Editing West Bromwich Albion F.C. (section)

==Crest and colours==

===Badge===
<!-- Deleted image removed: [[File:old west bromwich albion crest.png|thumb|upright|left|West Bromwich Albion's previous club badge, retired in 2006]] -->
[[File:West-Bromwich-Albion-F.C.-old-logo.png|thumb|upright|right|West Bromwich Albion club badge c. 1900–2006]]
[[File:westbromcrest.jpg|thumb|upright|right|The [[coat of arms]] of [[West Bromwich]] has featured intermittently on Albion team shirts.]]
Albion's main club badge dates back to the late 1880s, when club secretary Tom Smith suggested that a [[Song thrush|throstle]] (song thrush) sitting on a [[Goal post|crossbar]] be adopted for the badge.<ref name="McOwan p15 Throstle">McOwan p. 15.</ref>{{Ref label|Throstle|B|}} The badge has been subject to various revisions since then.<ref>{{cite web
| title = Trademarks owned by West Bromwich Albion Football Club Limited
| url = https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tmowner/page/search?id=51961&domain=1
| publisher = Intellectual Property Office
| access-date = 26 November 2018
| archive-date = 21 April 2023
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230421184717/https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tmowner/page/search?id=51961&domain=1
| url-status = live
}}</ref> It has always featured a throstle, usually on a blue and white striped shield, although the crossbar was replaced with a [[Common hawthorn|hawthorn]] branch at some point after the club's move to [[the Hawthorns]]. The throstle was chosen because the [[public house]] in which the team used to change kept a pet thrush in a cage. It also gave rise to Albion's early nickname, ''the Throstles''. The hawthorn bush is also a favourite bush of throstles, which were regularly seen on the pre-stadium estate and local area. As late as the 1930s, a caged throstle was placed beside the touchline during matches and it was said that it only used to sing if Albion were winning.<ref name="McOwan p15 Throstle"/> In 1979, an effigy of a throstle was erected above the half-time scoreboard of the Woodman corner at the Hawthorns,<ref>Matthews (1987) p. 239.</ref> and was returned to the same area of the ground following redevelopment in the early 2000s.<ref>{{cite web
| title = West Bromwich Albion ground guide
| url = http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/park/yfh45/westbrom.htm
| publisher = Internet Football Ground Guide
| access-date = 1 December 2007
| url-status = dead
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071213091411/http://www.dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/park/yfh45/westbrom.htm
| archive-date = 13 December 2007
| df = dmy-all
}}</ref>

In 1975, a version of the badge (on a [[roundel]] rather than a shield) was granted by the [[College of Arms]] to the Football League for licensing to the club. The badge was described in heraldic [[blazon]] as, "On a roundel paly of thirteen argent and azure a [[mistle thrush]] perched on a [[raspberry]] branch leaved and fructed proper." This is the only known occasion on which the branch has been described as a raspberry branch rather than a hawthorn branch: [[Rodney Dennys]], the [[officer of arms]] responsible, may have been imperfectly briefed.<ref>{{cite journal |first=David Llewelyn |last=Phillips |title=Badges and 'Crests': the twentieth-century relationship between football and heraldry |journal=Coat of Arms |series=3rd ser. |volume=11 |issue=1 |year=2015 |pages=35–50 (43, and plate 4e)}}</ref>

The badge was re-designed in 2006, incorporating the name of the club for the first time. The new design aimed to safeguard and consolidate the club's identity.<ref name="NewBadge">{{cite web
| title = Albion unveil new badge
| url = http://www.wba.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/0,,10366~777862,00.html
| publisher = West Bromwich Albion F.C.
| date = 4 February 2006
| access-date = 11 November 2007
| url-status = dead
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090112213028/http://www.wba.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/0%2C%2C10366~777862%2C00.html
| archive-date = 12 January 2009
| df = dmy-all
}}</ref> Prior to this, the main club badge rarely coincided with that worn on the first team strip. No badge appeared on the kit for most of the club's history, although the [[Stafford knot]] featured on the team jerseys for part of the 1880s.<ref name="Complete Record p64">Matthews (2007) p. 64.</ref> The [[West Bromwich]] town [[coat of arms|arms]] were worn on the players' shirts for the [[1931 FA Cup Final|1931]], [[1935 FA Cup Final|1935]] and [[1954 FA Cup Final|1954]] FA Cup finals. The town's [[Latin]] motto, "''[[Labor omnia vincit]]''", translates as "labour conquers all things" or "work conquers all". The town arms were revived as the shirt badge from 1994 until 2000,{{Ref label|TownCrest|C|}} with the throstle moved to the collar of the shirts.

