2024/25
League:
Level
Sky Bet Championship
Position:
17th
FA Cup:
Third Round
League Cup:
Second Round
Chairman:
Grant Ferguson
Managers:
Des Buckingham, Craig Short (caretaker), Gary Rowett
Top Scorers:
Mark Harris and Greg Leigh (6)
Notable Players:
Cameron Brannagan, Ciaron Brown, Jamie Cumming, Siriki Dembélé, Tyler Goodrham, Mark Harris, Michał Helik, Peter Kioso, Greg Leigh, Elliott Moore, Przemysław Płacheta, Matt Phillips, Rúben Rodrigues, Ole Romeny, Will Vaulks.
Kit Manufacturer
This was Macron's third season as Oxford United's kit provider.
Sponsors
Baxi, one of the UK's leading manufacturers of heating and hot water solutions became the main shirt sponsor, reportedly signing a three-year deal.
Polythene UK continued as the 'back-of-shirt' sponsor. Whilst Caprinos Pizza, a national franchise chain (which started-out in Didcot) became the sleeve sponsor.
Rocktree Logistics became the back-of-shorts sponsor. Their name appeared from match six onwards.
EFL Branding
The EFL number and name sets remained largely unchanged for the 2024/25 season.
EFL in the Community became the new 'charity partner', with their logo appearing an all shirt numerals.
Sky Bet Championship sleeve patches were worn for the very first time.
Home Kit
With Base
Layer
Macron produced an all-yellow shirt with the only navy trim being the Macron motifs.
The shirt featured a subtle diagonal geometric pattern in various shades. Once again, the 1893 formation year featured on the rear neckline of the home, away and third shirts.
The home socks had a lighter coloured turnover, which helped to match them with the lighter shades within the shirt.
Away Kit & Variation
With Base
Layer
Third Kit
With Base
Layer
The purple third kit included a deep-cut, narrow round-neck with eye-catching yellow trim.
The front panel included a subtle triangular pattern, not too dissimilar to an iconic sky-blue Umbro England shirt from early 1990s.
Due to its popularity, this strip was also regularly used as a Goalkeeper strip.
Goalkeeper Kits
The 2024 keeper kits featured Macrons 'Golem' template, which were not goalkeeper shirts and therefore had short sleeves. The 'keepers wore base layers.
Oxford City FC had the same green template as their away colours.
The popular third kit was also worn as a keepers strip.
League Cup
For the first time in five years, league cup fixtures featured shirts adorned with Carabao Cup sleeve patches. Previously, these patches were only seen in the fourth round and beyond, so it was a surprise to see these feature from Round 1.
The new patches also had the distinctive 3D embossed effect, similar to that used on all other competition patches.
Remembrance Shirts
The club wore poppy shirts for the fixtures leading up to the remembrance weekend. Unlike the 2023 season, these poppies did not feature the current year.
FA Cup Shirts
FA Cup sleeve patches were worn for the one FA Cup fixture. Caprinos did not feature as the sleeve sponsor.
Match by Match
Norwich
Home
W 2-0
Peterboro'
Home
W 2-0
LC1
Coventry
Away
L 3-2
Blackburn
Away
L 2-1
Coventry
Away
L 1-0
LC2
Preston
Home
W 3-1
Stoke
Home
W 1-0
Bristol C
Away
L 2-1
Burnley
Home
D 0-0
Luton
Away
D 2-2
Portsmouth
Away
D 1-1
West Brom
Home
D 1-1
Derby
Home
D 1-1
Sunderland
Away
L 2-0
Swansea
Home
L 1-2
Hull
Home
W 1-0
Watford
Away
L 1-0
Middlesboro'
Home
L 2-6
Sheffield U
Away
L 3-0
Millwall
Home
D 1-1
QPR
Away
L 2-0
Sheffield W
Home
L 1-3
Leeds
Away
L 4-0
Cardiff
Home
W 3.2
Plymouth
Home
W 2-0
Millwall
Away
W 0-1
Preston
Away
D 1-1
Exeter
Away
L 3-1
FAC3
Plymouth
Away
D 1-1
Blackburn
Home
W 1-0
Luton
Home
W 3-2
Stoke
Away
D 0-0
Bristol C
Home
D 1-1
Burnley
Away
L 1-0
Derby
Away
D 0-0
Portsmouth
Home
L 0-2
West Brom
Away
L 2-0
Coventry
Home
L 2-3
Norwich
Away
D 1-1
Hull
Away
L 2-1
Watford
Home
W 1-0
Middlesboro'
Away
L 2-1
Sheffield U
Home
W 1-0
QPR
Home
L 1-3
Sheffield W
Away
W 0-1
Leeds
Home
L 0-1
Cardiiff
Away
D 1-1
Sunderland
Home
W 2-0
Swansea
Away
D 3-3
Pre-season Kits
The new kits were not ready for the start of the pre-season matches. A mix of temporary and old kits were worn for the first 5 pre-season fixtures.
Whilst in Spain, Oxford played their first pre-season friendly against Academico de Viseu, a Portuguese second division team.
The team wore the 2023 'electric blue' third kit, whilst the keepers wore unsponsored versions of the lime green kit that had featured during the 2022 season.
A Macron 'Shedir' jersey, similar to the 2023 training tops were worn for the games against Oxford City and Mansfield Town.
These differed to the old training tops, as the waist flashes were white instead of yellow. The shirts were paired with the clubs new training shorts, which matched nicely.
For one game against Solihull Moors, we saw a revival of a strip which had featured once during the 2022 pre-season.
This kit featured Macrons' 'Tureis' shirt, which was paired with navy shorts and white trim.
Yet another pre-season strip was worn for a 'behind closed doors' game against Exeter City.
A yellow 'Halley' shirt was picked from Macrons' catalogue. It wasn't a great look, with the shirt having mismatched royal blue trim.
This was the third variation of navy shorts seen in as many games.
The new home kit was revealed in time for the two home friendlies against Southampton and Palermo. However, even at this late stage, no primary sponsor had been announced.