The Kitbliss 100 Greatest Football Shirt Templates

Rating the templates

In order to establish the Kitbliss top 100 templates, it was necessary to establish the benchmarks that each one would be judged against. Firstly and most naturally, the basic look of the template was considered. If a template in all its known variations was able to put a smile on your face within seconds of seeing it, it was likely to rank highly.

Secondly, a template design possessing lots of detail was probably likely to fair better than one without. Given the contentious nature of this supposition, it's necessary to underline the word 'probably.' As we all know, some shirt designs demand respect for adhering to the 'less is more' approach. These are undoubtedly the exceptions to the rule, but generally speaking a template that looks like the designer(s) have made an effort is usually going to fair well in this line-up.

Finally, its important to acknowledge that a shirt template that was worn in lots of iterations by lots of teams was/is a popular template. With that in mind, the more widely seen a template, the higher its placing will be for the purposes of this project.

Visual appeal, detail, popularity. These are the three criteria for judging the templates featured in this project, and each one has an individual weighting that contributes to the final 'score' it attained. Having established those scores, a final ordering for our Top 100 was achieved, and its that order we're discussing in this feature.

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