FRISCO, Texas — FC Dallas introduced its newest kit for the 2024 season: The Afterburner Kit.
The Afterburner Kit will be the club's jersey for home matches in the 2024 and 2025 season. After the kit was revealed, there was mixed reaction online among the fan base. Personally, I thought it was one of the better ones FC Dallas has had. But the reaction made me wonder, where would fans rank it among the kits of the past?
So, I grabbed photos of every kit – excluding the goalkeeper kits – FC Dallas has ever had, courtesy of footballkitarchive.com. To date, FC Dallas has had 42 kits. I numbered them all from 1 to 42 and used a random number generator to place the kits in a 42-team, single elimination bracket I printed from the Internet.
Throughout the 2024 season, on FC Dallas match days, I will post a poll on WFAA's YouTube community page, asking which kit you think is better. The winner of the FC Dallas kit bracket will be chosen on Decision Day, Oct. 19. All of the polls will be listed in this story below.
***Note: There was no seeding for the bracket and was randomly filled out.***
FC Dallas kit bracket: Decision Day!
After a full season's worth of match-ups, here are the final two: 2024 home and 1996 away.
New school ... and old school.
This final poll will go live on WFAA's YouTube page one hour before the kickoff of the final regular season home game.
CHAMPION: 1996 away (55% of votes)
FC Dallas kit bracket: Final Four
WINNER: 2024 home (72% of vote)
WINNER: 1996 away (65% of vote)
FC Dallas kit bracket: Elite Eight
WINNER: 2024 home (75% of vote)
WINNER: 1997 home (74% of the vote)
WINNER: 2021 home (70% of vote)
WINNER: 1996 away (64% of vote)
FC Dallas kit bracket: Round of 16
WINNER: 2024 home (77% of vote)
WINNER: 2019 special (68% of vote)
WINNER: 1997 home (73% of vote)
WINNER: 2011 home (68% of vote)
WINNER: 2021 home (77% of vote)
WINNER: 2000 home (73% of vote)
WINNER: 1996 away (72% of vote)
WINNER: 2023 One Planet (68% of vote)
FC Dallas kit bracket: Round of 32
WINNER: 2019 special (65% of vote)
WINNER: 2011 home (61% of vote)
WINNER: 2012 away (64% of vote)
WINNER: 1997 home (69% of vote)
WINNER: 2024 home (76% of vote)
WINNER: 2018-19 (67% of vote)
WINNER: 2018 special (63% of vote)
WINNER: 2023 one planet (72% of vote)
WINNER: 2002-03 third kit (79% of vote)
WINNER: 2021 home (70% of vote)
WINNER: 2000 home (70% of vote)
WINNER: 1996 away (73% of vote)
WINNER: 2001-02 away (67% of vote)
WINNER: 2010-11 away (67% of vote)
WINNER: 2015-16 away (69% of vote)
WINNER: 2019-20 away (61% of vote)
WINNER: 2021-22 away (73% of vote)
FC Dallas kit bracket: 1st Round
WINNER: 2021 home (79% of vote)
WINNER: 2023 home (74% of vote)
WINNER: 2023 One Planet (67% of vote)
WINNER: 2002-03 third (70% of vote)
WINNER: 2012 away (74% of vote)
WINNER: 08-09-10 home (77% of vote)
WINNER: 2024 home (83% of vote)
WINNER: 2000 home (63% of vote)
WINNER: 2018-19 home (64% of vote)
WINNER: 1998-99 away (68% of vote)
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