Poole Town Football Club to return to red and white home kit

Dolphins had worn the colours of sponsors BlackGold Developments as part of a three-year deal that helped keep the club running during the pandemic.

With the agreement now coming to an end, Poole are looking for a new sponsors to be worn on a red and white kit.

Whilst they wore black and gold as home colours, the red and white kit still served as a change strip.

BlackGold also currently sponsor the club’s ground at Tatnam Farm, called BlackGold Stadium.

The club have played in a full host of different colours over the years. After Poole Hornets and Poole Rovers merged in 1890 the new club wore red and white quarters, before a further amalgamation with Longfleet St Mary’s after the First World War saw Poole wear blue and white stripes.

In the 1920s they briefly wore red, green, and white hoops, before first adopting the red and white halved-shirts they are most associated with. The current iteration of the club, formed in 1930, wore white shirts and blue shorts, before adopting navy blue and white quartered shirts and white shorts after the Second World War.

With a brief change to black shorts towards the end of the 1940s, the club again adopted red and white in 1953, in the form of a striped kit.

In 1961 there was a further change to solely red shirts with red and white stripped shorts, which were quickly replaced by plain white.

That lasted until 1970, when red and white hoops were adopted, before a drastic change was made just a year later, when Poole donned yellow shirts with blue shorts.

A full royal blue strip was selected in 1989, with the Dolphins reverting back to red and white halved shirts in 1993.

Red and white remained in place until the switch to black and gold for sponsorship reasons in 2020.

Chairman Chris Reeves shared in a statement: “After three brilliant years of proudly wearing the BlackGold Developments logo on the front of our home strip, we are in the market for a new shirt sponsor.

“We are currently in discussion with a number of main players with regard to what we know to be an attractive sponsorship opportunity but with the new season soon to be upon us are keen to close an arrangement as soon as practicalities permit.

“For any company keen to get more details of this exciting opportunity please do contact the Club on info@pooletownfc.co.uk and rest assured one of our commercial team will be in touch promptly to provide further information.”

It has recently been confirmed that Poole’s Southern League Premier South season will start on Saturday, 5 August.