In ‘new’ football markets, with relatively young leagues, purple has a better representation Glory leads the charge in Australia, Orlando City FC wears it in the MLS, and Japan’s J-League has Sanfrecce Hiroshima and Kyoto Sanga. The most well-known examples among these are Italy’s Fiorentina and Belgium’s Anderlecht, alongside teams like NK Maribor (Slovenia), Austria Wien (Austria), Toulouse (purple/white stripes, France), Ujpest (Hungary), Real Valladolid (purple/white stripes, Spain), and formerly FC Omniworld (the Netherlands, rebranded as Almere City FC, now in red), Hougang United (Singapore, one season), and Germinal Beerschot (Belgium, these guys seem to go bust every other year). While Glory is so much more than just the attractive shades of purple (or should we call it violet? Fuchsia? Magenta?) it has used over the years, this choice must be adressed shades of this colour are very rare in world football, with zero national teams using it as main choice alongside a handful of (usually relatively obscure) clubs. Where this is the first purple shirt to pop up on our humble site, it is the third Australian/A-League team top after the ’05 Jets and 12/13 Mariners shirts good representation for a league that, at the time of writing, only features 10 sides! Today, however, we are making amends by introducing you to Perth Glory, the westernmost member of Australia’s A-League, who have been rocking their purple colours since inception in the 90’s! Here at Club 25, we have been guilty in promoting such obliviousness by failing to cover some of the less conventional colours. While football is a colourful game with teams drawing their colours from all over the colour spectrum, some hues are undoubtedly more popular than others for every club playing in pink or brown, punters could name dozens if not hundreds of teams that wear blue or red.
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