A Hull City player sports the rainbow laces in the game against West Brom

The Premier League showed their support for the LGBT community as players and match officials alike donned Rainbow Laces.

As well as the multi-coloured laces, the captains' armbands were in rainbow colours as part of the Rainbow Laces takeover.

Perimeter advertising at every Premier League match included messages supporting the campaign and every game was opened with a giant Premier League Rainbow Laces flag.

Manchester City's Fernandinho, Chelsea's Gary Cahill, Tottenham's Hugo Lloris and Liverpool's Jordan Henderson were among players to don rainbow-coloured captain's armbands.

Jordan Henderson wore a rainbow-coloured captain's armband during Liverpool's win over Sunderland

The assistant referee in the Leicester City v Middlesbrough gets involved with the rainbow laces

Swansea's Jack Cork also wore the rainbow armband

A number of Premier League clubs also changed the background on their social media accounts to rainbow colours.

Watford captain Troy Deeney and Stoke counterpart Jon Walters posed with their special captain's armbands ahead of the Nissan Super Sunday clash at Vicarage Road.

As well as signing up to Rainbow Laces, the Premier League has become a member of TeamPride, a coalition of organisations committed to making sport everyone's game by encouraging fans, players, sports clubs and organisations to show their support of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.

Premier League executive chairman, Richard Scudamore, said: "The Premier League is all about exciting, passionate and unpredictable football that is for everyone, everywhere.

Chelsea captain Gary Cahill shows his support

The arches of Wembley Stadium were lit up in rainbow colours (Pic: @wembleystadium)

Fernandinho of Manchester City wore a rainbow-coloured armband

"The Rainbow Laces campaign complements the work clubs are doing to promote inclusion and diversity in their stadiums, and across all levels of the sport.

"Our support for the campaign, and the decision to become members of TeamPride, is further recognition that the LGBT community is a vital and integral part of our community."