Ireland Kit

**Fixer82** · 30/03/2015, 4:00 PM

Is it a FIFA/UEFA directive to have an all-one-colour kit or is it just the fashion nowadays?

Really miss the white shorts. Our shorts are a different shade of green in fact to our jerseys.

ps MODs, apologies if this has already been discussed

**DannyInvincible** · 30/03/2015, 4:05 PM

Originally Posted by Fixer82

Is it a FIFA/UEFA directive to have an all-one-colour kit or is it just the fashion nowadays?

Really miss the white shorts. Our shorts are a different shade of green in fact to our jerseys.

ps MODs, apologies if this has already been discussed

It's possibly to help prevent shorts-colour clashes, or maybe purely stylistic, but it's not down to a directive, as far as I know. Plenty of teams wear different coloured shorts to the colour of their jerseys. Brazil, for example:

**Fixer82** · 30/03/2015, 4:23 PM

I always thought that we wore green shorts if there was a clash with shorts, ie against Saudi Arabia in 2002.
Must say I don't like the new all-one-colour kits. Most European countries are doing it it seems. Hopefully a passing fad.
Ireland will probably have a new kit by the summer anyway

**Closed Account** · 30/03/2015, 4:34 PM

For the 2014 World Cup, FIFA had the following in it's regulations

http://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/...1_DOWNLOAD.pdf

. Each team shall inform FIFA of two different and contrasting colours (one predominately dark and one predominately light kit) for its official and reserve team kit (shirt, shorts and socks)

Adidas, official World Cup partner, took the stance quite literally, hence Spains all red design, Argentinas white shorts and socks. Other manufacturers followed suit. It's for the referees benefit but it's a bit ridiculous in my opinion.

Uefa don't seem to have as strict a rule for the 2016 competition so I'm suprised teams are still following the rule.
http://www.uefa.org/MultimediaFiles/...1_DOWNLOAD.pdf

**DannyInvincible** · 30/03/2015, 4:51 PM

Originally Posted by Fixer82

I always thought that we wore green shorts if there was a clash with shorts, ie against Saudi Arabia in 2002.
Must say I don't like the new all-one-colour kits. Most European countries are doing it it seems. Hopefully a passing fad.
Ireland will probably have a new kit by the summer anyway

I'm not a fan myself of the all-green kit. Always liked the white to break it up.

Something on it all here actually, so turns out the trend has been inspired by a directive: http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...p-kits-2816201

Originally Posted by Sheridan Bird

But don’t blame designers or federations, as with most things that go horribly wrong in football for no particular reasons, it’s FIFA.

Rule 2, section 35 of the World Cup 2014 regulations states: “Each team shall inform FIFA of two different and contrasting colours (i.e. strips). One predominately dark and one predominately light for its official and reserve kit.”

FIFA believe lights v darks help the referee clarify tussles, lunges, tackles and deflections. They don’t ask teams to wear one colour, but adidas, as an official partner of the governing body, followed the rule closely. Hence Germany resembling Leeds and Spain doing their Bayern Munich impression.

It isn’t known if Puma and Nike will opt for monochrome kits. Hosts Brazil wear the latter, and it’s predicted the American label will soften their blue shorts so the strip slots into the ‘light’ category.

There is a pretty significant light/dark contrast between yellow/blue, so not sure how Brazil got away with it.

The kit and colours regulations that apply to the Euro 2016 qualifying and finals competition are articles 50 and 51, but they mention nothing about a preference for monochrome strips, as far as I can make out: http://www.uefa.org/MultimediaFiles/...1_DOWNLOAD.pdf

Originally Posted by Regulations of the UEFA European Football Championship 2014-16

51.01 As a rule, the home team is entitled to wear its first-choice kit, while the visiting team wears its second-choice kit or, if necessary, a combination of the first-choice and the second-choice kit. The UEFA administration issues a written decision regarding the playing colours in advance of each match.

51.02 If on the day of the match, in the opinion of the referee or the UEFA administration, the colours of the two teams could be confused, they will be changed. The decision taken by the UEFA administration in consultation with the referee is final.

The World Cup 2014 finals regulations here in contrast (see article 35 on equipment): http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/tour..._e_neutral.pdf

I'd imagine kit designers are still producing kits or using templates that were for World Cup competition.

Edit: And I see Joe has already posted pretty much all of the above in the meantime.

**Ol� Ol�** · 30/03/2015, 5:27 PM

Silly as it sounds, wearing a green jersey and togs really does see the players fulfill the 'Boys in Green' tag even more than it would were they wearing green jersey and white togs. That's the first thing that comes to mind for me.

**Fixer82** · 30/03/2015, 5:51 PM

Hopefully they get rid of Umbro and get Adidas, O'Neill's, Nike or anyone else in to design our jerseys.
Would love to see O'Neill's get the contract. Supporting Irish industry. Now that would be a novel idea from the FAI

**Ol� Ol�** · 30/03/2015, 6:46 PM

Originally Posted by Fixer82

Hopefully they get rid of Umbro and get Adidas, O'Neill's, Nike or anyone else in to design our jerseys.
Would love to see O'Neill's get the contract. Supporting Irish industry. Now that would be a novel idea from the FAI

With 3 their sponsors and Aviva having naming rights on the stadium, it's highly unlikely. But a nice idea indeed.

**Charlie Darwin** · 30/03/2015, 7:07 PM

I like the all green.

**IsMiseSean** · 30/03/2015, 7:32 PM

I like the green shirt & shorts but the socks is too much. Can't go wrong with a pair of white socks!

**Paddy Garcia** · 30/03/2015, 9:02 PM

I like the all green - but I worry they blend into the grass - cos the passing rarely seems to reach the right destination.

**CraftyToePoke** · 30/03/2015, 9:14 PM

Green shirts, green shorts and orange socks would sort it.

**Fixer82** · 30/03/2015, 10:56 PM

Originally Posted by IsMiseSean

I like the green shirt & shorts but the socks is too much. Can't go wrong with a pair of white socks!

Ah no. We had that in the Kerr era and it looked awful.
Green shirt, white shorts and green socks. Your only man!

Although I loved the hooped socks we had at the start of qualification games for World Cup 2010

**IsMiseSean** · 31/03/2015, 2:32 PM

Originally Posted by Fixer82

Ah no. We had that in the Kerr era and it looked awful.
Green shirt, white shorts and green socks. Your only man!

Although I loved the hooped socks we had at the start of qualification games for World Cup 2010

Forgot about the hooped socks, I liked those. I'd be happy if we just got rid of Umbro tbh...

**BonnieShels** · 31/03/2015, 3:08 PM

Originally Posted by Ol� Ol�

Silly as it sounds, wearing a green jersey and togs really does see the players fulfill the 'Boys in Green' tag even more than it would were they wearing green jersey and white togs. That's the first thing that comes to mind for me.

We could just call the lads something else though... Like Green and White Army or something like that.

#COYBIGAW