1984/85

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

In essence, the kits remained unchained from the previous two seasons, but there were differences. The shirt crest was wrapped in text commemorating the Division III championship, plus the Spall motifs that had featured on the sleeves were now gone.

The block numbers that had featured over the previous two seasons were replaced with a more traditional football shirt number style.

1982-84
Shirt

1984
Shirt

The blue shorts now featured pinstripes and a small Spall motif.

From mid-October, another Robert Maxwell business, the Sunday People newspaper became the shirt sponsor.

These shirts differed to the short-lived BPCC shirts, the sewn sans numbers were replaced with screen-printed ‘block-shadow’ numbers.

BPCC
Shirt

Sunday People
Shirt

When the TV cameras were present, BPCC sponsored shirts had to be worn, as only one sponsor was permitted to feature on TV each season.

Interestingly, the relatively new shirts (with blue BPCC lettering) were never worn for the TV matches. Instead, the older 1983/84 shirts with black letters were preferred.

It seems that for the TV games, a plain goalkeeper jersey was worn. Indeed, it didn't even feature a number 1.