League:
Level
Canon League Division 1
Position:
18th
FA Cup:
Third Round
League Cup:
Winners
Chairman:
Robert Maxwell
Manager:
Maurice Evans
Top Scorer:
John Aldridge (31)
Notable Players:
John Aldridge, Gary Briggs, Billy Hamilton, Jeremy Charles, Trevor Hebberd, Ray Houghton, David Langan, Les Phillips, Peter Rhoades-Brown, Malcolm Shotton, Neil Slatter, John Trewick.
With Oxford United now in the top flight of English Football, kit suppliers were keen to be a part of Oxford's success story. Umbro was the largest manufacturer of that time, with both England and Scotland's national teams wearing Umbro kits at this time
Wang, an American business computing company became the new club sponsor, replacing the various Maxwell businesses that had featured over the previous 3 years.
Long
sleeves
Umbro provided Oxford with quite a different look, with a pale custard shirt and dark navy trim. The shirt design was near identical to Scotland's 1985 away shirt at that time.
The alternative yellow shorts and socks were a bright yellow and didn’t match the paler yellow shirts particularly well.
No long
sleeves
The all-white change colours were enhanced with shoulder panels depicting the pale yellow and navy colours of the home kit.
Sadly, this smart design was to feature just once during the season.
Long
sleeves
From the end of September, the match shirts were replaced with shirts featuring a larger sponsor logo.
Occasionally, the shirts with the smaller Wang logo would make a reappearance (as a complete set). This usually coincided with a midweek game, perhaps this helped ease laundry turnaround times?
To date, Oxford United’s greatest achievement is undoubtedly winning the League Cup at the old Wembley stadium. Oxford outclassed Queens Park Rangers, winning 3-0 in front of a sell-out crowd and millions on national television.
In true cup final tradition, commemorative shirts were produced with embroidered text.
The sponsors logo was positioned lower on the chest, it was also a simple text-only version. This was probably to maximise the letter size for such a large TV audience. (Remember in those days there were only four TV channels).
Players were provided with both long and short-sleeved shirts, but all preferred short sleeves for this glorious spring day.
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