Although City didn’t set the footballing world alight during the 1980’s we certainly had some fantastic shirts produced during the decade by Umbro. As a big collector of City match worn shirts and with the 1980’s being by far the favourite period of City shirts for me I thought I’d use this thread to showcase some of the 80’s style match shirts in my collection.
Starting off with this 1983/84 Second Division Kevin Bond match worn away shirt.
The big centre-half would appear 35 times during the campaign as Billy McNeill’s side finished in 4th place.
This style of shirts was first used during the 1982/83 campaign, our first with a shirt sponsor when Swedish car manufacturers SAAB donned the front, initially with a black sponsor on both the home and away shirts. This was changed to white on the home at the request of SAAB, who claimed it would give the sponsor better visibility and was dropped altogether from the away shirt but reappeared again in black on the away shirt during the 83/84 season.
Feel free to add some pictures of your favourite style 1980’s City shirts.
1985/86 First Division Paul Power match worn shirt from his final season at the club as a player.
Power would skipper the side making 36 league appearances before moving on to Everton who agreed to pay his City owed loyalty bonus as part of the deal to get the transfer over the line. Power was due the bonus on July 1st 1986 but chairman Peter Swales would refuse to pay if he left for Everton some four days earlier.
1986/87 Ian Brightwell match worn shirt v Manchester United on 26th October 1986.
One off shirt with a larger PHILIPS sponsor designed for the first ever live televised Manchester Derby, worn Brightwell, who replaced Tony Grealsih during a 1-1 draw.
At the request of club sponsors PHILIPS, a one off set of shirts with a larger PHILIPS sponsor were produced for the fixture aimed at the new TV audience.
The full kit was then given away by City to a group of Australian fans who had watched City’s end of season tour games.
1984/85 Second Division Paul Simpson match worn shirt v Charlton Athletic on 11th May 1985.
Simmo would score City’s fourth goal wearing this shirt as we clinched Promotion back to the First Division with a stunning 5-1 victory in front of a packed Maine Road.
This was the second of two campaigns the design was worn but the first with new sponsor PHILIPS who had replaced SAAB.
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