Best and worst kits ever in Scottish football

[Austinho]

You can tell it's international week with not much current Hibs news to talk about!

What are the best and worst strips that you've seen over the years?

Can be good or bad, Hibs, rival teams or Scotland, home, away, goalkeeper shirts. Post photos if you know how!

Some of the best Hibs home:

http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/a3f8e180a9834f2d9989de53fcb45d46/soccer-uefa-europa-league-second-round-qualifier-second-leg-hibernian-g6c8k5.jpg

Given that I'm a big fan of retro, I'm surprised my favourite Hibs shirts are both recent ones. Whilst it doesn't hold many pleasant memories (and shame it fell apart in the wash too), the 2013-14 kit is about as simple as you can get for a Hibs shirt – it's exactly what a modern day Hibs kit should look like. The white should always stop at the arms and not on the shoulders IMO.

https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/liam-fontaine-in-action-for-hibernian-during-the-preseason-friendly-picture-id579685358?k=6&m=579685358&s=594x594&w=0&h=aURnJtIr-8Mp0qpoDq4T5NYro2zfVzWbJZ_7aPa1P4Y=

Likewise, the 2016-17 was class too, for the same reasons. Perhaps there's something cool about Nike, or maybe it's that they got the shade of green spot on, unlike several of the manufactures before and after them.

Best Hibs away:

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/yoMAAOSwol5YviKi/s-l1600.jpg

This was smart as hell, and despite being 13 years old, wouldn't look out of place at all if we wore it now.

[Austinho]

Worst Hibs kits:

http://hibs.easterroad.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/hibs_away_kit_2008.png

This is up there with our worst away kits. Having red on a Hibs shirt never sat right with me anyway, and think all the Whyte Mackay kits from then were spoiled accordingly because of that. Throw 3 shades of green and a bright yellow into the mix and it's going to look shocking.

https://secure.i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02439/leigh-griffiths_pa_2439160b.jpg

Whereas I loved the Nike bottle green cup final 2016 kit, there was something about the Puma version I hated. Think the shade of green was too dark and turged, rather than a nice 'bottle' green, and the fact it fit like a bin bag didn't help. Most of our Puma kits were dreadful come to think of it.

https://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_700,f_auto,ar_3:2,q_auto:low,c_fill/https://www.scotsman.com/webimage/1.4708331.1521466329!/image/image.jpg

Pick any of Jim Leighton's goalie kit and it would belong here. They were so awful they're kind of brilliant. Would love to own one nowadays.

[Austinho]

Worst:

https://www.uksoccershop.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/hearts-16-17-away-kit-full.jpg

I mean, this whole thread is basically an excuse just to post this, right? Not just one of the worst kits in Scotland, Hearts will be feature on every 'worst kit of all time' blog for the rest of time.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/87/63/82/8763828b0431fa42377b3a881c80330b.jpg

Hard to look past anything with lime green and brown in it.

Best:

https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/marco-negri-rangers-picture-id650366798?s=612x612

Pains me to say it, but I used to be pretty jealous when my mates got to rock up in this for P.E. in the mid 90s, when I was sporting a fairly naff Mitre
hibs kit instead.

http://c8.alamy.com/comp/HNR9D3/john-collins-scotland-monaco-18-june-1996-HNR9D3.jpg

Scotland's Euro 96 kit was class.

[DeLaGaff]

Any Motherwell strip, ever...
Particularly thinking the home strip, but granted that you can't do much design wise to make those colours look appetising, you would think they would make more effort with the away strips?!

[Peevemor]

Designed by the chairman's wife IIRC

20459

[calumhibee1]

That puma home top was a shocker, what were the sleeves all about? Really skinny drain pipe sleeves that were about 3 inches longer but also much narrower than normal sleeves.

My pick for best kit would be put away kit the season we won the Scottish cup, outstanding.

[Just Jimmy]

Home and away 2015/16.
Close thread.

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[Baader]

Worst:

https://www.uksoccershop.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/hearts-16-17-away-kit-full.jpg

I mean, this whole thread is basically an excuse just to post this, right? Not just one of the worst kits in Scotland, Hearts will be feature on every 'worst kit of all time' blog for the rest of time.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/87/63/82/8763828b0431fa42377b3a881c80330b.jpg

Hard to look past anything with lime green and brown in it.

Best:

https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/marco-negri-rangers-picture-id650366798?s=612x612

Pains me to say it, but I used to be pretty jealous when my mates got to rock up in this for P.E. in the mid 90s, when I was sporting a fairly naff Mitre
hibs kit instead.

http://c8.alamy.com/comp/HNR9D3/john-collins-scotland-monaco-18-june-1996-HNR9D3.jpg

Scotland's Euro 96 kit was class.

