Do Football Kits Matter?
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- Do Football Kits Matter?
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On one fateful night on the South Coast in 1996 Manchester United trailed at halftime to Southampton 3-0. The reason? Sir Alex Ferguson blamed the kit.
But do kit colours really matter? Which kits are the most successful? Which kits are likely to get you relegated? Which kits can save penalties?
Ben Jacobs finds out.
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Tifo: Do kits matter?
Me: Of course they do. You wanna play naked on a cold rainy night in Stoke?
Man of culture, I see
I am literally in stitches 😂
@@giantrunt haha found your comment
@@giantrunt 😂 i found your comment lol
Man Utd's third kit for this season is the best!!!!....black and white mediocre.....what about Juventus?....white...what about Real Madrid?
Sports psychologists at King's College, London have found that Chelsea win 100% of their matches when playing in their third kit. When asked why Chelsea's win percentage is so high in this kit, the researchers explained that Chelsea's opposition are mistaking Chelsea for Crystal Palace. Therefore their defense purposefully stop working because they think Christian Benteke is Chelsea's striker, therefore not needing to break a sweat.
is that why west from lead 3-0 against them at half time then they realized it was Chelsea and drew 3-3 at ft
@@zakihsan4629 west brom: we already 3-0 ht no need to get so sweaty for crystal palace reserve your stamina for future games
also west brom: *oh fuck it's actually Chelsea oh wait they're gonna comebac-*
FT:3-3
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Crystal Palace should sue Chelsea for kit trademark copyrights, LOL...
Oh shit 😂😂😂😂😂
Yes they matter. Arsenal may not have the best success on the pitch but they sure look good doing it
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Same for United lmao
@@apollyon4761 The discount Jebra's?
Arsenal away kit is underrated
@@catinho9705 Eh I mostly meant the black and red ones since the last couple of years. The zebras this year are..... something
2:00 AM: Time to sleep
Tifo: not yet..
Are u from fl
I got math hw and I’m watching this
Hi
I read that “Not yet.” in Joe's voice. 😂
Lol so true
"Home kits don't perform well on the road, even though they remain the preferred choice when eligible for important games and derbies"
If they're typically only used for important games and derbies then surely it's obvious they don't perform well because they're harder games
Yeah good spot
Yeah this video is full of correlation/causation issues and lurking variables
@@racclng Couldn't agree more, really poor for tifo standard
especially if you're Arsenal F.C. !!!
@@jimboslice4468 Tifo isn't agreeing with any of this. They're merely presenting the findings of the researchers.
Alex Ferguson: "The players couldn't pick each other out. They said it was difficult to see their teammates at distance when they lifted their heads. It was nothing to do with superstition."
Lee Sharpe: "I'm not sure if any of the players mentioned the kit. Personally I felt that we were playing really poorly."
And absolutely nothing to do with Roy Keane getting sent off after 20 minutes
Sharpe 👑
I remember a couple years back, Beşiktaş was playing with their 3rd kit, that was bright red as often as possible. Which was not received well by some fans because the team traditionally has white shirt and black shorts at home, and a whole black away.
But the gaffer of the team, Şenol Güneş just said ''The players say they see eachother way better with that kit on instead of all black''
Imagine wearing a kit that is same to the colour of the grass 😂😂😂, I won't be surprised if a home team changed the darkness of their grass to exactly be same to the green kit of their opponent to win the match 😂😂😂.
@@shambhav9534 my local club kit is literally has green grass color for home lol
@@dharmairmansyah2844 Let me guess, they aren't good at counter attacks.
@@shambhav9534it's the opposite, i know this is a FAR STRETCH but they have similiar tactic to "chelsea hazard/mourinho era"
1.park the bus
2.if you managed to get the ball
3.pass to hazard asap
4.???
