Football & "Candy Stripes"

[britblazerdude]

Got to thinking today, why is it so common for football clubs to wear vertical red and white stripes?

How many teams can we name that wear red and white stripes?

Who wears them best?

Which is the greatest team to wear red and white stripes?

1. Paraguay
2. Bilbao
3. Atletico Madrid
4. Sporting Gijon
5. Southampton
6. Sunderland
7. Bayern Munich ** Occasional years
8. Sevilla ** Occasional years
9. Brentford
10. Sheffield United
11. Chivas Guadalajara
12. Stoke City
13. Red Star Belgrade
14. Derry City
15. Olympiakos
16. Estudiantes de La Plata
17. PSV
18. Sivasspor
19. Junior (Colombia)
20. Stevenage
21. Exeter City
22. Accrington Stanley ** Occasional years (That's 8 English teams...)
23. Mainz 05 ** Occasional years
24. Sligo Rovers
25. Club Siero (Smallest club on the list?)
26. CD Logroñes
27. UD Almeria
28. Zamora CF
29. Girona FC
30. Moghreb Tétouan (6th Time Moroccan Champ!)
31. CDC Moscardó
32. Clube Nautico (Brazil)

Denials:
Granada CF switched from vertical to horizontal stripes 40 years ago.**
Arosa SC wear patches, not stripes.
Wehen SV, can only find black and white.

[DD12]

sivasspor

[J-Mezzy]

Junior from Colombia

[and1GS]

The Monstars from my college intramural league.

[Foye]

Mainz 05 used to but havent for a couple years.

[britblazerdude]

24 is a lot... Anyone digging deep down in the memory banks?

[Hellcrooner]

Spain from the top of my head:

CD LUGO
SPORTING GIJON
SIERO FC
ATHLETIC BILBAO
CD LOGROÑES
ZAMORA CF
GIRONA
ATLETICO MADRID
UD ALMERIA
GRANADA FC
CLUB ATLETICO TETUAN ( now they play the Morrocan League)
CD MOSCARDO
AROSA SC

[llibcar]

When some Englishmen moved to Bilbao in the late XIX century to work on the mining and steel industry they wanted to keep playing this invention of theirs, football; so they founded a club: Athletic Club Bilbao.
This team obviously needed to have a kit, and they bought the Blackburn Rovers' one -half white, half blue shirt and blue shorts.
A few years later this new sport had gained much recognition around the city. So much, that when some mining engineers had to go to Madrid, they founded there the Athletic Club Sucursal de Madrid. This wasn't really a new team, but the Madrid branch of the original in Bilbao. As such, they couldn't compete in the same championships and of course had the same colors, Blackburn's blue and white.

Some years passed and both teams needed new kits and they sent one guy to England to buy new ones. He couldn't find enough Blackburn's kits, so he settled for the Southampton's ones.

The Bilbao team adopted the full colors -candy striped shirt and black pants - while the Madrid team, which had gained a de facto independence, decided to keep the original blue pants.

With the years both teams parted ways definitely and changed names a few times, but the colors remained.




Well, sort of...

[truth18]

Wehen SV

Derry City FC

[AlexDelta]

Didn't the stripes come from old bed sheets being used to make jerseys or something?

[britblazerdude]

Added Clube Nautico (Brazil)...Up to 32 now. Not sure about the old bed sheets rumor. I only know the the Southampton story now!

[Foye]

Fortuna Düsseldorf occasional years, too.

Wehen-Wiesbaden not really. They are usually all red or red-black.

[truth18]

Fortuna Düsseldorf occasional years, too.

Wehen-Wiesbaden not really. They are usually all red or red-black.

Yeah but they have at points, low on the list for sure, but I'm having trouble thinking of any more. Grasping at straws.

Edit: wait, I think I have mixed up clubs somehow. There is some German team in one of the lower leagues that has occasional worn candy stripes. Its not Wehen though you're right. My mistake.

[Hellcrooner]

Do they count?