Spot on with the worst ever. Hertz arse licking to the upper classes battenberg cake number is out on its own.

That Celtic one was the next one that springs to mind. The chevron action flash is like a graph following Celtic's on field trajectory from the 80s to the 90s! Decent to pretty crap!

Can't agree with any Rangers top looking good. Just seeing that crest is enough for any decent human being to be disgusted.

[weecounty hibby]

Home and away 2015/16.
Close thread.

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Disagree. Reopen thread

[Marabou Stork]

Best:
20463

20464

20465

20466

Worst (Other than the yellow hearts monstrosity):
20467

20468

20469

20470

Honourable mention to the pinstripe Scotland effort from 02-03.

[Austinho]

Worst (Other than the yellow hearts monstrosity):
20467
I actually think that kit is amazing!

[Tomsk]

Worst:

https://www.uksoccershop.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/hearts-16-17-away-kit-full.jpg

I mean, this whole thread is basically an excuse just to post this, right? Not just one of the worst kits in Scotland, Hearts will be feature on every 'worst kit of all time' blog for the rest of time.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/87/63/82/8763828b0431fa42377b3a881c80330b.jpg

Hard to look past anything with lime green and brown in it.

Best:

https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/marco-negri-rangers-picture-id650366798?s=612x612

Pains me to say it, but I used to be pretty jealous when my mates got to rock up in this for P.E. in the mid 90s, when I was sporting a fairly naff Mitre
hibs kit instead.

http://c8.alamy.com/comp/HNR9D3/john-collins-scotland-monaco-18-june-1996-HNR9D3.jpg

Scotland's Euro 96 kit was class.

:eek:

[Austinho]

Any Motherwell strip, ever...
Particularly thinking the home strip, but granted that you can't do much design wise to make those colours look appetising, you would think they would make more effort with the away strips?!I actually think they've had some decent ones over the years – it's usually the cheap tacky sponsors that spoils them.

http://www.footballshirtculture.com/images/stories/motherwell-2016-17-macron-home-kit/motherwell_2016_17_macron_home_kit_a.jpg

https://ik.imagekit.io/r16kltudm/media/tr:w-299,h-299,cm-pad_resize,bg-FFFFFF/catalog/product/m/o/motherwell-00-home_1_2_1.jpg

Although granted, the more they channel their inner Jambos, the worse they look :jamboak:

https://spfl.co.uk/docs/067_479__untitled_1_1479302994_standard.jpg

And I see what you mean about some of the away numbers :jamboak:

http://footballholics.com/shop/44063-thickbox/1992-94-motherwell-away-shirt.jpg

[snooky]

Worst:

https://www.uksoccershop.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/hearts-16-17-away-kit-full.jpg

I mean, this whole thread is basically an excuse just to post this, right? Not just one of the worst kits in Scotland, Hearts will be feature on every 'worst kit of all time' blog for the rest of time.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/87/63/82/8763828b0431fa42377b3a881c80330b.jpg

Hard to look past anything with lime green and brown in it.

.

The "peoples" one looks as if someone's tipped a couple of tins of paint over it.

[Mixu62]

Clydebank's old zig-zag effort has to be up there. Seem to remember the away kit was yellow & black, making them look like a team of Charlie Brown's.

20471

[jgl07]

I recall the McBean Hibs top was pretty bad.

I have one somewhere buried in a cupboard. The deeper the better.

[Craig_HFC]

Best:

20478
20479
20480
20481

Worst:

20482
20483

[IGRIGI]

Under the Worst category I'd put in that all green effort from the 1st season in the 1st Divison not just for the top but also for the laughable marketing that went in around it to cover the fact the club got bent over and jumped silly with a bland rent a shirt offering.

[Pretty Boy]

Pretty much every 90s keeper kit falls into both categories. They manage to be absolutely terrible but wonderfully brilliant at the same time. It's time they brought these back rather than the dull monochrome jobs that have been fashionable since Nike started the trend with all black in the early 00s. Link below for a few classics, a lot of those were tenplates so multiple clubs had them.

http://90sgoaliekits.tumblr.com

[TelaStella]

Just about every puma kit we had seemed to be dreadful but I couldn't stand this one.


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[DstN75]

Pretty much every 90s keeper kit falls into both categories. They manage to be absolutely terrible but wonderfully brilliant at the same time. It's time they brought these back rather than the dull monochrome jobs that have been fashionable since Nike started the trend with all black in the early 00s. Link below for a few classics, a lot of those were tenplates so multiple clubs had them.

http://90sgoaliekits.tumblr.com

Don't know much about printing but wasn't the proliferation of mad kits in the 90s down to some newfangled way of printing computer graphics on fabric?

