Best Football Kits 25/26: Our Favourite Shirts From This Season

The 25/26 season is nearly wrapped. Football Shirts have had their full run now. They have been worn in away ends, pulled over hoodies, seen under European floodlights, bought too impulsively, and judged far more harshly than any football shirt probably deserves.

Launch photos are one thing. A full season is the real test. Some kits arrive with noise and disappear by October. Others quietly get better every time you see them. A collar starts to make sense. A colourway wins people round. A third shirt becomes the one everyone wishes they had picked up when sizes were still available.

With 26/27 kits already beginning to appear, we are giving the 25/26 season one final lap. No rankings. No countdown. These are not in order. Just our favourite football kits from a season that gave shirt collectors, terrace dressers and full-kit loyalists plenty to enjoy.

Arsenal 25/26 Third Kit

A very easy shirt to like.

Arsenal's 25/26 third kit has the sort of old-stadium feel that wins people over quickly. The off-white base, deep red details and retro crest all sit together cleanly, with enough Highbury flavour to make it feel properly Arsenal without going full on history tour.

The collar is the hook. It gives the shirt more shape, more wearability and a bit of old matchday polish. This is one of those kits that looks right with jeans, right under a jacket and right in the stands.

Not loud. Not desperate for attention. Just a very good Arsenal shirt doing very good Arsenal shirt things.

Liverpool 25/26 Third Kit

Liverpool back in adidas was always going to get people talking. The third kit is where the reunion felt most natural.

The green, the Trefoil, the old-school crest and the clean trim all hit that sweet spot between retro and current. It has 90s training top energy, but not in a way that feels like costume gear. More like something you found in an old kit bag and immediately refused to give back.

It has Champions League away-night energy. It has pub-before-kick-off energy. It has "owns too many adidas track jackets but somehow makes it work" energy.

A proper return-of-the-three-stripes moment.

Manchester United 25/26 Third Kit

United's black third kit knew exactly which button it was pressing.

The 93/95 away reference is obvious, with the yellow and blue details doing most of the heavy lifting. The shielded crest gives it that older adidas feel, and the Trefoil brings the whole thing into the same throwback lane.

There is one complaint, and everyone knows what it is. If you are making a shirt with Cantona energy, people are going to ask for a collar they can flip. That is just how this works.

Even without that, this is one of United's best alternates in years. A kit with proper attitude, especially in long sleeves.

Real Madrid 25/26 Third Kit

Real Madrid can make a quiet shirt feel like it has private airport lounge access.

The 25/26 third kit keeps things simple: blue base, white details, Trefoil, no clutter. It does not need a huge graphic or a complicated story. It looks like Madrid because it has that clean, controlled, slightly untouchable thing they do so well.

Some kits are built to grab the room. This one just walks in late and still gets noticed.

Very wearable. Very Madrid.

Chelsea 25/26 Away Kit

Chelsea away kits can go anywhere. Sometimes brilliant, sometimes strange, sometimes gone from memory before Christmas. This one landed well.

The light base gives it a softer feel, with red and green details adding enough personality without turning the shirt into a circus. It has a retro edge, but it does not feel like it is begging people to spot the reference.

It is not the most Chelsea-looking Chelsea shirt ever made. Fine. Away shirts are allowed to wander a bit.

This one wandered in the right direction.

PSG 25/26 Home Kit

PSG home kits usually work best when the Hechter stripe gets proper treatment. The 25/26 home does the sensible thing and lets that centre line lead.

The blue is strong. The red and white cut through cleanly. The added texture gives it enough movement without making the shirt feel too polished or too lifestyle-heavy.

Paris kits can sometimes look like they were designed more for the campaign film than the pitch. This one still feels like football. Good start.

A strong PSG home in a season full of very busy shirts.

Inter Milan 25/26 Third Kit

Nike brought back Total 90, and Inter understood the brief better than most.

The grey and orange colourway has bite. The central layout gives it that mid-2000s feel straight away. It is bold, slightly odd, and exactly the kind of thing Total 90 should be.

This is for anyone who remembers curved shirt graphics, loud boots, long sleeves, Champions League score bugs and players taking free-kicks from angles they had absolutely no business shooting from.

Subtle? No. Fun? Absolutely.

