Sport report says Barcelona will switch to horizontal stripes for the first time ever

In the world of soccer, there are few kits as iconic as what FC Barcelona wear at home. The club’s red and blue vertical strips of color have been in place in one form or another since FCB’s founding in 1899 by Joan Gamper, who used the colors of Switzerland’s FC Basel, the club that he played for before making his way to Catalonia. However, if a new report from Spain’s Sport is to be believed, Barcelona will move away from well over a century’s worth of history in favor of a horizontally-striped shirt for the 2015/16 season.

Sport’s renders, above, show off the mainly blue shirt with red stripes that don’t seem to stretch the whole way around the shirt but are present on both front and back. The sides of the shirt feature thick bands of yellow that mimic the colors of the Senyera, the flag of Catalonia. The flag’s colors of yellow and red also appear at the back of the neck. The home kit will, per Sport, be paired with red shorts instead of Barcelona’s traditional blue. The away kit is definitely much more in the spirit of the Senyera with an all-yellow front and a series of vertical red stripes on the back that will run through the player names and numbers.