Chelsea · 2004/05 · away

Chelsea 2004/05 away jersey

Chelsea wore this away in 2004/05. Umbro made it, Fly Emirates was on the front: black with light grey shoulder panels and blue trim.

Champions for the first time in fifty years, plus the League Cup. Mourinho's first season.

On the garment, the tell is the blue trim on collar and sleeve cuffs. We read that, the neck label and the tag before we call one original.

The jersey
Club
Chelsea
Season
2004/05
Kit
Away
Maker
Umbro
Sponsor
Fly Emirates
Colour
Black with light grey shoulder panels and blue trim
Detail
Blue trim on collar and sleeve cuffs
Sourced

Colour and detail quoted from Football Kit Archive. Measurements come from the jersey in hand.

How to date one

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 2004/05 was the away black with light grey shoulder panels and blue trim, so the colour settles it. For 2004/05 the tell is the blue trim on collar and sleeve cuffs.

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.

What you get when we find one
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.
Have us source it

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.

Club, season and kit is enough. Sponsor or a squad number if you know it.

Early-2000s sizing runs small. Telling us the size stops us offering you a jersey that will not fit.

The rest of the 2004/05 Chelsea kit