{"id":550991,"date":"2026-07-15T13:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/550991\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T13:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:19:09","slug":"mayo-to-wear-white-1951-inspired-jersey-in-all-ireland-final-against-kerry-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/550991\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayo to wear white 1951-inspired jersey in All-Ireland final against Kerry \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayo<\/a> will wear a specially designed white jersey for Sunday week\u2019s All-Ireland<\/a> senior football final against Kerry<\/a> \u2013 the same colour they wore in the 1951 decider. Mayo wore white when they beat Meath that year for the county\u2019s last Sam Maguire triumph.<\/p>\n

Due to a clash of colours between the current traditional Mayo and Kerry kits, a coin toss took place on Monday to determine which of the teams would be required to wear their alternative strip on July 26th. <\/p>\n

Kerry won the toss, which was conducted by the Central Competitions Control Committee and witnessed by the respective county secretaries. <\/p>\n

However, Mayo officials felt their navy kit with a Croagh Patrick design was still too close in colour with Kerry\u2019s dark shade of green and they made a representation to Croke Park<\/a> seeking permission to design a new jersey for the final.<\/p>\n

Each county has to lodge their two official kit colours at the start of the campaign \u2013 a regular jersey and an alternative one.<\/p>\n

Given concerns around a colour clash and with a heightened awareness of issues in relation to colour blindness, the GAA granted Mayo permission to come up with a new jersey.<\/p>\n

After negotiations between the Mayo county board, kit manufacturer O\u2019Neills and jersey sponsor Elverys, it is understood Andy Moran<\/a>\u2019s team will wear a white jersey with the official Mayo crest and Elverys branding. <\/p>\n

[\u00a0Stephen Rochford: Mayo have improved immensely, but is it enough to stage an upset?Opens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

Mayo wore an all-white commemorative kit against Kerry when the sides met in the National Football League at Austin Stack Park in March \u2013 a fixture the Kingdom won comfortably. That jersey, to mark the 75-year anniversary since Mayo\u2019s last All-Ireland final triumph, carried a vintage crest and no sponsorship across the front.<\/p>\n

In their recent All-Ireland SFC final meetings against Kerry, Mayo wore their traditional green and red strip in 1997 and 2006, but in 2004 they wore a predominately red kit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayo will wear a specially designed white jersey for Sunday week\u2019s All-Ireland senior football final against Kerry \u2013…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6937,764,233307,110979,4183,61,60,4185,95595,43],"class_list":["post-550991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-kerry-gaa","tag-croke-park","tag-elvery-s","tag-football-championship","tag-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mayo-gaa","tag-national-football-league","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}