This is the new Manchester City away kit for the 2011/2012 English Premier League season manufactured by Umbro.
The kit was revealed at Monday night’s FA Cup homecoming event at the City of Manchester Stadium.
The inspiration for the Umbro kit is taken from the most famous shirt in the club’s history – the black and red shirt worn in 1969 and 1970 during which time City won the FA Cup, League Cup and European Cup Winners Cup.
To achieve the ‘tailored’ look for the 2011/2012 away shirt, the Umbro kit designers draped black and red fabric over the silhouette of the modern day ‘arms out’ goal celebration.
The shirt is designed so that when a player celebrates a goal or links arms with team mates, the black and red stripe remains consistent. For this reason, there is no seam on the underarm as traditionally stitching can distort the shape and flow of a stripe. The stripe width on the shirt was inspired by the old 1969 kit. The long sleeve version features an all-black forearm so that there is a unified stripe-look when the players link arms in goal celebrations.
The club crest and sponsor detail is key-lined in gold in order to give standout against the black and red.
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Atleast the AC milan kits have a bit of white on them to balance it out. That is plain awful lol
got nothing on stoke city fc's new away shirt !!!!!!
mercer wanted city to adopt a red and black away kit to emmulate milan back in 60s, (not that i like all of that crap) but if they wanted the red and black like milan you saying they got it is a good thing
Oh yeah sorry I forgot AC Milan have trademarked red and black censoreding stripes.
However, it's not AC MIlan, it's U.S. Foggia.... uhm no, it's OGC Nice.....no, it remebers me Bayer Leverkusen old kit....or was it Freiburg? No, it's definitely New York Metrostars
I am expecting that the keeper kit is to go with home strip as it surely can't be worn with it?
Why would red and black stripes piss off United? When have they ever wore them?
This is a classic away shirt and has been worn plenty of times down the years. Glad to see it back.
I bet Newcastle wish they were still with umbro. This template would be great for their home kit.
Rival with Liverpool for best away kit so far.
couldn't agree more Brett i'm a United fan but i'm not stupid enough to censored about a team wearing a historically significant strip god knows we've donned blue strips enough though i'd rather have green and yellow myself
And I say that as a Stoke fan!
god, we win the fa cup come 3rd (or joint 2nd whatever you wanna say) and as a club still not moving on
still harping on about past generations and still loving oasis, it's a pile of cr@p
you're a pile of cr@p
Personally I can't stand all this guff Umbro come up with everytime they release a kit...'linking arms??' It was the same with the rubbish they came out with about the England kt and its 'ethnic' multi coloured crosses.
wonder if we have a third kit?
Love the new away, too. Harkens back to our winning past and embraces our winning present.
red and black...
for city...
glory united
Glory hunting knob
poor effort by umbro, anyway its only manchester mercenaries fc
Wow Dan, is that all you got? Spouting off the same hateful rhetoric of the media and haters. Get a Life.
And to those complaining about the red and black, Man City have had these away colours many times in their history. This is Man City Through and Through.
What, it's Man Citys?!
For later-day bandwagon City and United fans alike, these colours have been worn by City since 1968/69. I'm reliably informed that City's early away kits were solid red, too. Red is as much a traditional City colour as blue is to United. Lots of history in those choices.
Like the gold Umbro logo, but am I alone in thinking that the Eithad logo would look better white?
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Yawn!!!!!!!
I suppose every time a blue and black striped kit comes out it must be a copy of Inter?
This is a great kit and something different from the past few seasons, if I was a city fan i'd be more than happy with this offering
you have no clue what your on about do you.
red and black stripes is a very traditional away kit for us.
we have had loads of red and black away kints in the past not to mention the 1969 fa cup final
great kit btw can't wait to pre order it. citd
Sponsors and stuff would look better in white rather than gold though
Then again, I'm a United fan. What do I know about City jersey's?
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But in all seriousness, great shirt, love what they did with the sleeves.
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the curf at neck area make it different...
like it...
"sky blue is featured within the crest so
that the away kit always carries a
piece of ‘home’.
WHAT A CROCK OF SHIT UMBRO!!!
the crest always has sky blue on it, get some new designers!
The material used on the home shirt is inside the shield on all Umbro City shirts from the past 2 seasons
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Would that be our neighbours who won the European cup in 1968 wearing BLUE?!?
Before making a fool of yourself look into the history of the kit eh? City wore that in the 60's and was based on the AC Milan kit.
Personally I think it looks quality - so glad we signed up to Umbro who are without doubt producing the smartest kits we've ever had right now.
Good spelling pal. Ignorant fool.
and this is no exception! what a censoredy kit, wish I supported City ):
That...and the one they are probably about to bin (white with red and black diagonal band) are traditional change shirts and I really wish teams would stick with traditional for away kits as well.
Arsenal should always have the yellow and blue, Man Utd and Liverpool white with black shirts with maybe a blue 3rd kit for Man Utd and a yellow one for Liverpool and man City as they are.
And even though they only had it for a season, because it is so associated with them, Coventry should have brown.
Personally I wouldn't like Villa playing in Blue!
United's colors are red, white and black. Usually red shirt with white trim, white shorts and black socks.
AC Milan's kits are red and black striped shirts, white socks and black socks.
City have been using red and black striped shirts with black shorts and socks as an away kit since the 1960s and have used it periodically as an away kit since. Last time City used this color combination for an away kit was 2008/09 with the last le coq sportif kits.
And the consensus among City supporters is overwhelmingly positive. Sure there are some qualms about the neck and the hooped sleeves, but overall most fans are happy with the kit, especially considering the passing away of Neil Young (whose bout with cancer inspired the black and red scarves campaign) and Malcolm Allison (who came up with the idea to use this kit in the first place).
So much stupidity here, if you don't know the history behind the kits then don't make ignorant comments.
Finally, football clubs have been nicking kit colors off other clubs for years, Leeds did it in the 60s by going all white, copying Real Madrid, Juventus got their black and white kits off Notts County, Arsenal from Nottingham Forest, etc etc etc
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and the people slating City for a red and back away kit need to brush up on their history...
City have had loads of red/black away kits throughout their time.
How did that "Man Utd Kings of Europe 2011" turn out. Talking about "turning out", what also happened to around only 5000 people for 19 Parade on a Bank Holiday when everyone was off?
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As for the kit. I really like it, not keen on the neck, though that is a minor thing I don't like which I will soon overlook.
Anyway, good looking shirt apart from the hoops rather than stripes on the sleeves. Designing shirts for goal celebrations?
Good grief. Presumably you'll need to walk around with your arms out all the time.
Nice kit though, not sure about the collar.