Arsenal release 90s-inspired Adidas third kit for the 2021/22 season

By Mark White
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It's a return to the days of Bergkamp and co for the Gunners' change strip this season, as Adidas bring the lightning

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
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Arsenal have dropped their new third kit for the upcoming season - and it's a beauty. 

Inspired by Arsenal shirts of the 1990s, Adidas have given the Gunners a blue, zigzagging top similar in style to Ajax's icy away jersey of last season. Arsenal traditionally wear dark and light blue coloured shirts as a third kit, with this season's offering featuring touches of red and white.

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As with Adidas's other big-name club third shirts this season, the three stripes on the logo are a different colour to the "Adidas" text. 

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Adidas manufactured kits for Arsenal in the early 1990s - but it wasn't until Nike took over the deal that the north Londoners wore blue more regularly. 1994/95's away shirt first featured the lightning bolt pattern, with the following season's away shirt - Arsene Wenger's first campaign as manager - featuring a second lightning bolt pattern with more prominent light blue.

Arsenal will debut this brand-new shirt in the Premier League opener against Brentford on Friday 13 August.

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Mark White
Mark White
Staff Writer

Mark White has been a staff writer on FourFourTwo since joining in January 2020, writing pieces for both online and the magazine. An encyclopedia of football shirts and boots knowledge – both past and present – Mark has also been to the FA Cup and League Cup finals for FFT and has written pieces for the mag ranging on subjects from Bobby Robson's season at Barcelona to Robinho's career. He once saw Tyrone Mings at a petrol station in Bournemouth but felt far too short to ask for a photo.