Hence you got stuff like these

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/23/b7/1f/23b71f29aae9453354808ed7a803787c--soccer-kits-football-kits.jpg

https://cdn.pastemagazine.com/www/articles/19-ManUtd-92-93away2.jpg

https://shortlist.imgix.net/app/uploads/2017/01/30131631/50-worst-football-kits-ever-37.jpg?w=1200&h=1&fit=max&auto=format%2Ccompress

[Pretty Boy]

I actually think they've had some decent ones over the years – it's usually the cheap tacky sponsors that spoils them.

http://www.footballshirtculture.com/images/stories/motherwell-2016-17-macron-home-kit/motherwell_2016_17_macron_home_kit_a.jpg

https://ik.imagekit.io/r16kltudm/media/tr:w-299,h-299,cm-pad_resize,bg-FFFFFF/catalog/product/m/o/motherwell-00-home_1_2_1.jpg

Although granted, the more they channel their inner Jambos, the worse they look :jamboak:

https://spfl.co.uk/docs/067_479__untitled_1_1479302994_standard.jpg

And I see what you mean about some of the away numbers :jamboak:

http://footballholics.com/shop/44063-thickbox/1992-94-motherwell-away-shirt.jpg

I'd love a Hibs kit in the style of the top one with a white hoop similar to the Insave kit from the 80s.

[TRC]

20486

Had this amazing top when in p6-7

[heidtheba]

Wasn't there some absolutely awful strip from a Scottish team in the mid-90s that Jimmy Hill blasted in 4-4-2? It came out the same season that Spurs brought out a dark blue top during the Klinsmann era? I'm thinking it might have been sponsored by McGowans or Tunnocks. Was a div 1 team or below.
It's annoying the heck out of me trying to remember enough to search for it - anyone got any ideas what my mind is pointing to but can't find?!?

[heidtheba]

Wasn't there some absolutely awful strip from a Scottish team in the mid-90s that Jimmy Hill blasted in 4-4-2? It came out the same season that Spurs brought out a dark blue top during the Klinsmann era? I'm thinking it might have been sponsored by McGowans or Tunnocks. Was a div 1 team or below.
It's annoying the heck out of me trying to remember enough to search for it - anyone got any ideas what my mind is pointing to but can't find?!?


Morton away top - Buchanan's toffees - utterly howfin' top.

[Pretty Boy]

20486

Had this amazing top when in p6-7

I had that as well complete with black shorts with matching aide stripes and white socks with patterned turnovers.

From the Euro 96 qualifying campaign. They just don't nake them like that anymore.

[Viva_Palmeiras]

20487

[Eyrie]

Under the Worst category I'd put in that all green effort from the 1st season in the 1st Divison not just for the top but also for the laughable marketing that went in around it to cover the fact the club got bent over and jumped silly with a bland rent a shirt offering.

And with that post, every other nomination is now competing for the second worst of all time.

[Smartie]

Morton away top - Buchanan's toffees - utterly howfin' top.

Absolutely magnificent top, one of the best Scottish football tops ever produced.

The blue tartan top was the best one, they also did a red one.

Possibly the only non-Hibs Scottish club top that I would consider wearing.

The 1986 Dundee top was quite nice too. Looked best with a number 14 and no name on the back.

[iwasthere1972]

Worst:

https://www.uksoccershop.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/hearts-16-17-away-kit-full.jpg

I mean, this whole thread is basically an excuse just to post this, right? Not just one of the worst kits in Scotland, Hearts will be feature on every 'worst kit of all time' blog for the rest of time.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/87/63/82/8763828b0431fa42377b3a881c80330b.jpg

Hard to look past anything with lime green and brown in it.

Best:

https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/marco-negri-rangers-picture-id650366798?s=612x612

Pains me to say it, but I used to be pretty jealous when my mates got to rock up in this for P.E. in the mid 90s, when I was sporting a fairly naff Mitre
hibs kit instead.

http://c8.alamy.com/comp/HNR9D3/john-collins-scotland-monaco-18-june-1996-HNR9D3.jpg

Scotland's Euro 96 kit was class.

Don't know of it's just me but I didn't like the Scotland Euro 96 strip. Went to Villa Park to see us beat Switzerland 1-0 and was going to buy the top while there to wear that night. Saw it up close and decided not to bother.

[Smartie]

Under the Worst category I'd put in that all green effort from the 1st season in the 1st Divison not just for the top but also for the laughable marketing that went in around it to cover the fact the club got bent over and jumped silly with a bland rent a shirt offering.

I totally agree.

I couldn't believe that at my age I could get wound up about a Hibs top.

It was awful, I hated it and the marketing was offensive.

We'd just been relegated and it was at a time when it seemed like the club couldn't get anything right.

