Football Shirts

The latest football shirts & kits, with official numbering & lettering available for your replica team shirt, with all the new kits news.

The most popular kits are listed to the right, if you want a shirt from another team please choose the division they play in from those on the left, international kits are here.

Player shirts; Barcelona's Fabregas, David Villa & Lionel Messi. Real Madrid's; Cristiano Ronaldo. Luis Suarez & Andy Carroll at Anfield, Chicharito & Wayne Rooney at Old Trafford & Chelsea's Fernando Torres.

Latest New Kits News

SC Paderborn 07 Kits for 2013/14 Season
SC Paderborn 07 is a German football club from the North Rhine-Westphalia state. The club’s home stadium can hold up to 15,000 supporters and is called the Benteler Arena. The team currently participates in the Second Bundesliga (2. Bundesliga). In ̷...

Erzgebirge Aue 2013/14 Nike Home and Away Kits
Erzgebirge Aue is a German football club from the Saxony state. The team currently participates in the Second Bundesliga, the second tier of the German league system, after they were promoted from the third level in 2009...

Partick Thistle 2013/14 Joma Kits - Partick Thistle is a Scottish football club which played the 2012/13 season in the se...
Official: West Ham United adidas Home Shirt 2013/14 - Here is the new West Ham adidas home shirt for the 2013/14 which can be see...
Anzhi Makhachkala Nike Home Kit 2013/14 - FC Anzhi Makhachkala have unveiled their new Nike home shirt for the 2013/1...

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All about football kits

A soccer shirt known in europe as a football shirt is worn for Association Football (soccer) matches, it is usually short sleeved, but during the winter months many players will use a long sleeved version. Nowadays they are very similar to rugby union shirts, which was not the case previously, all the information we provide on rugby shirts is thanks to the guys at rugbyshirts.net

Kits were originally heavy and made from cotton, today's are polyester and nylon based and much lighter to wear. Original shirts had buttoned collars, nowadays they don't tend to have buttons and are sometimes collarless. We have a full range of retro shirts, but you should also take a look at retro football shirts who have everything and a closer look at the teams. We've stopped covering football boots and leave that to the experts like the guys at Football Boots.co.uk

Numbers on the back of shirts

The earliest record of the use of numbers on the back of football kits was 25th August 1928, when Chelsea & Arsenal both used them in their league games. In 1939 the numbering of players shirts was introduced by the Football League Management Committee, over the years the convention changed as formations did and eventually it was difficult to associate a number with a position, although number 1 has always been the goalkeeper.

In 1965 a change in the rules saw substitutions allowed for the first time, however only to replace injured players, this was expanded in 1966 to allow them for any reason. The outfield substitutes would wear the numbers 12 & 14 with the reserve goalkeeper wearing 13.

At the 1954 World Cup FIFA required teams to use a squad numbering system, shirt numbers were given to all the players on a nation’s squad and they used the same shirt number for all the tournament. The advent of squad numbering on the back of player shirts, meant the numbers were less meaningful but sales of replica kits rocketed. The League Cup final of 18 April 1993 saw the first player names on the back of shirts and from the 1993-94 Premiership squad names and numbers were used. Shirts bearing player names as well as numbers were first used in World Cup final tournament play at the 1994 tournament in the U.S.A.