The Complete History of the Football Jersey
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 มี.ค. 2022
- Try The Athletic for FREE for 30 days: theathletic.com/tifofootball
Football kit culture has become big business over the past few years. It’s estimated that the top ten clubs sold over 20 million shirts in 2021 between them. These days wearing a football shirt is not just about representing your club, it's about style.
But where do football kits originate? Was there a time before kits? How have they changed?
David Goldblatt explores. Henry Cooke illustrates.
Follow Tifo Football:
Twitter: / tifofootball_
Facebook: / tifofootball
Instagram: / tifofootball_
Listen to the Tifo Football podcast:
The Athletic UK: bit.ly/TifoPodChannel
Apple Podcasts: bit.ly/TifoFootPod
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/06QIGhq...
Watch more Tifo Football: Tactics Explained: • Tactics Explained | Ti...
Finances & Laws: • Finances & Laws | Tifo...
Tifo Football Podcast: • Tifo Football Podcast
Most Recent Videos: • Most Recent Videos | T...
1 Popular Videos: • Popular Videos | Tifo ...
About Tifo Football:
Tifo loves football. We create In-depth tactical, historical and geopolitical breakdowns of the beautiful game.
We know there’s an appetite for thoughtful, intelligent content. For stuff that makes the complicated simple.
We provide analysis on the Premier League, Champions League, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga, World Cup and more.
Our podcasts interview some of the game’s leading figures. And our editorial covers football with depth and insight.
Founded in 2017 and became a part of The Athletic in 2020. For business inquiries, reach out to tifo@theathletic.com.
Music sourced from epidemicsound.com
Additional footage sourced from freestockfootagearchive.com
#FootballKits #Shirts - กีฬา
I like how they introduce Adama Traore to show that the football kits nowadays is strong and not easily torn.
it truly is the little details that make Tifo great
Ok
Just a shame that he flops on the ground as soon as a defender goes within 5 yards of him
@@Mikeb1001 he's been humbling defenders in La Liga playing under Xavi's system... What are you on about? Defenders literally bounce and fall off, on contact with him
@@xinavswok4607 In the Premiership he flopped on the floor whenever anyone went near him
They should absolutely do a throwback match where players have to play in suits and top hats, or dressed like miners from 1901.
Lol. Great idea. Give the proceeds to charity.
The closest we've gotten to that was the FIFA centennial match in 2004 between Brazil and France. Both teams played the first half with kits based on their first-ever international kits.
West Ham played in their original dark navy Thames Ironworks kit in the first ever game at their new stadium
I would love that!
I seem to recall that in 1985, Aberdeen (playing as Bon Accord) and Arbroath re-created the legendary 36-0 match in old style kits and some players even wore walrus moustaches.
As a Bolton fan I would love to claim we were in a World Cup final.
Pretty sure you meant 53’ FA Cup final.
Who cares, Joe, you’re voice is like velvet.
I just picked up on the same thing and popped captions on to make sure 😂
Those World Cup giants: Brazil, Italy, Argentina...Bolton!
Must have been that season Bolton played Chicago Fire in the final
Quite a fall from grace for Bolton - going from having their own World Cup place and tournament in '53 to whatever they're up to now. How the mighty do languish now. And yes, I am a Man United fan
I started to question if there was a whole part of football history I wasn't aware of, when the Wanderers were taking on the likes of West Germany and Brazil!
Castolo what a legend
cellini (Italy)
espinas (Spain)
burchett (Australia)
njord (norway)
ruskin (Scotland)
Lieberman (Germany)
Rip in peace pro evo
🥺. 🕊️
🙏. 🕯️
Absolute hero
Macco (croatia)
Iouga and Jaric :(
Very interested to learn that Bolton played in the 1953 World Cup
Greatest world cup of all time
6:18 Castolo, love the PES reference haha!
Love these historical overviews. The music, narration and animation are so good!
