kit (6) twice, at Bristol City and Rotherham.
The Derby away game also saw a first airing of the deep blue ‘keeper kit since late December when it was at Preston. You can view our updated season kit tracker here.
Kit Tracking – The season so far
When the third kit makes its first match appearance at Bristol City on 21st November, City will have worn 6 different ‘looks’, or kit combinations in 2015/16.
There are 13 possible combinations, presuming the third kit will never have parts mixed and matched with elements of the home and away kits given the colours (‘blueprint and scuba’, cuh!) and that it has no alternate shorts. The home and away kits on the other hand are very much interchangeable, we’ve already seen three ‘mash-ups’ in addition to the standard home (amber shirts, black shorts, amber socks) and away (white shirts, shorts and socks) looks to date this season.
With the two shirt styles, three sets of shorts styles and two sock types, it’s possible to wring 12 combinations out of the home and away kits. Some might be quite interesting, white shirts, amber shorts and white socks for example, some much less so, amber shirts, black shorts and white socks would look rather daft (as it did at Millwall in 2010/11).
Focusing just on the five combinations that we’ve already seen so far this season, let’s keep track of them…
Primary kit
Worn 13 times: v Huddersfield Town, at Accrington Stanley, v Fulham, v Rochdale, v Preston North End, at Brighton & Hove Albion, v Queens Park Rangers, v Swansea City, v Blackburn Rovers, v Ipswich Town, v Birmingham City, v Leicester City, at MK Dongs.
Home kit with alternate shorts
Worn 2 times: at Sheffield Wednesday, at Brentford.
Change kit
Worn 2 times: at Wolverhampton Wanderers, at Cardiff City.
Alternate change kit 1
Worn 1 time: at Charlton Athletic.
Alternate change kit 2
Worn 1 time: at Nottingham Forest.
Here’s a full breakdown including keeper kits…
| Fixture | Kit |
| Championship Sa 8th Aug 2015 City 2 Huddersfield 0 |
Home kit, Green keeper kit. |
| League Cup R1 Tu 11th Aug 2015 Accrington 2 City 2 (AET & Pens. W4-3) |
Home kit, Blue keeper kit. |
| Championship Su 16th Aug 2015 Wolves 1 City 1 |
Away kit, Blue keeper kit. |
| Championship We 19th Aug 2015 City 2 Fulham 1 |
Home kit, Green keeper kit. |
| Championship Sa 22nd Aug 2015 Charlton 2 City 1 |
Away kit with black home shorts, Green keeper kit. |
| League Cup R2 Tu 25th Aug 2015 City 1 Rochdale 0 |
Home kit, Green keeper kit. |
| Championship Sa 29th Aug 2015 City 2 Preston 0 |
Home kit, Green keeper kit. |
| Championship Sa 12th Sep 2015 Brighton 1 City 0 |
Home kit, Green keeper kit. |
| Championship Tu 15th Sep 2015 Cardiff 0 City 2 |
Away kit, Green keeper kit. |
| Championship Sa 19th Sep 2015 City 1 QPR 1 |
Home kit, Green keeper kit. |
| League Cup R3 Tu 22nd Sep 2015 City 1 Swansea 0 |
Home kit, Green keeper kit. |
| Championship Sa 26th Sep 2015 City 1 Blackburn 1 |
Home kit, Green keeper kit. |
| Championship Sa 3rd Oct 2015 Nottm. Forest 0 City 1 |
Away shirt with home shorts/socks, Blue keeper kit. |
| Championship Sa 17th Oct 2015 Sheff. Wednesday 1 City 1 |
Home kit with amber alt. shorts, Green keeper kit. |
| Championship Tu 20th Oct 2015 City 3 Ipswich 0 |
Home kit, Green keeper kit. |
| Championship Sa 24th Oct 2015 City 2 Birmingham 0 |
Home kit, Green keeper kit. |
| League Cup Tu 27th Oct 2015 City 1 Leicester 1 (AET & Pens. W5-4) |
Home kit, Green keeper kit. |
| Championship Sat 31st Oct 2015 MK Dons 0 City 2 |
Home kit, Blue keeper kit. |
| Championship Tu 3rd Nov 2015 Brentford 0 City 2 |
Home kit with amber alt. shorts, Blue keeper kit. |
Kit Tracking – The season so far
| Fixture | Kit |
| Europa League Q3 Th 31st Sep 2014 AS Trenčín 0 City 0 | Home kit, purple keeper kit |
| Europa League Q3 Th 7th Aug 2014 City 2 AS Trenčín 1 |
Home kit, purple keeper kit |
