The 2026/27 football kits have landed, and football's design industry has apparently spent the entire summer in the archives.
Almost every significant shirt this season cites a date. Manchester United's home kit marks 50 years since the 1977 FA Cup final. Liverpool have rebuilt the Candy strip of 1989/91, Aston Villa have raided the 1960s, Brighton the 1983 FA Cup final. Sunderland have gone furthest of all, dressing their away side as Elvis Presley circa 1954.
Adidas have committed hardest, stamping the Originals Trefoil onto change shirts from Old Trafford to the Bernabeu.
The genuinely new thing on a Premier League shirt this season is an absence. The league's voluntary ban on front-of-shirt gambling sponsors finally bites, removing an income stream reportedly worth around £60 million a year for the likes of Fulham, Brentford and Everton to name a few. Chelsea will start the campaign with nothing on the chest at all, which is either a bold aesthetic statement or the most expensive blank space in English football. Note: it's the second one.
With the season pushed back a week to accommodate the World Cup, here's what the top flight and Europe will be wearing:
Arsenal home, away, third and GK kit for the 2026/27 season
The champions rushed their home shirt out in mid-May so it could be worn in the Champions League final, which turned out to be an act of grim foreshadowing. It marks 20 years at Emirates Stadium via a collar patterned after the stadium's rooflines and two distinct shades of red, burgundy on the trim and cuffs. Handsome, if quiet to the point of inaudibility.
The away sees Adidas invert the 1991/93 Bruised Banana: a Collegiate Navy base carrying the same geometric zigzag pattern, only with the palette flipped, yellow now doing the work of the old fluorescent green on the three stripes, the Trefoil, the cannon and the Emirates lettering, with red on the collar and cuffs tying it back to the home colours. Reversing a classic rather than photocopying it is the smart move, and after reviving the Banana almost shot-for-shot in 2019/20, this is the more interesting way back to the same well.
The pale yellow third kit is a quieter companion to the away kit, with navy detailing and the Trefoil. Pleasant, and destined to be the least-worn of the three.
Aston Villa home, away, third and GK kit for the 2026/27 season
Villa have gone properly old-school, drawing on archive designs from the 1960s onwards and stripping the palette back to claret and blue with nothing else in it. No gold, no raglan sleeves, no third accent colour. There's even a faux collar placket, which may be a first for a football shirt. Restraint is a hard thing to sell in a kit meeting, and Villa deserve credit for holding the line.
The third kit swaps claret and blue for a pale Glow Blue base carrying a tonal mosaic pattern drawn from the Holte End, with claret on the collar, cuffs and three stripes and a small illustration of the stand beneath the rear collar. A rare Villa outing in light blue and a smart one, even if the execution stops a fraction short of the idea.
Bournemouth home, away, third and GK kit for the 2026/27 season
A new era on the south coast, with Hummel replacing Umbro on a club-record deal in time for the Cherries' first European campaign. The stripes are wider than they have been, wrapping the whole shirt, with a tonal pattern lifted from the 1936 club crest and gold detailing throughout. A gold version of that 1936 emblem sits on the back of the neck. Understated and expensive-looking.
The away is a full swerve from the heritage-minded home shirt: a striking purple base covered in a retro geometric pattern of zig-zags and diagonals, lifted straight from the early-90s shirt archive, with white on the collar, chevrons and sponsor logos, and a tonal purple and white crest. Purple shorts and socks complete it. Loud, nostalgic and good fun.
The third kit is the calmest of the set: a cream-white base with a navy polo collar, cuffs and side panels, gold detailing and a subtle embossed cherry pattern across the body, with a bespoke "The Cherries" crest on the chest. Understated and the pick of Bournemouth's three.
Brentford home, away, third and GK kit for the 2026/27 season
Red and white stripes, honey-yellow trim on the collar, cuffs and side panels, and beehive detailing behind the neck borrowed from the old quadrant crest. Indeed replace Hollywoodbets on the front. Best of all, Brentford will wear it for two seasons, an increasingly rare acknowledgement that supporters have finite money and infinite patience is not the same thing.
