2018 World Cup kit-tracker – knockout stages

17 Tuesday Jul 2018

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Previous entries: Group A, Group B, Group C, Group D, Group E, Group F, Group G, Group H

Second round

France 4 Argentina 3

Surprisingly, but refreshingly, both sides were allowed to wear their full first-choice kits with no alterations. Argentina exited the tournament having only used one goalkeeper kit.

Uruguay 2 Portugal 1

Spain 1 Russia 1 (aet, 3-4 on penalties)

Russia’s home kit had match details in the middle but on the away, they were below the crest. The goalkeeper’s shirt followed suit for each game, meaning that Igor Akinfeev wore his blue (and green) kits with two different inscription versions.

Croatia 1 Denmark 1 (aet, 3-2 on penalties)

With both of Denmark’s kits clashing with Croatia’s home, the two teams changed.

Brazil 2 Mexico 0

In 2014, Mexico wore their away kit when the countries met in the group stage so it was nice to see both tri-coloured home strips here.

Brazil goalkeeper Alisson Becker switched to black, though his bright green was unlikely to have caused confusion with Mexico’s darker shade.

Belgium 3 Japan 2

This was certainly a match-up which would have resulted in one side changing kit in previous tournaments, but common sense continued to prevail in the knockout stages.

Sweden 1 Switzerland 0

Colombia 1 England 1 (aet, 3-4 on penalties)

With Colombia continuing to favour white shorts and socks, England wore their alternative away shorts, as they had done against Tunisia.

Quarter-finals

Uruguay 0 France 2

A fifth kit combination in as many games for France.

Brazil 1 Belgium 2

Sweden 0 England 2

All-red for England again despite Sweden’s blue shorts – their kitman Pat Frost said that Fifa had ordered the change as Robin Olsen’s shorts were a light shade.

Russia 2 Croatia 2 (aet, 3-4 on penalties)

The expectation might have been that Russia would have to change too, but they were allowed to wear their home shirts, with the proper socks back in action.

Semi-finals

France 1 Belgium 0

Another different combination for France, with the shorts changed too even though only the socks clashed. We’d have liked to have seen them in blue-white-white.

Croatia 2 England 1 (aet)

Despite being the away team, England were able to wear their home shirts, with the away shorts getting their first outing of the competition.

Croatia equalled France’s record from 2006 of wearing their change shirts for the fifth time.

Third-place play-off

Belgium 2 England 0

The outcome was the same as their group game but the visual was different as both teams wore their change kits, meaning England wore their proper away strip for the first time, their fourth different combination.

Final

France 4 Croatia 2

No seventh combination for France, but they won’t have minded. Croatia wore their home shirts for the first time since the Nigeria game, though again with white socks – along with Colombia, Egypt and Costa Rica, they didn’t get to wear their full first-choice outfit in the tournament.

2018 World Cup kit-tracker – Group C completed

02 Monday Jul 2018

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France 2 Australia 1

VAR and goal-line technology played roles as France got off to a winning start in the first game not to feature a team wearing adidas (the officials’ kits are made by the Germany company but they’re bereft of logos).

We actually quite like the three-tone blue of the French kit, but would have preferred the traditional red socks. Australia’s shirts feature a unique sleeve design – a wave design based on a rallying cry for a ‘sea of gold’.

Peru 0 Denmark 1

A meeting of two of the nicest kits in the tournament, for our money. Denmark switched to red shots.

Peru are Umbro’s only contract at the finals and if we were to have on quibble it’s the way the front number is applied, creeping onto the sash – surprisingly, the back number sits flush on the sash whereas Fifa insist the likes of Croatia must have a plain back.

Denmark’s shirt features a number of subtle details, while the goalkeeper’s outfit mirrors the design.

Denmark 1 Australia 1

Observers were left bemused by the fact that both teams changed kits, but according to Jack Henderson, a Danish player suffers from a rare colour-blindness which confuses red and gold.

The Danish change kit is a simple reversal of the home outfit, while Australia’s second strip is dark green with yellow trim, but with the shades used different to those of the first kit.

France 1 Peru 0

Though they were the ‘home’ team, France changed shorts, creating a look like that worn by Scotland against Peru in 1978.

Peru goalkeeper Pedro Gallese didn’t have match details on his shirt against Denmark, but he did here.

Denmark 0 France 0

A scorless draw was mutually beneficial as both sides advanced.

Denmark wore their ‘proper’ home kit, while France were in their change kit, with with red and blue flecks thoughout the torso and sleeves.

Australia 0 Peru 2

Peru went out on a high, Andre Carrillo scoring their first World Cup goal since 1982. Their change kit was essentially a reversal of the home, but with different Umbro diamond taping on the shoulders and shorts as well as a different neck style.

