Away Kits

The following is a history of Fulham's away/change kits over the years.

The early history of Fulham's change strip is a fairly incomplete one, certainly regarding the first few decades of the clubs existance. Most teams from the 1890's to the 1910's would wear white shirts when their home colours clashed with an oppositions, however, as Fulham's colour of choice was white from 1903-04, this meant that their choice of change colours would have to deviate from these standards.

In the early days, the standard was that the home team change their kit should there be a clash (the Football League later ruled in 1921 that the away team must change, as they still do today). Prior to their choice of white shirts in 1903, Fulham had previously played in red, and it is a possibility that they continued to wear this colour when they were required to change in the 1903-04 season and the following years.

Colours printed in a 1908 programme v Derby County

The earliest information uncovered of any change strip worn can be found in the above excerpt of a programme in 1908, of the match against Derby County at Craven Cottage which states that Fulham were to line up in black and white striped shirts, black shorts and black socks. The clash of plain white shirts and black-and-white striped shirts would be far too similar for today's standards, but back then it was commonplace for this to be an acceptable jersey replacement for any team wearing white.

1914-15; black & white stripes

A team photo from the 1914-15 season shows shirts had what seems to be three inch black and white vertical stripes. These were worn possibly from as early as the 1890's through to around 1920 or slightly later. However, alternate shirts were worn throughout this period such as the following example.

A newspaper report from a 3-1 win over Bury at Craven Cottage on 21 September 1912 states that Fulham wore red shirts.

1912-13; red shirts

Fulham v Bury; 21 Sept 1912

In 2014, British Pathé uploaded a video showing parts of this match, also that Fulham were wearing a change of shirt along with their usual black shorts. The image shows the excerpt from Reynold's Newspaper the following day, along with a colourized still from the footage showing Fred Mavin, Arthur Reynolds and Jimmy Sharp walking out to the match.

The photograph showing the 1930-31 squad has hooped shirts, wearing black and white hoops. It appears that they only wore this for a few seasons, possibly in the late 1920's through to the early 1930's.

1930-31; black & white hoops

This following photo (below right) from 1936-37 also shows a different style hooped change shirt, with the addition of the club's second badge. During this era, the club wore blue and white hoops for their away kit. This seemed to be the choice for Fulham's away kit from the early 1930's all the way through until the Second World War broke out.

1936-37; blue & white hoops

As post-war football resumed, Fulham took to wearing dark blue jerseys for their away strip. In 1955, when Fulham face Preston North End in the FA Cup, such were the cup rules then, that both teams had to turn up with a change strip if there was a colour clash, in which Fulham wore a light blue kit.

The photo below right, of Johnny Haynes shaking hands with Danny Blanchflower of Tottenham Hotspur after a 5-1 loss on 5 November 1960, shows an all blue kit with white sleeves. This was a rather short-lived away kit and was replaced with an all-blue shirt with white trim around the collar and on the sleeve hem until 1965.

c.1967 red kit

1960-61 away kit

From 1965 until 1974, Fulham usually used either an all red or blue away kit, with the exception of the 1970-71 season in which they would use a light and dark blue vertical striped shirt.

In 1974, Fulham took up the famous red and black vertical striped away shirt, now synonymous with the FA Cup run in 1975. This was last used in 1977, before the club went back to using all red shirts. These appeared under several different guises but remained largely the same through to the early 1990's, where the kit manufacturing boom was in full swing.

John Mitchell celebrates following his last minute goal in the 1975 FA Cup Semi-final replay against Birmingham City

From the 1990's onwards, Fulham along with nearly all other clubs, have changed their home, away and sometimes third choice kit very regularly. The one thing that has stayed fairly consistant in the club's choice of away kits is the use of the colour red - largely again due to the historic 1975 FA Cup run to the Final.

Away Kit History

1907-1930	1912-1913	1930-1936	1936-1946	1946-1960	1960-1961	1961-1965

1965-1970	1965-1970	1970-1971	1971-1974	1974-1977	1977-1981

1981-1983	1983-1984	1984-1985	1985-1986	1986-1987	1987-1988

Apr-May 1988	1988-1989	1989-1990	1990-1991	1991-1992	1992-1993

1993-1995	1995-1996	1996-1997	1997-1998	1998-1999	1999-2000

2000-2001	2001-2002	2002-2003	2003-2004	2004-2005	2005-2006

2006-2007	2007-2008	2008-2009	2009-2010	2010-2011	2011-2012
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2012-2013	2013-2014	2014-2015	2015-2016	2016-2017	2017-2018
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2018-2019	2019-2020	2020-2021	2021-2022	2022-2023	2023-2024
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2024-2025	2025-2026