5.hazard score goals/assist
6.repeat
of course chelsea is way better at this lol but my local team really have "one man army club" thing like Chelsea and hazard
@@shambhav9534 the downside is if you watch it from the "on top side of the stadium" *you can't see shit because they're fuckin green and small like literally the grass*
There is a reason all emergency gear is orange or red. It makes it more visible for rescue personell. But as someone who worked for a big uk FC, the most important aspect of the kit is will it sell well. It has to look good for the customer. And merch sales are second only to sponsor and broadcast income in my opinion when it comes to profit margin.
Ps maybe away strips are mostly a way to sell a kit twice or three times these days. And sell to those wanting to be more unique.
Do you remember when a kit used to last 2 seasons, with the home kit being changed one year and the away the next, with the previous away kit being used as a 3rd kit?
In hockey, there was a goalie (Marc-Andre Fleury) who was wearing bright yellow pads and was doing poorly. It was found that the bright yellow pads were actually hindering his performance as players were able to clearly see the equipment. The next year he switched to white pads and went from average goalie to top goalie.
I remember there was significant data that suggested that GK kits with loud patterns make strikers miss more often
I missed old GK kits, nowadays their kits are just templates which is terrible to look at, but again no fans going their way to buy GK kits...
It is true
They are more likely to shoot att the gk
@@bakaweiner6956 Ask Gary Trent jr about his Bochum 98 Keeper kit.
That shit is lit
@@Taeerom Old kits are big and looks really comfy, and the most important thing is that they're unique. Each teams have different patterns despite having same manufacturer, but nowadays the only difference is their colours. Even colours were shared among them...
@@Taeerom And yeah, even some kit we considered terrible in the past looks more appealing now, what a regret....
I would be interested in the stats on stripes vs solid colour. Visual edge detection and movement detection and visual processing time and maybe visibility could be effected by stripes vs solid colour. Wonder if it has been researched.
There were nineteen top division winners that played in stripes before the Second World War in England - and none since!
@@bens4602 19 titles split between 5 clubs. And no club has won the title playing in what we now call hoops
As a reminder - “Correlation does not mean causation”.
If a team shows more good results in a certain color, that doesn’t necessarily mean that this color made the team win.
Nevertheless, I think it’s a psychological matter.
Next on tifo: do bald referees matter?
The reflection of the sunlight shines on the bald head of the referee which removes the toxins from the top of his head which is connected to the eyeballs through the vision system in front of his eyes which gives him clear vision therefore better refereeing
Ireland supporters : "I knew it! Even when it was our mediocre players i knew it was the green kit!" 🤣
Yes, an excuse!
I always find it interesting when teams will refuse a particular color for their away kit because it is too close to a fierce rival. For example Barca will never wear a white kit because that's a color associated with real mad.rid. Leeds united as far as I'm aware have never had a red shirt to avoid appearing similar to Manchester United, same with Manchester city. The Milan clubs as far as I'm aware have never had an away kit that uses the color of their crosstown rival
That weird, both inter and AC away kit are white colour
Manchester City sometimes wear a kit with black and red stripes. That's the kit they wore when they won the FA Cup in the 50s, and Barça wore white away kits up until the 70s. Their badge has white in it, even; it's the flag of St. George. But yes, this is a common and understandable phenomenon. I can't imagine Celtic ever wearing anything blue or Rangers wearing anything green, for example.
Right now AC Milan are rocking a blue away kit
Norwich have never had a blue kit.... until this year
If the money is right, they'd have any colour.
Best kits hands down every year is Roma they never disappoint
That's not how you spell Fiorentina...
what about PSG?
they did dissapoint in the league tho ..
What about Chelsea's fantastic looking 3 logo and Crystal Palace esque third shirt
@@silloweet the Chelsea 3rd kit red clashes with the blue on that Jersey. But home and away are alright
This video is brought to you by someone who's never seen the colour Claret
I can't decide whether it's amaranth, Persian, or bubblegum pink
surprised there was no mention of Chelsea fluorescent away kits of 2007, I remember there being a huge fuss made over the psychology of those when they were released
It will come back next seasin, it leaked.
