AFC Wimbledon - Colours and Crest

Colours and Crest

The colours that were chosen for the AFC Wimbledon kit were the royal blue and yellow associated with the rise of the original Wimbledon F.C. to the top of the Football League. In order to reinforce the basis of AFC Wimbledon being a fans club, it has always been ensured that the kit worn by the team is based on a design made by and voted for by the fans themselves. The first kit ever used, during the pre-season friendlies of 2002, consisted of a blue shirt, white shorts and white socks. Since then the home kit has always been predominantly blue with yellow detailing. The away kit used between 2002–2004 was white, however since then it has usually been predominantly yellow with blue detailing. The 2012–2014 away kit consists of a yellow shirt with a white and blue diagonal stripe, white shorts and blue socks.

For the first three third kits the strip chosen was predominantly white with various coloured detailing. The first ever third kit, used between 2003–2005 consisted of a white shirt and white shorts, with a blue vertical line running down the side of both, with white socks which had blue turnovers. The 2005–2007 kit was white with a yellow and blue stripe that ran vertically down the right side of both the front of the shirt and the shorts with plain white socks. The 2007–2009 kit consisted of a white shirt, white shorts and white socks with yellow detailing on the shoulders and blue detailing spanning the underarms and sides of the shirt. Between 2009–2011 a white kit was chosen again however this time purple detailing was added to the sleeves, collar, sides of the shirt and the shorts and white socks with purple lines running down both sides in a zigzag pattern. The 2011–2013 third kit broke the trend however, when it introduced a maroon shirt, black shorts with maroon detailing and maroon socks.

To mark their first game in the Football League on 6 August 2011 against Bristol Rovers, the team wore a special one-off white and blue commemorative kit based on that worn by the original Wimbledon F.C. during 1977–78 in order to commemorate their own first season as a member of the Football League, in the old Fourth Division (now League Two). For copyright reasons, a single blue stripe replaced the three trade mark stripes of the Adidas original and the shirts were emblazoned with a modified crest for the occasion.

The crest is based on the coat of arms of the Municipal Borough of Wimbledon, which features a black double headed eagle in reference to a legend that Julius Caesar once made camp on Wimbledon Common, this symbol being his own attributed coat of arms. It is designed to replicate, as far as possible, the crest of the original Wimbledon F.C. to reflect the fact that AFC Wimbledon see themselves as a continuation of the club that existed before relocation and rebranding as MK Dons. The club wished to preserve Wimbledon's legacy and traditions for loyal fans who felt that the move had isolated the club from its roots and its community to such an extent that it no longer bore the hallmark of the club that they had once supported and that AFC Wimbledon was its true, if not legal, successor.