Manchester City Women will wear burgundy shorts for the rest of the season when wearing their sky blue home kit, accelerating a change originally intended to begin next season.
City and kit manufacturers Puma announced this week that they would move away from providing their women's teams with white shorts in order for them to feel 'more comfortable' and perform at their highest level while on their periods. City are one of many clubs changing from white shorts for women's teams, and the initial plan was for the Blues to find a new colour scheme for their female players from next season.
Now, after City beat Blackburn 6-0 in the Continental Cup on Wednesday, wearing their alternative burgundy shorts with the blue home shirt, the club have decided to make this the permanent colour of shorts for their women's teams for the remainder of the 2022/23 season, after consultations with the players at the club.
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The burgundy shorts are City's alternative kit option in case of kit clashes, and the men wore the combination away at Sevilla in the Champions League. Now, the women will wear burgundy shorts for the rest of the campaign before the Puma change officially comes into effect next season.
Puma's statement this week said: "Puma and Manchester City take pride in working closely with our players to support them and create the best possible environment for them to feel comfortable and perform at their highest level.
"As a result of player feedback and the underlying topic of women wanting to move away from wearing white shorts while on their periods, we have decided to implement changes to the products we offer to our female players.
"Starting from the 2023/24 season, we will not be providing white shorts to our female athletes. We will always provide an alternative for our home, away and third kits to solve the issue highlighted by women across all sports."
Speaking at the weekend, head coach Gareth Taylor said: "We've always spoken about supporting the players as best we possibly can, about improving levels for the girls as much as we possibly can, not just at this club, across the board for women's football.
"I think it's something we need to look at for sure, just so that we are offering the top-level support that we need to, for the players."
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