Arsenal add gold to kit despite missing Premier League title
Despite their lengthy and gruelling Premier League title problem ending with out success, Arsenal will nonetheless be wanting wonderful in gold subsequent season.
The Gunners had been finally reeled in and overtaken by Manchester City after spending a complete of 248 days on the prime of the desk in 2022-23 — the longest time any group has spent in that place in a season with out occurring to win the trophy.
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But regardless that they ended up with the silver medal (and Champions League qualification for the primary time since 2016-17), Mikel Arteta’s facet can be stepping out on the Emirates subsequent time period with a gold badge and matching trim on their jerseys.
That’s as a result of the Arsenal dwelling kit for the 2023-24 season is a tribute to the twentieth anniversary of the membership’s famed “Invincibles” facet — who received the 2003-04 Premier League title with out shedding a single match.
Spearheaded by the likes of Thierry Henry, Robert Pires and Dennis Bergkamp, Arsenal launched into a run of 26 wins and 12 attracts to take the championship by 11 clear factors.
That actual W26/D12 end result file is stitched into the taping that runs down the flank of the brand new dwelling shirt. The trim can be gilded in a metallic gold color to replicate the imperious nature of the Invincibles’ well-known feat.
The bright-red base of the design additionally incorporates a tonal zig-zag sample that has develop into synonymous with Arsenal kits over time, starting within the early Nineties and being frequently revisited by most of the membership’s current retro-tinged strips.
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As a part of the grand reveal, Bukayo Saka — recent from signing a brand new long-term contract together with his boyhood membership — was joined by a number of hundred Arsenal supporters and members of workers on the Emirates Stadium to proudly exhibit their newest uniform.
Stars from the membership’s ladies’s group Leah Williamson, Kim Little and Lia Walti additionally contributed to the kit launch, and the primary time followers will see the kit in motion can be within the Gunners’ last Women’s Super League match of the season in opposition to Aston Villa on Saturday.
Saka & Co. will then additionally sport the brand new shirt once they shut out their Premier League marketing campaign on Sunday in opposition to Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Exactly 20 years on from their most up-to-date title, the Gunners are hoping the 20-year anniversary of 1 the Premier League’s best trendy miracles will coincide with historical past repeating itself on the Emirates subsequent season.