A third jersey, alternative jersey, third kit, third sweater or alternative uniform is a jersey or uniform that a sports team can wear instead of its home outfit or its away outfit during games, often when the colors of two competing teams' other uniforms are too similar to contrast easily.
Geroy Simon wearing the BC Lions' black third jersey in 2011.
Cody Fajardo wearing the Montreal Alouettes' red third jersey in 2023.
Owen Sound Attack's Joey Hishon wearing a third uniform in the Ontario Hockey League
Away colours or road colours are a choice of coloured clothing used in team sports. They are required to be worn by one team during a game between teams that would otherwise wear the same colours as each other, or similar colours. This change prevents confusion for officials, players, and spectators. In most sports, it is the visiting or road team that must change.
Washington chose to wear their white jerseys during their home game on 12 December 2021, forcing Dallas to wear their navy blue jerseys
Dallas then chose to wear their white jerseys during their home game on 26 December 2021, forcing Washington to wear their burgundy jerseys
Alessandro Matri in AC Milan white away colours v Bayern Munich in 2016
Aymeric Laporte from Athletic Bilbao (left) and Lionel Messi from FC Barcelona playing by choice in change kits in their respective Basque and Catalan regional flag colours (2014) – their usual kits do not clash