Fantasy Kit Friday – Grimsby Town in Hummel halves

25 Friday May 2018

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Peter Anderson is the man with today’s request:

@museumofjerseys a #fantasykitfriday request for you…..Grimsby Town using this ace template, please 😀 https://t.co/OvhwFLmb7c

— Peter Anderson (@pganderson) May 7, 2018

If you click on the link in the tweet, it shows a picture of the Southampton Hummel 1987-89 shirt, one of quite a few English club versions of the style worn by Denmark at the 1986 World Cup.

It’s a very versatile template, though the pinstripe colour running across the two halves is an important considerations so as not to make it too light or too dark. A Grimsby version is effectively a swapping of the red and black on the Southampton shirt.

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Fantasy Kit Friday, 13-4-18 – Home Nations special

13 Friday Apr 2018

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The tardiness of today’s offering should hopefully be compensated by the fact that it’s a bumper edition.

It’s the melding of two independent requests – Paul Thomas asked for a 1976 Home Internationals mix-up and then David Morrissey sought something similar from 2000, so we decided to bridge the gap and do 1988 as well.

That meant that each country could have one kit from each of the others, and the easiest way to do that was to do two pairings per year. We wanted to avoid putting countries in kits by the same manufacturer as they had at the time, and though there are slight quibbles – like Wales ending up in Umbro in each each of the three years – we’re fairly happy with the outcome.

There has been a little bit of artistic licence taken with trim colours, but if you have a problem with that, then – like Lance Armstrong in his infamous podium speech – I feel sorry for you.

1976

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1988

2000

Midweek Mashup – Benfica 1988 and 1990

21 Wednesday Mar 2018

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For more Portuguese kits, see the excellent Equipamentos Vintage site

Previously, we have looked at how all-white kits have become talismans for AC Milan in the final of the European Cup and Champions League – today’s entry may be the counterpoint to that.

All-red kits actually have quite a good record in the continental final, with an incredible run during the 1970s and early 80s. Ajax won the last of their three in a row in 1973 wearing red against Juventus and Bayern Munich were to then piece together a trio of their own, albeit having to wear white against Atletico Madrid in the first of those.

After Bayern came Liverpool’s two on the trot and both of Nottingham Forest’s final wins, in 1979 and ’80, came in their lucky red shorts. Liverpool were victorious again in 1981 and while the white-clad Villa beat Bayern in 1982, Hamburg restored all-red’s primacy as they beat Juve in ’83 while wearing their change kit and Liverpool won again in 1984.

It was third-time lucky for Juventus against all-red as they beat Liverpool amid the sad scenes in Heysel in 1985, but while Bayern wore a variety of red kits in reaching the 1987 final against Porto, coach Udo Lattek opted for blue shorts which didn’t work their charms.

A year later, Benfica made it to the final for the first time since the defeat to Manchester United at Wembley in 1968. Opposing them as they sought to break the Curse of Bela Guttmann were PSV Eindhoven.

The Dutch club, who had allowed Ruud Gullit to alter their strip two years previously, who lost the toss for choice of shirt colour but, to increase contrast, UEFA mandated that the Portuguese side wear red shorts.

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After a scoreless draw, the game went to penalties, where all of the regulation ten were scored before Anton Janssen scored for PSV in sudden-death and António Veloso missed for Benfica.

One other little thing of note was that adidas were making their first strides in breathable fabric – on the left sleeve there was a small ‘Climalite 2000’ tag (thanks to Simon Shakeshaft for making us aware of this).

While they hadn’t won the Portuguese league in 1987-88, Benfica bounced back by winning the title in 1988-89 and made it to the European Cup final once more in May 1990.

There they would face the holders Milan, who naturally opted for all-white, meaning another all-red costume for Benfica, with Hummel having replaced adidas.

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Unfortunately for Benfica, whether it was Guttmann’s curse or the red shorts, they fell short again, with Frank Rijkaard’s 68th-minute goal proving to be the winner.

In 1991-92, Benfica roasted Arsenal at Highbury to make the first-ever group stage and, had they beaten Barcelona at the Nou Camp in the final round of fixtures, they would have reached a third final in five years.

Unfortunately for them, they lost 2-1 and the closest they have come to the final since then have been four quarter-final appearances, in 1995, 2006, 2012 and 2016.

Great one-offs – Norwich City, 1985

18 Sunday Mar 2018

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By its nature, this series – see here for other articles – is more likely to include change kits, but there are instances of teams playing games in home-coloured unique kits.

In the past, cup finals were often a source of such outfits, and today’s entry is one of those examples. Next Saturday will mark the 34th anniversary of Norwich City winning the Football League Cup, known as the Milk Cup back then, as they beat Sunderland 1-0 (incidenally, both clubs would be relegated at the end of that season).

At the time, Norwich wore Hummel kits and in 1984-85 they had a fairly simple design, featuring the company’s chevrons down the arms. Hummel also liked to use their identifying marks down the sides of the body – as with Denmark’s Euro 84 kits – and these were the big additions for Norwich’s trip to Wembley.

