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'''Away colours''' or '''road colours''' (also commonly known as '''away kits''' in [[British English]], or '''away uniforms''' or '''road uniforms''' in [[American English]]) are a choice of coloured clothing used in [[team sport]]s. They are required to be worn by one [[team]] during a game between teams that would otherwise wear the same colours as each other, or similar colours. This change prevents confusion for [[Referee|officials]], [[Athlete|players]], and spectators. In most sports, it is the [[road (sports)|visiting or road team]] that must change.
In many sports leagues and competitions, a team wears its away kit only when its primary kit would clash with the colours of the [[home team]], while other sports leagues and competitions may mandate that away teams must always wear an alternative kit regardless of a potential colour clash. The latter is common in North American sports, where "colour vs. colour" games (e.g., blue
Home teams in some leagues and competitions may also have the option to wear away colours at certain [[Home Game|home game]]s, and the away team then has to wear the opposite (if applicable). At some clubs, the away kit has become more popular than the home version. Replica home and away kits are usually available for fans to buy. Some teams also have produced [[third jersey|third-choice kits]], or even old-fashioned [[throwback uniform]]s.
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The Cleveland Browns wore white for every home game of the 1955 season.<ref>{{cite web|title=1955 Season – Week 1|url=http://www.gridiron-uniforms.com/GUD/controller/controller.php?action=teams-season&team_id=CLE&year=1955|website=The Gridiron Uniform Database|access-date=7 October 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161010124135/http://www.gridiron-uniforms.com/GUD/weekly/1955/1955wk1.shtml|archive-date=10 October 2016}}</ref> The only times they wore brown was for games at Philadelphia and New York, when the Eagles and Giants chose to wear white.
In 1964, the [[Baltimore Colts]], [[Cleveland Browns]], [[Minnesota Vikings]] and [[Los Angeles Rams]] wore white regularly for their home games.<ref name=WAHNFL/> The [[St. Louis Cardinals (NFL)|St. Louis Cardinals]] also wore white for several of their home games
Until 1964, the [[Dallas Cowboys]] had worn blue at home, but it was not an official rule that teams should wear their official colours at home. The use of white jerseys was introduced by general manager (GM) [[Tex Schramm]], who wanted fans to see a variety of opponents' jersey colours at home games and continues to do so today.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Here's the real reason behind the Dallas Cowboys' mismatched uniform colors |url=https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/heres-the-real-reason-behind-the-dallas-cowboys-mismatched-uniform-colors |access-date=2024-02-06 |website=FOX Sports |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Eatman|first=Nick|title=Cowboys To Wear Blue Jerseys at Home Thursday|url=http://www.dallascowboys.com/news/2013/11/26/cowboys-wear-blue-jerseys-home-thursday|publisher=NFL Enterprises, LLC|website=DallasCowboys.com|date=November 26, 2013|access-date=October 7, 2015|quote="Since the days of former GM Tex Schramm, whose vision was to give the home fans a different look each week, the Cowboys have traditionally worn white at home. Schramm didn't like the idea that fans would say the home blue jerseys vs. a white road team every Sunday, so Philadelphia's green or the Cardinals’ red or the Giants’ blue would mix up the color pattern on a weekly basis."|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151002004838/http://www.dallascowboys.com/news/2013/11/26/cowboys-wear-blue-jerseys-home-thursday|archive-date=October 2, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Lukas|first=Paul|title=The Island of Misfit Unis|url=
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White has also been worn regularly at home by the [[Miami Dolphins]], [[Washington Commanders
During the successful Joe Gibbs era, Washington chose to wear white exclusively at home in the 1980s and 1990s,<ref name=WAHNFL/> including the [[1982–83 NFL playoffs#Conference championships|1982 NFC Championship Game]] against Dallas. Since 2001, they have chosen to wear white jerseys and burgundy jerseys roughly equally in their home games, but they still wear white against the Cowboys.<ref name=WAHNFL/> When Gibbs returned from 2004 to 2007, they wore white at home exclusively. In 2007, they wore a white throwback jersey.
