Adidas Men's Chelsea FC Home Jersey

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According to the Chelsea Chronicles, the club's official programme, the team wore "Marune" (sic) tops against sides in blue during 1905-06. White was worn in January 1907 in the FA Cup against Worksop Town but this may have been a one-off. The sparse photographic evidence we have otherwise shows Chelsea in dark jerseys against teams in blue until professional football was suspended in 1915. We offer a selection of original, authentic retro Chelsea shirts and retro Chelsea kit, including home and away vintage Chelsea shirts. Our range of retro Chelsea football shirts includes the Chelsea Umbro kit of the 1980s through to the early 2000s, including the Chelsea Adidas kit of the modern Premier League era. Several one-offs strips appeared in the FA Cup due to the peculiar requirements of the competition regarding colour clashes. These include blue and white striped shirts in the early 1930s and a set of white shirts borrowed from Fulham (including the club crest) for two matches with Chesterfield in 1949-50. The first yellow and blue kit appeared in 1963-64 and has been a popular choice ever since, alternating with all-white throughout the rest of the decade.

When Le Coq Sportif took over from Umbro as Chelsea's kit partner, they introduced an elegant all-blue home kit with white pinstripes and red/white trim along with a change kit in yellow and blue and an all-white third choice strip. Between 1983 and 1985 Chelsea wore some adventurous kits with thin horizontal stripes. Maroon remained the alternative of choice at least until 1933. The Portsmouth Evening News (1 December 1934) reported that Chelsea wore red shirts at Fratton Park. We know that a new set of alternate shirts with contrasting white collars has been delivered the previous season so it now appears that the switch from maroon to red occured at the start of the 1933-34 season.Retro Chelsea Kit & Vintage Chelsea Shirts We have a range of retro Chelsea football shirts, including the Chelsea Samsung Kit, Chelsea Adidas kit as well as other classic Chelsea kit White shirts made a few appearances in the FA Cup during the 1950s and in a floodlit friendly against Sparta Prague.

The 90s were notable for the introduction of increasingly extravagant designs by the major manufacturers and Chelsea were at the forefront of fashion. Perhaps most noteworthy is the 1994-96 kit in two shades of grey and bright orange. By the end of the decade designs became more restrained and the familiar yellow and blue theme was reinterpreted in 2000 with a smart amber and blue outfit. By this stage Chelsea had adopted the now familiar practice of replacing one of their kits on a two-year rotation.Yellow and blue returned in 1977 but the following season the blue became green and this combination lasted until 1981.