Chelsea 3rd shirts in the 90’s
Chelsea’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 persisted with this kit for one year before a new 3rd kit was launched.
At the beginning of the 1991 season, Chelsea completely redesigned their 3rd kit and brought out a yellow shirt. The yellow shirt contained a blue zigzag pattern and blue collar alongside several grey triangles. This was the final 3rd kit provided by Commodore before Amiga took over with a new design. The kit never really took off and was changed again in 1993.

In keeping with the recent yellow theme, a new 3rd kit was created in 1993 with new sponsor Amiga on the front. The shirt was predominately yellow with several black vertical stripes containing an even smaller white vertical stripe inside each of them. The shirt pattern continued through into the collar whilst the Amiga typeface was white with a hint of purple. All in all, the shirt looks slightly odd and it’s no surprise that it only lasted a year before being retired.

After the previous Amiga shirt was retired in 1994, Chelsea went without a 3rd kit for four years during the Coors Beer period before a new 3rd kit was brought out in conjunction with the Autoglass white away kit in 1998. The kit was predominately yellow, probably to keep in with the yellow theme of the away kits in the years before. However, unlike the previous Autoglass yellow away kit, this 3rd kit contains no light/dark blue mix and is designed almost identically to the 1998 white Autoglass kit. The only slightly difference is that the typeface and collar are black. Chelsea kept this kit until the turn of the millennium when a new 3rd kit was designed towards the end of Autoglass’s period as Chelsea’s sponsor.

