A third jersey, alternate jersey or third kit is a jersey or uniform that a sports team may wear in games instead of its home outfit or its away outfit when the colors of two competing teams' other uniforms are too similar to distinguish easily. A third jersey may be a throwback uniform based on designs the team used in the past.
Extra alternate uniforms or fourth/fifth kits are not commonly used, but are sometimes required when teams' other uniforms cause color clashes, or the uniforms are unavailable to use. In cases where teams have worn more than three kits in the same season, the extra kits were usually recycled from previous seasons.
Third-choice jerseys or uniforms are used in all four North American major professional sports leagues, and in college sports, semipro leagues, and other sports leagues throughout the world.
Third kits are commonplace in European association football. Alternate guernseys or jerseys are common in Australia's two biggest domestic leagues, the Australian Football League (Aussie rules) and National Rugby League (rugby league).
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