Birmingham City are a football club who play in the Championship after being relegated from the Premier League in the 2010/11 season. Nicknamed the ‘Blues’, City play in blue and white shirts which are manufactured by Nike. Birmingham have tried several colours for their away shirts.
Birmingham City 23/24 Kits
Birmingham City Home Kits
2022/23 Birmingham City Home Shirt
Birmingham’s blue Nike home shirt for 2022/23 was defined by its striping graphic. The pattern alternated between a stripe with solid outlines and two stripes comprised of little diagonal ones that faded toward the centre. White round collar and sleeve cuffs completed the jersey.
2021/22 Birmingham City Home Shirt
Birmingham FC wore a uniquely designed blue Nike home shirt for the 2021/2022 season. The jersey featured a tonal zebra striping available only to this specific uniform. Both the sleeve cuffs and v-collar with front overlap took the colour of the darker shade of the blue base.
2020/21 Birmingham City Home Shirt
The Birmingham home kit for the 2020/21 season was the first kit produced by Nike for the club. Using the Nike Trophy IV template, the shirt had a subtle triangular jacquard print on the front body, a polo collar, and side body panels that had the same colour as the sleeves. The sleeves had a regular cut on the front and raglan-style one on the back. The shirt reflected the traditional colours of Birmingham with its blue body and white collar and sleeves. A white SADLER’S PEAKY BLINDER branding appeared at the back of the shirt around the lower edge.
Birmingham City Away Kit
2022/23 Birmingham City Away Shirt
Birmingham acknowledged its varied alternate strips from the mid-’90s with its predominantly red 2022/23 away shirt. An abstract mix of checkered and cross graphics, underpinned by diagonal gradients, filled the torso, leaving the sleeves plain. Navy accented the jersey through the sleeve cuffs, round collar, and the abovementioned visual design.
2021/22 Birmingham City Away Shirt
Birmingham’s Nike away shirt for 2021/22 was yellow with blue sleeve cuffs and v-collar with back overlap. Blue pinstripes adorned the body, interrupted only by the sponsor space on the front and the number space on the back.
2020/21 Birmingham City Away Shirt
The Nike-produced Birmingham 2020/21 away kit showcased a relatively simple-designed shirt with red as the base colour. The style of the sleeves was raglan, while the neckline was round. A low collar formed at the back and sides of the neckline. The front of the body displayed the sponsors’ white logos and branding, though the Birmingham crest retained its official colours. Sadler’s combination mark sat on the bottom of the backside.
Birmingham City’s home strip is a blue shirt leading to their nickname of the blues, their away strip is black. In the 1970s Birmingham had an away strip which comprised of a large yellow stripe down the front of the shirt, one sleeve and a third of the shirt black, with the rest red, it made them look as though they had the Belgian flag wrapped around them.
Birmingham City nicknamed the ‘Blues’ were formed in 1875 and originally called Small Heath Alliance, which was shortened to Small Heath in 1888, in 1905 the name was changed to the current Birmingham. Birmingham play their home games at St Andrews. Birmingham City have a heated rivalry with Aston Villa who share the same city as the Blues.
The most expensive player to wear the blue of Birmingham is Emile Heskey bought from Liverpool in May 2004 for £6,250,000. Birmingham also have the proud record of having the first female Managing Director in the football league.