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Yeah, I have to think it had to do with shorts. If Spain didn't have a good option aside from the navy shorts to go with the red jersey, they may have had to make the wholesale switch to white.

Looks like we're getting Sweden in yellow vs. Ukraine in blue. When the Euro 2020 Twitter account posts the lineups about 40 minutes before kickoff, the formation graphic has been very reliable for showing which kits will be worn (the photo with the lineup in numerical order, not so much; scroll through to the right). I think the only time they got it wrong was when Denmark wore their all-red third kit, and the graphic showed their red home kits with white sleeves. Their live blogs for each game (what the above tweet links to) also shows the team formations and subs in the kit colours.

You called it.

Welp, this one didn't play out the same as Croatia-Spain ... it was even MORE dramatic.

Yeah, I was worried we might see one or both of the ugly Puma kits in this matchup.

Poland, Spain, Hungary and Germany all broke out their away kits for the first time in the last Euro 2020 group game today. I guess they gotta get them on TV at some point.

Here's a pic of Mitchell where you can see the pants. It looks like he's wearing red socks in the video @monkeypower posted. And there may be a new helmet on the way if the Stamps' social media team is to be believed:

New Stampeders "threads" (as they put it in a comment on their Instagram post) coming Friday:

Lots of black vs white so far today. England in their home jersey vs Croatia in their aways, and both Austria (black) and North Macedonia (white) in their away kits. I've never known for sure but always assumed teams -- national or club -- must have clauses in contracts with manufacturers stating they have to wear their away and/or third kits so many times in a season/tournament. That is the only reason I can think of for some of the nonsensical kit matchups we sometimes see, like AUT-MKD today.

I've also started a Euro 2020 kit tracker on the mothership, in case anyone might find that sort of thing useful: https://news.sportslogos.net/2021/06/11/euro-2020-kit-tracker/soccer/ Notably there have been three red vs. white matchups out of the first four matches. It could have been 4-for-4 if Finland wore their white kits against Denmark today.

Turkey's red jersey is their home jersey. The white one was listed as home in the UEFA store, but their team page confirms it's the red one. (Scroll the way to the bottom.)

For folks wondering if there was a way to find out in advance of kickoff which kits teams would be wearing, the Euro 2020 Twitter account posted this earlier today for the TUR-ITA game. It could be an indicator, but we will have to wait and see.

In case anyone wants to see all the Euro 2020 kits in one place, here's something I put together for the mothership: https://news.sportslogos.net/2021/06/09/heres-what-every-team-will-be-wearing-during-euro-2020/soccer/

Though I wouldn't suggest using that theme if you're not on the ad-free version. The theme was already tweaked to be narrower so ads along the sides didn't run over board content.

Looks like to me as well. Both the red on the primary jersey and the gold trim on the secondary (white) jersey look darker than what they wore in qualifying.

As Chris mentioned in the initial post: He'll switch you over to the ad-free version as soon as he can.

Also, new kits for North Macedonia in time for Euro 2020: https://todosobrecamisetas.com/2021/05/north-macedonia-2021-jako-kits/

Italy wearing their new away kits with text across the chest v San Marino today: It's not terrible in action, but I think other countries (and maybe clubs rumored to be using this template) were going to have bigger text.

Don't click the "Copy Link" button on imgur; that gives you a link to the gallery page. Right click on the image itself and select "Copy image address". It should end in .jpg, .png or some other raster file format. Paste that directly in the reply box. I did that with https://i.imgur.com/mosizd5.png and this was automatically embedded:

I think I've added the spoiler button to the toolbars at all sizes. Let me know if you're seeing it.

Good catch. Just added one in the top menu next to Browse - Activity - Leaderboard.

I believe a mod was trying to split some individual posts from one thread and merge them into the other, but accidentally merged the whole threads together. They've been working to undo it all morning and just locked them while they did so. No need to start any new threads -- the separated threads will be unlocked when they're done. EDIT: In fact, they were already done and unlocked by the time I finished posting this.

Merging this with the Interesting Sports Facts and Statistics thread, as it's a better fit. Also, allowing this to stay up because the post itself is relevant to sports and not overly partisan or incendiary, per the CCSLC guidelines. But please don't turn the discussion into anything overly partisan or incendiary.

IIRC, we had that feature for a while a few years ago and that's exactly what happened, so Chris had no choice but to turn it off.