| Premier League Sa 16th Aug 2014 QPR 0 City 1 |
Away kit, Aqua keeper kit |
| Europa League PO Th 21st Aug 2014 Lokeren 1 City 0 | Third kit, purple keeper kit |
| Premier League Su 24th Aug 2014 City 1 Stoke 1 |
Home kit, purple keeper kit |
| Europa League PO Th 28th Aug 2014 City 2 Lokeren 1 (2-2 on agg. Eliminated, away goals rule) | Home kit (Euro style with plain amber back panel) with amber alternate shorts. purple keeper kit. |
| Premier League Su 31st Aug 2014 Aston Villa 2 City 1 |
Away kit, yellow keeper kit. |
| Premier League Mo 15th Sep 2014 City 2 West Ham 2 |
Home kit, Aqua keeper kit. |
| Premier League Sa 20th Sep 2014 Newcastle 2 City 2 | Third kit, Aqua keeper kit. |
| League Cup 3R We 24th Sep 2014 West Brom 3 City 2 |
Home kit (Euro style with plain amber back panel) with amber alternate shorts. Purple keeper kit. |
| Premier League Sa 27th Sep 2014 City 2 Manchester City 4 |
Home kit, Purple keeper kit. |
| Premier League Sa 4th Oct 2014 City 2 Crystal Palace 0 |
Home kit, Aqua keeper kit. |
| Premier League Sa 18th Oct 2014 Arsenal 2 City 2 |
Away kit, Aqua keeper kit. |
| Premier League Sa 25th Oct 2014 Liverpool 0 City 0 |
Third kit, Aqua keeper kit. |
| Premier League Sa 1st Nov 2014 City 0 Southampton 1 |
Home kit (with poppy appliqués), Purple keeper kit. |
| Premier League Sa 8th Nov 2014 Burnley 1 City 0 |
Home kit (with poppy appliqués),Aqua keeper kit. |
| Premier League Su 23rd Nov 2014 City 1 Tottenham 2 |
Home kit, Purple keeper kit. |
| Premier League Sa 29th Nov 2014 Manchester United 3 City 0 |
Home kit, Aqua keeper kit |
| Premier League We 03rd Dec 2014 Everton 1 City 1 |
Home kit, Aqua keeper kit |
| Premier League Sa 06th Dec 2014 City 0 West Brom 0 |
Home kit, Aqua keeper kit. |
| Premier League Sa 13th Dec 2014 Chelsea 2 City 0 |
Home kit, Aqua keeper kit. |
August Kit News Round-Up
Kit supplier adidas released a statement yesterday, apologising for delays in the production and delivery of City’s 2013/14 training kit. The Tigers had been wearing neon yellow and navy training kit in pre season while their own blue or black apparel was being produced, evidently wearing gear made for Sunderland (their away kit is neon yellow and navy) badged with City crests as an interim measure. Consequently the launch date for new training gear on sale in Tiger Leisure has been and gone, hence the apology from the German sportswear giant. We rather like the neon yellow apparel, and would love to get our hands on some, whether part of City’s current palette or not.
Of more concern than the training kit is the home kit shorts, which have also been delayed. City wore the new home shirt and fetching hooped socks in friendlies at North Ferriby and Winterton last month, using shorts from last season’s kit range. At Ferriby, the black 2012/13 home shorts were worn, with the ‘home’ amber alternate shorts from the last campaign being used against Winterton Rangers.
Wanting to take a complete new kit to Portugal, kit man John Eyre elected to use the royal blue, white and red away kit in two friendlies played in Albufeira. The full away kit with red socks was used in the 0-0 draw against Sheffield Wednesday, in which the Owls wore their new away kit (a black and yellow affair made by Puma). Against SC Braga however, City debuted alternate blue socks against the Portuguese League Cup holders, who use red socks with their primary kit.
Goalkeeper kits from 2012/13 were used in all friendlies until City ventured to eastern Germany to face Dynamo Dresden. Alan McGregor wore the light green 2013/14 ‘keeper kit for the first time in the 1-0 win at the glücksgas stadion, while the outfield players wore the full away kit as Dresden play in yellow and black. The Dynamo game proved educational, teaching us the German word for kitman; John Eyre was listed in the matchday programme as City’s ‘Zeugwart’.
