Football Shirts

The latest football shirts & clothing, with official numbering & lettering available for your favourite replica team shirt. If you can't find what you are looking for use the shirt search in the top left corner of every page. Select the first letter of the team name you are looking for & you'll see all the football shirts available for that letter.

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Are listed above, if you want a shirt from another team then please choose the division your football team play in from those displayed to your left. If you are looking for a replica international shirt please click here, where you can see our full list of international shirts.

We hope you'll be able to find the sports clothing you are looking for, we have a large selection of football kits & merchandise available, so you can have the latest apparel to wear.

The latest shirts are the new liverpool shirt and the new chelsea shirt, these adidas made kits have only just be unveiled by the clubs and are now available to pre-order.

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.

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.

Numbers on the back

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.

Squad numbering

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 players shirts, meant the numbers were less meaningful but sales of replica kits rocketed.

Player names

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.

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