The Dallas Cowboys' blue jersey has been popularly viewed to be "[[sports-related curses|jinxed]]" because of defeats at [[Super Bowl V]] in 1971 (when they were assigned to wear their blue jerseys as the designated 'home' team<ref>{{cite web |last=Lukas |first=Paul |url=
[[Super Bowl]] rules later changed to allow the [[Super Bowl#Home team designation|designated home team]] to pick their choice of jersey. White was chosen by the Cowboys ([[Super Bowl XIII|XIII]], [[Super Bowl XXVII|XXVII]]), the Redskins ([[Super Bowl XVII|XVII]]), the [[Pittsburgh Steelers]] ([[Super Bowl XL|XL]]), the [[Denver Broncos]] ([[Super Bowl 50|50]]), the [[New England Patriots]] ([[Super Bowl LII|LII]]),<ref name="Denv50">{{cite news|last=Swanson|first=Ben|title=Broncos to wear white uniforms in Super Bowl 50|url=http://www.denverbroncos.com/news-and-blogs/article-1/Broncos-to-wear-white-uniforms-in-Super-Bowl-50/26a247f5-91ef-4ff6-a11a-8278b089c5c3|website=DenverBroncos.com|publisher=NFL Enterprises, LLC|date=25 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160126222617/http://www.denverbroncos.com/news-and-blogs/article-1/Broncos-to-wear-white-uniforms-in-Super-Bowl-50/26a247f5-91ef-4ff6-a11a-8278b089c5c3|archive-date=26 January 2016|access-date=25 October 2018}}</ref> and the [[Tampa Bay Buccaneers]] ([[Super Bowl LV|LV]]).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.buccaneers.com/news/super-bowl-55-uniform-jersey-combo-buccaneers-chiefs|title=The Buccaneers Will Wear White, Pewter for Super Bowl LV}}</ref> The latter three teams normally wear colours at home, but Pittsburgh had worn white in [[2005–06 NFL playoffs|three road playoff wins]], while Denver cited its previous Super Bowl success in white jerseys ([[Super Bowl XXXIII|XXXIII]]), while being 0–4 when wearing orange in Super Bowls.
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===Other leagues===
Coloured road uniforms were used in the [[World Football League]] (WFL) during its short period of existence in 1974–75, with the home team wearing white,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oursportscentral.com/uniforms/roadwfls.html|title=World Football League Road Uniforms – The Football Uniform Site|website=oursportscentral.com|access-date=4 May 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130630010809/http://www.oursportscentral.com/uniforms/roadwfls.html|archive-date=30 June 2013}}</ref> and [[college football]] teams must base their road uniform around a white jersey.<ref>[http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1127666-the-20-best-road-uniforms-in-college-football The 20 Best Road Uniforms in College Football] {{webarchive|url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20120717075016/http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1127666-the-20-best-road-uniforms-in-college-football |date=17 July 2012 }}, ''Bleacher Report'', 1 April 2012. Retrieved 16 July 2012</ref>
[[National Federation of State High School Associations]] rules, which are used by every state for [[high school football]] except Texas, require the visiting team to wear a white jersey and the home team to wear a dark jersey. The [[University Interscholastic League]], which governs Texas public high schools, plays by NCAA football rules, which allow for white jerseys to be worn by the home team with prior notification to the visiting team.
