We showed you a leaked picture back in December, and today FC Barcelona’s new kit for the 2011/12 season has been presented, and will be available here. Apart from the addition of the name of the sponsor, Qatar Foundation, the shirt also has the narrowest stripes ever to appear on the shirt.
The new Barça kit for the 2011/12 season will look more modern, will continue to show concern for the environment and maintains the traditional colours. But the shirt has more vertical stripes than ever (as many as eleven) and on the inside there is a graphic with the words ‘Tots units fem força’ (together we are stronger) taken from the club anthem.
As announced previously, on the front of the shirt and in the same yellow as the Catalan flag, appears the name of the sponsor, Qatar Foundation, while the Unicef logo has been moved to the lower back.
The shorts are blue with a yellow line on the side. The socks are blue and include a mesh in the shape of three rings and printed with the letters FCB in the yellow of the Catalan flag on the calf.
Thanks to Miquel, Mirza, Massimo and HPP
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The Unicef sponsorship was genuine charity which should be applauded and an example to other clubs.
I don't like them having a sponsor but regardless of that, its a VERY ugly jersey
Exactly right - the Qatar foundation has been proven to be the sole financial backer of Hamas. Shame on Barcelona for even contemplating associating themselves with a group like that. Pathetic.
They are made with recycled bottles
Flaring the Qatar filantropy foundation logo in a shirt made by asiatic workers in subhuman work conditions...
thats what i call "showing more concern...."
do you know about nike factorys? or more importantly, do you know about nike factory's in 2011, not 3rd hand info from someone who read something in the 80s?
Nike factory's have to meet strict policy's on workers health, working time, environmental impact and a whole score of other things, the documents about 300 pages long! the factory's are on par with factory's in turkey or even UK,
why so serious bro they are just joking
But then, the economics, ie £££, is more important to the companies, the £40+ price tag per shirt every year shows that.
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why not keep your modern day Che Guevara taunts to yourself and just give us your view on the shirt eh?
i think you read someone else's post and replied to mine
his point is ridiculous.. its not about selling out or injustice or whatever else, the Qatar Foundation is a Foundation, and its not like they dropped Unicef.. its still there
the only thing that happened here today is that Barcelona got a new shirt
and why not try calming down :)
And looking back, I too think that the unicef logo was to get us fans used to sponsorships, since the decision to allow commercial sponsorship was taken years ago, around the time Unicef appeared.
The shirt will stay dirty for at least 5 years. And I think it won't be cleaned after Barça suffers a few years of empty handed, when they choose to find a new impulse by going back to the Barça of ol days. I for sure will never buy one with that sponsor or any other and i hope a lot will follow to make a point clear to the management. But I'm realistic enough that that won't happen.
THAT'S the kind of strip shirt you OUGHT to choose and use which involving navy/cardinal.
I am talking to you, Crystal Palace.
They represented such "warmth" with their disgraceful diving, fouling, feigning injury, starting brawls at half time, intimidating the referee and general cheating in their semi-final against Real Madrid, didn't they?
"Warmth"! Pahahahahahahahaha!!
True and sad... But some ppl just don't realize about this cos they are so deep interested in what just this club is .. MONEY...
We are higher than this level and either someone else thinks another look
You make no sense, go learn how to type properly.
i will give you how to make sense
One more word and we all shall give you...
It would be even better for the environment if clubs didn't change their kit every year.
Barcelona have tinkered too much with their kit in recent years. The only Barca shirts I've liked in recent seasons are 06-07 and 07-08. Of course, I also own the model from the mid '80s, which didn't change between 1982 and 1989.
was the photograph drunken?
mes que un club? no, you're just like every other revenue generating football club out there
And as for the kit I like it very much but the away kit is even better. Its not pictures here but on their website its a total black kit shorts and socks. It looks very stealthy and very nice. And I'm not sure bit I think I saw two small blue and red pinstripe s running down the length through the crest.
Remember the sponsor until 2016
The club is great because of it's traditions and history. And this kit is exactly opposite of that
The kit also seems to suffer from a surfeit of blue - it looks too unbalanced as a result.
It'd just about be passable minus Qatar logo - but overall it's the kind of design that looks immediately dated. How Nike can follow so good a strip with such a poor effort is beyond me.
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milans shirt is way better even with tight stripes
bad design for a great team
I thought Barca have always had a blue stripe in the centre on the top? Why the need to break from tradition.
The sponsor looks very cheap. It's not a smart logo in the first place. But they could have added the tree from it. It looks like the sponsor for a Sunday league team. Done by the local printers.
That's horrible. I hope for their sake this kit only lasts a year.
The Catalan giants have paid to carry the Unicef logo for the last five years and the children's charity will share shirt space with the new sponsors.
Barcelona have a sizeable debt but now claim to be "the undisputed brand leader in world football".
The deal will be worth £25m a year from next season through until 2016.
In July, an audit revealed Barcelona's debt to be £369.5m after a loss of more than £64.36m in the 2009/10 season.
The new sponsorship arrangement could free up some transfer funds for coach Pep Guardiola - who worked as an ambassador for Qatar's successful bid to host the 2022 World Cup.
The Qatar Foundation is a non-profit organisation concerned primarily with education projects in the Middle East.
It is chaired by Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned, the wife of the Emir, who was central to Qatar's final World Cup bid last week.
Senior club executives said the deal was a "remarkable milestone because it represents a record level of revenue for a football club and has more value still in the current economic climate".
Liverpool, Manchester United and Real Madrid each earn about £20m a year for their rights, while Bayern Munich make closer to £23m.
Marketing experts will seek to find a way for both logos to be displayed on the Barcelona shirts, although if that is not possible the Qatar Foundation will take priority.
Remember the sponsor until 2016
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Lovely kit. Actually, one of the first good kits of nike I've seen so far.
go MUFC!
Your right it looks like SHIT
The last was so much better, with the yellow
I looks liek a shirt, Justin Bieber would wear to a Jonas Brothers Concert.
socks will be half shorter and shorts will keep being longer (at least 1 span under the knees). Shirts: short sleeves only and will be extra tight; also, so expandable that once took off, could fit in the pocket.
It's a non-profit chartiable organisation supporting developing communites!
tops off a rubbish kit really
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font style of Qatar Foundation isn't harmony with vertical stripes.
and the diagonal shadow?? that new...