Manchester United 2002/03 away jersey

Manchester United wore this away in 2002/03. Nike made it, Vodafone was on the front: white with a black V-neck collar in red trim and red cuffs.

Champions, and Nike's first season on the shirt.

On the garment, the tell is the smart black collar with touches of red. We read that, the neck label and the tag before we call one original.

The jersey
Club
Manchester United
Season
2002/03
Kit
Away
Maker
Nike
Sponsor
Vodafone
Colour
White with a black V-neck collar in red trim and red cuffs
Detail
Smart black collar with touches of red
Sourced

Colour quoted from Football Kit Archive, the detail from Ultra Football's Manchester United jersey history. Measurements come from the jersey in hand.

How to date one

The print gets you close, the colour finishes it

Two switches inside three seasons. Sharp ended in 2000, so any Vodafone shirt is 2000/01 or later. Umbro made the shirt up to 2001/02, Nike from 2002/03.

Manchester United wore Nike with the Vodafone print in 2002/03, 2003/04 and 2004/05. Only in 2002/03 was the away white with a black V-neck collar in red trim and red cuffs, so the colour settles it. For 2002/03 the tell is the smart black collar with touches of red.

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 2002/03 Manchester United kit