A TRIO of Manchester United stars are set to line up in a different kit to their team-mates tonight.
The Red Devils get their Champions League campaign underway against Azerbaijani side Sabah at Old Trafford.
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And with the start of a new season comes a set of new Uefa rules.
One of them will see Champions League debutants wear a special patch on the sleeve of their kit.
The initiative is being rolled out in collaboration with sports merchandise company Fanatics.
Each patch, which is in the shape of a Champions League ball and features the word ‘DEBUT’, will be handed over to Fanatics’ trading card company, Topps, after matches before being turned into signed trading cards.
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A handful of United players will wear a debut patch tonight if they get on the pitch.
Bryan Mbeumo, Patrick Dorgu and Ayden Heaven are the three most likely, having been in or around the starting line-up this season.
Former Troyes and Brentford forward Mbeumo, 27, has played every minute for United in the Premier League this term and is in line to make his Champions League bow.
Dorgu, 21, was signed from Lecce last year, with United playing no European football in his debut season.
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While Heaven, 19, started for the Red Devils in a Europa League knockout clash against Real Sociedad in March 2025, but is yet to make the step up to Europe’s premier club competition.
Carlos Baleba, Karl Darlow, Tynan Thompson and twins Jack and Tyler Fletcher will also don a patch if they get any minutes against Sabah.
But Baleba is yet to make his United debut after signing from Brighton with an injury, and Darlow is firmly second-choice in net behind Senne Lammens.
Thompson and the Fletcher twins, meanwhile, are not yet making regular appearances for the first team.