Season 1938/39
original illustrations of the kits worn during the season
Home Kit
'Tangeru' Home Kit
'Tangeru' Change Kit
Alternate Change Kit
Third Kit
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Alternate Third Kit
Home Kit
Change Kit
The Season in brief
During the close season a new medical room was built at Old Trafford, the changing rooms were refurbished, and roofing added to the wing terraces of the main stand, which took the covered accommodation up to 40,000.
On the field, United initially struggled at the higher level. The average age of United's side was less than 26, young by the standards of the time, and consistency remained a problem. Five points from their final three fixtures lifted United to a final creditable position of 14th.
United's home kit remained unchanged, although they adopted a new change kit. A photograph from the game at Highbury in April, discovered by Alex Howells, confirms United wore a change kit with a blue shirt. The Reserves had worn the same kit in the pre-season public practice match at Old Trafford.
According to the programme for the game at the Valley on February 11th, United wore white shirts with black shorts. We have evidence of an alternative third kit, the black/white hooped shirts, which was worn in the public practice matches by one of the club's junior sides.This kit could have been worn exclusively by the Reserves and junior sides.
We have been able to determine that United's goalkeepers wore a heavy woolen green jersey. Although we have been unable to discover any evidence from this season of United's goalkeeper change shirt, we believe, from earlier and later photographic evidence and given the limited colour options available under League regulations, it was probably royal blue.
With United consolidating their position on the top flight, their other sides completed a clean sweep of trophies - the Reserves won the Central League; the Colts, with an average age of 17, won the Manchester League; and the newly formed MUJAC's the Chorlton Amateur League, scoring 223 goals!