Shrewsbury Town F.C. - Club Colours

Club Colours

Shirt sponsors
1982–86 Link 51
1987–88 Wem Ales
1988–89 Davenports
1990–92 Greenhous
1992–95 WSJ
1995–97 Greenhous
1997–99 Ternhill Communications
1999-05 RMW
2005–07 Morris Lubricants
2007–09 Greenhous
Redhous (Away)
2009– Greenhous
Home colours,
1890s.
Home colours,
1978–1982.

The club's colours have always featured blue. However, blue has not always been the most dominant colour. Early kits included blue and white stripes, quartered shirts and all-blue shirts, which were worn with either white or amber trim until 1978. In 1978 Shrewsbury's most famous kit was introduced – the blue and amber stripes, which they wore as they were promoted in successive seasons, up to the old second division (now the Football League Championship). This was the design famously seen in the movie This Is Spinal Tap.

The club was not loyal to the stripes for long, and in 1982 reverted to a blue shirt, then used a blue body with amber sleeves, later reverting to an amber body with blue sleeves. In 1987 the shirts radically changed to white shirts for four seasons before reverting to stripes in 1991–92. After a flamboyant abstract pattern on the shirts in 1992–93, Shrewsbury's kits have stayed mostly blue, with amber stripe(s) of some description evident since 1999.

The shirt sponsors have, since their introduction in 1982, all been local companies. The current shirt sponsor is a major local motor dealership network, Greenhous. The away strip is sponsored by Redhous, a property company forming part of the Greenhous group.

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