The Worst Football Kits of All Time

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However the adidas strip also made the top 20 best shirts - and is so popular it inspired the Gunners’ yellow away shirt for next season. 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. A kit clearly designed by two people, both given one half, and instructed never to meet. This does not make sense on any level. 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. Quite what those budding young artists did to deserve such a glaring public snub is beyond us. 9. Norwich City: home, 1992-94 (Ribero/Mitre) Paul Marriott/EMPICS via Getty Images

In the ranking, we have taken into account kits from club and national teams and have considered their home, away and alternate third uniforms. Unfortunately, Tottenham were unable to produce anything better than a seventh-place league finish while the yellow kit was in operation, though they did reach the FA Cup semifinals twice as well as the quarterfinals of the 1991-92 European Cup Winners' Cup before losing to Feyenoord over two legs. 6. Chelsea: home, 2012-13 (Adidas) Getty 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. The first of several outlandish novelty concept kits in this ranking, with Spanish lower-league team CD Palencia suiting up like figures in a medical school textbook. This outfit was chosen to show the players were willing to "give their skin" for the cause. It was created by Juan Francisco Martin who, as we will see later on here, is a specialist in the area of strange Spanish kits. Palencia won the playoffs to earn promotion to the third tier, so it had the desired effect.The shirt also saw a grand return for beloved local tipple Newcastle Brown Ale as principal sponsors, having previously been the first brand to appear on a Toon kit circa 1980. The sight of the famous blue star and beer mat marque in the centre of the design just added an irresistible extra dollop of "Geordie-ness." Nike’s 2002 Brazil home strip is up there with the best as well - along with two of the US sport brand’s Arsenal shirts – the 1995/96 blue away and the 2005/06 redcurrant home shirts. In the summer of 1995, Chelsea signing Ruud Gullit posed in his new club's home jersey worn over a long-sleeve office shirt, perhaps in an attempt to convince people that "doing a Gullit" (wearing football shirts over work attire) was the new "doing a Cantona" (turning up your collar). Funnily enough, it didn't catch on, and neither did this horrid grey-and-orange away shirt, which Gullit wore on his Chelsea debut in a preseason friendly at Gillingham. Rather than evoke the world of avant-garde art, it looks more like a close-up of some coral. The kit was worn during preseason in 2004 but was not seen again as Bilbao reverted to their traditional red-and-white stripes. Rarely has one player defined a kit as much as Gareth Southgate, dressed in grey with hands on head after his miss against Germany in a penalty shootout that led to the Three Lions exiting the Euro '96 semifinals on home soil. This remains the only time England have ever worn "indigo blue," as manufacturers Umbro dubbed it at the time, in a change from the traditional red away kit. The colour was chosen to go well with jeans, but it didn't work at all in its primary purpose as a football kit.

The simple design, a plain red top featuring the Three Lions emblem on the left chest, was produced by Umbro – manufacturer of many of England’s most memorable shirts up until 2012. The perfect encapsulation of City's post-takeover makeover, the club's 2015-16 refined home shirt saw the return of white trim -- most notably the reintroduction of a contrasting polo collar, replacing the all-blue of the previous season. That particular shirt was so disliked by their then manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, that half-way through their 3-1 defeat to Southampton he insisted they change their kit.

At first glance, you may think, "what's wrong this this then?" And then you'd look a little closer, and perhaps gaze awhile at the purple section, and then maybe there'd be a dawning realisation that a rather 'controversial' political symbol has made its way into the design. At least, this is what would happen to normal people, but clearly not the designer of Fiorentina's kit in 1992. It had to be hastily withdrawn from sale after the error was spotted. An undisputed legend in the kit world. The infamous drizzle-grey kit caused Sir Alex Ferguson to suffer one of his most famous blown gaskets, this time during a fateful game against Southampton in April 1996.