New kits 2025-26 including Real Madrid, Newcastle & Arsenal: vote

It’s that time of the year.

With a new football season looming, clubs are beginning to show off their fresh looks for the upcoming campaign.

BBC Sport has pulled together a list of some of the best kits to have been released so far.

Vote for your favourites at the bottom of the page.

Some fans may be a little bemused as to why an Italian side are stepping out in a home kit that features what looks like the English national flag. In fact, St George is also patron saint of the port city of Genoa and the St George’s Cross was adopted there during the Crusades, before it was used on these shores. The Serie A side leant into their English connection by launching their new kit with an, ‘It’s Coming Home’ campaign, featuring English pubs, greasy spoon cafes and red London buses.

Roma’s third kit, with its green collar, sleeves and stripes, draws inspiration from the city of Rome’s green spaces and gardens – as per a statement on the club’s website. The shirt features a geometric pattern throughout, which is a nod to the aesthetics of a traditional Italian garden.

Mainz’s new home kit is both ornamental and potentially useful for anyone who happens to find themselves lost whilst travelling around the German city. That’s because closer inspection reveals that the shirt features a street map of the “golden city on the Rhine”.

Venezia’s new kit releases are highly anticipated among football shirt collectors. This year’s away shirt is another masterpiece. The creamy base evokes the Istrian stone characteristic of the city of Venice, while the burgundy sleeves draw on a palette used by Renaissance painters of the Venetian school during the 15th and 16th centuries. Who said football and high culture don’t mix?

Boldklubben af 1893 – you’ve heard of them, right? The second-tier Danish club based in Osterbro? Either way, you’re sure to remember them now, following the release of this absolute beauty of a shirt, with its midnight navy base and elegant pinstripes.

In an ever-changing world, Real Betis shirts are one thing that can be relied upon. There is just something deeply satisfying about those thick, vertical stripes – like a perfectly mowed pitch. Not to mention that having defender Hector Bellerin in your kit launch will always lend a bit of sartorial credibility.

Championship side Charlton Athletic’s new home shirt takes the club badge and blows it up onto a bigger canvas. The diagonal pinstripes across the chest echo the blade on the club’s crest, while the black cuffs mirror colours used in the south-east London club’s badge.

Everton are making a fresh start at a new stadium this season and David Moyes’ men look bright in their new, pastel yellow away shirts. According to a statement on the club website, the pattern used on the cuffs is an homage to the railway line that once traversed the Liverpool docklands where the club’s new Hill Dickinson stadium stands.

Adidas kick off their new partnership with Premier League champions Liverpool with a kit that harks back to the mid-00s, evoking players like Xabi Alonso and Peter Crouch.

League Two side Grimsby’s new third kit pays homage to the colours worn by the club in 1899 when the Mariners first moved to Blundell Park, with sky blue and chocolate patterns featuring on the collar and cuffs.

Another football shirt that requires a degree in ancient history to fully appreciate. Alongside the iconic red and blue vertical stripes synonymous with the Ligue 1 club, Lyon’s new home strip features a subtle pattern inspired by the ancient Roman mosaics that can be found in the French city. The word Lugdunum – the Roman name for Lyon – is also printed on the back of the neck.

Another kit, another history lesson. Ajax’s new third kit is inspired by the first recorded document to reference the city of Amsterdam. The colour scheme is, according to a description on the manufacturer’s website, a nod to the “beige tones of the 750-year-old letter,” with a depiction of the seal recreated on the inside collar.

Sunderland’s new third kit takes the club’s nickname as its theme, with a blacked-out design, including a new feline badge and even cats’ eyes on the back. A subtle mandala of 11 black cats is printed across the shirt. Gun metal grey accents give a nod to the 18th-century River Wear gun battery, the “Black Cat” from whence the club derives its nickname. Sunderland end an eight-year absence from top-flight football when they rejoin the Premier League this season.

German club St. Pauli have gone back to their earthy roots with the return of a classic, striped design. The last time the club wore vertical stripes on their home shirts was the 2011-12 season.

Palmeiras’ new home shirt for the Club World Cup gives a nod to the Brazilian club’s 1951 triumph in the Copa Rio – a forerunner of the current competition. The baroque design features a leaf motif, evoking the trophy. It baroques BBC Sport’s world.

Puma have made a truly valiant effort with Port Vale’s 150th anniversary kit. It’s as simple as they come and is inspired by the team of 1953-54, who won the Third Division North and reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup.

The modern crest is replaced by the letters ‘PVFC’ in gold stitching.

German club Nuremberg have released a corker of an anniversary kit, celebrating 125 years since they were founded. The slightly maroon red and gold trims give it a vintage feel.

