Chelsea 2002/03 third jersey
Chelsea wore this as a third in 2002/03. Umbro made it, Fly Emirates was on the front: white with blue pinstripes.
The last full season before the Abramovich takeover.
On the garment, the tell is the V-neck collar, CFA embroidered badge. We read that, the neck label and the tag before we call one original.
- Club
- Chelsea
- Season
- 2002/03
- Kit
- Third
- Maker
- Umbro
- Sponsor
- Fly Emirates
- Colour
- White with blue pinstripes
- Detail
- V-neck collar, CFA embroidered badge
- Note
- Carried over from the 2001/02 away
Colour and detail quoted from Football Kit Archive. Measurements come from the jersey in hand.
The print gets you close, the colour finishes it
Umbro throughout, so the sponsor splits the era in two. Autoglass ends with 2000/01, and Fly Emirates starts with 2001/02 and stays.
Chelsea wore Umbro with the Fly Emirates print in 2001/02, 2002/03, 2003/04 and 2004/05. Only in 2002/03 was the third white with blue pinstripes, so the colour settles it. For 2002/03 the tell is the V-neck collar, CFA embroidered badge.
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.