As well as the commemorative text above the club crest, Norwich also had the logo of their sponsors, Poll Withey, changed from red to black for the occasion.

The latter alteration would become permanent for the 1985-86 promotion season but other than that, the only other difference would be narrow green stripes above and below the sponsor’s logo.

Incidentally, Norwich’s centre-back partnership of Steve Bruce and Dave Watson wore numbers 4 and 6 respectively in the final, as they did all season – see here for a piece on the reluctance of both players to wearing the Norwich number 5 shirt.

Fantasy Kit Friday, 26-1-18 – Aston Villa/Birmingham 1987 crossover

26 Friday Jan 2018

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Birmingham City fan Terry Griffin came up with an idea…

@museumofjerseys #FantasyKitFriday how about a swap of these two designs from 1987 pic.twitter.com/uoCndqs2GZ

— Terry Griffin (@mrhappy1875) January 5, 2018

…and we were only too happy to respond.

For Villa, the stripe on the midriff raised the question of whether the sleeves should be claret or blue, given how it affects the colour-proportions, but we went with the traditional.

The ‘Danish Dynamite’ style generally had a third accent colour, but in 1986 Birmingham had reverted to simple blue and white. We tried it with the previous red tertiary colour restored, but it didn’t look right.

Midweek Mashup – Denmark at the 1986 World Cup

04 Thursday Jan 2018

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As you may be aware, 2018 is a World Cup year and we are hoping to celebrate them with a lot of associated content, especially during the tournament itself.

There are a few other ideas on the burner too and we’ll start with a look at the celebrated ‘Danish Dynamite’ team of 1986 (if you haven’t already, the book of the same name by Rob Smyth, Lars Eriksen and Mike Gibbons is well worth a read).

The book details the development of the iconic half-and-half kit Hummel developed for Denmark, including how the initial hope was to have the same style on the shorts. They can be seen in this news item about the kit launch:

While FIFA had no problem with the distinctive shirts, they stopped short of allowing the shorts and so, as was traditional, Denmark went with white on the home kit and red on the away. In their four games in Mexico though, each set of shorts was worn with the ‘opposite’ shirt, meaning a different combination in each outing.

They began with a 1-0 win over Scotland, wearing the change kit:

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Then they blitzed Uruguay 6-1, wearing the red shorts with the home shirt:

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They rounded off an excellent group stage with a 2-0 victory over Germany, wearing the ‘proper’ home kit.

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A real buzz had begun to develop about Denmark and they were being talked of as potential winners, but the campaign ground to a halt as they lost 5-1 to Spain, this time wearing the home shorts with the away shirts.

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Fantasy Kit Friday, 1-12-17 – Olympique de Marseille

01 Friday Dec 2017

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At the end of the current season, Olympique de Marseille will end their relationship with adidas.

The three stripes first appeared on the club’s kit in 1974 and, barring a brief foray away in 1994-95 with Reebok and 1995-96 with Mizuno, the club have been in adidas since then (in the early 1990s, the German company and the club had strong links due to Bernard Tapie, but we won’t go into all of that).

From 2018-19, Puma will make the club’s kits, but David Clarke wondered how l’OM might have looked in strips by other makers and came up with three FKF suggestions.

First of all, Hummel’s 1986-88 Denmark look:

Then, the design Nike used for Brazil in 1998:

And, finally, Kappa’s Borussia Dortmund offering in 2011-12:

Midweek Mashup – Aston Villa, 1989

02 Wednesday Aug 2017

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For Aston Villa, sky-blue shorts are a regular go-to alternative when required.

A while back, we looked at how they were one of the options in 2011-12 season – and last season they also had mix-and-match options. In fact, in 2000-01, the home shorts were sky-blue.

Even if the away kit doesn’t complement the home colours, they’ve generally had change blue shorts, but for some reason, the start to the 1989-90 season – when Villa would go on to finish second – was an exception.

Why this should be the case was something of a surprise – they were still with Hummel and their previous sets, in the style of the 1986 Denmark kits, allowed for a lot of combinations.

The new away shirt was white with black sleeves and purple trim, but one would have thought that the previous claret shorts could have been used when required.

With the claret of the new home shirt slightly darker, it meant that Villa opted to wear it away to teams in red, with the away usually seen against sides in blue (due to referees seeking sleeve differentiation).

As the fixture-list would have it, Villa’s first league game of the season was away to Nottingham Forest. The home shirts were deemed okay, but the shorts had to be changed and so the away set were called into action:

Certainly unusual, but it didn’t seem to affect Villa as they drew 1-1. They would actually draw their first three games by that score before losing 2-1 at Southampton, but they bounced back thereafter and ended up finishing second to Liverpool.

By the end of the season though, Hummel had finally come up with blue shorts.

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