Castolo 9 - lovely little Pro Evo reference there
6:12 Castolo. That Brazilian chap PES United legend. Alongside Spanish Ordaz and the Portuguese Minanda..man the memories "watching" them play together
What was the name of the winger in the red boots?
@@TommyCeltic Forgot already.. It is either Ximelez or Espimas haha
I tip my hat to whoever came up with some of the colour names at 2:40. Definitely worth a pause to have a look
Some great band names in there
Elizabeth moss and anakin sand are my personal favourites 😂
My favourite kit is Bulgaria 1994. This year is just remarkable for the history of Bulgarian football.
Mexico ‘98 for me.
Spain 2012 for me
Saw the FGR kit and was so jazzed to see us on Tifo!
same! get on the rovers
🔥👕🐐♻️🔥
haha me too mate, just saw the kit in the thumbnail and was onnit
green army
Forest Green Will be one of The greatest clubs. Next step os The league one!
Fun fact: The first names on the back of kits came, just as numbers on the back (edit: was corrected, the numbers are from 🇦🇺 pre-WW1), from the US also, but from the North American Soccer League in the 1970s, which folded in the 80s. That league had a history of buying tons of players from abroad, so having the names of the players on the shirt would help identify the players, especially international ones.
But numbers on the backs of the kits first appeared in Australia, not the USA... 3:11 Australia pre first world war, then USA in the 1920's...just so you know, the first world war was in fact before the 1920's 😅
@@aldobonaso3481 watching this video early in the morning didn't help it seems 😅 missed that part, kinda reversed the two
@@sheeple04 haha no worries. Happens to the best of us. Interesting fact about the names first being used in USA though, I didn't know that.
From 1927-1929 in the Scottish Football League the management committee introduced a bizarre rule stating that clubs should wear white shorts when at home, black when playing away. It was so unpopular with clubs and fans and even influential clubs flouted very openly the ruling so much the ruling was rescinded in the SFL's AGM in 1929.
Nigerian football kit would always be legendary
My Favourite World Cup Kits:
1. West Germany 1990
2. Netherlands 1974
3. Argentina 1978
4. Brazil 1970
5. Croatia 1998
6. Denmark 1986
7. France 1998
8. Mexico 1998
9. France 1982
10. Argentina 2010
I feel biased but think that the best is Mexico's. Not just because I'm Mexican.
Northern Ireland has some really sexy kits
Criminal to not have Cameroon in this list.
who asked?
Italy 94> all of the above
As a kit collector, loved this vid.
"Anakin Sand" - Brilliant.
0:14 I didn't know Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting from 'Gangs of New York' was a footballer.
Pro Evo Master league represent!
(Though I would've gone with Minanda personally.)
Finally a proper video about football kits, been a collector for 7 years 🙌
What did you obtain in your collection?
how many do you have? what's your favourite?😅
We all know Fiorentina's Ninentodo sponsored kit of 1998 is the greatest, if you don't have that then you are nothing. Quite frankly.
@@lotuseater7247 GAMECUBE SHIRT HOLY MOLY
@@lotuseater7247 every single kit collector having that shirt is exactly why i do not want it 😂 i focus more on South American club kits as they are legitimately hard to get unless you are from the country itself
3:50 Wow, I didn't know that Bolton Wanderers played in a 1953 World Cup.
Hello Mr Tifo people, would love to see a video about afc wimbledon🍻
Great video. Answered many questions I've had about kits since I was a kid.
This is some classic tifo takes me back to when you were just a disembodied voice joe devine! Great stuff xx
Putting FGR on the map!! Let’s go!
REFTONE - love it!
Nice PES master league reference
I love collecting football kits, What a great video 👍🏽.
Fun fact: Although shrit numbers were made a requirement Celtic did not put them on the back of the hoops until the early 90s before that they only had them on the shorts
Not particularly fun
Fun fact. Celtc are second club in Scotland to wear Green and white hoops.
