Man City shirt change confirmed ahead of Premier League and WSL clashes

Both Manchester City men and women will be sporting a new kit ahead of their respective league fixtures this weekend to mark International Women's Day.

The club and Puma have launched the pre-match range to celebrate girls and women in football in Manchester. With a unique design inspired by Mancunian activist Emmeline Pankhurst, the kit sees Puma join forces with the club’s charity, City in the Community (CITC), to accelerate access to girls’ football across the region.

City’s men’s team will wear the kit during their warmup and walkout at Saturday's Premier League match against Newcastle United at the Etihad Stadium while Man City Women will play in the kit for their FA Women’s Super League fixture against Tottenham on Sunday.

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All mascots for both fixtures will also be female participants from CITC programmes. 80% of girls feel they do not belong in sport and only 14% of girls aged 5-16 achieve recommended levels of physical activity.

To help address these challenges, Puma will sponsor City in the Community’s City Girls programme and help enable the charity to provide free weekly football sessions for 250 girls across Manchester over the next 12 months.

As part of this support, the City Girls programme will also expand for the first time to Moss Side, the birthplace of Emmeline Pankhurst, and incorporate a special week of education on the Suffragette movement across all sessions. The shirts will also be auctioned off through City in the Community digital channels in the coming weeks for the Club's charity and the Pankhurst Trust.

Ahead of the launch, Marco Mueller, Puma Senior Head of Product Line Management