The Worst Football Kits of All Time

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Just where do you start? is the zig-zag line a performance indicator for the coming season? Why is that such a horrible shade of lime green? Why does the top right-hand quadrant look like someone's accidentally split brown paint over it? Dreadful. You'd be forgiven for thinking that manufacturers Hummel were huge fans of Minnie Mouse, judging by this kit. They made it for Recreativo Huelva, who, founded in 1889, are Spain's oldest club. But the truth is this: Hummel insisted they had only two weeks to put together both the home and away uniforms. Recre's fans responded to the rush job by taking to the streets in protest to implore the club to change the design, only to be met with an official response from the club that they found the kit to be "innovative." Pity those poor Huddersfield fans. After 1991's monstrosity, less than two years later they were faced with this in the club shop. It looks like a mop shortly after cleaning up an explosion at a paint factory. Marseille's motto, perched under the club crest, translates to "Straight to the point." So we'll get right to it here: this kit is awful. You know when your printer starts to run out of ink and the document ends up with hideous lines across it? Well, that's exactly what this orange-and-blue striped mess by Adidas looks like. They did reach the Champions League quarterfinals wearing this, though, so we'll call it even. Scunthorpe United clearly saw Peterborough's effort the year before and thought "we love that, let's do something similar".

Poor Newcastle United fans. As if being run in a way that could charitably be called 'interesting' and perennially underachieving wasn't enough, they were lumbered with this 2-tone banana yellow jersey for their season in the Championship in 09/10. It's so bad it's actually quite funny. While 13 per cent feel so passionate about replica shirts they have even designed their own concept kits. We say that Barcelona is now a byword for style and class, yet they're still capable of this monstrosity. Buy now if you want to look a little bit like you're on fire.The Blues finished 11th in the league in both seasons they wore their "grorange" (grey + orange) strip, though they did make it to the FA Cup semifinals and the final four of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup during the 1995-96 campaign. 2. Nottingham Forest: away, 1995-97 (Umbro) Laurence Griffiths/EMPICS via Getty Images We think we've worked this out. Someone did a rough design using their new felt -tip pens and it got sent to the factory instead of the proper one where they'd designed it properly. That must be it. It must be. Every element of the jersey is immaculate: the glossy red material, the stylish MUFC pattern woven therein, the traditional club crest -- even the quirky lace-up collar, which has since become extinct in the world of kit design. The shirt is still revered and highly prized among United fans for being the one worn during the first two seasons of the Premier League, wherein their side claimed the title twice in succession. Indeed, United's league triumph in 1992-93 was their first in 26 years and duly proved the catalyst for a long and sustained period of domestic and European dominance under Sir Alex Ferguson. The 1986 Argentina home shirt made by Le Coq Sportif featured too – it’s memorable not only because it was also worn by Maradona but because his side won the World Cup that year.

Still, the earl's family remain Hearts fans to this day, and his great-great-great-grandson, Caspian Primrose, has been a mascot for the current side. 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. A perfectly nice yellow shirt that someone has decided to scrawl over with marker pen. What a shame. Oh, that's the real kit? Is it...is it really.Turn your thoughts instead to some of the lesser-known disgraces - like Hull City's tiger-stripes of 1992-3. Lower-league English club Scunthorpe's sponsor at the time was the adventure park Pleasure Island, based in the nearby beach town of Cleethorpes, and this design is reminiscent of the results of riding a roller coaster after eating too much cotton candy.