We showed you this shirt back in may, but today Villa stars took to the catwalk as the brand new home kit - featuring the logo of new principal partner Genting - was unveiled.
And the thousands of fans in attendance at Star City were wowed by a surprise appearance from new signing Shay Given who was officially presented as a Villa player at the launch event.
Club record signing Darren Bent, winger Marc Albrighton and strikers Gabby Agbonlahor and Nathan Delfouneso were the four outfield players parading the new kit.
Unfortunately the claret and blues aces made an unsuccessful attempt at trying to bag £100,000 for charities Acorns and St Basil's - although a sizeable donation was made by Genting.
Fans flocked to the huge leisure and entertainment complex to see their heroes model the latest claret and blue classic.
Bent, Albrighton, Agbonlahor and Delfouneso received rapturous cheers as they stepped out on to the stage wearing the new Nike home shirt which features a chequed design.
But the biggest ovation of all was saved for star signing Given as he appeared in the new blue and red goalkeeper's jersey.
The new home kit will be available to buy from 9am on Saturday at Villa Village and online.
Thanks to Mark
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Comments
All things considered, not bad. I did prefer the white socks on the leaked kits, though.
As a Villa fan, I'm loving it! Top kit!
going bust, going bust, GOING BUST !!!!
Not the best but could be much worse
Yes.
Yes.
What's the name of that Prog Rock band who had Rick Wakeman on keyboards and Jon Anderson as singer?
otherwise nice and smart shirt design!
Dirty Harry shuffles from side to side, then sits down.
Shouldnt the socks be sky blue - white for burnley & West Ham?
Villa - sky blue
Derby - white
Arsenal - red
Spurs - white
Everton - blue
West Ham - claret for me
Burnley - white
Man City - navy blue
Middlesbrough - who cares?
All hooped socks should be strictly limited to Belgium
I mean, think back to the Diadora kits, they couldn't even master claret!!!
It would be nice to see a move to the Nike sister company Umbro next season though, although they'll probably not.
But it would be ace to see a shirt based on the template of the Man City shirt in the spirit of the 1985 shirt.....I happen to like it, but if they did take over, more likely to be, blue collar and sleeves, claret front and back. Yay.
is he about to leave aston villa???????
Its a good signing i have to admit :)
you've done this with a few teams
first we get the leaked kits
then we get the 'official' kits with no sponsor
then we get the kits with the sponsor
then we get the official launch pictures
we know what the new villa kit looks like already, same with Man Utd, Barca, Arsenal, Inter, Juve, Real Madrid......
Stupidsponsoritis knows no bounds.
I totally agree with you there, Gazhorn.