Castolo 9 at 6:13 really triggered some good Pro Evo Soccer memories..
top drawer video, loved the Eintracht Braunschweig kit
why did kits changed from bodyfit in the 70s and 80s to oversized and baggy in early 1990s up to early/mid 2000s?
Fashion
2:54 A uniform so simple in its style.☘️
Tifo forgot to mention Cameroon's 2002 AFCON kit even though it was banned by FIFA.
Ah, that sleeveless one, right?
@@amiryusuf8815 yes, the sleeveless one.👌🏾
@@tebogoletsoko1342 Why the ban though, since it didn't exactly violate the attire regulation of FIFA, or am I missing something here?
@@amiryusuf8815 I think it was banned because it was not meeting FIFA requirements & it was not going to show a FIFA World Cup logo on the sleeve.
I absolutely love these videos
I always love the Vince Guaraldi-like music in the background!! ❤
I have one of those bamboo Forest Green Rover shirts!
loved this vid as a fashion design major in college and an avid football fan
Great video! Would love to see more contnet like this. Maybe a History of Football Badges
I'm surprised you didn't mention the banned Cameroon sleeveless shirt from 2002!
My favourite shirt has to be CR Vasco da Gama's for the mixture of sash, badge/crest and pure simplicity.
Vasco da Gamaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Great video! Castolo!
As a kit fanatic loved this video ❤️
Wish you’d shown the Bristol Rovers quarters. Pretty much unique even now 😑
They didn't mention the black shirt with the yellow sash they had for their first season either when they went by the now less than PC name 'Black Arabs'. The pirate logo on the current club badge still wears it.
Thank for Your Videos
Man I love Tifo!
THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE CASTOLO EASTER EGG
loved it
“A chromatic odyssey.” Great turn of phrase
Great video 💙
The absolute best footy content going
♥️best channel
It's a shame polka dots never caught on, but that also makes Heerenveen's kit so lovable imo. They've got little red hearts all over the shirt and crest that make them so iconic and recognizable. It's nice to see kits like those stick around in top flight football, and in the Eredivisie no less.
@TifoFootball VO error @3:53 “Bolton Wanderers appearance in the 1953 World Cup”. I think meant to be 1953 FA Cup Final.
Great vid. Awesome artwork. Best content as ever.
Holla at cha boi if you’re looking for content editors or gfx or qc
as someone whos recently become obsessed with kits this video was awesome
6:11 i really hope someone sees that early day Pro Evolution Soccer Easter Egg with "Castolo 9". 🔥
Don Revie of Leeds United was the person who come up with the idea of selling shirts.
That Tifo kit though!🔥🔥🔥
Ima use this for the reference. Thanks
some even wore old school german suits and greek robes like the special Mony Python international match.
Imagine playing with a scarf on a 12:30pm match
the big question is, i see a lot of footage from club on EPL which they played on the UCL/UEFA Cup with different pattern design of number on their back of football kit (due the sponsorships).
when they return to EPL, the number of their football kit switched to other design.
are there any regulations from FA or something like that?
will you explained in next video?
It would be awesome if u could share the history of jersey names, the materials used, etc
Englands Admiral kits reminds me of the cricket ODI kits worn in the 90s.
Why is it rare to see green home kits in English football
So that it does not overlap with pitch
In any league you won’t see many, it’s to avoid confusion or overlap with the green of the pitch
@@nadadur actually we have plenty of green kits in Brazil. Last year we had 4 or 5 in first division, including Palmeiras, which recently played Chelsea in Club WC.
Unless you're almost blind, it doesn't overlap, since most use a darker shade of green and/or white/yellow shorts
Because Green was a colour worn by Keepers.
Awesome vid! I hope you can make a follow up video about the shorts part of kits. It seems odd to me that basketball and football kits are not shifting to tight fitting or more protective shorts or pants a la American football.
