Kerry and Donegal colours confirmed for Sunday's All-Ireland football final
It means that, like their very first Championship meeting back in 2012 at the quarter-final stage, Kerry will wear blue jerseys, with Donegal in white.
In their subsequent clashes in the 2014 All-Ireland final and a group series game in 2019, they both wore their traditional green and yellow strips.
Donegal and Meath were both set to change to alternative jerseys for their semi-final meeting though that was abandoned as it would have thrown up a more glaring colour clash (yellow v white). In the end, both counties wore their regular colours without any fallout.
Kerry's alternative strip has typically been blue, as it is the colour of Munster GAA, though while regularly sporting it in Championship games over recent years, they haven't donned the blue in an All-Ireland final since their defeat to Offaly in the 1972 replay.
Donegal used to wear a Kerry-style jersey, predominantly green with a yellow hoop, and with white shorts, but having been forced into a change for the 1992 All-Ireland semi-final win over Mayo, they sported the predominantly yellow jersey with green shorts again for their historic final win over Dublin and adopted it as their first choice ever since.
It will be the first final since 2010, when Cork beat Down, that both counties will change colours. Back then, Cork changed to white from their traditional white, while Down wore the gold of Ulster.
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