page_title: Dundalk F.C.
section_title: Kit history
hierarchical_section_title: Dundalk F.C. / Colours and crest / Kit history
caption_attribution_description: English: Dundalk F.C. Third Kit 2019
context_page_description: Dundalk Football Club is a professional association football club in Dundalk, Ireland. Dundalk compete in the League of Ireland Premier Division, the top tier of Irish football, and are the reigning League Champions and League of Ireland Cup holders, having won both in 2019. They are the highest ranked Irish side in European football as measured by UEFA club coefficients.
  The club was founded in 1903 as Dundalk G.N.R.—the works-team of the Great Northern Railway. They were a junior club until they joined the Leinster Senior League in 1922–23. They were then elected to the Free State League in 1926–27. After severing their links with the Great Northern Railway, they became the first club from outside Dublin to win the league title in 1932–33 and they won their first FAI Cup in 1941–42. They have won at least one league title or FAI Cup in every decade since and are now the second most successful club in the League's history, and the most successful in the Premier Division era.
  They made their European debut in the 1963–64 European Cup as League Champions, and became the first Irish side to win an away match in Europe the same season.
context_section_description: Dundalk's colours have been white shirts with black shorts and black or white socks since 1940. When the Dundalk G.N.R. club was revived after World War I for the 1919–20 season, the colours adopted were black and amber-striped shirts with white shorts. Prior to that, it is known that the club wore blue shirts when it started in 1903. In advance of dropping the 'G.N.R.' moniker and becoming 'Dundalk A.F.C.', the club changed to a strip of white shirts with a blue crest representing the coat of arms of the town (the old corporation arms) and navy-blue shorts. The new colours were first worn on St Stephen's Day 1927 in the opening match of the 1927–28 League of Ireland Shield. This combination was worn until 1939, but came to be seen as unlucky due to the number of cup final defeats Dundalk had in the 1930s.
  Hoping a change would bring more luck, the club introduced a sky blue and maroon quartered shirt with white shorts and maroon socks in 1939–40. But they promptly lost to non-league opposition in the first round of that season's FAI Cup, and they returned to white shirts for the following season, this time paired with black shorts. Possibly by coincidence, when the clubs of the town amalgamated to form the first Dundalk Association Football Club in 1904, the colours chosen were "white shirt, bearing the Dundalk coat of arms, and black pants". The 'home' colours have remained essentially unchanged, although an all-white kit was introduced for the first time in the 1965–66 season. All-white was also used in 1973–74 and 2003. All-white kits are still worn occasionally when required to avoid kit clashes.
  Away colours
  The earliest photographic record of the team in 'away' colours comes from the 1928–29 season. For their first visit to play Fordsons after adopting white shirts, Dundalk were obliged to wear borrowed shirts with their own navy blue shorts and black socks, as the home side also wore white shirts. From then until the end of the following season (when the Cork club changed its colours) Dundalk wore their old black and amber-striped shirts with their new navy blue shorts and black socks for away matches in Cork.
  For most of the next 60 years away colours were not required. If change colours were needed red shirts were used, and for the Cup Winners' Cup ties away to Hajduk Split in 1977 and Tottenham Hotspur in 1981 all-red kits were worn. An all-red away kit was introduced in the 1990–91 season, and away kits have typically been variants on red or black since. Alternative colour combinations have been used since 2012, although black remains the most common base away colour.
  Prior to 2019, ad hoc third colours had only been worn by the team when both home and away kits clashed with opponent's colours. A formal third kit was introduced that season for the first time—an all-lilac strip with white and black trim. It was designed by then kit supplier CX+ Sport, as part of a fundraising partnership between the club and Temple Street Children's University Hospital. The logo of the charity replaced that of official sponsor Fyffes on the chest of the shirt. This kit was worn in all rounds of the 2019 League Cup, and the early rounds of the FAI Cup.
caption: Dundalk players in action wearing 'third' colours in aid of Temple Street Children's University Hospital, 2019
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