The 2020/21 League One (3rd Tier of English Football) league season came to a close on 9th May, Hull City (winners) and Peterborough United (Runners Up) earning automatic promotion to The Championship, with Blackpool winning the the Play Off Final against Lincoln City for the final promotion place.
I wanted to take a look at the kits worn during the league stage of the season (not including Play Offs).
Kit Stats
- 1104 Kits worn (552 Games)
- 98 Different Kit variations used by the 24 teams.
- Home Kits – 42% of Kit variations used
- 24 Home Kits worn
- 17 Home Kit variations worn
- Away Kits – 39% of variations used
- 24 Away Kits worn
- 14 Away Kit variations worn
- 3rd Kits – 19% of variations worn
- 15 3rd Kits worn
- 4 3rd Kit variations worn
Overview of Kits Worn
Kit Overview
Kit Log – Match 1 to Match 15
Kit Log – Match 16 to Match 30
Kit Log – Match 31 to Match 46
Kit Variations
Looking in more detail at the kit variations worn by the League One Teams
- 1 team wore 9 kit variiations – Highest in the league
- Oxford United – Home x4, Away, 3rd x4
- 2 teams wore 6 kit variations
- Accrington Stanley – Home x2, Away x2, 3rd x2
- Blackpool – Home x2, Away x3, 3rd
- 3 Teams wore 5 kit variations
- Northampton Town – Home, Away x3, 3rd
- Sunderland – Home x3, Away x2
- Swindon Town – Home x3, Away x2
- Most variations of Home Kit
- Oxford United wore 4 variations of Home Kit
- Yellow / Navy / Yellow – All Yellow – Yellow / Navy / Navy – Yellow / White / White
- Most variations of Away Kit
- 2 Teams wore 3 variations of Away Kit
- Blackpool / Northampton Town
- Most variations of 3rd Kit
- Oxford United wore 4 variations of 3rd Kit
- All White – White / Navy / White – White / Navy / Navy – White / White / Navy
- Bristol Rovers only used 2 variations of kit, Home and Away
- 6 Teams wore no variations of kit, just Home / Away / 3rd Kit
- AFC Wimbledon, Bristol Rovers (Home / Away), Doncaster Rovers, MK Dons, Plymouth Argyle. Wigan Athletic
- Most worn Home Kit – 37, Gillingham
- Most worn Away Kit – 16, Plymouth Argyle
- Most worn 3rd Kit – 11, Rochdale
Kit Grid
Below is a graphic of what kits where worn against what teams, its one that I share on a weekly basis on my Twitter Account – https://twitter.com/kit_geek
Kit Highlights and Summary
League One teams used 98 Kits through out 2020/21 season, this was the lowest amount of kits worn in the Top Four Leagues in England, it also saw a more classic look for teams in terms of kit usage, 7 teams only had Home and Away kits (Bristol Rovers, Burton Albion, Fleetwood Town, Gillingham, Shrewsbury Town, Sunderland and Swindon Town).
Lincoln City did not wear their full home kit in an away game, the only game they wore their Home Kit was at Plymouth Argyle and was worn with 3rd shorts (white).
Bristol Rovers wore their away kit home against Shrewsbury Town when the away team wore their all white away kit.
Doncaster Rovers worn a 3rd Kit at Home against Hull City, this kit was commerate the career of James Coppinger, who has spent 17 years at the club and made nearly 700 appearences for them. The player himself designing the kit with his sons to celebrate his time with club.
Accrington Stanley, who wore 6 kit variations in total wore 5 different kits in 5 games (Match 25 to Match 29) – All White (Away variation), Black / White / White (3rd), All Red (Home), White / Black / White (Away), Black / Black / White (3rd variation).
Oxford United, who wore the most kit variations in the league with 9 different kits used, started the season with 5 different kits in their first 5 games… this became 6 kits in 8 games and 7 in 16 games, 8 in 19 games and they wore their 9th variation in their 38th game.
There were some classic kit mash ups in League One in 20/21…
Gillingham at Portsmouth…
Swindon Town again at Portsmouth
Sunderland at Plymouth Argyle
There we have it, League One’s End of Season Kit report for 2020/21, please let me know your favourite kit highlights from this division on the comments below or over at Twitter – https://twitter.com/kit_geek
If you have seen my End of Season Kit Report for the Premier League or Championship, please click on the link below.
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