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2020s

2020s Throwback Jerseys

Every season of the 2020s, 2020 to 2029. Pick a year and see what turned up on eBay: championship throwbacks, rookie replicas, deep cuts you forgot existed. Shopping for someone born in the 2020s? Their birth year pins the gift to one season, and that season's champions are right on its page. How to pick the right one.

What did 2020s jerseys look like?

Advertising is the mark of the decade. Patches spread from basketball to the rest, with MLB adding jersey sleeve ads in 2023, and they date a shirt faster than any tag does. Cuts stayed slim and the alternate programs kept multiplying.

Nike took over MLB in 2020 with the shirts manufactured by Fanatics, and Fanatics took the NHL outright for 2024-25. Because these changes are recent and well documented, a jersey from this decade is the easiest kind to date and the hardest kind to pass off as something older. The one genuine talking point is Nike’s 2024 MLB uniform rollout, whose thinner lettering and altered fabric drew open complaints from players and makes those shirts unusually easy to place.

Who made 2020s jerseys?

The maker on the tag is the first thing to check against a claimed year. It rules a fake out, never in, because a counterfeit copies the tag too.

NBA
  • 2020–2029 Nike
NFL
  • 2020–2029 Nike
MLB
  • 2020–2029 Nike (made by Fanatics)
NHL
  • 2020–2024 Adidas
  • 2025–2029 Fanatics

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Who won each year?

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