No good reason to have new kit designs every year. I'm dying on this hill.
@@giantrunt Depends, each home kits have their history associated with the success or memory of each era. For example, a certain adored player used to play for that team adorned the certain season's kit, or that kit design was wear during the club's golden era/winning silverware with said kits...
no reason to have sponsors pasted all over them either
there is a reason for both new kit designs every year and sponsors - money
They should release new kits every 2-3 years like in the 90's, but money and hype are too powerful today
@Christy Dolan Puma kits just making me puke with their designs, especially their last mint kits. Plus I hate their tight kit style, and this is where Nike and Adidas shines the most. Tight kits are very horrible, it makes me think that the football is dead!
Presumably people don’t pick red gk kits cus lots of teams wear red and you’d have to wear your second gk kick anyway.
They're more common in international football than domestic, although they aren't exactly prolific there either.
Last year's Barcelona kit litteraly screamed "COME AND EAT US". And well 8-2 happened. The worst kit I ever saw.
You think that’s bad? Search up the leaked Barca kit for next season (21/22). it’ll make last season’s Barca kit look like a masterpiece
Kits are a way for the fans to connect more with the club.
I'm a Liverpool fan.
Our home kit is red, we can't have a keeper main kit of red color.
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pretty sure the sight of Alisson in goal is scary enough in itself
I don’t think the keeper’s kit can be a similar color with the outfield players since it might cause confusion
Allison's all-black kit last year looked bloody amazing though. Coupled with the beard and hair, he looked so terrifying, I'd just hand him the ball on a silver platter
Sorry, Karius, it was us
@@Telsion the black panther
love how the magpie's eyes are turning red! kudos to the illustrator, Henry Cooke or telstardesigns (if i am correct)!
I’ve never liked white kits in away matches, or away kits in general, I always think that it makes them look weird and more weak. Like Chelsea vs Barca 2018 0-3, PSG vs Barca 2017 1-6, Liverpool vs Barca 0-4 2019, Barca vs Liverpool 0-4 2019, and Roma vs Barca 3-0 2018 to name some. I noticed this and since then I’ve never liked when teams wear away kits, especially white or bright colors.
I get it that you might not like the design of away kits, but it's there to have an alternative if the teams kits are similar (generally by color). It's main reason or course is to introduce a 2nd kit design, but its also to differentiate the teams.
I wonder what you think of los Blancos lol
@@nitishsaxena1372 Lol teams that already have a white home kit are fine by me, that’s the normal, it doesn’t really bother me. I’m a Real Madrid fan and I actually feel weird when they wear dark kits like black and navy blue.
Meanwhile Bayern's white kit last year: Barca 2-8 Bayern
Lmao didn't AC Milan's away kit win them the CL back in 2007? That one was white.
Never thought i’d watch a video about football kits. Tifo football is gold.♥️
Liverpool had no problem with a grey away kit in the late 80s
I remember reading about this in the book "Leading".
I've always thought an unsportmanlike kit with an optical illusion or extremely bright could work, maybe even Zebra patterns for the free-kick wall.
But imagine trying to pick out a teammate at any distance when they're wearing dazzle camouflage.
Someone should tell Real Madrid that you loose if you play in white.
Brah
Also Deutschland
"Although both red and blue kits boast a very high win rate, our pick for a Tifo kit, is Ibrahim Sangare"
Love the channel only thing I would change would be the extreme focus on the premier league instead of the other leagues which is really limiting this channel in my opinion
True mate
They've done studies in American football (and other sports) that have shown teams wearing red and black or a combination of the two are more likely to be aggressive, hitting harder and playing stronger, but also more likely to give away fouls/penalties in their respective sports. Something about the combo stirs emotions and gives you that extra zip. It's also worth noting to that the United example in the beginning is true from a playing perspective. With the speed at which the game is played and how athletic players are in closing down or pressuring opponents, you more than likely will not have time to full analyze a situation and deliberately see your teammate when making a pass. You might only get enough time to look at socks, shorts, even the shirt. If the color combos are all too close together, you might hesitate and take that extra second to look more closely for your teammate. This might cost you a yard of space or a passing lane will close if you take too long.
