Kit (association football)
In association football, kit means the standard equipment and attire worn by players. The terms "kit", "strip", and in North-American English "uniform" all mean the same thing.
The Laws of the Game define the minimum kit a player must use.
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Pavel Nedvěd pictured in 2006 wearing a typical modern football kit
Shin guard from Adidas.
Modern turf shoes, which are designed to be used on hard artificial turf or sand
Various styles of goalkeeping gloves
Referee Howard Webb wearing a black strip
The New Brompton team of 1894 sporting typical kit of the era, including heavy jersey, long shorts, heavy high-topped boots and shin pads worn outside the stockings. Goalkeepers wore the same shirts as their team-mates at this point in time.
The national team of Argentina in typical kit of the early 1960s
Sponsored shirts, such as these worn in various seasons by Paris St Germain, became the norm in the modern era.
