1984/85 SEASON

Name: Oxford Kits
Price range: £0

League:

Level

Canon League Division 2

Position:

Champions

FA Cup:

Fourth Round

League Cup:

Fourth Round

Chairman:

Robert Maxwell

Manager:

Jim Smith

Top Scorer:

John Aldridge (34)

Notable Players:

John Aldridge, Gary Briggs, Kevin Brock, Jeremy Charles, Billy Hamilton, Steve Hardwick, Trevor Hebberd, David Langan, Bobby McDonald, Peter Rhoades-Brown, Malcolm Shotton.

Newly promoted Oxford United made light work of Division 2, making history by becoming the first English club to win promotion as champions in successive seasons.

Sponsor

The sponsor's logo was now in blue lettering and applied using crude sewn-on characters. These particular shirts featured for just two months.

Other shirt variations were to feature more regularly, full details are outlined below.

Home Kit & Away Variation

Long
sleeves

Apart from the new style of BPCC lettering, the kit remained largely unchanged from the previous two seasons. However, there were subtle differences, most notably the shirt crest, which was now wrapped in text commemorating the team's status as Division 3 Champions.

The small Spall motifs that had previously appeared on the sleeves were removed. Additionally, the blue shorts were noticeably different, featuring pinstripes and a small white Spall motif.

The sewn block numbers from the previous two seasons were replaced with more traditional sans-serif numerals.

1982 & 1983
Shirts

1984
BPCC Shirt

Away Kit

Long
sleeves

The third choice kit from the 83/84 season was the template for a new all-white away kit.

This particular variation featured only once, away at Wimbledon.

Goalkeeper Jerseys

There were two jersey styles with different collar designs. One with white embroidery in a reversed position on the chest. The other with identical embroidery as the outfield shirts.

Sponsor Change

Long
sleeves

From the middle of October, another Robert Maxwell business, the Sunday People newspaper, became the primary shirt sponsor.

It might be easy to assume that these large logo panels were simply applied over the existing BPCC lettering on the match shirts.

However, they were, in fact, brand new shirts featuring yet another variation in the player numbers, which now featured a screen-printed ‘block-shadow’ style numeral.

1984 BPCC
Shirt