3:32 Actually, in 1937 Peterborough United changed their shirt colour from green to blue following complaints that the green kit had brought the club bad luck.
Speaking of kits, remember that FA Cup game where West Ham wore their away kit at home v Everton? Also, Arsenal did likewise in the Champions League v Basel in 2016/17.
Man Utd once wore all royal blue (which is a decades old away kit for them) at home to Olympiacos in the Champions League.
The 90s Football Kits were the most creative pieces of clothing that I've ever witnessed. Hands down!
The likes of Adidas and Nike really outdone themselves, today's kits just look like billboards apart from a few. They might have been some unappealing kits but the verve which they possessed was something to behold.
As someone who owned the grey United shirt, I do wonder if it was less the fact it was grey but more to do with the design. It had a really weird pattern at the top and the few times United played in it on the TV footage the top half didn't really jump out on the long shots and almost has a magic eye picture effect to it. I doubt it was causing the level of issue that Fergie claimed to justify changing BUT I can see how with that pattern if you have a quick glance it would be harder to spot the player than it was for Southampton or even if the design had been simpler like in your graphic
Just looking at Germany, Bayern Munich have won the Bundesliga in home kits of, depending on the season, all red, or red and white stripes, or red and royal blue stripes (late 1960s, mid 1990s, mid 2010s), or red with blue sleeves, or all dark blue (1990s). This suggests it's the players wearing the kit rather than the actual colour.
As for Man Uinited's woes with grey, I think I heard once that players themselves (apparently) like primary colours the most for kits.
Wolves do 3rd kits very well. Before third kits were just another random colour, now they have probably pioneered a way to make them commercially valuable and meaningful with the Mexico kit last year and the Portugal one this year.
Interestingly, though, up until 19-20 Wolves used their away kit just 17 times winning only three Premier League games.
As a Newcastle fan, I take solace from the fact that Juventus are a pretty successful side.
Wow... I can only imagine the amount of reseao work that has gone into making this video 📹... Amazing work Tifo
Teams with red kits certainly get more VAR decisions going their way
I don't really follow the EPL aside the bigger games.
I have however fallen in love with the Wolverhampton home kit and badge for a while now.
Y'all need to make a video on Barcelona needing to slash payroll.
A theory here. Red is the color that is reflected least by green colored object, if you stare at a green colored object for some time and then stare at a white wall, the wall appears to be slightly red because your eye hasn't seen much red when you look at green colored object and hence become more sensitive to red. Since majority of football field is green, players' eyes become more sensitive to red color and hence they can easily spot their teammates. However, the opponent also benefit from this because they can mark players in red more easily.
K.Rajagopal chose the away kit for most game for Malaysia in the AFF Suzuki cup in 2010 led them to the eventual winner. Big up my guy Rajagopal.
The colors of both team, in comparison, are also very important. It may highlight or hide a team, or may confuse colorblind players too!
Came back to this video after I learnt Madrid has lost all matches they’ve played in their 20/21 pink kit
I was hoping they'd touch on kit designs as well. I remember when Man United had an arrow on their chests which was said to confuse opponents
I knew Barca would loose against Liverpool when I saw them wearing the neon yellow kit last year.
I would have thought this meant shirt sales, of which they have almost doubled in price over 20 years. I used to buy the best looking home or away kit every season back then
in the qatari league the biggest team called al sadd also had a bad luck kit. Their third kit was blue last season and they almost never won a match wearing it.
What bothers me more is the contemporary trend of jerseys in shocking non-football colors. Why the hell folks destroy club traditions by making their teams play in pink, golden or bright orange? This shit is creeping already into national teams. Czech FA selected bright lime yellow as away kits for Czech national teams. They claim it's "modern look". Fans think the national team looks now like a bunch of road construction workers.