==Association football==
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Several club and national sides have favourite away colours which might remain the same more or less continuously. Often these are colours that were used in famous victories; for instance Brazil (blue) and [[A.C. Milan]] (white). Many professional clubs also have an official [[Third jersey|third kit]].<ref name="HFK" />
Some teams opt to wear their away colours even when not required to by a clash of colours, or when they are the home team and therefore get first dibs on their color. [[England national football team|England]] sometimes play in red away shirts, as the team wore red when it won the [[1966 FIFA World Cup|1966 World Cup]].<ref name="Glen Isherwood">{{cite web |url=http://www.englandfootballonline.com/TeamUnif/Unif.html |title=England's Uniforms – Player Kits |publisher=England Football Online |author=Glen Isherwood |access-date=23 January 2008 |quote=England sometimes choose to wear their red at home even though they could wear their white, as against Germany in the last match played at Wembley Stadium. The Football Association wished to invoke the spirit of 1966, when, in their finest moment at Wembley, England beat West Germany in the World Cup final wearing their red shirts. |display-authors=etal |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080115085155/http://www.englandfootballonline.com/TeamUnif/Unif.html |archive-date=15 January 2008 }}</ref> [[A.C. Milan]] chose to wear all-white in the [[2007 UEFA Champions League final]] as they considered it their "lucky shirt" ({{lang-it|maglia fortunata}}).<ref>{{cite web |title=All white for Milan in Athens |url=http://en.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/newsid=535523.html |publisher=UEFA |date=4 May 2007 |access-date=21 June 2010 }}</ref>
In some title-deciding matches, a team has won the game wearing its away kit, but changed to home shirts for the trophy presentation – most notably when [[Spain national football team|Spain]] won the [[2010 FIFA World Cup final|2010 World Cup final]], changing from dark-blue away to red home shirts to lift the trophy.<ref>[http://www.aolnews.com/2010/07/11/spain-wins-2010-world-cup/ "Spain Wins 2010 World Cup"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120812060314/http://www.aolnews.com/2010/07/11/spain-wins-2010-world-cup/ |date=12 August 2012 }}, [[AOL]] News, 11 July 2010. Retrieved 16 July 2012</ref>
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Before the 2014 tournament, [[FIFA]] decreed that [[Spain national football team|Spain]]'s all-red home kit and all-black away kit were not sufficient as they were both considered dark tones. FIFA forced Spain to produce an all-white [[third kit]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Muller|first1=Alex|title=Adidas Release Emergency Spain Third Shirt For World Cup 2014|url=http://worldsoccertalk.com/2014/05/27/adidas-release-emergency-spain-third-shirt-for-world-cup-2014-leaked-photo/|access-date=2 June 2014|work=World Soccer Talk|date=27 May 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140602033048/http://worldsoccertalk.com/2014/05/27/adidas-release-emergency-spain-third-shirt-for-world-cup-2014-leaked-photo/|archive-date=2 June 2014}}</ref><ref name="Who Ate All The Pies"/> The match between the Netherlands and Spain was played in the Netherlands' dark blue away kits and Spain's white third-choice kits.
In the [[2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage#Third place play-off|2018 FIFA World Cup third place match]], both Belgium and England wore their away colours of yellow and red by choice, respectively,
==Australian rules football==
[[File:Stoppage in an AFL game.jpg|thumb|right|300px|An AFL match between [[Hawthorn Football Club|Hawthorn]] and [[Essendon Football Club|Essendon]] in 2007. The home team, Hawthorn, is wearing dark shorts, with the away team, Essendon, wearing white shorts]]
The [[Australian Football League]] legislates that the home team has the right to choose what home colours they play in for home games during the home and away season. Traditionally in Australian football and first introduced into VFL in [[1924 VFL season|1924]] the home team wears dark shorts while the away team wears white shorts.<ref>{{cite tweet |user=footyjumpers |number=1493833089621004292 |title=1924 was the last season before expansion to 12 teams, and the first season where teams wore Dark shorts at Home and White Away. |date=16 February 2022}}</ref> In contrast to other sports, the concept of away colours is not prominent, with clubs traditionally wearing their home guernseys week in week out, with the colour of a team's shorts distinguishing between home teams and away teams. The concept of home and away colours first became prominent during the late 1980s and the 1990s, when the newly admitted [[Brisbane Bears]] had colours and jumper designs clashing with that of [[Hawthorn Football Club|Hawthorn]], which necessitated the need for clubs to come up with away colours.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Cherny |first1=Daniel |title=Clashes of the titan: The AFL's murky uniform policies |url=https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/clashes-of-the-titans-the-afl-s-murky-uniform-policies-20210506-p57pcm.html |website=The Age |date=8 May 2021 |access-date=9 August 2022}}</ref> All AFL teams now have designated clash guernseys, which are worn in matches when the home guernseys of the teams playing are deemed to be too similar to distinguish.
