Arsenal 2003/04 third jersey
Arsenal wore this as a third in 2003/04. Nike made it, O2 was on the front: sky blue with navy and red.
The Invincibles — champions, unbeaten across all 38 league games.
On the garment, the tell is the solid blue side panels with an ombre centre panel, Nike template cut. We read that, the neck label and the tag before we call one original.
- Club
- Arsenal
- Season
- 2003/04
- Kit
- Third
- Maker
- Nike
- Sponsor
- O2
- Colour
- Sky blue with navy and red
- Detail
- Solid blue side panels with an ombre centre panel, Nike template cut
Colour quoted from Football Kit Archive, the detail from Vintage Football Shirts. 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 2003/04 was the third sky blue with navy and red, so the colour settles it. For 2003/04 the tell is the solid blue side panels with an ombre centre panel, Nike template cut.
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.