Manchester United 2002/03 third jersey
Manchester United wore this as a third in 2002/03. Nike made it, Vodafone was on the front: royal blue with black trim.
Champions, and Nike's first season on the shirt.
On the garment, the tell is the black trim on collar and cuffs. We read that, the neck label and the tag before we call one original.
- Club
- Manchester United
- Season
- 2002/03
- Kit
- Third
- Maker
- Nike
- Sponsor
- Vodafone
- Colour
- Royal blue with black trim
- Detail
- Black trim on collar and cuffs
Colour and detail quoted from Football Kit Archive. Measurements come from the jersey in hand.
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 third royal blue with black trim, so the colour settles it. For 2002/03 the tell is the black trim on collar and 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.
- 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.