"A countdown for the ages: Kitbliss are doing the 100 Greatest Football Shirt Templates and the detail in each write-up is extraordinary."
Adam Hurrey, writer and editor at The Athletic, creator and host of the Football Cliches podcast.
"Kitbliss have kicked off a new series running through the greatest templates of all time, and if you know anything about Kitbliss and the team behind it, you'll know it's going to be amazing."
Phil Delves, Community and Content for Cult Kits.
They may not be liked by everybody, but templates are a fundamental part of football shirt design. Commercially, they've been around since the 1970's and their versatility and complexity have engaged football fans all over the world. Many are as familiar as the back of your own hand while others are remarkably overlooked, but all of them help form the kaleidoscope of football shirt designs that colour our lives every day.
This project pays tribute to arguably the finest 100 examples of football shirt template design. To find out more about how all of this came about, please use the text links below, otherwise select a template from the graphical menu below to read about a specific example.
(Note: Where possible, the official name of the template has been stated. Where the official name is not known, a temporary name has been provided, shown in inverted commas.)
Background | What is a template? | Rating the templates | Other considerations | Format | And finally...
