2024/25 SEASON
League:
Level
Sky Bet Championship
Position:
tbc
FA Cup:
Third Round
League Cup:
Second Round
Chairman:
Grant Ferguson
Managers:
Des Buckingham, Craig Short (caretaker), Gary Rowett
Top Scorer:
To date: Mark Harris (6)
Notable Players:
Cameron Brannagan, Ciaron Brown, Jamie Cumming, Siriki Dembélé, Tyler Goodrham, Mark Harris, Michał Helik, Peter Kioso, Greg Leigh, Elliott Moore, Przemysław Płacheta, Matt Phillips, Rúben Rodrigues, Ole Romeny, Will Vaulks.
Kit Manufacturer
This was Macron's third season as Oxford United's kit provider.
Sponsors
Baxi, one of the UK's leading manufacturers of heating and hot water solutions became the main shirt sponsor, reportedly signing a three-year deal.
Polythene UK continued as the 'back-of-shirt' sponsor. Whilst Caprinos Pizza, a national franchise chain (which started-out in Didcot) became the sleeve sponsor.
Rocktree Logistics became the back-of-shorts sponsor. Their name appeared from match six onwards.
EFL Branding
The EFL number and name sets remained largely unchanged for the 2024/25 season.
EFL in the Community became the new 'charity partner', with their logo appearing an all shirt numerals.
Sky Bet Championship sleeve patches were worn for the very first time.
Home KIT
With Base
Layer
Macron produced an all-yellow shirt with the only navy trim being the Macron motifs.
The shirt featured a subtle diagonal geometric pattern in various shades. Once again, the 1893 formation year featured on the rear neckline of the home, away and third shirts.
The home socks had a lighter coloured turnover, which helped to match them with the lighter shades within the shirt.
Away Kit & Variation
With Base
Layer
Third Kit
With Base
Layer
The purple third kit included a deep-cut, narrow round-neck with eye-catching yellow trim.
The front panel included a subtle triangular pattern, not too dissimilar to an iconic sky-blue Umbro England shirt from early 1990s.
Due to its popularity, this strip was also regularly used as a Goalkeeper strip.
Goalkeeper KitS
The 2024 keeper kits featured Macrons 'Golem' template, which were not goalkeeper shirts and therefore had short sleeves. The 'keepers wore base layers.
Oxford City FC had the same green kit as their away colours.
League CUP
For the first time in five years, league cup fixtures featured shirts adorned with Carabao Cup sleeve patches. Previously, these patches were only seen in the fourth round and beyond, so it was a surprise to see these feature from Round 1.
The new patches also had the distinctive 3D embossed effect, similar to that used on all other competition patches.
Remembrance Shirts
The club wore poppy shirts for the fixtures leading up to the remembrance weekend. Unlike the 2023 season, these poppies did not feature the current year.
FA Cup Shirts
FA Cup sleeve patches were worn for the one FA Cup fixture.
Caprinos did not feature as the sleeve sponsor.
Match by Match
Norwich
Home
Peterboro'
Home
Coventry
Away
Blackburn
Away
Coventry
Away
Preston
Home
Stoke
Home
Bristol C
Away
Burnley
Home
Luton
Away
Portsmouth
Away
West Brom
Home
Derby
Home
Sunderland
Away
Swansea
Home
Hull
Home
Watford
Away
Middlesboro'
Home
Sheffield Utd
Away
Millwall
Home
QPR
Away
Sheffield W
Home
Leeds
Away
Cardiff
Home
Plymouth
Home
Millwall
Away
Preston
Away
Exeter
Away
Plymouth
Away
Blackburn
Home
Luton
Home
Stoke
Away
Bristol C
Home
Burnley
Away
Derby
Away
Portsmouth
Home
West Brom
Away
Coventry
Home
Norwich
Away
Hull
Away
Watford
Home
Middlesboro'
Away
Sheffield Utd
Home
QPR
Home
Sheffield Wed
Away
Leeds
Home
Cardiff
Away
PRE-SEASON KITS
The new kits were not ready for the start of the pre-season matches. A mix of temporary and old kits were worn for the first 5 pre-season fixtures.
Whilst in Spain, Oxford played their first pre-season friendly against Academico de Viseu, a Portuguese second division team.
The team wore the 2023 'electric blue' third kit, whilst the keepers wore unsponsored versions of the lime green kit that had featured during the 2022 season.
A Macron 'Shedir' jersey, similar to the 2023 training tops were worn for the games against Oxford City and Mansfield Town.
These differed to the old training tops, as the waist flashes were white instead of yellow. The shirts were paired with the clubs new training shorts, which matched nicely.
For one game against Solihull Moors, we saw a revival of a strip which had featured once during the 2022 pre-season.
This kit featured Macrons' 'Tureis' shirt, which was paired with navy shorts and white trim.
Yet another pre-season strip was worn for a 'behind closed doors' game against Exeter City.
A yellow 'Halley' shirt was picked from Macrons' catalogue. It wasn't a great look, with the shirt having mismatched royal blue trim.
This was the third variation of navy shorts seen in as many games.
The new home kit was revealed in time for the two home friendlies against Southampton and Palermo. However, even at this late stage, no primary sponsor had been announced.