Welcome to the retro football shirts website, where we take you on a nostalgic look back on football kits over the years. We have shirts from all the Premier League teams and the famous clubs of the world, even some shirts from club's that don't even exist any more like Wanderers FC a 19th-century amateur football club, who were winners of the FA Cup on five occasions.
We take the first sponsor logos seen on shirts, like Hitachi on Liverpool or Holsten on Tottenham kits, and the more unusual strips teams have worn such as the Spurs in red shirts, Birmingham City as Penguins, Manchester United in indistinguishable grey, Coventry in chocolate brown and Everton wearing black shirts with a red diagonal stripe.
Tottenham kits of the nineteenth centuryFormed in 1882 and christened Hotspurs Football Club, Tottenham took more than a few years to establish the look which is now synonymous with the English top flight side, that is white shirts with navy blue shorts.
In fact, a fully white shirt wasn’t used until 1898, and the club wore red for six years. However [...]
Brazil Home Shirts in the 80’sBrazils’ home shirt in 1981, was, as always, the countries traditional shiny yellow. Made by Topper, the shirt consisted of its’ retro National badge, and the manufacturers logo. It was simplistic in its’ look, which is perhaps why it was so popular and is not too dissimilar to the Brazilian shirt of today. The [...]
West Ham Away Shirts in the 80’sWest Hams’ away shirt from 1980-83 was sticking to its traditional roots in still getting some claret and blue in there. The shirt was white, with a claret v-neck collar, and a thick claret line on the sleeve with individual thinner blue lines on them. The blue Adidas logo was to the left as the [...]
West Ham Home Shirts in the ’80sFrom 1980 to 1983, West Hams’ home shirt had no sponsor. It was plain in appearance, in the clubs’ traditional claret and blue, with claret stripes down the side of the sleeve. The shorts were white with claret stripes down the side, and the shirt had a v-neck collar. As always, the club crest and [...]
Liverpool away shirts in the 90’sThe first Liverpool away shirt of the 1990’s was brought out in 1991 to coincide with the home kit. It was the final shirt sponsored by “Candy” and is identical to the home shirt apart from it’s predominately green. The typeface is white and the Adidas template series is just the same as the home [...]
Liverpool home shirts in the 90’sThe first home shirt that Liverpool wore in the 1990’s was designed by Adidas and sponsored by Candy. This was the last Liverpool home kit worn before the start of the Premier League and was also the last kit sponsored by Candy before Carlsberg began sponsoring Liverpool (which is still going now). The kit is [...]
England home shirts in the 90’sIn the run up to the 1990 world cup, England brought out a new home shirt. The shirt below is a slightly modified version which was worn during the world cup but the design on both is identical. The shirt is traditionally white with faint silver Umbro patterns that run throughout it. The typeface is [...]
Chelsea 3rd shirts in the 90’sChelsea’s first 3rd kit of the 1990’s was launched in 1990 as an alternative to the white and red away shirt. The design was very simple, just a fairly plain red shirt with a white typeface. Nevertheless, this effort looks a lot better than the Commodore away shirt of the same year. However, Chelsea only [...]
England away and 3rd shirts in the 90’sThe first England away shirt to appear in the 1990’s. The kit was designed for the 1990 World Cup in Italy although it was actually never worn by the team during the tournament. The shirt is predominately red with faint white Umbro diamonds throughout. The actual layout of the strip is identical to that of [...]
Liverpool 3rd shirts in the 90’sLiverpool’s first third kit during the 90’s was brought out in 1994. The strip was manufactured by Adidas and was present during Adidas’s last two years as Liverpool’s kit maker. Nevertheless, the kit didn’t adopt the Adidas Template style which has become trademark with Liverpool kits. Instead, the kit was predominately yellow containing numerous faint [...]
