Arsenal 2002/03 third jersey
Arsenal wore this as a third in 2002/03. Nike made it, O2 was on the front: gold with navy.
First season of the O2 print. Won the FA Cup.
On the garment, the tell is the 2001/02 away body with the post-2002 crest and the O2 sponsor. We read that, the neck label and the tag before we call one original.
- Club
- Arsenal
- Season
- 2002/03
- Kit
- Third
- Maker
- Nike
- Sponsor
- O2
- Colour
- Gold with navy
- Detail
- 2001/02 away body with the post-2002 crest and the O2 sponsor
- Note
- Carried over from the 2001/02 away
Colour quoted from Football Kit Archive, the detail from a paininthearsenal.com kit ranking. Measurements come from the jersey in hand.
The print gets you close, the colour finishes it
Nike made every Arsenal jersey of the era, so the sponsor dates it. Sega Dreamcast runs to the end of 2001/02, and O2 takes over from 2002/03.
Arsenal wore Nike with the O2 print in 2002/03, 2003/04 and 2004/05. Only in 2002/03 was the third gold with navy, so the colour settles it. For 2002/03 the tell is the 2001/02 away body with the post-2002 crest and the O2 sponsor.
The six checks we run on any jersey — the label code, the sleeve badge, the print, and what none of them prove.
What an early-2000s original costs — real asking prices, and the reproduction price an original has to clear.
- Original
- From the season on the label. Nothing made later, ever.
- Measured flat
- Tag size, pit-to-pit and length in inches, before you decide.
- Provenance
- A note on where the jersey came from, on its own page.
- One of one
- When it sells it is gone. The page stays up, marked Gone.
- Shipped from the US
- Tracked US shipping is in the price. All sales are final.
We do not have this one in hand
Put it on the Want List and it becomes something we go looking for. No fee, no bidding, no obligation — you see photos, measurements and a price before anything is charged.