The away is a swerve worth the wait. Joma have gone deep navy with cream vertical pinstripes and a thick cream crew collar, the whole thing pitched as a tribute to Savile Row tailoring and, more specifically, the Kingsman films.
Brighton home, away, third and GK kit for the 2026/27 season
The thick stripes are gone. In their place, a solid royal blue base with fine white pinstripes, a nod to the 1983 FA Cup final side, plus a "We are Brighton 1901 - 2026" 125th anniversary message inside the collar.
The away shirt simply flips it, white with blue pinstripes and blue shoulder piping. Two of the sharpest shirts in the division, and evidence that Nike can still do simple properly when they choose to.
For the first time in a decade Brighton have a genuine third kit rather than a recycled away, and it's a deep teal number with hyper-turquoise accents on the panels, piping and cuffs, the colours pitched as the sea, the Downs and the promenade railings. Handsome, if near-identical to the club's own coaching-staff training top, which supporters noted within minutes.
Chelsea home, away, third and GK kit for the 2026/27 season
The home shirt marks 75 seasons since Ted Drake buried the Pensioners nickname and gave Chelsea their lion. The crest, refreshed after fan consultation, is woven into the fabric across the front, with a button-down collar and Midwest Gold accents. It's clean and considered, though the oversized engraved lion and the gold ornamentation never quite settle into the same conversation.
The away kit is better: black for the first time since 2016/17, gold laurel wreath detailing on the collar and cuffs, the standalone lion in place of the full badge. It also carries the Club World Cup winners' patch and, more conspicuously, nothing at all where a sponsor should be.
Coventry home, away, third and GK kit for the 2026/27 season
Back in the top flight after 25 years, and Hummel have marked it by ditching the traditional sky blue for a two-tone blue and white striped design based on the 1986/87 FA Cup-winning shirt, which they also made.
The away moves to an off-white base with navy and hot coral detailing, a navy crew neck, coral piping over the shoulders and down the flanks, and a tonal geometric jacquard across the body. This is the calmer of the two, elegant rather than eye-catching, and some supporters wanted more given last season's one-off chocolate-plum away kit. A tidy, grown-up change strip that plays it safe.
Crystal Palace home, away, third and GK kit for the 2026/27 season
The sash returns, running from the left shoulder in narrowing red and blue lines that reference the 1976 shirt, on a white base with a circular retro badge. The badge is a genuine upgrade. The problem is that Macron have kept the shoulder striping as well, so a design built around one strong idea ends up carrying two.
The away, badged "Eagle Black", is the sharper of the two. A clean black base with red and blue trim on the collar, cuffs, shoulders and sides, a tone-on-tone eagle-plumage graphic across the body and a single bold eagle silhouette on the front, with "South London and proud" inside the collar.
Everton home, away, third and GK kit for the 2026/27 season
The home shirt is royal blue with yellow collar and cuff trim, supposedly inspired by the maritime signal flags of the docks the club now calls home, though you'd struggle to find the flags without being told. CMC Markets arrive on the front. It's fine. It's also the definition of fine.
The away is white with slim navy pinstripes and yellow trim, based on a rarely seen 1950s design worn in the Dave Hickson era. Castore have quietly produced one of the best change shirts in the league.
Fulham home, away, third and GK kit for the 2026/27 season
Crisp white with black adidas branding and a flash of red on the collar, with a chevron wave pattern embossed into the fabric in tribute to the Thames lapping at the bottom of Craven Cottage. New sponsor ClickHouse arrive as part of the gambling clear-out. Fulham do white shirts as well as anyone, and this is among their better attempts.
The away is one of the summer's cleverest heritage nods: a red and black chequerboard reworking the Le Coq Sportif shirt of 1996/97, the blocks given rough brush-effect edges, with the minimalist "FFC" monogram of 1972/77 returning in place of the crest.
Fulham's third is louder and less essential, a bright sky-blue base with neon pink detailing and a horizontal wave graphic.
