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Designing a full team set: Home, Away, Third and Goalkeeper

How to make four kits that clearly belong to the same team but never clash with an opponent, or with each other.

A real club has more than one kit. KitLab lets you design a Home, Away, Third and Goalkeeper kit plus a logo, each with its own link, from the team page. Here's how to make them work as a set.

Home: your identity

Your Home kit is the one people remember. Use your main colour on the shirt and your boldest pattern. Get this right first; the other kits build on it.

Away: the opposite of Home

The Away kit exists so you can still play when the opponent's colours are close to yours. The easiest rule is flip the brightness:

  • dark Home kit → light Away kit,
  • light Home kit → dark Away kit.

To keep the family look, reuse your colours in a different role. If Home is red with white sleeves, Away could be white with red sleeves.

Third: something different

The Third kit covers the matches where both Home and Away clash. It's also where you can be more creative: a colour you don't use elsewhere, a different pattern, or a bold sash. Keep your badge and your number style the same so it still feels like your team.

Goalkeeper: clear of everyone

The goalkeeper must look different from both teams' outfield players. Bright single colours like lime, orange, yellow or bright purple work well, often with a simple pattern. Avoid colours that are close to any of your three outfield kits.

Keep these the same across the set

  • The badge, in the same place on every kit.
  • The number colours, as long as they stay readable on each kit's colours.
  • A shared detail, such as the collar colour or a sock stripe, that links the kits together.

A quick checklist

  1. Put all four kits side by side on the team page.
  2. Can you tell every outfield kit apart from the others at a glance?
  3. Does the goalkeeper kit stand apart from all three?
  4. Do they all still look like one team?

If the answer to all four is yes, copy each link into its slot in the game. The in-game guide shows where each one goes.