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We use cookies to give you the best service on our site. By continuing to use the site you consent to our Privacy Policy. More info Accept. Red and White. Gold and Black. AFC Bournemouth. Black and Red. White and Navy. AFC Wimbledon. Blue and Yellow. Yellow and Blue. Yellow and Navy. Aston Villa. Claret and Blue. Birmingham City. Blue and White. Blackburn Rovers. Bradford City. Claret and Amber. Yellow and Black. Navy and Turquoise. Bristol City. Purple and Green. Cardiff City. White and Blue. Green and White.

Yellow and Green. Crystal Palace. Financial problems caused the club to lose League of Ireland status in However, efforts were made to reform the team and Galway United returned to the League of Ireland in From what I could find, both Irish teams use the colors of claret and blue but in different styles.

Sometimes one color dominates the body with the opposite color being used a trim. Full kit histories were hard to come by but if readers have resources, please let me know. Trabzonspor were formed in after three amateur teams came together in the city of Trabzon, and their original colors were red and white.

After several years in the second division, the club achieved promotion to the top flight and in became the first club outside Istanbul to win the league title. From there the team enjoyed a decade of success winning five more league titles, finishing runners up three times plus celebrating three Turkish Cup wins. Trabzonspor are another team that chose their colors in honor of Aston Villa. The Colorado Rapids play in Major League Soccer MLS , and originally the club used green and white as primary colors, then the Rapids switched to black in blue in But in , the franchise key word re-branded.

The Rapids changed their logo and color palette to burgundy and sky blue. In the early years of the re-brand, sky blue was used as a secondary color. Italian side F. Rieti was brought to my attention about teams who wear claret and blue, or in this case amaranto and celeste. The club has been around since playing mostly in Serie C, with two seasons in Serie B in —47 and —48 and two seasons in Serie C2 in —06 and — Bottom of the table, they were penalized five points for missing payments at the beginning of the current campaign.

Information on the club and kit history was hard to track down. However, I did find pics of these some recent kits. This was another club brought to my attention on my original post about teams who wear claret and blue. This club has experienced a lot in years. Founded in , the club started with a halved navy blue and pink shirt paired with white shorts and navy socks. The club was referred to as the Terra Cottas during the season. A kit of white shirts with black shorts and socks was introduced in the s and was used in the late 50s and for most of the 60s and 70s.

Interesting that their strips have been manufactured by Macron, Joma and Umbro in recent seasons. The Terras were promoted to Conference South in and played in the National Conference fifth tier of English Football until their relegation in Picture courtesy of Peter Else Flickr.

One of the founders, Andy Morris, is still involved with the club and is now its chief executive. The Fields, as they are known, are currently playing in the Hellenic League Premier Division ninth level of English football. Westfields were unbeaten this campaign 20W 6D 0L and 13 points ahead, but unfortunately the season has been abandoned and all results expunged, with no promotion or relegation.

One of the highlights for the club was their FA Cup run during the —17 season. The club won six matches and qualified for the first round of the FA Cup for the first time in their history. Details from the tie here. This is their only major honor to date but the club were promoted to the Maltese First Division for the first time in and back to back third place finishes in and saw them enter the UEFA Europa League, winning their first round tie but falling at the second hurdle each time.

The home strip is a dark burgundy while the away set is deep sky blue. The club interchanges both sets to give them lots of flexibility for kit clashes. Cumbernauld United F. The team was formed in the s, dissolved in and restarted in , lasting until the start of World War II. United returned to the field in and have been going strong ever since. At the time of writing, Cumbernauld United F. The current strips are made by Stanno , a brand I had not heard of before.

Turns out Stanno is part of the Dutch Deventrade Group, which also oversees hummel. The club has climbed up the English football pyramid and now play in the Northern Premier League Premier Division, which is the 7th level of English soccer.

FA Vase triumph in picture courtesy of Chronicle Live. This competition is for teams playing below Step 4 of the English National League System or equivalently, below tier 8 of the overall English football league system. On top of that, the team won the Northern League with points. Current home strip picture courtesy of South Shields FC. South Shields claret and blue shirts and white shorts are an homage to their predecessors, who have used a multitude of color schemes over the last century—tangerine and black, red and green, blue and white, all white, amber and blue, all red and even white and green.

Historical Football Kits has previous iterations. In skimming a kit site on Facebook I came across this picture:. The club has bounced back and forth since getting promoted in , but is their third season in top flight, which has recently kicked off again after a short suspension due to COVID Crystal Palace also saw a chance to alter their fortunes through a change in strip colours, but eventually found their own distinct pallet.

Initially bearing identical kits to Aston Villa, it took the Eagles until to start tweaking their own strip. Palace have explored all four divisions of English football and even hosted Real Madrid at Selhurst Park in It was that year when the Croydon club paid tribute to the Galacticos white strip and successful heritage, by wearing an all lily-white kit of their own. Palace themselves were promoted to Division Two for the first time in their history after unsuccessful seasons in claret.

With the claret body discarded. The story of the Scunthorpe United creation is a little confusing, unlike that of their club colours. Scunny wore a classic body with sky blue sleeves, white shorts and claret socks with blue trim — the same as Aston Villa that year. After swapping between white and red shirts for the next two decades, they reverted back to the colours they chose to emulate in the early aughts. The city of Trabzon in Turkey homes Trabzonspor — would you believe — one of the most successful clubs outside of the three big Instanbul sides, Galatasaray, Fenerbahce and Besiktas.

After several years in the Second Division, the club achieved promotion to the top flight, and in became the first club outside of Istanbul to win the league title in what has become a world-famous colour pallet. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam.



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