Originally, knee lengthed shorts, described as 'knickers' (knickerbockers) were worn and available in only three colours, white, navy and black. Clubs wearing dark shirts opted for white, teams with light shirts opted for navy or black and teams wearing stripes wore either. It wasn't until the sixties when Revie used all white for Leeds (aping Real Madrid) and Shankly followed suit at Liverpool with all red. Chelsea chose blue shorts and slowly other clubs followed suit.
Im from salinas california but since i was little behind the mexican league my love for the great english game and england teams is unique
Nice work
I enjoy the nice Castolo reference
In September 1979 Scotland became the first international team to wear names on the player's shirts when they played Peru in a friendly at Hampden Park. The idea was the brainchild of the SFA's secretary at the time Ernie Walker after he spent the previous summer in the USA and attended some NASL matches. He thought the names on shirts would be a good idea. However it didn't last on Scotland shirts too long and the idea was scrapped in 1981. However Ernie Walker did say that names on shirts will be commonplace in 20 years. That foresight was off by just over 10 years as teams in Euro 92 wore names on their shirts and numbers on front as well, also the Premier League teams started to wear names from the 92/93 season
I've got to say that jazz in the background was top class.
i would like to see guys play with suites today
Every Tifo video is poetry
"chromatic oddessy"...the eloquence and tone is overwhelming
Beautiful
Football kits always amuse me. Got a nice collection of kits myself but nothing focuses. Just tend to get the kits that I like. Tends to be championship teams more often than not.
Yeah the colour names were fantastic. Flatulent Pistachio and Elizabeth Moss XD
Such a simple thing you don't really think about until YT recommends it
I had no idea there was a Worid Cup in 1953 or that Bolton were in it.
My favourite kit *VERY RARE AND UNKNOW* Juventus 2017-18 third
I loved those green jerseys of germany
What a topic this is
Nice video... one thing - where do Bayern sell kits... genuinely, I don't think i've ever seen somebody wearing a Bayern shirt! Admittedly i'm in the UK, but you see plenty of Barca shirts, PSG or Real Madrid occasionally - i've even seen Dortmund shirts!
3:50 am I missing something here? Bolton Wanderers played in a World Cup?
3:51 Tell me more about this 1953 World Cup that Bolton participated in??
Was that a Master League reference I spotted at the end there?
Sooooo good
I waited for my hometown club to be in this video and wasn't disappointed: Eintracht Braunschweig 4:57 :)
@06:20... Is that Castolo from Master League lmao?
Castolo the Legend ,The Myth ,The Goat: more than 1000 goals, 8 Ballon d'ors , 5 champions league countless leagues and cups
2:44 lost it at Anakin Sand
I never knew us Aussies started wearing numbers first, that's awesome to know
Started collecting last year, I absolutely love the Celtic striped kits. One I wish to own is the Spain 2010 blue kit they used in the WC final.
Is that Tifo kit up for sale?
There was a World Cup in 1953 and Bolton was part of it?? Interesting. You learn something new everyday.
How do we get that Tifo kit though?
Nice PES reference 😁
Gonna need one of them Tifo jerseys. #23 if you pkease.
top vid!
I wish an association would mandate that clubs retain their kits for more than a season, therefore making them a worthwhile purchase for fans as well as making sure the design teams actually use some deliberation. Should there be any changes in sponsorships, clubs must retain the same kit design but with the new sponsors plastered on until they're allowed to release new designs. If clubs think it might make old kits purchased by fans obsolete, just release plain versions of the kits, which usually look more palatable because of the lack of corporate shills on them. The only exception to this rule is when clubs change their kit suppliers on unprecedented circumstances.
MLS is already applying it. The mandate all of their teams to switch kits every 2 seasons. So, a club can change their home kit on year 1, and their away kit on year 2.
The price of replicas needs to come down too. It's all cheap polyester, mass printed, but they cost a fortune.
does anyone know why the sponsors in the 80s,90s and early 2000s were embossed but changed to heat applied plastic vinyl from 2006 onwards? likewise for namsets, flock material to the current material we have today.