Hull home, away, third and GK kit for the 2026/27 season
The tiger print they wore to promotion has been retired, replaced by an Oxen design modelled on the 1978/79 season. An odd campaign to memorialise, given it involved a two-month goal drought, but the shirt itself is excellent: vintage in cut and colour, and a strong opening statement from a new technical partner.
The away is predominantly white with black and amber striping across the shoulders and the crest sitting dead centre on the chest, a placement lifted from the Tigers away shirts of 1988 to 1990. Inside the collar runs a line from The City Speaks, a poem by Hull-born writer Shane Rhodes: "But your familiar voice brings me back." Black shorts and white socks complete it. Like the home shirt, it's designed and made by Oxen, the Hull-based supplier that has quietly become the most interesting kit story in the division.
Ipswich home, away, third and GK kit for the 2026/27 season
Royal blue with navy and white trim and a repeating diamond pattern embossed into the fabric, taken from the lattice framework of the Portman Road floodlights. Ed Sheeran has been moved off the chest and onto the sleeve, which is a sentence that would have baffled anyone in 1978.
The away shirt reworks the cream 1996/98 change kit, swapping the old broad bands for fine dual-tone pinstripes. Both are excellent.
Leeds home, away, third and GK kit for the 2026/27 season
For the first time in the club's history, the home shirt carries horizontal stripes, thin blue and yellow bands running across a white base to mark 400 years since the signing of the Leeds Town Charter. A blue crew neck with yellow trim, blue three stripes on the shoulders, Red Bull on the chest.
A deep, lustrous yellow overlaid with a Yorkshire rose pattern, the Originals Trefoil and the club badge last used in 1998. It looks like flocked wallpaper in the best possible way and will empty the Elland Road club shop. Comfortably the best away shirt in the division.
Liverpool home, away, third and GK kit for the 2026/27 season
Adidas have gone back to the 1989/91 Candy shirt, the one Kenny Dalglish's side wore to the last title of the club's era of dominance. The geometric flecks are all present, though the base is a deeper Active Maroon and the pattern is less dense than the original. After a season that finished 25 points behind Arsenal, invoking 1990 is a choice. It's still one of the best shirts of the summer.
The away kit, unveiled at an adidas event in Brooklyn, is white with red and grey detailing, a red and white striped V-neck and cuffs, the Trefoil on the right chest and the heritage Liver bird crest inside a shield. It leans on the club's mid-1980s away shirts, with a tonal pattern woven from the graphics of old Anfield match tickets.
LFC adidas 2026/27 away kit out now
The brand-new 2026/27 LFC adidas away kit is out now. Infused with Liverpool DNA, celebrating the team's storied legacy, inspired by ticket stubs from the club's iconic matches of the '70s and '80s.
Adidas have also produced a green goalkeeper shirt on the same mid-80s template, the geometric flecks carried over into a colourway that nods to the keeper kits of the era.
Manchester City home, away, third and GK kit for the 2026/27 season
Puma have abandoned the solid sky blue for a gradient that fades from a darker shade at the shoulders to white at the hem, intended to represent every tone City have worn across 140 years. A metallic silver crest and sponsor complete it.
The City away strip is a black base with yellow-gold accents on the logos, collar, cuffs and side panels, and a tonal all-over print of the Manchester worker bee across the front. Sharper and more disciplined than the gradient home shirt, and the better of the two.
Manchester United home, away, third and GK kit for the 2026/27 season
The home shirt marks 50 years since the 1977 FA Cup final with a clean red base, polo collar and banded cuffs. No pattern, no theme, no press release about industrial heritage. It's the most disciplined United home shirt in years and it's better for it.
The away is one of the summer's most talked-about release, largely because Stormzy wore it to the World Cup final before adidas had finished writing the copy. Royal blue with a tonal wave jacquard referencing the River Irwell, red and white trim on the V-neck and cuffs, and the Trefoil above the sponsor. The colour comes straight from the Sharp-era shirts of the late 1980s.