Sometimes it’s the little details. That motif printed on the inside of the collar elevates Porto’s third kit to a whole new class. The crystal-blue motif across the badge and sponsor, laid onto a crisp, off-white base, puts BBC Sport in mind of clear waters lapping against the city’s beaches.

Spanish club Cadiz have released a low-key banger in this year’s home kit, which has a repeating embossed pattern across the traditional yellow base.

Marseille’s home kit uses the club’s iconic colour palette, with images of past club badges embossed across the shirt. And who wouldn’t want a slice of that?

South African team Mamelodi Sundowns are bringing golden-hour energy to the Club World Cup with this gorgeous, hazy number.

Cambridge United have undergone a rebrand with a new club crest and a home kit that harks back to the mid-70s when they were crowned Division 4 champions. There is something very satisfying about the thick, vertical stripes on this jersey.

Rangers’ home kit this season evokes the one worn by the likes of Derek Johnstone, Sandy Jardine and Alex MacDonald between 1978-82.

Malaga’s new home kit pays tribute to their iconic 2009-10 shirts, with sky blue stripes complemented by what’s being described as a darker, ‘surf the web’ blue.

Borussia Dortmund have caused a buzz at the Club World Cup with their new home kit, designed by KidSuper. The geometric pattern across the chest and arms is based on a honeycomb, which will no doubt have gone down well with their mascot, Emma the Bee.

The classic design that was created by former club president Daniel Hechter gets a slight update here with a geometric pattern that acts as an insouciant, Parisian nod to the city’s famous landmark, the Eiffel Tower.

Would you call it petrol blue? Either way, Real Madrid are cooking on gas in this year’s shimmery, metallic away jersey.

This centenary kit was released in March to celebrate 100 years since Olympiakos, the country’s most successful club, were founded. Red and white stripes with a gold trefoil keep it simple and stunning.

Saudi Pro League team Al-Hilal’s home kit is one of the boldest looks at this summer’s Club World Cup. It features a crescent moon motif across the torso and stripes with a brushstroke effect.

Boca Juniors kits tend to be the one of the most coveted items for football shirt collectors. This year’s strip commemorates the 120th anniversary of the club, with a specially designed crest and the date 1905 – when Los Xeneizes were founded.

Werder Bremen’s third kit celebrates 60 years since the German club’s first Bundesliga title. Copper lettering inside the neck reads ‘Deutscher Meister 1965’ (German Champions 1965), with a tonal image of the team from that campaign. Former players Hans Schulz and Gunter Bernard, who helped Die Grun-Weissen lift the trophy that year, were enlisted for the campaign launch of the kit.

Claret and blue is a marriage made in football heaven and Super Lig side Trabzonspor look the part.

In 1974, under manager Dave Sexton, Chelsea unveiled an away strip featuring the colours of the Hungarian flag, in tribute to Hungary’s famous ‘Magnificent Magyars’ side from two decades earlier.

This season’s away strip resurrects that style.

The Major League Soccer outfit’s new third kit is not turquoise or even sky blue. No, the club and manufacturer are calling this one, ‘semi blue burst’. Either way, this is a classic Miami colour palette and the pinstripes add a tailored feeling.

Isn’t this the same as last season’s home kit? Of course not, the stripes on that were blue. Completely different…

The design on the shoulders of Aston Villa’s away shirt is inspired by Birmingham landmark, the Bullring.

Moises Caicedo looks thoroughly blue here as he’s confronted by one of the saddest breakfasts BBC Sport has ever laid eyes on. At least the kit looks nice.

This is the first time Manchester City have featured a sash on one of their home shirts. But it’s not a straightforward sash – more like a vapour trail. Or a motion blur. Cool.

In a changing world, there are some things you can depend on. One of them is a Newcastle home shirt. It’s black and white (with ice blue trims this year). What else is there to say?

Fiorentina’s new home kit pays tribute to the 1999-2000 edition worn by legendary Argentine striker Gabriel Batistuta in his final season with the Italian club. For any Gen Z readers, those things laid out around the model’s feet on the right of the image are called CDs and a boombox and this is how people used to have to consume music.

Adidas have made a kit that looks like the Allianz Arena in tribute to Bayern Munich’s stadium on its 20th anniversary. This will also be the kit that veteran midfielder Thomas Muller wears in his final season with the club, bringing the curtain down on 25 years with the German champions.

Paris FC may not have a European trophy in their cabinet like their neighbours Paris St-Germain, but they are (paradoxically) making themselves known in this camouflage third kit, launched alongside French rapper Ninho.