The Worst Football Kits of All Time

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The Worst Football Kits of All Time

The Worst Football Kits of All Time

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The 1985-87 home strip worn by North London rivals, Tottenham , and produced by Hummel made the cut too.

Tartan should only be seen in the crowd - and only then in the form of kilts and 'comedy' tartan caps with ginger hair in the Tartan Army. It should never, repeat, never be used on a football shirt. Glad we've made that clear. A perfectly nice yellow shirt that someone has decided to scrawl over with marker pen. What a shame. Oh, that's the real kit? Is it...is it really. This drabbest of grey kits, which looks like the carpet of an insurance company's regional office, has gained legendary status after it was famously ditched at half-time in a match Manchester United were losing 3-0 at Southampton. That already makes it worthy of our list before we learned of United manager Sir Alex Ferguson's reasoning that the players couldn't see each other. There might be some truth to this incredible excuse as defender Gary Neville, who was playing that day, revealed years later that they actually had an eye coach: Professor Gail Stephenson from Liverpool University. Yes, really. This looks like one of Nelson Mandela's shirts. And, while Nelson could pull off this look, no-one else can. You are not, and never will be, as cool as Nelson Mandela and don't you forget it. Coventry’s brown away shirt – now much sought after by collectors – also made the top 20, along with the Mexican goalkeeper top from 1994 and England’s goalkeeper top from 1996.The colour of this kit, described as "lightning pink" by manufacturer Le Coq Sportif, was meant to make the players more visible to each other. It was also inspired by the club's kit from the 1890-91 season, when the Toffees won their first of nine league titles. Midfielder Leon Osman admitted it "caused a bit of a stir in the dressing room" and was a "brave" design, while the club's chief executive Robert Elstone said at the time: "We want this new kit to help take Everton to the next level." They won four away games that season.

When the Guggenheim Museum opened in 1997, Bilbao became the home for Spanish arts. Well, 7 years later, Athletico took this a little too far by celebrating their centenary with a kit designed by Basque artist Dario Urzay. Ketchup on a shirt, yes. We thought long and hard about this one. They are the Tigers after all. Is it actually quite cool? No. It is not. It looks like it's been made from the offcuts from Del Boy's duvet. Still, the earl's family remain Hearts fans to this day, and his great-great-great-grandson, Caspian Primrose, has been a mascot for the current side.

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When the South Korean Football Federation released an updated badge with a sleek new tiger logo, they needed a kit to match. Or so they thought -- those of us who witnessed Hull City's 1992 kit (No. 33) know that's a terrible idea. What the Korean team got in the end was a shirt that looked like something "101 Dalmatians" villain Cruella de Vil would wear. The kit was released earlier this year and hasn't been worn yet. Scunthorpe United clearly saw Peterborough's effort the year before and thought "we love that, let's do something similar". But 101 of them? Come on, no one deserves that, no matter how much you love to loathe them. So we've narrowed it down to 39, which is right on the limit of how many abhorrent designs we can handle in one place.

The 2013-14 season was a bad one for the Reds: not only did they throw away their best shot at a first title in 24 years but they did so in this horrendous away kit. In their next match after Steven Gerrard's infamous slip in a home defeat to Chelsea, Liverpool wore this shirt during the infamous "Crystanbul" game at Crystal Palace, when they lost a three-goal lead and, with it, their hopes of winning the title. This jersey, featuring a diamond print that manufacturers Warrior called " a refreshed interpretation of the graphics featured in the 1989-91 away strip," was unveiled with the cringeworthy hashtag "#RiseUpLFC," which includes all the letters you need to make "#USlipFC." No one tell Gerrard.Let’s be honest, this kit is a bit of an eyesore. I personally don’t really fancy it, but it is undeniably one of the most iconic kits in Everton history. “The white bib”, as it has been dubbed, was worn during the 1985/86 season, which fell between Everton’s two title wins in the ’80s. The Toffees finished second, just two points behind their neighbors across Stanley Park, whom they were also defeated by in the FA Cup Final. However, the kit became synonymous with Gary Lineker’s famed single-season at Goodison Park, in which the Englishman led the First Division with 30 league goals, and bagged 40 in all competitions for Howard Kendall’s side. In terms of design, this kit leaves a lot to be desired, but this list would be incomplete without it regardless. Looking like something out of a New York club at the height of disco fever, it's the combination of grey shirt with 45-degree angle purple pinstripe, and the shiny purple shorts that really seals this horrendous kit's place in our list. We'd love to see anyone try and wear this on a Saturday night out in Sheffield and escape intact. For a start, orange and grey don't really work together and, secondly, the top half just seems to be a strange assortment of different sized oblongs. Utterly nonsensical.



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