They had just appointed Alan Stubbs though, and I don't think any of us could have dreamed of where we would be within just a couple of short years.

Strangely, I've really liked the kits we've been relegated in.

[heidtheba]

It definitely wasn't one of the worst kits in Scottish football, but one of the worst Hibs ones was that insipid mint green away job. Yuk. NHS/Council school green.
I loved the 1990 World Cup top with the tartan on the section next to the buttons.

[.Sean.]

Best:

20478
20479
20480
20481

Worst:

20482
20483I thought the mint kit was class

[Austinho]

Pretty much every 90s keeper kit falls into both categories. They manage to be absolutely terrible but wonderfully brilliant at the same time. It's time they brought these back rather than the dull monochrome jobs that have been fashionable since Nike started the trend with all black in the early 00s. Link below for a few classics, a lot of those were tenplates so multiple clubs had them.

http://90sgoaliekits.tumblr.comhttp://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bq7zeH6vntg/TV8lySd0AMI/AAAAAAAAAM8/_t5kUXqZd74/s1600/9-Goalkeeper1994-14.jpg

Adidas have actually just brought out a modern take of the USA 94 GK tops.

The new 2018 version (https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTkN_eRCB4ypZgvJXAP0ZG6xX-RgOLKV2peWKfaEiMX13fFyOZavq9NECv8kw)

[calamitus]

Best by a mile
https://goo.gl/images/K9zLmS

[Mac_17]

Anything Maroon :sick:

[Geo_1875]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bq7zeH6vntg/TV8lySd0AMI/AAAAAAAAAM8/_t5kUXqZd74/s1600/9-Goalkeeper1994-14.jpg

Adidas have actually just brought out a modern take of the USA 94 GK tops.

The new 2018 version (https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTkN_eRCB4ypZgvJXAP0ZG6xX-RgOLKV2peWKfaEiMX13fFyOZavq9NECv8kw)

Looks like a cheap Spiderman outfit.

[McSwanky]

Thistle have had some crackers over the years:

The good:

20491

https://www.classicfootballshirts.co.uk/1990-91-partick-thistle-away-shirt-very-good-y.html

The bad:

20490

The ugly:

20489

[SJNB Hibby]

Can't find an image of it, but the Queens Park away kit 2006-07(In Irn Bru Colours) was one I loved---wish I'd bought one when I had the chance

[McSwanky]

Also loved both the Scotland kits from 1982. The 1985 kit would have been fine had it not been for that daft stripe across the shorts that made them look like they were falling down.

[we are hibs]

realise its not Scottish Football but Germany's new away kit is a cracker

[McSwanky]

Can't find an image of it, but the Queens Park away kit 2006-07(In Irn Bru Colours) was one I loved---wish I'd bought one when I had the chance

This one?

http://www.oldfootballshirts.com/en/teams/q/queens-park/old-queens-park-football-shirt-s1120.html

[SJNB Hibby]

This one?

http://www.oldfootballshirts.com/en/teams/q/queens-park/old-queens-park-football-shirt-s1120.html

Thats the one

[NZ Green]

http://www.soccerjerseysclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Dundeeunited3.jpg

Dundee Utd have had some good away kits.

[SouthMoroccoStu]

Amazing how good hibs shirts are also equal to good/successful hibs teams

[SteveHFC]

realise its not Scottish Football but Germany's new away kit is a cracker

https://images.sportsdirect.com/images/products/37111616_l.jpg Very retro like.

[HappyAsHellas]

As previously mentioned, this has to be the worst of all time, even worse than the jambo's forelock tugging tomliboos thingy
20492

[1van Sprou7e]

Amazing how good hibs shirts are also equal to good/successful hibs teams

2013/14 would like a word

[AK86]

20493This was a smart strip. A white one with green stripes would make a braw away kit

[G-Reg]

Best:

20478
20479
20480
20481

Worst:

20482
20483



Second from the top is me haha not sure it still fits though

[SouthMoroccoStu]

2013/14 would like a word

Remind me

[Austinho]

Amazing how good hibs shirts are also equal to good/successful hibs teams

Remind meThe 2013-14 (relegation season) kit was stunning, despite the players wearing it.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/05/26/article-2639999-1E3A580A00000578-598_634x428.jpg

We were garbage for most of the 80's as well - but that decade produced a whole host of our finest ever kits.

http://c8.alamy.com/comp/BJJC64/19881989-hibs-john-collins-BJJC64.jpg

https://www.hibernianfcpix.com/p/167/season-1981-1982-hibernian-jackie-mcnamara-5245982.jpg

https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2141/2199779310_a521208872.jpg

http://c8.alamy.com/comp/BJM06M/250884-premier-division-hibs-v-hearts-1-2-easter-road-edinburgh-gordon-BJM06M.jpg