Apologies, we’re a bit later than planned with the results of last week’s poll.
We won’t go through every single strip that was included, but it is perhaps worth noting that there was one option which received zero votes – the current Bayern offering with its ‘Santa beard’.
The 2025-26 kit is only red and white, which technically ticks the box of the hard-line Bayern fans that wanted blue to be dispensed with.
However, five of the top six in the final standings feature blue – with the caveat that the electorate was a wider spectrum rather than merely supporters of the club.
There were two kits tied in fifth place, each receiving 7 percent of the vote. The 1997-1999 kit represented a major change when it was introduced – its inspiration was certainly a left-field one.
Receiving the same level of support was the highest blue-less offering – the 2013-14 outfit which was also used as Bayern won the 2012-13 Champions League final, when Arjen Robben scored the winner against Borussia Dortmund at Wembley.
Receiving one more vote than those two was the 2014-15 Bayern primary kit, the last time that they opted for stripes.
With 8 percent in third place was the 1999-2001 home strip, which took the colours of its precedessor and flipped the order of priority in a nice design.
It could perhaps be said to be a direct descendant of the the oldest option available to vote for, the 1991-93 home, which came second with 14 percent of the poll.
Utilising adidas’s ‘Equipment A’ design, it reintroduced blue to the home palette for the first time since the 1970s. Is successor, 1993-95, evolved the design but was not as popular – top ten here but no higher. However, the next one after that, 1995-97, proved to be the winner.
Perhaps benefiting from familiarity as the same style was used by Crystal Palace from 1996-98, it led from the off and garnered 18 percent of the votes.
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