FC Barcelona Kit History — Iconic Shirt & Jersey Eras Since 1899

Blue-and-garnet halved shirt with contrasting sleeves and collar; early teams wore white shorts.

The earliest team photographs show the shirt divided into blue and garnet halves. Barça’s official colour history confirms that the colours were selected in December 1899, while the reason for choosing them remains uncertain.

Vertical blaugrana stripes became the durable home identity, with collars, stripe widths and shorts changing across the decades.

From 1910 the halved layout gave way to vertical stripes. Barça’s own educational archive records the gradual move from buttoned shirts and longer shorts toward lighter round-neck kits after the Second World War.

Traditional vertical home stripes and memorable yellow change shirts, including the 1974-75 diagonal blaugrana sash.

The Cruyff era kept the home identity recognisable while change shirts became bolder. Barça’s official Retro 1899 archive highlights the yellow 1974-75 away with its diagonal blue-and-garnet band.

Lapel collars, broad blaugrana stripes and yellow change shirts; the 1980-81 home remains an official retro reference.

Barça’s official store identifies the 1980-81 blue-and-scarlet shirt as a distinct retro design. The decade also established the lighter synthetic silhouette that led into the Dream Team years.

Dream Team stripes, the orange 1991-92 Wembley away and a centenary return to the original halved home design.

The orange away shirt was worn when Barça won their first European Cup at Wembley in 1992. In 1998-99 the club revived the 1899 halved layout for its centenary, and Nike began the technical partnership that continues today.

Nike varied stripe widths and away colours; UNICEF appeared on the front in 2006 and the 2008-09 home became tied to the treble.

The shirt became a platform for club identity as well as design. Barça’s official history records the 2006 UNICEF agreement, while the Guardiola team made the 2008-09 home one of the era’s defining shirts.

Stripes, hoops, checks, gradients and a 2024-25 halved anniversary home all reinterpret the same blaugrana identity.

Nike and Barça have used recent kits to revisit the club’s origins, city and social partnerships. The 2026-27 home keeps the blue-and-garnet stripes while using a modern colour gradient, so it belongs to the same long visual line without copying one old shirt exactly.