Manchester United 2004/05 away jersey
Manchester United wore this away in 2004/05. Nike made it, Vodafone was on the front: black with a white-trimmed V-neck collar and cuffs.
Lost the FA Cup final to Arsenal on penalties, and finished third.
On the garment, the tell is the watermark flower pattern sublimated over the black base. We read that, the neck label and the tag before we call one original.
- Club
- Manchester United
- Season
- 2004/05
- Kit
- Away
- Maker
- Nike
- Sponsor
- Vodafone
- Colour
- Black with a white-trimmed V-neck collar and cuffs
- Detail
- Watermark flower pattern sublimated over the black base
Colour quoted from Football Kit Archive, the detail from a prideofmanchester.com kit history. Measurements come from the jersey in hand.
Neither the print nor the colour dates this one
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 the same away — black with a white-trimmed V-neck collar and cuffs — in 2003/04 and 2004/05, all under Nike with the Vodafone print. For 2004/05 the tell is the watermark flower pattern sublimated over the black base. Beyond that it is the neck label and the tag, which we read before offering you anything.
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.