Flamengo 2025 Third Kit

Off-white shirts were everywhere this season. Flamengo's third kit is one of the best of the lot.

The gold details, vintage-style badge and subtle pattern give it a clean, relaxed feel. It has that easy summer-shirt quality without losing the club completely. You could wear it on matchday, on holiday, or while pretending you understand Brazilian football far better than you actually do.

It is smooth without being bland. Smart without feeling stiff.

A very strong entry in the cream-shirt arms race.

AIK 2026 Överallt Edition Jersey

AIK might be the best club in Europe at making special-edition shirts feel like actual clothes.

The 2026 Överallt Edition is dark, clean, slightly formal and extremely wearable. The laced fastening at the chest is the standout detail. It gives the shirt personality without tipping it into fancy dress.

The name means "everywhere", and the shirt has that feeling. Stadium, city, airport, pub, smart-casual event you did not dress properly for but somehow survived because you had this on.

The special box is a nice touch, but the shirt does not need packaging to make the point. It already looks like something AIK fans will be smug about owning for years.

Very Scandi. Very sharp. Very annoying if you missed your size.

AS Monaco 25/26 Away Kit

Mizuno and Monaco continue to make sense together.

The deep blue and gold combination does plenty before the finer details even come in. It feels calm, polished and very Monaco. The pattern adds texture, but the shirt never gets too busy.

A lot of away kits try to win the season by doing the most. Monaco went the other way. Deep colour, clean details, tidy finish.

A shirt for people who like their football kits with a bit of hotel-lobby elegance.

adidas Originals Bayern Munich 25/26 Third Shirt

Black kits can be a shortcut. Bayern's third shirt actually earns it.

The dark base gives it the easy wearability, but the Marienplatz-inspired detailing gives the shirt its personality. Add the vintage badge and Trefoil, and you get one of the strongest adidas Originals shirts of the season.

It looks good with jeans, but still feels like a football shirt. That balance is not always guaranteed with dark third kits.

Bayern have a habit of making alternates feel tied to Munich rather than just the template. This one joins the list.

Ajax 25/26 Third Kit

Ajax and adidas rarely need to do too much.

The 25/26 third kit is soft, clean and very easy on the eye. Beige base, tidy trim, old Ajax crest. Done. Sometimes that is enough when the club already has one of the strongest visual identities in football.

It is not the shirt you spot from the other side of the room and immediately shout about. It is the one you see three times and then quietly start checking sizes.

Classic Ajax behaviour. Calm, neat, annoyingly good.

adidas Originals Juventus 25/26 Authentic Third Shirt

Juventus in a dark third kit is usually a safe play, but this one has more about it than the first look suggests.

The vineyard-inspired graphic gives it a nice Piedmont touch without turning the shirt into a tourist advert. The Trefoil and classic badge keep the adidas Originals look clean, while the black base makes it very easy to wear.

The authentic version brings a sharper, more match-fit shape, so this is not the loosest terrace option in the list. Still, if you want a dark third shirt that looks considered rather than copied from the blackout kit drawer, this is one of the best.

Very Juventus. Very composed. Probably looks better with sunglasses.

Puma Galatasaray S.K. 25/26 Third Shirt

Galatasaray's third kit brings the drama in a very controlled way.

The deep red base gives it presence from the start. Puma then adds the tonal graphic inspired by the historic gates of Beyoğlu Lyceum, where the club's story begins. The detail gives the shirt texture without making it feel too heavy.

The gold trim is the right level of flash. Enough to lift the red, not enough to look like stage costume.

Different from the home, but still unmistakably Galatasaray. Big club colours, good restraint, strong finish.

The shirts that made the season

The best kits of 25/26 did not all come from the same lane. Some went full retro. Some stayed clean. Some leaned into city references. Some just had a collar, crest or colourway that made you keep looking back.

Arsenal gave us the easy wear. Liverpool gave adidas a proper comeback shirt. AIK delivered the special-edition flex. Inter brought the Total 90 noise. Flamengo made off-white feel fresh. Bayern and Juventus showed how good a dark third kit can be when someone bothers to add an idea. Galatasaray gave red and gold a proper night-out feel.

The 26/27 kits are already warming up. Before they take over the feed, 25/26 deserves a little applause.

A good season for shirts. A ridiculous season for third kits.