Darlington fans have voted for their preferred home shirt for next season, with a predominately white shirt getting the thumbs up from fans.

Three kits were made available and after seven days of voting the club last night revealed that option one, a white shirt with narrow horizontal black hoops, received the most votes.

It attracted 58 per cent of the poll, beating option three, which featured broader black and white hoops, into second place. Option two, which had a black band across the chest, was least popular.

The kit shall be worn with black shorts and black socks and manufactured by Avec Sport.

Quakers’ long-serving kit man Andrew Thompson said: “Avec have always produced quality playing kit and the management team, coaches and the lads will be pleased to be playing in the home kit chosen by the fans next season.

“It will be good to see the fans wearing the new replica shirts, as always our 12th man!”

Speaking on behalf of Avec, Helen Inness, national sales manager, said: “We love the chosen jersey and are sure that it will be well received by both Darlington players and fans. We look forward to seeing the full Avec kit in action at the start of next season”.

It will be hoped that the new kit shall bring the club luck when Darlington return to the town at Blackwell Meadows, following a three-year exile in Bishop Auckland, though hoops, the club’s traditional design, have generally been associated with Quakers’ more successful seasons.

Their last three promotions (1990, 1991 and 2013) all came in hooped shirts, as did the 2011 FA Trophy success at Wembley, but both relegations from the Football League, in 1989 and 2010, came in white shirts, which is also what the team were wearing when suffering defeat in the 2000 Wembley play-off final.

And four years earlier, in 1995-96, Darlington reached the play-offs for the first time while wearing hoops, but ditched them in favour of white shirts and then lost at Wembley to Plymouth.