When Did Footballers Stop Tucking There Shirts In?

[Stephen Gibson]

I think the change happened when the tighter fitted shirts incorporated lycra/elastin type materials in them about 15 years or so ago. My old Everton shirts from the early to late 90's all feel like they are made from 100% polyester & would survive 20,000 years buried in a hole. They also feel like you're wearing a green house.
The current breed are far more breathable, thinner but stretchier which also emphasises a shirt being pulled which is probably a deliberate design feature.

 

[Preki]

Some referees in my local league used to enforce the tuck. You knew you weren't getting away with any shenanigans in those matches.

To answer the OP, I'll put a date of November 23rd 2004 as the date that untucks first exceeded 50%

Yeah it was a booking or fine otherwise in the Bexley C division.

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

Isn’s the benefit of a tuck that it gives evidence of shirt pulling?

 

[Drico]

Maybe it's an age thing, but in the 1980s the "style" was the opposite: shirt flopping outside the shorts in the maverick fashion. That's why FIFA brought in their silly "tuck in your shirt" rule for Mexico'86: