The Best Football Shirts 26/27

So far...

We're far enough into the 2026/27 football shirt season now to start having proper opinions. Home kits have settled in, away shirts are digging through old club colours and third kits are taking full advantage of being the third kit and doing something slightly weird.

If you're looking for the best kits 26/27 has given us so far, this is the current office edit. Trefoils are everywhere. We've got monogram crests, blurred stripes, brown shirts, pink shirts and, thankfully, proper long sleeves again. Some of the best football kits of 2026/27 looked good from the first photo. Others needed a player to wear them, a night under the lights or about three weeks for everyone to admit they had got it wrong.

There is no scoring system here. Rob can have Liverpool top of his list while someone ten feet away thinks the Manchester United away shirt clears it. Nobody is necessarily right. Apart from whoever agrees with you.

Our Favourite 2026/27 Football Kits So Far

So, in no particular order, these are the new football kits getting the most love around the office. This list will change. More shirts are coming, opinions are weak and one good Champions League night can do serious things to a kit's reputation.

Nike Inter Milan 2026/27 Away Shirt

Inter have knocked this one out the park. White, thin blue pinstripes and that monogram crest. It has the feel of an old shirt you'd find in suspiciously good condition and immediately convince yourself you need. Very good football shirt. Possibly even better with jeans.

adidas Olympique Lyonnais 26/27 Third Shirt

Lyon funk scene inspiration, vinyl grooves running through the shirt and Three Stripes that look like they're moving to a bassline. Usually you hear the inspiration behind a third shirt and politely nod. This one actually looks the part.

Nike FC Barcelona 2026/27 Home Shirt

I still get Netflix opening-intro vibes from this one. Once you see it, sorry, you probably can't unsee it. The blurred red and blue stripes give the shirt some movement and with Lamine Yamal wearing it all season, there is a decent chance we're about to see it in approximately 400 highlight clips.

PUMA St. Pauli 2026/27 Home Shirt

Football as a fashion final boss. Brown kits can go very wrong, very quickly. This one doesn't. Espresso brown, white details and Jackson Irvine's moustache wearing it around Germany for a year. Hard to ask for much more.

Nike Chelsea 2026/27 Home Shirt

No front sponsor is doing Chelsea a favour here. There is loads of space for the blue and gold to do their thing without a massive rectangle arriving in the middle of it all. We reserve the right to change our minds if that changes.

adidas RC Lens 2026/27 Away Shirt

The Trefoil looks very comfortable here. Dark grey across most of the shirt, then the Lens red and yellow popping up around the collar, cuffs and badge. Club colours present and correct, nobody has felt the need to colour in the entire shirt with them.

PUMA Borussia Dortmund 2026/27 Long-Sleeve Home Shirt

More long-sleeve football shirts, please. Dortmund yellow, black detailing and sleeves all the way down to the wrist. Put this under the lights on a European night and we're basically done here. Short-sleeve owners, no offence.

Nike Corinthians 2026/27 Home Shirt

Corinthians do not need much help. Soft white, black Swoosh, brilliant crest. Done. There is always the temptation to add one more pattern, stripe or bit of trim to a modern shirt. Whoever resisted that temptation here deserves a quiet thank you.

Nike Paris Saint-Germain 2026/27 Home Shirt

PSG looking like PSG. Sometimes that really is enough. The central stripe is back where it belongs and the whole shirt feels much more Paris because of it. No need to reinvent the Parc des Princes every summer.

adidas Originals Manchester United 2026/27 Away Shirt

Royal blue United shirts always feel a little unusual, in a good way. Trefoil, red stripes, red-and-white V-neck, plenty for the old adidas crowd to get excited about. Then Stormzy turned up in it at the World Cup final, which is a fairly strong way to introduce yourself.

PUMA Valencia 2026/27 Third Shirt

Two shades of pink, Torino Red and a graphic that looks like it has been stretched across the shirt. There will be people who hate this. Excellent. Third kits should occasionally make someone stare at the screen for ten seconds before deciding how they feel.

adidas Originals Liverpool 26/27 Goalkeeper Away Long-Sleeve Shirt

Black. Purple. Long sleeves. Trefoil. Goalkeeper shirt. We could probably stop there. There is a lot going on but somehow it still looks clean, with plenty of old Liverpool adidas energy without looking like someone has raided the club museum.

adidas Originals Real Madrid 26/27 Away Shirt

The real ones remember green Real Madrid shirts. Deep green, white details and a Trefoil. There is a little 2012/13 in there and we are absolutely fine with that. Real Madrid away shirts have permission to get away with colours the home kit never could.

adidas Originals Arsenal 26/27 Away Shirt

The Bruised Banana is back for another little visit, this time dressed in navy. Yellow geometry, red details and a Trefoil make the reference pretty obvious, but it stops short of doing a full 1991 tribute act. Arsenal away shirts should be slightly louder than necessary. It is tradition at this point.

More of the Best Football Kits 26/27 Still to Come

We are definitely not finished. More 2026/27 football kits are still landing and at least a few of the best shirts of the season probably haven't appeared yet. There will also be kits currently sitting in the "not sure about that" pile that suddenly become brilliant because somebody scores a 30-yard winner in one.

We'll keep updating the list as more new football kits arrive. Expect odd collars, old badges, unnecessary amounts of pink, another Trefoil or twelve and at least one shirt everybody hates until it becomes impossible to find in a medium.

See the latest 2026/27 football kits and new football shirts at Pro:Direct Soccer.