UHLSPORT VINTAGE FOOTBALL SHIRTS
Uhlsport is best known in football for goalkeeper gloves rather than replica shirts, which makes its brief run of kit deals, including two seasons at Vitesse, a genuinely uncommon find in a collection like this one.
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A goalkeeper specialist's brief foray into kits
Uhlsport built its name on goalkeeping equipment rather than outfield kit, and the German brand rarely held full shirt contracts with clubs the way Adidas or Umbro did. That makes the Vitesse and Auxerre pieces in this collection more of an exception than a rule, closer to a side project than a core business for a brand whose gloves are still standard equipment for goalkeepers today, decades after these shirts were made.
Vitesse's early 2000s shirts
Three of the four shirts here are Vitesse home kits from 1999 to 2001, all sharing the same yellow-and-black template with only minor sponsor changes between seasons. The fourth is a 2004-05 training shirt from Auxerre in France, a different country and a different context entirely, which is the clearest sign of how scattered Uhlsport's football deals actually were outside its core goalkeeping business.
Good to know
- Is Uhlsport mainly known for shirts or other equipment?
- Goalkeeper gloves are the brand's core business, so full outfield kit deals like the ones here were relatively rare for Uhlsport.
- Why are there so many Vitesse shirts in this small collection?
- Vitesse wore Uhlsport across three seasons around 1999 to 2001, and all three home shirts from that spell are in stock.
- Is shipping free?
- Shipping is free within the Netherlands and Belgium from 100 euros, and worldwide from 150 euros. Everything ships with track and trace.
