Welcome to the 20th episode of the Kit Nerd Corner podcast, our annual Canadian Premier League kit review. This episode is all about the eight new away kits, with a sneaky third kit tucked in as well.

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The eight Canadian Premier League teams and Macron have all released their new home and away shirts for the 2024 season, and as usual, we’re reviewing them all.

This episode we’re looking at the eight away kits, going left to right, west to east, bestcoast to leastcoast via the vast wasteland of Ontario, again. Plus one more fun one. Super fun.

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Episode rundown, with times bolded:

0:00 – INTRODUCTION

Intro music: Definition by Black Star (Mos Def and Talib Kweli)

We dive into 15-minute cities and train travel.

3:00 – PACIFIC FC – resilient salmon

• Average rating: 8.88

12:30 – VANCOUVER FC – cherry blossoms

• Average rating: 8.75

24:10 – CAVALRY FC – northern lights

• Average rating: 7.13

31:30 – VALOUR FC – local indigenous sunflower

• Average rating: 8.38

43:30 – FORGE FC – simple, grey, different

• Average rating: 7

50:20 – YORK UNITED – class checkerboard

• Average rating: 8.38

55:30 – ATLETICO OTTAWA – what the fuck

• Average rating: 7.63

1:06:45 – HALIFAX WANDERERS – child’s sleeping bag

• Average rating: 5.63

1:12:00 – AWAY SHIRTS OVERALL

What a set. What an amazing set of away shirts.

1:13:50 – CAVALRY FC THIRD – more camo, fuckers

• Average rating: 4.25 !!!!!!!!!

1:24:00 – OUTRO

A one-company monopoly, and it works?! Amazing. Great work by Macron and CanPL teams.

Outro music: Running Away by Roy Ayers

Get it, because this is the away shirt episode?

See below for images of all the shirts we talk about, and jump on over to twitter to let us know what you think about all our blathering.

The podcast: @KitNerdCorner

Mark: @kitnerdmark

Kristin: @kzknowles

Rich: @teaathalftime

Brenton: @capsoffside

Shirts we discuss in this episode

Pacific FC 2024 away

Vancouver FC 2024 away

Cavalry FC 2024 away

Valour FC 2024 away

Forge FC 2024 away

York United 2024 away

Atlético Ottawa 2024 away

Halifax Wanderers 2024 away

Special bonus shirt: Cavalry FC 2024 third!

And that’s it. Nine very interesting shirts.

And don’t forget to listen to our last episode on all the 2024 CanPL home shirts.

Thanks for reading along, gang. Enjoy soccer!