Albion's first regular shirt badge appeared in the late 1960s and early 1970s where it was blue. Although it featured the throstle, it did not include the blue and white striped shield of the club badge.<ref name="Historical Kits"/> A similar design was also used during the late 1980s and early 1990s. In the mid-1970s, a more abstract version of the throstle was used on the club's shirts, while in the late 1970s through to the mid-1980s, an embroidered WBA logo was displayed, a common abbreviation of the club's name in print.<ref name="Historical Kits"/> Not until the early 21st century did the full club badge appear on the team's shirts.<ref name="Historical Kits"/>

===Colours===
{{Commons|West Bromwich Albion F.C. kits}}
{{Football kit box
 | align      = left
 | pattern_la = _redpinstripes
 | pattern_b  = _thinredhoops
 | pattern_ra = _redpinstripes
 | leftarm    = FFFFFF
 | body       = FFFFFF
 | rightarm   = FFFFFF
 | shorts     = FFFFFF
 | socks      = FF0000
 | title      = Albion's strip from 1882 to 1883 was one of many variations worn during the 1880s. Note that the actual kit had long sleeves.
}}
{{Football kit box
 | align      = right
 | pattern_la = _green_stripes
 | pattern_b  = _greenstripes
 | pattern_ra = _green_stripes
 | leftarm    = FFFF00
 | body       = FFFF00
 | rightarm   = FFFF00
 | shorts     = 007700
 | socks      = FFFF00
 | title      = Albion's most common away colours during the late 20th and early 21st century.
}}
West Brom have played in navy blue and white striped shirts for the majority of their existence, usually with white shorts and white socks. The team is occasionally referred to as ''the Stripes'' by supporters.<ref>{{cite news
| first = Emma
| last = Cullwick
| author2 = Lepkowski, Chris
| title = Fans joy as Albion book Wembley trip
| url = http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/mail/news/tm_headline%3D%26method%3Dfull%26objectid%3D19118105%26siteid%3D50002-name_page.html
| newspaper = [[Birmingham Mail]]
| date = 17 May 2007
| access-date = 14 July 2008
| archive-date = 22 June 2011
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110622070844/http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/mail/news/tm_headline%3D%26method%3Dfull%26objectid%3D19118105%26siteid%3D50002-name_page.html
| url-status = live
}}</ref> A number of different colours were trialled during the club's formative years however, including cardinal red and blue quarters in 1880–81, yellow and white quarters in 1881–82, chocolate and blue halves in 1881–82 and 1882–83, red and white hoops in 1882–83, chocolate and white in 1883–84 and cardinal red and blue halves in 1884–85.<ref>McOwan p. 13.</ref> The blue and white stripes made their first appearance in the 1885–86 season, although at that time they were of a lighter shade of blue; the navy blue stripes did not appear until after the First World War.<ref name="Historical Kits">{{cite web
| title = Historical football kits – West Bromwich Albion
| url = http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/West_Bromwich_Albion/West_Bromwich_Albion.htm
| publisher = www.historicalkits.co.uk
| access-date = 11 November 2007
| archive-date = 6 August 2013
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130806204154/http://historicalkits.co.uk/West_Bromwich_Albion/West_Bromwich_Albion.htm
| url-status = live
}}</ref> For the regional leagues played during the Second World War, Albion were forced to switch to all-blue shirts, as [[rationing]] meant that striped material was considered a luxury.<ref>McOwan p. 56.</ref>

Like all football clubs, Albion sport a secondary or "change" strip when playing away from home against a team whose colours clash with their own. As long ago as the 1890s, and throughout much of the club's early history, a change strip of white jerseys with black shorts was worn.<ref name="Matthews (1987) p241">Matthews (1987) p. 241.</ref> The away shirt additionally featured a large 'V' during the First World War.<ref>Matthews (1987) p. 188.</ref> In the [[1935 FA Cup Final]], however, when both of Albion and [[Sheffield Wednesday F.C.|Sheffield Wednesday]]'s kits clashed, a switch was made to plain navy blue shirts. An all-red strip was adopted at the end of the 1950s, but was dropped following defeat in the [[1967 Football League Cup Final|1967 League Cup Final]], to be replaced by the all-white design that was worn during the club's [[1967–68 FA Cup|FA Cup run of 1967–68]].<ref name="Matthews (1987) p241"/> Since then the away strip has changed regularly, with yellow and green stripes the most common of a number of different designs used. In the 1990s and 2000s a third kit has occasionally been introduced.<ref name="Kit Classics">{{cite web
| title = West Bromwich Albion historic kits
| url = http://www.kitclassics.co.uk/kits/westbrom.gif
| publisher=www.kitclassics.co.uk
| access-date =11 November 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071031161637/http://www.kitclassics.co.uk/kits/westbrom.gif |archive-date = 31 October 2007}}</ref>

Albion players – along with those of other [[English Football League|Football League]] teams – first wore numbers on the back of their shirts in the abandoned season of 1939–40,<ref>{{cite web
| last = Young
| first = Peter
| author2 = Goodwin, Chris
| title = England's Uniforms – Shirt Numbers and Names
| url = http://www.englandfootballonline.com/TeamUnif/UnifNosNames.html
| publisher = England Football Online
| date = 17 December 2003
| access-date = 15 July 2008
| archive-date = 30 July 2012
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120730082148/http://www.englandfootballonline.com/TeamUnif/UnifNosNames.html
| url-status = live
}}</ref> and names on the back of their shirts from [[1999–2000 in English football|1999–2000]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Put your shirt on squad numbers next season |url=http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/news/6127782.Put_your_shirt_on_squad_numbers_next_season/ |newspaper=[[Lancashire Evening Telegraph]] |date=9 April 1999 |access-date=12 January 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180112221402/http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/news/6127782.Put_your_shirt_on_squad_numbers_next_season/|archive-date=12 January 2018}}</ref> Red numbers were added to the side of Albion players' shorts in 1969.<ref name="Matthews (1987) p241"/>

