Though the secret was spilled weeks ago, Atlanta United unveiled its new secondary kit on Thursday at the team’s training center in Marietta.
The jersey is primarily white and features peach on the shoulder stripes, the crest and the sponsor. The background of the jersey features panel shapes similar to what can be seen on some soccer balls, as well as the roof of Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
The kit was inspired by a tifo that featured a peach wearing a crown used at one of last year’s matches at Bobby Dodd Stadium.
The team dubbed it the “King Peach” kit in honor of Georgia being the Peach State. The socks and shorts are white.
The team gets its first chance to wear the new kits during a preseason tournament in Charleston that begins on Saturday.
The “King Peach” kit replaces last year’s kit that featured horizontal thin silver stripes as the jersey’s base, with a faded red on the shoulder stripes, the crest and the sponsor. The shorts were the same shade of red, which resulted in the nickname of the “concrete and strawberry” or “concrete and taillights” kit. That kit was introduced at halftime of the team’s first preseason game in Chattanooga.
The team introduced the new kit with a video before a training session on Thursday. The players ran out of a tunnel wearing the new kit to start an open training session that was attended by several hundred of the team’s supporters.
The primary kit will continue to be the red-and-black vertical striped jersey with black shorts.
The new alternate jersey was revealed on Twitter by a user weeks ago, and then it was put on the shopping racks of a national retail chain with a location at Cumberland Mall on Monday. It was also for sale on that chain’s website.
MLS allows teams to change their kits once every two years, with an exception for teams starting their inaugural season. So, Atlanta United can choose to change its primary kit next season, and its alternate kit in 2020.
