Kilmarnock F.C. - Colours and Badge

Colours and Badge

The earliest known Kilmarnock kit from 1879 consisted of an all blue jersey with white trousers. The shirt bore a crest which was described as "a hand, index and second fingers upright, thumb outstreached, other fingers enclosed over a palm." The hand rested on a bar over a ball marked KFC. There after, the club have predominantly played in blue and white striped or hooped shirts with either blue or white shorts. The club have also occasionally played in plain blue and plain white tops. The clubs away colours have varied greatly over time. Yellow is generally regarded as the club's main third colour; but white, red and purple away kits have also appeared in recent years.

Since 2008–09 season, the club have manufactured their kits under their own sportswear brand, 1869. The current shirt sponsors are the locally based QTS Group.

The current club badge is an modernised version of previous club badges. It features a ball bearing a hand in a blessing position, flanked by two red squirrels. The club's Latin motto, confidimus (we trust), is written above the badge. The club adopted the current badge in 1993 after The Lord Lyon decreed that the previous badge, based heavily upon the town crest, was in breach of ancient Scottish heraldic rules.

Kilmarnocks's first known kit from 1879.
Scottish Cup winning kit from 1920 & 1929
League winning kit from 1965.
Home kit from 1977 to 1989
Scottish Cup winning kit from 1997
Scottish League Cup winning away kit from 2012

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