Yahoo News Manchester United unveil new 2024/25 home kit with inspiration from Busby Babes strip
Manchester United have unveiled their new home kit for the 2024/25 season.
Youngsters Rasmus Hojlund, Alejandro Garnacho and Kobbie Mainoo took centre stage in the kit release photo shoot, replicating their iconic celebration sat on the advertising hoardings.
The new home shirt has two shades of red in a gradient design with a white trim and takes inspiration from a shirt worn by the Busby Babes in 1952. This was made from reflective materials to aid visibility on the pitch, in the early years of evening games being played under floodlights..
The kit is finished off by traditional white shorts and black socks. A final nod to the club’s rich heritage is a red devil sign-off, found on the front of the accompanying black socks.
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Sam Handy, SVP of Product and Design at adidas, said: “The colour red is consistently fundamental to the club's DNA. There have been many different expressions of it over the years and, for 2024/25, we wanted to do something a bit different.
“We’ve drawn inspiration from a little-known shirt from the 1952 tour, which is a fantastic early example of creative design in matchwear and was worn by some of the club’s most legendary players.
“Its colour-shifting appearance was a big influence in this season's modern expression of the home kit, designed to capture attention from all angles on pitch.”
United had to wait on until July 1 for the new kit to be released. Various leaks of the new Adidas design have done the rounds over the summer with a new front-of-shirt sponsor but all three shirts are only likely to be unveiled later in the summer. That is because the club have a new shirt sponsorship deal in place with Snapdragon, but the record £60million-a-year deal only came into force today.
United agreed a new £900million 10-year deal with Adidas last July for the German manufacturer to continue making the kits, but Snapdragon will replace TeamViewer as the primary sponsor for next season.
US technology firm Qualcomm Snapdragon agreed the deal in September. TeamViewer were front and centre on the kits of both the men's and women's teams over the past three seasons.