David Seaman's jerseys (1996 Euro especially) made me want to be a goalkeeper, Umbro used to make such incredible designs...what happened??
the stat about using home kits away from home could be very deceptive. As you said, teams tend to use their home kits in away matches for derbies and important matches. In other words, that kit is used in more difficult matches, so of course that would lead to a poor record. You're not going to see a particularly bad record for champions league teams wearing their third kit against relegation teams, but you definitely might see a poor record for a club like everton wearing their home kit at anfield.
It's certainly true that due to how certain tough derbies or iconic games fall, home kits will always be worn on the road. I guess that's because nearby teams, who are rivals, tend to choose different and opposing colours. There are exceptions, but as you say Liverpool-Everton and Arsenal-Spurs etc. But Liverpool-Man U, Arsenal-Man U do always require the visitors to change. And third kits specifically aren't just used for easier games. United wore grey at Liverpool and more recently Liverpool used it at Arsenal and Leicester at Chelsea. The 1.0 point average in home kits on the road is well below the expected points (albeit it's a very questionable metric).
Color ranking depends on the teams which wore them if a successful team like bayern choose green they will have more Win percentage in them but if not so successful team chose green they will most probably gonna have more lose percentage
Cruyff wasn't a big fan of dark shirts because if you're standing on the field the dark shirts conflict with the darker stands which make your teammates more difficult to see.
as Arsenal fan our marble white with maroon short has been our most successful kit this season so far.
Interestingly, large chunks of "fans" also moaned that white kits resembles spurs...
Yes ,Home kit is very special for every team ,fans believe some luck in home kit when they face away matches....I always expect Barcelona to Home kit in away matches but they never play...I hope they play in this UCL knock rounds for special luck
Correlation VS Causation
Surely the argument for colours being hard to see cancels itself out: hard when you’re attacking but great incognito when defending? You should have your GK in a grey so their ST taking split second shots without time to look up cannot spot your bright orange GK in their periphery.
That's what I was wondering too! But I think in case of goalkeepers it supposedly works more like a distraction for the striker, rather than a point of reference..
Dull colors like grey make it difficult to spot teammates while bright colors like pink and orange worn by Barcelona make it easier to spot and pass more accurately.
Is that Nicolas Cage at the thumbnail 😂😂
Chelsea's navy/black kit 3rd kit in 2009/10 was jinxed. They won the League and FA Cup double but never won a game wearing that dark kit.
Us Spurs fans last season called our 3rd kit a curse. Because we had really inexplicable bad performances whenever we played. Like we were thrashed 3-0 by Brighton wearing the kit and then we lost 3-0 to Sheff Utd months later wearing it. Few more losses and we finally broke the curse on penultimate day Vs Newcastle. Or we were just shit
Is it not more likely that certain teams are winning more in away kit colours because of the specific opposition colours which would force them to change? e.g. Liverpool playing against any other team who wear red, for instance.
So orange isn't the best. As a Blackpool fan, who don the famous Tangerine, how does this hue rank?
They do, I remember in high school whenever our basketball team wore black we were crashed massively. In 2014 we lost the county finals for the first in 10 years wearing black. Our first kit was red
Yes, have you seen the man united third kit?
Hey Tifo, can you add like half a second before the outro? Sometimes the transition is really rough
Kits are all well and good but could you do a video on how Erik ten Hag would do with the current Man UTD squad.
Surely I'm not the only one who''s thought of this???
Oh, so it was a Liverpool Professor who tipped Ferguson about that kit. Interesting. If only she knew that somewhere in Liverpool someone old is saying . . . "I done all I could to stop her from convincing Sir Alex Ferguson, now look what 30 year mess his club made in this world."
I swear the best Madrid kits always coincided with our best seasons. 2011-12/2013-14/2016/17. 2018-19 was all around garbage and they decided on those kits before we knew Zizou and Ronaldo were leaving. For whatever reason you look good you play good.
