Detailed Analysis | Nike 2004-05 Kits

Just around 10 days ago, we launched Football Kit Archive, our new website about classic football shirts. Today, in cooperation with Football Kit Archive, we want to take a look back at Nike's kits of the 2005-2005 season.

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Nike 2004-05 Template Kits

For the 2004-05 season, most of Nike's jerseys featured the same template - the Nike Total 90 jersey template, designed and launched for the EURO 2004 in Portugal.

The Nike T90 template was used for almost all important Nike jerseys of the 04-05 season. However, while the national team jerseys for 2004-2005 did not had big modifications of the template (and looked extremely streamlined), some club kits used a modified version of the template. In example, for striped kits, Nike did not use the exact template to give the stripes more freedom and space, and some 2005-2005 kits also featured classic collars.

A detailed look reveals that the away / third kits of Barca, Inter, Man Utd and other teams all feature different executions of stripe design elements (pinstripes / differently sized stripes / horizontal stripes).

Arsenal

FC Barcelona

Manchester United

Manchester United - Goalkeeper

Juventus

Inter

Valencia

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