Partick Thistle F.C. - Club Crest and Colours

Club Crest and Colours

The first crest to appear on a Partick kit was a thistle design, and every logo since has featured a thistle. The thistle appeared first in 1902, then again in 1909. It remained until 1978, when a new logo with the thistle housed inside a roundel was used. A new modernist logo with the thistle on a rectangle was introduced in 1990, and the current crest was introduced in 2008.

Originally playing in navy-blue shirts and white shorts (similar to Scotland), the Jags are now best known for their red-yellow-and-black attire. In the season 1936–37, Thistle changed colours, having initially borrowed kit from the rugby team West of Scotland Football Club. The Club mostly play in a variation of red-and-yellow hooped jerseys, although there have been other styles employed. In the early 1970s, they played in yellow tops with a red trim; in the 1980s and early 1990s vertical red and yellow stripes were used; and from 2004–2006 the kit was dubiously termed "the Jester kit" by the fans, with one half all-red and the other half all-yellow, with black arms. In 2009 a Centenary Kit was launched in the original navy-blue style to commemorate 100 years at Firhill Stadium. The current home kit bears a striking resemblance to that worn by the 1971–72 League Cup winning side. It is mostly yellow, but with red pin-stripes and a traditional red collar.

In 2008–09 and 2009–10, Thistle used pink as the primary colour for their away kit, becoming the first football club in Scotland to do so. In the 2008–2009 season they starred in silver-and pink-hooped tops, while the following season they adopted a modern camouflage look. The response to the kits was mixed, although they did sell particularly well among the female contingent of the support. The 2012–13 season has seen the release of a new away strip, which is dark blue with a purple pattern on the right-hand side of the shirt.

Thistle also wear a third kit, which was released for season 2011–12. This is predominantly black with a red and yellow vertical stripe running down the left-hand side of the shirt.

Thistle's kits are produced by Puma and supplied through their commercial partners Greaves Sports in Glasgow.