Crystal Palace shirts reach the second-hand market in small numbers. The selection here runs from 1980 to the present and is heaviest in the 2010s and 2020s, with only a scattering from the 1980s and 1990s. That scarcity shows in the prices: the middle of the range sits noticeably higher than for larger English clubs, and 1980s and 1990s home and away shirts are among the dearer items on the site.
Palace have changed kit supplier often, which makes the neck label a reliable date. Umbro supplied the kit from 1975 to 1977, Admiral in 1977-80, 1987-88 and 2003-04, adidas in 1980-83 and 1996-99, Hummel from 1984 to 1987, Bukta from 1988 to 1993, Diadora from 2004 to 2007, Erreà from 2007 to 2009, Nike from 2009 to 2012, Macron from 2014 to 2018 and again from 2022, and Puma from 2018 to 2022. Anything in Puma branding therefore belongs to a four-season window.
The vertical red and blue stripes are not the club’s original colours. Palace wore claret and blue from their professional foundation in 1905, switched about between white and claret over the following decades, and only took red and blue in 1973, when Malcolm Allison remodelled the club on Barcelona and replaced the Glaziers nickname with the Eagles. The centenary season of 2005 was the exception: the team wore a version of the 1971-72 claret, blue and white kit. Alongside the match shirts, the listing includes match-issue items prepared for specific fixtures, training shirts and track jackets.
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