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The Story Of Our 1963 FA Cup Final Shirt

Club Historian John Hutchinson delves into the shirts that have shaped Leicester City’s rich and colourful story, including our 1963 FA Cup Final shirt.

2026-05-07T13:00+01:00

by John Hutchinson

Published

07 May, 2026

The Story Of Our 1963 FA Cup Final Shirt

Club Historian John Hutchinson delves into the shirts that have shaped Leicester City’s rich and colourful story, including our 1963 FA Cup Final shirt.

John Hutchinson

2026-05-07T13:00+01:00

The Story Of Our 1963 FA Cup Final Shirt

Club Historian John Hutchinson delves into the shirts that have shaped Leicester City’s rich and colourful story, including our 1963 FA Cup Final shirt.

John Hutchinson

2026-05-07T13:00+01:00

The Story Of Our 1963 FA Cup Final Shirt

Club Historian John Hutchinson delves into the shirts that have shaped Leicester City’s rich and colourful story, including our 1963 FA Cup Final shirt.

John Hutchinson

2026-05-07T13:00+01:00

The Story Of Our 1963 FA Cup Final Shirt

Club Historian John Hutchinson delves into the shirts that have shaped Leicester City’s rich and colourful story, including our 1963 FA Cup Final shirt.

John Hutchinson

2026-05-07T13:00+01:00

From the beloved classics of Filbert Street to the sleek modern designs of the King Power Stadium era, each jersey tells a tale. Celebrating the evolution of our visual identity, we explore the design, history, and unforgettable moments woven into the fabric of each shirt.

Outside-right England Under-23s international Howard Riley wore the above shirt in the 1963 final. The design, minus the ‘Wembley 1963’ scroll under the crest, was introduced as the team’s away shirt midway through the 1962/63 season. The home version of this round-neck collar design, a blue shirt with a white trim, was also introduced that season.

Together with the blue home shirt, this white shirt design is associated with City’s unbeaten run of 16 league and FA Cup games which ended in April 1963, and included a sequence of 10 league and FA Cup wins in succession. The harsh winter conditions that year gave rise to the team’s ‘Ice Kings’ nickname.

With only five games to go, the City were top of the old First Division and, after defeating Liverpool in the FA Cup Semi-Final, were clear favourites to beat relegation-threatened Manchester United in the Final. The league-cup double looked a real possibility.

Leicester wore an all-white strip in the 1963 FA Cup Final because black and white television coverage meant that their blue shirts would have been indistinguishable from Manchester United’s red shirts on the nation’s TV screens.

Despite City being clear favourites to win the FA Cup Final, Matt Busby’s Manchester United, with Denis Law and Bobby Charlton in their side, surprisingly won 3-1, to claim their first trophy since the Munich air disaster in 1958.

During the life span of this design, which lasted until the end of the 1966/67 season, Leicester had four top-half finishes in the old First Division (1963, 1964, 1966, 1967), an FA Cup Final appearance (1963), a League Cup victory (1964), and a League Cup Final (1965).

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