Chelsea Football Club and adidas today unveiled the new home shirt for the 2011/12 football season, which will be available here
The shirt takes inspiration from Chelsea's heritage with design features originating from past kits used in the early 80s and reflects this with the shadow striped design on the front panel.
A white colour block has also been added to the sleeves and shorts, resulting in adidas' iconic three stripes appearing in blue for the first time on a Chelsea strip and creating a distinctive and striking design.
The new kit will be worn for the first time at the final home game of the season when Chelsea play Newcastle on 14 May.
The shirt will be available on 12 May but can be pre-ordered online.
The playing shirt features the adidas techfit™ technology which will help improve speed, increased endurance capabilities and enhanced awareness. This works by stabilising and focusing the muscles' energy to generate explosive acceleration and deliver maximum power output.
Fans will be able to buy the replica shirt which incorporates adidas ClimaCool™ technology, a mixture of heat and moisture controlling materials, ventilation channels and 3D fabrics which improve air flow to the skin in the key heat zones.
The new Chelsea home kit will be available here.
Thanks to Cleas
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The hoops are nice though.
a little too much room for the patches to be a critic.-looks better with the patches
looks great on Lampard!
The ones with Torres on the back will soon be in the sale at JJB and Sports Direct.
Same old problem between adidas and chelsea. They cant make a nice kit. Im a LFC fan and ive never thought the chelsea kits are nice at all. Maybe torres can score more than one goal in this horrible kit. YNWA
they are photoshopped,at first instance they used the gold ones but they knew they made a mistake
It'll be like the 2006-2007 season all over again when Liverpool and Chelsea played 5 or 6 times wearing the same strip, looking like Rock 'em Sock 'em robots.
Is it just pretty much accepted now that teams change their kits every year? Seems ridiculous!
Nothing against Chelsea or any other team in particular, but surely there's no real justification for bringing out a new home kit every year?
Does anyone actually buy a new home shirt each year?!!
What on earth do people do with the old ones?!
ps this is quite nice I think, better than the current one
A few years ago there was a voluntary code of practice that teams would agree to retain a jersey for 2 seasons. The problem is, that code was only ever intended for English clubs, and since they have to compete financially with other top European sides, it was never likely to last very long. For a code of practice to work it would have to be UEFA-wide and couldn't be voluntary, two things that I suspect would be very difficult to enforce under EU law.
does anyone buy a new home shirt?yes...I for example am an juventus fan and I buy every year the new kit because i like to wear what my favorite players wear (I know it;s a little bit childish) and also i get borred of the old one(exeption when I like a model verry verry much...in my case the one with v-necks)
what do people do with the old one?simple...I for example sell the old one...
hope this answers your dilemma
Not a huge team anymore but Sheffierd Wednesday have kept their home shirt for 2 years now.
Think the Chelsea shirt is nice enough. Have no real complaints with it
In my case, I think it's good that my team (Newcastle) change kits every year. Especially, when the kit maker is PUMA, cause I hated Toon's 10/11 season kits. And I hope Adidas to come back............
Please ditch Adidas and go back to Umbro
I remember when all United fans hated the chevron on the home shirt last season, but were sorry to see it go at the end.
Some kits take time.
So is glentoran
Hoping for a good game tonight. May the better team win.
It's not because you guys are against Chelsea, is it? I'm not a Chelsea fan myself, but we're here to discuss the shirt and I think it's the most beautiful shirt I've seen from Chelsea since Abramovich bought the club!
I rememebr alot of hate for this season's kit with the random red bit, but it's grown on a lot of people, including me, the more you see it in action.
This is actually a really nice kit, imo, one of the best we've had in recent seasons. Just need to edit the colar a bit.
They should have finished the design and then decided to remove one, two or three details.
The white on the shoulders should have gone, for sure.
It's like the red collar this season. Why?
For shame, Adidas.
It looks like a hybrid of Wigan & Reading.
You're bang on. There is a video on the Chels website and the logos are clearly the gold ones.
Hopefully a player who's actually worth £50 million like Daniel Sturridge wont have to wear this shirt next season
A good balance between retro adidas and modern designs.
Adidas FC...to much focus on the 3 stripes....
Despise Kenyon for signing that Adidas contract when we should have gone with Nike/Umbro. They've not made one nice shirt for us yet.
Apparently not after tonight...
Go on, how many 'TORRES 9' shirts will be sold? Whoppers.
I'm not seeing how the shirt is having any affect on Frank's muscles. They say something like this every season. You'd think with the constant improvement players ought to be able to fly by now.
and so is the shirt
I don't get it either. I'll only get a new one if it looks good and the current one is starting to show it's age (the material, that is).
Or if you're a West Ham or Celtic where it's going to be the same design more or less (home kits that is), there's really no point getting a new one for the sake of it being new.
At least this one isn't so tight. It looks like football shirt, not a cycling uniform.
Chelsea's season disappearing most probably
LOL
(please Adidas, don't mess up Real Madrid's kit this season)
Glory United
Jog on. Go on you cheeky monkey, just do one.
Thank you kindly.
I cant wait to see Neymar and Lucas Piazon wearing this next season.
Lucas Piazon can't go to Chelsea until January
Looks like Adidas is going to use and abuse of this resource on theirs kits in next season.
Adidas has looked bereft of ideas, with only a few design (germany WC comes to mind) that I have strayed from the current aesthetic.
But I've kept my mouth shit and decided that it's just a matter of taste and that trends change.....
But this just shows that Adidas has decided to stick with this aesthetic....the same one it has had for what seems like the last 4 years.....
They need to strip it all back and realise that the classic 3 stripes is "obnoxious" enough, with out havign to ad more to the design......thay have this feel of adding way more "panels" to their design than is necessary.....
Hate to sound unoriginal, but I think Adidas needs to do an Umbro and go back to basics.......
why chelsea paying you $$$ for such desings?
Do you need a designer?
Even when you try to make a retro design its poor design!!
No creativitey no classic desgins!! What are you doing adidas!!
How come its "all blues", and shirt is combination of white and blue?
Then you make another ugly-shiny colours for away and third kit and its never been used by chelea team.
Learn from Nike, for each big team thier is a.unique design not a templates
I'm chelsea fan and i will buy it. But please do better job
And actually the pic doesnt do it justice - looks much nicer in the video on the Chelsea website & the long sleeve version is also alright - at first I didn't like it - but it's a grower!
Learn English you tit
Since adidas began supplying Chelsea's kit, I have not really liked the home shirts, but have been a fan of a few of the away kits.
Definite retro look about it and a massive improvement on last season's terrible cycling shirt.
The blue turnovers on the socks are a nice touch.
Can't see how this resembles the Chelsea kits of old, the only one that bears any resemblance is the LCS 80s kit posted above but that's just the shadow pattern.
Its OK, that's all.
So, this actualyl works out as every 2 years anyway. So it doesn't cost me more than it would have done had it been every 2 years anyway!
It only costs the fanatics, who are happy to pay the money, or the parents of child fans, who should really have more control and be prepared to say no!
I agree and, although I like this shirt, I feel it could have been better and there is a lack of overall class in a lot of their designs. The recent Umbro "made in England" ones that are very plain and simple have worked well in this regards, although some of them look a bit too simple. Someone just needs to find some middle ground.
Wrong lad Liverpool have got the same home kit next season.
Looks like the french cup sponssored adidas shirts.
After Southampton and Reading.
That's right I support Pompey.
Yes I agree.
Looks like a snide wigan design from about 10 years ago.
Plastics.
the horisontal strips and white tone on the shoulder make it beautiful....
5 stars.....
IMO a chels kit should consist of their yellow blue and then some white where needed