📸 It’s Shirt Day! Football’s fashion highlights

📸 It’s Shirt Day! Football’s fashion highlights

Today, Wednesday, May 13, marks the fourth nationwide Jersey Day celebration – essentially an unofficial holiday for club sports.

So if you happened to see a few people walking through the city today in their club gear, now you know why: the German Olympic Sports Confederation called on all members of sports clubs in Germany to wear their club’s jersey, tracksuit, or sports outfit in everyday life for a day. No matter whether at work, at school, at university, or while shopping.

Plenty of passionate fans also used the day, of course, to show off their favorite football club shirt. And we all know by now that there are some curious, bizarre, and unintentionally funny examples out there.

So of course we can’t just let this nationwide Jersey Day pass without once again remembering the craziest outfits ever seen on football’s big – and small – stages.

More ads than jersey?!

In 2019, Huddersfield Town unveiled a new shirt with a huge sash – except instead of the club crest, it featured a giant “Paddy Power” logo from the betting company.

In the end, though, the whole thing turned out to be a PR stunt. Fortunately, if you ask the fans of the English club.

Bratwurst not just for the spectators

Another club, meanwhile, got genuine laughs with a very special design: AFC Bedale’s sausage-and-stew look. Definitely one of those shirts you see once – and never forget.

A bit too much of a good thing?

Many fans were far less impressed, however, by the so-called “Mashup Kit” released by Manchester City in 2019. The idea: combine several classic shirts into one single design. The result, though, looked more like a washing machine full of club history.

Kölle Alaaf!

And of course, 1. FC Köln’s carnival shirts can’t be left off this list. The 2025 model in particular reminded many fans more of pajamas than a football shirt. All that’s really missing is matching club-themed bed linen.

Portrait of a music star

Tattoos of your own face are old news – shirts with faces on them are apparently the future. At least for Bohemians Dublin, who simply printed reggae legend Bob Marley on their jersey. Bold? Definitely. A matter of taste? Absolutely.

The heart beats for the club

Spanish club Zamora CF also got truly creative: their shirt was visually inspired by the human circulatory system – complete with veins and arteries. And where the heart would normally be, the club crest naturally took pride of place. A mix of medical class and football devotion.

A jersey made for Mallorca party season

Let’s wrap up this little look back at the most extraordinary shirts of recent years with three clubs whose kits also make you wonder whether the designer was either very hungry while creating them – or had perhaps already enjoyed their first cold drink.

So that’s it for now with our little celebration of today’s Jersey Day. We’re curious to see whether even more bizarre shirts will hit the market over the course of the year. After all, there’s more than enough inspiration from past years.

What do you think? Which of these unusual shirts do you like best? Can you think of another truly wild top that was launched in recent years? Feel free to write it in the comments!

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇩🇪 here.