No wonder Plymouth Argyle haven't made it to the Premier League yet.
... so you're telling me there are universities paying people to find out which colour to pick for your goalkeepers kit?
Thats what universities do, as long they can produce journal papers they will do it
@BobbyG and this has more application and use, compared to Gender Studies
Best ever kit in my opinion was the pinstripe Liverpool 1982/85 kit in both red and yellow. Can't see that ever being beaten!!
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Great stuff thanks
Well Arsenal's shade of red attracted me to them when I was a kid and I am still their fan
As long as a team is winning, its kit will look good. Success is what makes Barcelona different from Crystal Palace, Real Madrid different from Swansea and Juventus different from Notts County
They matter. Real Madrid in 2016 had this pink kit, the players hated it and asked the president to use the 3rd kit instead. Apparently they lost using that kit so it was some kind of superstition
Very interesting article. There have been some season's where some teams did not do well in a certain kit. I remember when Louis Van Gaal was coach of United, one of the seasons we wore black as our third kit, and we didn't win a single game playing in it. I think Liverpool also had a season like that when they wore that awful neon yellow kit. So yes, kit colours definitely matter. Just ask colour blind people
3:21 James gunnerblog had a say in the evil red eyed magpie right?
Magpies !
”aLL foOtBall kITs mAttEr”
Chelsea were the first Blue dominant team to win the PL since 92 and the first Blue team to win the top flight in more than 15 years.
the colours do have a psychological influence. it has been proven many times. but skill and tactics are of course way more important.
Yes, if not how would you choose the team for the FIFA Career Mode?
most mediocre colors: black and white
me: hold my real madrid kit
Great analysis
If you want to have any serious analysis on impact of kits you need to do it across many leagues, otherwise it's just biased towards clubs that are strong in that league. For example white may have low win% in the Prem, but look at La Liga with Real having wite home kit and Atletico part white, or Serie A with Juve being part white and AC Milan, Inter, Roma usually having white away kit. I'm pretty sure if averaged across multiple leagues the results would be much much different.
The best goalkeeper kits were in the 1990s. Like a box full of crayons.
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A massive dose of confusing correlation with causation. Kits may have an impact on performance but none of the stats here show anything other than correlation (and even these seems incredibly cherry picked).
Is this an accurate application of these statistics? Citing the total wins Grey gets out of the total times Grey performs across all teams is miss leading. Some teams may skew Greys performance just bc of their shear quality or lack of. Some teams may have grey traditional as a 2nd kit. Perhaps citing the total wins Grey achieves along side other alternate colors of their respect club?
You have answered one of my biggest questions. Thank you
Lmao
Didn't Liverpool players also complain in the mid 2000's, when they had that grey kit?
@BobbyG Great game, Torres was fire back then :) But for real tho, wasn't there something about them not fancying playing in the kit because it was harder to see or something like that?
It's not really "science" as stated multiple times throughout the video, but merely statistics, with many conclusions imperfect due to small sample sizes.
If you want to see if kit colours actually matter, one needs to build a statistical model that gets rid of other variables, like market value of the team, previous performances, player age etc.
This is the sort of shit that I subscribe to Tifo for.
Also, I refuse to hold Swindon accountable for holding Red's win percentage down. We were only there for a year
The Cameroonian national teams cursed kit is yellow.
in fact they lost so many games in it until the colour was almost banned in the national team.
and the favourite colour is green. they won most of their finals from olympics to African cup of nation wearing that colour.
yup colour do play a role.
Green has always been an unlucky colour. It is said that if a woman wears green to her wedding, the next gown she wears will be black.
That didn't stop Plymouth Argyle using it. Their kit is inspired by Francis Drake's game of bowls before his finest hour against the Spanish Armada.
Burnley started off in it before changing to claret and blue. Superstition has always ruled that green is a cursed colour.