The listing runs from 1983 to 2024, but it is not evenly spread. The 1980s and 1990s are thin: three items from 1983, one each from 1984 and 1985, five from 1987, four from 1989, two from 1991 and only a handful across the rest of the decade. The weight sits in the last ten years, with 31 items from 2016, 29 from 2018, 34 from 2020, 32 from 2021 and 23 from 2022. If you are after a shirt from The Dell era, before the move to St Mary’s Stadium in 2001, expect a short list and high prices.
Training wear is the single largest category at 66 items, ahead of 64 home shirts, 43 away and 19 third. There are also 30 jackets, 21 polo shirts and 17 goalkeeper shirts. Seventeen are staff issue, meaning kit handed to club employees rather than sold in shops, and 11 are match issue and seven player issue, both prepared to a first-team specification and cut differently from retail shirts.
The kit supplier is the fastest dating check. Southampton wore Umbro in 1974-76 and again 2008-13, Admiral in 1976-80 and 1991-93, Patrick 1980-87, Hummel 1987-91 and 2021-24, Pony 1993-99, adidas in 2013-14 and 2015-16, Under Armour 2016-21 and Puma since 2024. From 1999 to 2008 and in 2014-15 the club used its own Saints branding. Under Armour appears in 66 titles here and Hummel in 41. Condition grades run 4/10 to 10/10 with a median of 8. The 325 items are split across eight pages of 42, sorted dearest first, so the cheapest stock sits on the last page.
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