Often white shorts only are used to distinguish between home and away teams, this has been criticised for not providing sufficient distinction between teams that play in similar colours or guernsey designs. For example, in 2007, [[Geelong Football Club|Geelong]] coach [[Mark Thompson (footballer)|Mark Thompson]] spoke out about the need for the AFL to take action to prevent guernsey clashes in future AFL matches, after a match between Geelong and [[Collingwood Football Club|Collingwood]] where spectators had difficulty distinguishing between Geelong's navy blue and white horizontal stripes and Collingwood's vertical black and white stripes even though the game was played in good conditions.<ref>{{cite web |title=Thompson wants to avoid jumper clash |url=https://www.theage.com.au/sport/thompson-wants-to-avoid-jumper-clash-20070715-gdqmf3.html |website=The Age |date=14 July 2007 |access-date=9 August 2022}}</ref> This combination happened again in 2019, creating again more controversy with the clash being created largely because Geelong wore blue shorts and Collingwood wore white shorts.<ref>{{cite web |title=AFL finals 2019, Geelong vs Collingwood: Jumper clash leaves fans and commentators puzzled |url=https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-finals-2019-geelong-vs-collingwood-jumper-clash-leaves-fans-and-commentators-puzzled/news-story/13bbe14a6355d1aec0d28ccef8abc34a |website=Fox Sports |date=7 September 2019 |access-date=30 June 2023}}</ref> Additionally, in the 2021 [[Anzac Day clash]], both [[Collingwood Football Club|Collingwood]] and [[Essendon Football Club|Essendon]] wore predominantly black Anzac Day jumpers, with the only distinction between the teams being Essendon's white shorts, with spectators experiencing difficulty in telling apart the teams.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Cherny |first1=Daniel |title=Baby Bombers stun Buckley's men into submission to leave Collingwood 17th |url=https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/dons-choke-buckley-s-men-into-submission-to-leave-collingwood-17th-20210425-p57m7w.html |website=The Age |date=25 April 2021 |access-date=9 August 2022}}</ref> This happened again between the two teams on ANZAC Day 2023 with both teams wearing mostly black jumpers with white (Collingwood's white stripes and Essendon jumper numbers) and red (Essendon's red sash and Collingwood's [[Emirates (airline)|Emirates]] and [[KFC]] sponsorship).<ref>{{cite web |last1=McKern |first1=James |title=Collingwood pull off epic comeback fourth quarter win |url=https://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/anzac-day-live-jumper-clash-mars-collingwood-vs-essendon-contest/news-story/0f1f68f566e688d1d718611f554ab51e |website=News.com.au |date=26 April 2023 |access-date=30 June 2023}}</ref> In some cases, individual clubs may have informal agreements around what guernsey designs to wear in order to avoid clashes. For example, Collingwood president [[Eddie McGuire]] claimed that he had made a handshake agreement with then-Geelong president [[Frank Costa]] in the 1990s in which Geelong would always wear white shorts and a white jumper for all matches between Geelong and Collingwood, with Collingwood wearing black shorts and a black jumper. This came out after the aforementioned 2019 Geelong-Collingwood match.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Pierik |first1=Jon |title=Cats need to play more games at the MCG to be a premiership threat: Roos |url=https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/cats-need-to-play-more-games-at-the-mcg-to-be-a-premiership-threat-roos-20190907-p52oyk.html |website=The Age |date=7 September 2019 |access-date=9 August 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=AFL colours clash leaves Collingwood-Geelong fans fuming |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/sep/07/afl-colours-clash-leaves-collingwood-geelong-fans-fuming |website=The Guardian |date=7 September 2019 |access-date=9 August 2022}}</ref>
In the AFL Grand Final, the team that finishes higher during the regular season has the right to choose the colours they play in, with the lower-ranked team to accommodate this accordingly.
