Crystal Palace also saw a chance to alter their fortunes through a change in strip colours, but eventually found their own distinct pallet. Initially bearing identical kits to Aston Villa, it took the Eagles until to start tweaking their own strip. Palace have explored all four divisions of English football and even hosted Real Madrid at Selhurst Park in It was that year when the Croydon club paid tribute to the Galacticos white strip and successful heritage, by wearing an all lily-white kit of their own.
Palace themselves were promoted to Division Two for the first time in their history after unsuccessful seasons in claret. With the claret body discarded. The story of the Scunthorpe United creation is a little confusing, unlike that of their club colours.
Scunny wore a classic body with sky blue sleeves, white shorts and claret socks with blue trim — the same as Aston Villa that year. After swapping between white and red shirts for the next two decades, they reverted back to the colours they chose to emulate in the early aughts. The city of Trabzon in Turkey homes Trabzonspor — would you believe — one of the most successful clubs outside of the three big Instanbul sides, Galatasaray, Fenerbahce and Besiktas.
After several years in the Second Division, the club achieved promotion to the top flight, and in became the first club outside of Istanbul to win the league title in what has become a world-famous colour pallet. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam.
Thanks in advance. Spurger King can't smile without glue. Jul 22, 43, 95, TheChosenOne Shoulda, coulda, woulda! Dec 13, 40, 35, Alf Garnet wore the scarf that started it all.
Scots influence, they had no fashion sense, then or now. Lilbaz Just call me Baz. Apr 1, 41, 74, So they gave the guy their kit one of the racers was responsible for the laundry. He then sold it to the Iron Works team who later became West Ham. Crystal Palace's first secretary joined from Villa.
Seems he nicked the kit as well. SlunkSoma Like dogs bright. Oct 5, 3, 3, Just looked it up. Villa wore it first, having previously had a chocolate and light blue shirt grim. No official reason why it was claret and blue though.
Best answer from Yahoo. Contrary to popular belief, Aston Villa were the first to wear claret and sky blue. According to Tony Matthews the claret and blue theme was a Scottish influence, combining the maroon of Hearts and the blue of Rangers, with the Scottish lion rampant included in the badge.
Yet another theory from Wikipedia states that the club's proposed colours was chocolate and blue, and that chocolate colour, over time, was switched to claret. West Ham United, then called Thames Ironworks, permanently adopted claret and blue for home colours in the summer of Irons right-half Charlie Dove received the kit from his father William Dove, who was a professional sprinter of national repute, as well as being involved with the coaching at Thames Ironworks.
Dove Sr. Will Dove defeated them and, when they were unable to pay the bet, one of the Villa players who was responsible for washing the team's kit offered a complete side's 'uniforms' to Dove in payment. The Aston Villa player subsequently reported to his club that the kit was 'missing'.
Burnley FC simply adopted the colours from then league champions Aston Villa in Lufti Well-Known Member. Jan 3, 7, 16, Lilbaz said:.
I have to say that few clubs that I have encountered have undergone as many changes as Crystal Palace. That look lasted one season and then the club switched to some sort of white shirt and black shorts until except for a brief return to the standard from Drogheda United FC are another team wearing the claret and blue.
The club play in the League of Ireland and were originally founded in as Drogheda United. Cobh finally got to the top division of Irish football in and have enjoyed four seasons in the top flight. Sean also mentioned Galway United. The club started in the s as Galway Rovers and joined the League of Ireland in The mid 80s and early 90s were a time of great success for the club. The team finally won a major trophy, winning the FAI Cup. Financial problems caused the club to lose League of Ireland status in However, efforts were made to reform the team and Galway United returned to the League of Ireland in From what I could find, both Irish teams use the colors of claret and blue but in different styles.
Sometimes one color dominates the body with the opposite color being used a trim. Full kit histories were hard to come by but if readers have resources, please let me know.
Trabzonspor were formed in after three amateur teams came together in the city of Trabzon, and their original colors were red and white. After several years in the second division, the club achieved promotion to the top flight and in became the first club outside Istanbul to win the league title.
From there the team enjoyed a decade of success winning five more league titles, finishing runners up three times plus celebrating three Turkish Cup wins. Trabzonspor are another team that chose their colors in honor of Aston Villa. The Colorado Rapids play in Major League Soccer MLS , and originally the club used green and white as primary colors, then the Rapids switched to black in blue in But in , the franchise key word re-branded.
The Rapids changed their logo and color palette to burgundy and sky blue. In the early years of the re-brand, sky blue was used as a secondary color. Italian side F. Rieti was brought to my attention about teams who wear claret and blue, or in this case amaranto and celeste. The club has been around since playing mostly in Serie C, with two seasons in Serie B in —47 and —48 and two seasons in Serie C2 in —06 and — Bottom of the table, they were penalized five points for missing payments at the beginning of the current campaign.
Information on the club and kit history was hard to track down. However, I did find pics of these some recent kits. This was another club brought to my attention on my original post about teams who wear claret and blue.
This club has experienced a lot in years. Founded in , the club started with a halved navy blue and pink shirt paired with white shorts and navy socks. The club was referred to as the Terra Cottas during the season.
A kit of white shirts with black shorts and socks was introduced in the s and was used in the late 50s and for most of the 60s and 70s. Interesting that their strips have been manufactured by Macron, Joma and Umbro in recent seasons. The Terras were promoted to Conference South in and played in the National Conference fifth tier of English Football until their relegation in Picture courtesy of Peter Else Flickr. One of the founders, Andy Morris, is still involved with the club and is now its chief executive.
The Fields, as they are known, are currently playing in the Hellenic League Premier Division ninth level of English football. Westfields were unbeaten this campaign 20W 6D 0L and 13 points ahead, but unfortunately the season has been abandoned and all results expunged, with no promotion or relegation.
One of the highlights for the club was their FA Cup run during the —17 season. The club won six matches and qualified for the first round of the FA Cup for the first time in their history. Details from the tie here.
This is their only major honor to date but the club were promoted to the Maltese First Division for the first time in and back to back third place finishes in and saw them enter the UEFA Europa League, winning their first round tie but falling at the second hurdle each time.
The home strip is a dark burgundy while the away set is deep sky blue. The club interchanges both sets to give them lots of flexibility for kit clashes. Cumbernauld United F. The team was formed in the s, dissolved in and restarted in , lasting until the start of World War II.
United returned to the field in and have been going strong ever since. At the time of writing, Cumbernauld United F.
The current strips are made by Stanno , a brand I had not heard of before. Turns out Stanno is part of the Dutch Deventrade Group, which also oversees hummel.
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