Newcastle home, away, third and GK kit for the 2026/27 season
Adidas have "reimagined" the stripes, which in practice means black and white bars of varying widths bleeding into one another, with bright blue on the collar and shoulder stripes. The magpie iconography inside the neck is a nice touch. The rest is not. There is a limited number of ways to ruin black and white stripes and Newcastle appear to have located a new one.
The third kit is a soft "Powder Plum" pastel with deep purple accents on the V-neck, cuffs and three stripes, monochrome branding and no graphic pattern at all. Newcastle's first proper outing in light purple, and a calmer, cleaner thing than the fussed-over home stripes.
Nottingham Forest home, away, third and GK kit for the 2026/27 season
Garibaldi red with a V-neck and a pattern built from the lyrics of the anthem that rings around the City Ground before kick-off. It's a warm idea, and the sort of thing that reads better in a press release than it looks from the Trent End. Forest fans have not been shy in saying so.
The away moves Forest somewhere they almost never go: a deep Collegiate Green base, the colour a plain nod to the name, with a tonal leaf-print graphic, bright red three stripes and piping, the Trefoil on the chest and no front sponsor. Rarely has a club found a more obvious away colour and taken so long to use it.
Sunderland home, away, third and GK kit for the 2026/27 season
Into their second season back in the top flight, and Hummel have built the home shirt around the 1937 FA Cup win. Red and white stripes, a white polo collar with a buttoned placket, and a tonal jacquard woven through the white stripes in the shape of an "S" formed from the handles of the FA Cup. The 1937 city crest sits beneath the rear collar, and the starting eleven from the 3-1 win over Preston at Wembley are listed inside the neck. One of the shirts of the season, sponsor permitting.
Pink and black, and dedicated to Elvis Presley. Produced with the Presley estate, the away shirt honours a terrace tradition that began when Sunderland hosted Hull City in 1977, weeks after his death, and both sets of supporters sang "Can't Help Falling in Love". The design references the rockabilly suit he wore on Louisiana Hayride in 1954, with the song title inside the neck tape. Supporters are split roughly down the middle. It is, by some distance, the most interesting shirt in the Premier League.
Tottenham home, away, third and GK kit for the 2026/27 season
Lilywhite, navy trim, faint diagonal tonal striping nodding to the mid-1980s Hummel shirts. If you've seen a Spurs home kit at any point since 2017, you've seen this one.
The away is a different proposition entirely, a deep navy base cut through with jagged bands of electric pink, purple and neon orange. Whoever designs Tottenham's away kits is clearly having a far better time than whoever handles the home shirt.
The third kit is the one Spurs fans have wanted for years: a Psychic Purple homage to the mid-1990s away shirts, with tonal vertical striping, white piping on a fold-over collar and a buttoned placket. The rare case of a Tottenham design team firing on both the away and the third in the same summer.
Celtic home, away, third and GK kit for the 2026/27 season
Sixty years on from Lisbon, and adidas have marked it properly: a clean, heritage-driven hoop with gold detailing and a commemorative crest celebrating the 1966/67 side.
The away shirt keeps the anniversary going and takes a proper swing while it's at it: pale steel green and black vertical stripes with a serrated zigzag edge where the panels meet, a black wrapover V-neck, white three stripes on the shoulders and the Trefoil on the chest. The 60th-anniversary crest sits on the right, topped with a single white star for Lisbon.
The third kit references the tiled entrance at the Estádio Nacional, which is the kind of detail that justifies the whole anniversary-kit industry.
Rangers home, away, third and GK kit for the 2026/27 season
Umbro have gone for restraint: royal blue with fine white pinstripes down the body and sleeves, a V-neck picked out in red and white piping, and a small white lion below the back of the collar.
AC Milan home and away kit for the 2026/27 season
Puma have restored the thick red and black stripes across the front and back, with white shorts and black socks. "From Milan to the World" is printed inside, and a wax seal of the crest sits on the back of the neck.
The white away shirt carries the line "Dopo Istanbul c'è sempre Atene" on the collar, which is either poetry or a very long memory.
