2025/26
League:
Level
Sky Bet Championship
Position:
22nd - Relegated
FA Cup:
Fourth Round
League Cup:
Second Round
Chairman:
Grant Ferguson
Managers:
Gary Rowett, Craig Short (caretaker), Matt Bloomfield
Top Scorer:
Will Lankshear (12)
Notable Players:
Cameron Brannagan, Ciaron Brown, Jamie Cumming, Jack Currie, Mark Harris, Michał Helik, Brian De Keersmaecker, Filip Krastev, Will Lankshear, Stanley Mills, Myles Peart-Harris, Przemysław Płacheta, Nik Prelec, Brodie Spencer, Will Vaulks.
Shirt Crest
The club crest featured a yellow border, replacing the white border used on previous Macron home shirts.
Mid-season, the club simplified the crest by removing the pinstripes due to reproduction issues, though the update never made it onto the match shirts.
Kit Manufacturer
This was the final season of Macron's initial four-year contract with Oxford United.
Sponsors
This was Baxi's second season as the primary sponsor.
Caprinos remained the club’s sleeve sponsor, now with a larger logo that was no longer confined within a circular patch.
EFL Branding
There were no changes to the EFL branding for the 2025–26 season.
Home Kit
With Base
Layer
The 2025 shirt shared several design cues with those worn between 1993 and 1995, featuring navy collars and sleeves. It was widely praised, with many football content creators ranking it among the best, or even the best, shirt in the league.
A consistent design theme ran across the entire kit, with pencil-thin twin bands trimming each garment to create a clean, cohesive look. The navy sleeves also featured a subtle shadow wave pattern, identical to the one used on the 2023 electric blue third kit.
Away Kit
With Base
Layer
The away strip was a thing of beauty, shattering sales records within just four hours of its launch.
Combining black with gold detailing, the kit featured the same abstract swirl pattern seen on United’s training and warm-up gear, though here it was far more refined, with just a subtle sheen that caught the light.
The highlight for many fans was the return of the iconic ox-head, centred and standing proudly on its own once again, free from the club crest.
Third Kit
With Base
Layer
This eye-catching turquoise third kit was slightly less green than Macron’s usual take on the shade, something that became clear when paired with Macron’s standard turquoise base layers.
The look was finished with striking pink trim throughout, even appearing as a subtle shadow detail within the Macron motifs.
Goalkeeper Kits
The goalkeeper kits were relatively plain and straight from Macron’s catalogue and featured the 'Cerberus' jersey template.
However, just like the previous season, the keepers also turned out in outfield kits. The black away strip was the preferred option, worn more often than the designated goalkeeper kits.
League Cup Shirts
A nice new touch was the introduction of a special design honouring all previous League Cup winners. This concept had been a feature of FA Cup patches since 2020. As such, Oxford United’s famous Wembley win in 1986 is commemorated with the addition of a number 1.
Caprinos did not feature as the sleeve sponsor, which seemed odd, as they had featured on the Carabao Cup shirts in 2024.
Remembrance Shirts
The club wore poppy shirts for a number of fixtures leading up to the remembrance weekend. Their location on the yellow shirts looked a little clumsy, due to the high position of the Baxi sponsor.
All shirts will be signed and auctioned, with proceeds going to the Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal.
FA Cup Shirts
FA Cup sleeve patches were worn for the FA Cup fixtures. Just like the League Cup, Caprinos did not feature as the sleeve sponsor.
For the first time in any official first-team fixture, Oxford United did not use the EFL-supplied squad numbers. Instead, the shirts and shorts featured the club’s preferred ‘Fixen’ font, maintaining a consistent Oxford United identity.
Match by Match
Portsmouth
Home
L 0-1
Colchester
Home
W 1-0
LC1
Hull
Away
L 3-2
Birmingham
Away
L 1-0
Brighton
Home
L 0-6
LC2
Coventry
Home
D 2-2
Leicester
Home
D 2-2
Bristol C
Away
W 1-3
Sheff Utd
Home
L 0-1
QPR
Away
D 0-0
Watford
Away
L 2-1
Derby
Home
W 1-0
Wrexham
Away
L 1-0
Sheff Wed
Away
W 1-2
Millwall
Home
D 2-2
Stoke
Home
L 0-3
West Brom
Away
L 2-1
Middlesboro'
Home
D 1-1
Norwich
Away
D 1-1
Ipswich
Home
W 2-1
Swansea
Away
L 2-0
Blackburn
Away
D 1-1
Preston
Home
L 1-2
Charlton
Away
L 1-0
Southampton
Home
W 2-1
Swansea
Home
L 0-1
Ipswich
Away
L 2-1
MK Dons
Away
D 1-1 (3-4)
FAC3
Bristol C
Home
D 0-0
QPR
Home
D 0-0
Leicester
Away
W 1-2
Birmingham
Home
L 0-2
Sheff Utd
Away
L 3-1
Coventry
Away
D 0-0
Norwich
Home
L 0-3
Sunderland
Home
L 0-1
FAC4
Middlesboro'
Away
D 0-0
Stoke
Away
L 2-1
West Brom
Home
W 2-1
Preston
Away
W 1-3
Blackburn
Home
W 1-0
Charlton
Home
D 1-1
Southampton
Away
L 2-0
Hull
Home
D 1-1
Portsmouth
Away
D 2-2
Watford
Home
W 2-0
Derby
Away
L 1-0
Wrexham
Home
L 0-1
Sheff Wed
Home
W 4-1
Millwall
Away
L 2-0
Pre-season Kits
The new Macron home kit debuted at the Indonesia President’s Cup 2025 tournament. However, the old 2024 yellow socks were worn in all matches.
The shirt numbers differed from previous Macron pre-seasons, with the club's preferred font, 'Fixen', used, featuring a small hollow Ox-head motif at the base of each numeral.
Tournament sleeve patches were required to be worn on the left sleeve (in the UK it's always the right sleeve). Unusually, there was a different coloured patch for the goalkeepers.
For the first UK pre-season game at Mansfield Town, the team wore the 2024 purple third kit, minus the secondary sponsors. These shirts featured the EFL-issued number set.
For the three pre-season games at the Kassam Stadium, the team wore the full 2025 home kit, including the debut of the updated 2025 socks.
The shirt numbers continued with the custom 'Fixen' font, but now the shirts also included the player names.
Limited Edition Shirt
In March, the club introduced a limited-edition ‘In Bloom’ shirt produced in collaboration with the Ashmolean Museum to mark the opening of the museum’s major new exhibition, In Bloom: How Plants Changed Our World.
The shirt’s design features an interpretation of Study of Wild Rose by John Ruskin, a Victorian writer, artist and social reformer with strong links to Oxford.
'Ashmolean Museum Oxford' appears on the shirt tail, below the shirt number.
At the time of release, the club indicated the shirt would be worn by the first team “this summer”, positioning it as a special piece rather than part of the standard seasonal kit cycle. Its exact on-pitch debut, along with accompanying shorts and socks, remained unconfirmed.