==Baseball==
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==Basketball==
[[File:Elizabeth Cambage at day three of the Opals camp.jpg|thumb|left|200px|[[Liz Cambage]] in Australia's away colours]]
Until the [[2017–18 NBA season|2017–18 season]], the rules of the [[National Basketball Association]] (NBA) stated that the home team must always wear their light
Beginning with the 2017–18 season, the home team is allowed to designate whether it will wear a
The use of specially-designed Christmas uniforms in NBA games in 2012<ref>{{cite press release|title=NBA and Adidas to unveil 'big color' uniforms for Christmas Day games|url=http://mediacentral.nba.com/media/mediacentral/1112-12-2012-BIG-Color-Holiday-Campaign-Release-UNIFORM-CONSUMER.docx|publisher=National Basketball Association|date=12 November 2012|access-date=7 October 2015|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208115914/http://mediacentral.nba.com/media/mediacentral/1112-12-2012-BIG-Color-Holiday-Campaign-Release-UNIFORM-CONSUMER.docx|archive-date=8 December 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Lukas|first=Paul|title=Confirming What We Already Knew|url=http://www.uni-watch.com/2012/11/13/nba-unveils-christmas-day-uniforms/|publisher=Uni-Watch|date=13 November 2012|access-date=7 October 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208163705/http://www.uni-watch.com/2012/11/13/nba-unveils-christmas-day-uniforms/|archive-date=8 December 2015}}</ref> led to several "colour vs. colour" match-ups.<ref>{{Cite
In [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]] [[NCAA Division I|Division I]] [[college basketball]], the home team almost universally wears white uniforms, while the visiting team wears
==Cricket==
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[[Australia national cricket team|Australia]], however, has a separate green ODI home kit, yellow ODI away kit, and black T20 kit.<ref>[http://www.kingsgrovesports.com.au/Products.aspx?ProductCategoryID=60 Cricket Clothing] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321035755/http://kingsgrovesports.com.au/Products.aspx?ProductCategoryID=60 |date=21 March 2012 }} Onegrovesports.com.au. Retrieved 16 July 2012</ref><ref>[http://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket/australia/australias-twenty20-side-moves-away-from-traditional-green-and-gold-and-will-wear-a-black-uniform-this-summer/story-fn2mcu3x-1226158138897 "Australia's Twenty20 side moves away from green and gold and will wear a black uniform this summer"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111013162854/http://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket/australia/australias-twenty20-side-moves-away-from-traditional-green-and-gold-and-will-wear-a-black-uniform-this-summer/story-fn2mcu3x-1226158138897 |date=13 October 2011 }} [[Fox Sports]], 4 October 2011. Retrieved 26 July 2012</ref> The home kit is the same colour as the famous "[[baggy green]]" cap traditionally worn by Australian Test cricketers, but the yellow away kit is often worn by the Australian team in home matches.
==Ice hockey==
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In the NHL each team is currently required to have two uniform designs: one with a white base (or sometimes historically, a light
In the minor leagues, teams historically wore light colors (white or
Original hockey jerseys were actually heavily knit sweaters. They were light
==Netball==
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==International rules==
Ireland's green jersey is complemented by two away jerseys, one which is white in colour and one which is navy in colour.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oneills.com/shop-by-team/gaa/international-rules.html | title=International Rules – GAA – Shop By Team}}</ref>
==References==
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