Errea to Provide Kit Assistance for Small UEFA Nations From 2022 to 2026
Nov 15, 2021, by Simon
About one year ago, Italian sportswear brand Erreà announced that it will become the official partner of UEFA for the Top Executive Programme (TEP) Kit Assistance Scheme, a project to assist the smaller European football federations. Now it has been announced which teams will be benefitting from this initiative.
Erreà Becomes New UEFA Kit Assistance Brand
Eight European national teams will receive bespoke jerseys from Errea as part of UEFA's Kit Assistance Scheme. Macron fulfilled this task from 2018 to 2022, with Adidas preceding them.
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— Erreà Sport (@ErreaOfficial) November 15, 2021
Andorra, Belarus, Cyprus, Faroe Islands, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, San Marino: these are the 8 federations that have joined the @UEFA Top Executive Programme and will wear @ErreaOfficial from 2022 until 2024. #ErreàSport pic.twitter.com/Sy0ZYhArzG
The UEFA Kit Assistance Scheme was launched in 2007 with the intention to assist smaller federations. This agreement manifests in two cycles of two years, 2022-2024 and 2024-2026, during which Erreà will design and produce bespoke shirts and collections for the national teams, in close collaboration with the staff of each federation. There are eight federations present in the first cycle: Andorra, Belarus, Cyprus, Faroe Islands, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Malta and San Marino. This seems to imply that Armenia are leaving the program, with Malta joining it.
UEFA's Kit Assistance Scheme also includes the U21 teams as well as referee kits and saves federations up to €300,000 each.
Do you look forward to see Errea's kits for these national teams? Will they do as good a job as Macron did? Leave a comment below.
Nottingham Forest Women Wear Training Tops vs Southampton to Avoid Color Blindness Clash
In an unusual kit occurrence, Nottingham Forest Women took to the pitch wearing training tops instead of their official 26-27 away kit during their match against Southampton Women at St Mary's Stadium on Sunday. The late switch was implemented specifically to avoid color blindness visibility issues that would have arisen from a red-versus-green clash. Huge thanks to @david_g_cooper for the spot.
With Southampton wearing their traditional red-and-white home kit, Nottingham Forest's primary alternative option - their green 26-27 away shirt - posed a serious dilemma. Red and green kit pairings are strictly discouraged by governing bodies and accessibility guidelines because they become indistinguishable to individuals with red-green color vision deficiency, which affects roughly 8% of men and 0.5% of women.
Since Nottingham Forest's home shirt is also red, the club resorted to dark training gear with match numbers applied on the back to provide adequate contrast for players, referees, and spectators.
Forest could have worn their light blue kit, but apparently they did not bring it.
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