Barcelona home and away kit for the 2026/27 season
The four-stripe layout of the 2006/07 shirt returns, but Nike have split each stripe into gradient tones drawn from the renovated Camp Nou façade. Seven distinct colours in total, with Mineral Yellow branding and a semi-hexagonal collar. Barça have also commissioned a bespoke typeface, Modernista, for the home shirt. Ambitious, and mostly successful.
The "Mamba" kit, a tribute to Kobe Bryant made with his estate: a black-to-purple gradient with gold and iridescent logos, the purple lifted from the LA Lakers and the phrase "Leave the game better than you found it" inside the collar. A basketball tribute on a Barça shirt is a strange proposition on paper, but the execution is genuinely striking.
The third kit is a teal tribute to the Kappa 1996/97 away shirt from Ronaldo's single season, a light "Green Frost" base split down the centre by a jagged vertical graphic into a darker "Dusty Cactus" tone, with navy on the collar and cuffs, red piping, and a bespoke angular font. A proper piece of nostalgia and the sharpest of Barça's three.
Bayern Munich home and away kit for the 2026/27 season
Deep red with tonal red-on-red vertical stripes woven into a jacquard fabric, plus gold accents that haven't featured on a Bayern home shirt since the early 2010s.
The away goes white with a polo collar and red and navy tipping, channelling the change shirts of the late 1990s. Both are restrained. Both are considerably better than last season.
Borussia Dortmund home and away kit for the 2026/27 season
Puma have covered the yellow base in a tonal geometric graphic taken from the steel framework of the Minister Stein colliery and the lattice of the Dortmunder U-Tower, timed to the 40th anniversary of the pit's closure. Dortmund almost never miss on kit design and they haven't here.
The away is the stealthy one: a dark anthracite and black base carrying a tonal abstract lightning-bolt graphic, a buttoned collar with white inserts at the back and white cuff trim, with the crest and Puma cat picked out in vibrant yellow. A sleek, low-key contrast to the busy home shirt.
Inter home and away kit for the 2026/27 season
The home shirt looks back to 1998, pairing black and Lyon Blue with University Gold detailing and reinstating a collar. The stripe edges are finished to resemble the cut of tailor's scissors, a nod to Milanese tailoring, with "Made of Milano" inside.
The away is stranger and more fun: baseball pinstripes, contrast collar and, for the first time in the club's history, an "IM" monogram replacing the crest entirely. Bold, and not everyone in Lombardy is delighted.
Juventus home and away kit for the 2026/27 season
The barcode experiment is over. Clean black and white stripes, a fold-over white polo collar and heavy gold metallic branding on a simplified "J" crest.
The away leans on the pink of the club's earliest years, with an engineered zebra pattern flowing across the fabric and black trim. Both are excellent. Juventus have remembered they are supposed to look expensive.
PSG home and away kit for the 2026/27 season
Nike have binned the paintbrush effects and offset graphics of recent years and restored the Hechter stripe to full width on a brighter Old Royal base. Crucially, the red and white band now runs across the back as well as the front.
The away goes white, with the same central stripe rendered as a gradient of fine vertical lines borrowed from Op Art. The European champions look like themselves again.
Real Madrid home and away kit for the 2026/27 season
White, obviously, with dark green on the collar and cuffs, intricate patterning drawn from the diamonds and pearls of the club's crown, and an unexpected pop of pink on the three stripes. Understated by Madrid's recent standards, and better for it.
The away is a rich "Aurora Ivy" dark green carrying a tonal geometric pattern woven from the club crest and a repeating "RMCF" motif, with off-white on the three stripes, the split crew collar and the cuffs.
Real's third kit brings pink back to Madrid for the first time in six years: a bold "Wild Pink" base with a tonal geometric pattern drawn from Latin American craft, ivory detailing on the V-neck, cuffs and three stripes, and a retro "RMCF" script on the back. Only the third pink outfield shirt in the club's history, and adidas clearly enjoying the run of the entire Madrid set.