====Kit sponsors====
BSR Housewares became the club's first shirt [[English football sponsorship|sponsor]] during the 1981–82 season.<ref name="Historical Kits" /> The club's shirts have been sponsored for the majority of the time since then, although there was no shirt sponsor at the end of the 1993–94 season, after local solicitors Coucher & Shaw were closed down by the [[Law Society of England and Wales]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Foster |first=Howard |author2=Lightfoot, Liz |title=Solicitors' image soiled by surge of complaints |url=http://corruptlawyers.co.uk/articles.aspx |publisher=[[Sunday Times]] (reproduced at CorruptLawyers.co.uk) |date=6 February 1994 |access-date=25 August 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080928055214/http://corruptlawyers.co.uk/articles.aspx |archive-date=28 September 2008 }}</ref> Unusually for a Premier League club, Albion were again without a shirt sponsor for the start of the 2008–09 campaign, as negotiations with a new sponsor were still ongoing when the season began.<ref>{{cite news
| last = Atkinson
| first = Simon
| title = Does Baggies shirt saga signify Premiership slowdown?
| url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7563013.stm
| work = BBC News
| date = 15 August 2008
| access-date = 25 August 2008
| archive-date = 18 September 2008
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080918130144/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7563013.stm
| url-status = live
}}</ref> The longest-running shirt sponsorship deal agreed by the club ran for seven seasons between 1997 and 2004 with the [[West Bromwich Building Society]].<ref name="Historical Kits" /><ref>{{cite news
| title = Baggies shirt sponsorship up for grabs
| url = http://www.wba.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/0,,10366~485609,00.html
| publisher = West Bromwich Albion F.C.
| date = 10 February 2004<!--Date of article incorrectly states 17 November 2004. Site search gives correct date.-->
| access-date = 11 November 2007
| url-status = dead
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090113042513/http://www.wba.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/0%2C%2C10366~485609%2C00.html
| archive-date = 13 January 2009
| df = dmy-all
}}</ref> Today the club's principal sponsor is Ideal Heating.<ref>{{cite news
| title = Albion announce new Principal Partner
| url = https://www.wba.co.uk/news/2018/may/ideal-boilers-become-albions-new-principal-partner/
| publisher= West Bromwich Albion F.C.
| date = 24 May 2018
| access-date = 3 July 2018
}}</ref>

Since June 2024, West Brom's [[Kit (football)|kit]] has been manufactured by [[Macron (sportswear)|Macron]].<ref>{{cite news
| title = Albion join forces with Macron
| url = https://www.wba.co.uk/news/albion-join-forces-macron
| publisher = West Bromwich Albion F.C.
| date = 11 June 2024
}}</ref> Previous manufacturers have included Scoreline, Influence, Pelada, [[Patrick (sportswear company)|Patrick]], [[Diadora]], [[Umbro]], [[Adidas]] and [[Puma (brand)|Puma]].
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
|-
!Period
!Kit manufacturer
!Shirt sponsor
|-
|1974–1981
|rowspan=5|[[Umbro]]
|rowspan=|—
|-
|1981–1982
|BSR
|-
|1982–1984
|Swan
|-
|1984–1986
|[[Smoking ban|No Smoking]]
|-
|1986–1989
|rowspan=2|Apollo/Apollo 2000
|- 
|1989–1990
|rowspan=2|Scoreline
|-
|1990–1991
|rowspan=3|[[Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council|Sandwell Council]]
|-
|1991–1992
|Influence
|-
|1992–1993
|Albion Collection
|-
|1993–1994
|rowspan=2|Pelada
|Coucher & Shaw
|-
|1994–1995
|rowspan=2|Guest Motors
|-
|1995–1997
|rowspan=2|[[Patrick (sportswear company)|Patrick]]
|-
|1997–2002
|rowspan=3|[[West Bromwich Building Society]]
|-
|2002–2003
|The Baggies
|-
|2003–2004
|rowspan=2|[[Diadora]]
|-
|2004–2006
|rowspan=2|[[T-Mobile UK|T-Mobile]]
|-
|2006–2008
|rowspan=4|Umbro
|-
|2008–2009
|—
|-
|2009–2010
|—
|-
|2010–2011
|[[HomeServe]]
|-
|2011–2012
|rowspan=6|[[Adidas]]
|bodog
|-
|2012–2014
|[[ZPG Ltd|Zoopla]]
|-
|2014–2015
|[[QuickBooks]]
|-
|2015–2016
|[[Tlcbet|TLCBET]]
|-
|2016–2017
|[[K8 Group|K8]]
|-
|2017–2018
|Palm Eco-Town Development
|-
|2018–2024
|[[Puma (brand)|Puma]]
|rowspan=2| Ideal Heating ([[Groupe Atlantic]])
|-
|2024–
|[[Macron (sportswear)|Macron]]
|}