The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly 2026-27 Kit Edition | OneFootball

Back for another installment, let’s dive into the Good, Bad, and Ugly kits for the 2026-27 season!

Hope, optimism, and new kits: they’re the certainties of every new season. But unlike your favorite team’s form, kit design stays consistent from beginning to end, and with the rare exception of a shirt that grows on us, we can definitively rank each kit before the mid-season madness fully takes over.

Let’s dive into the best and worst kits for the 2026-27 season across Europe’s top leagues!

The Good

Como Home & Away

It’s a beautiful thing when a club truly nails its kit design. Fresh off a historic 2025-26 season in which the club qualified for its first ever UEFA Champions League, Como 1907 released a pair of kits that perfectly fit the world’s most prestigious club competition.

The elegant home and away shirts feature simple aesthetics with fantastic details, and are equally representative of Como as an idyllic destination and the club’s meteoric rise from Serie D to the UCL in a matter of eight seasons. Beautiful stuff.

Fulham Away

Whereas Como’s kits evoke the quiet luxury of Lombardy, Fulham’s away shirt represents the noisy nouveau riche Londoners that have taste and aren’t afraid to let you know about it.

An asymmetric check pattern is reminiscent of the club’s away kit from 1996-97, while a retro Fulham crest that dates back to the ‘70s sits proudly on the chest. A nice modern twist on a pair of throwback design elements, this is a fantastic shirt that looks as good on the pitch as it does off of it.

Toulouse Away

When executed correctly, pink and purple kits are absolute cheat codes, and Toulouse’s away strip is a perfect example.

The club has employed these colors on many of its kits over the years, but the ’26/27 away design is something special. A white base adorned with pink pinstripes, the shirt employs an airbrush-like design that’s far from typical on a kit. It’s easily one of the best releases of the season.

AC Milan Home

Milan have tried messing around with their iconic home kit on a few occasions over the past few seasons. In 2023-24, the club employed a strange take on the Rossoneri stripes that ended up looking like their printer was low on ink. In 2021-22, they used stripes with an alternating thickness that was not flattering at all. Turns out, when you have a look as iconic as AC Milan’s, you don’t need to reinvent the wheel.

The club’s 2026-27 home kit keeps things simple, employing a relatively thicker set of stripes that makes for an elegant look.

Lyon Away

Lyon’s home kit, with its custom adidas stripes going down the shoulders, is a fantastic look. But frankly, it’s blown away by the away design.

Using different shades of red to a stunning degree, this shirt is simple in the best way possible, especially in long sleeve form.

Monaco Away

Not to be outdone, Monaco also utilize a deep shade of red (or “grape brown” as the club describes it) for their away kit, and it oozes luxury and class.

Made by Mizuno, the shirt is inspired by top fashion houses from around the world, and features an ASM monogram pattern that would be right at home on a $2,000 Italian cashmere polo. For a city like Monaco, it’s a perfect fit.

Tottenham Third

As an Arsenal fan, it pains me to say this, but Tottenham cooked with their third kit. Nearly relegated in 2025-26, Spurs will look to bounce back in this fantastic purple number from Nike, which is inspired by multiple ‘90s designs from the North London club.

I’ve harped on the overdone retro inspiration in the past, but when it’s done this well, it’s hard to complain.

The Bad

Bournemouth Third

By purely a design perspective, Bournemouth’s third kit, and all of the club’s jerseys for that matter, is pretty nice. But front and center on the shirt is a monstrosity of a sponsor logo that ruins everything.

There’s plenty of ways you can cleverly incorporate a sponsor logo into a jersey design, yet this shirt took none of that into account. Whatever Vitality is selling, I’m not buying it.

Borussia Dortmund Third

Remember when I said purple kits were a cheat code? Well, Borussia Dortmund’s third kit is the exception to the rule. If you took the neon accents away, this could actually be a really nice shirt, but the clashing colors plus the gaudy Vodafone sponsor logo negate any interesting design elements here.

Manchester City Third 

“For the first time in professional football, fans were given the power to design a kit using AI with the winning fan-created design set to be worn on pitch this season.”

That’s how Manchester City unveiled their 2026-27 third kit, and it received more than a little backlash upon its release.

The AI design discourse has been heated for years now, and we’ve seen it creep into the beautiful game via tifos and now kits. We’ve seen fan-led design contests that have brought us some truly wonderful shirts, such as Pescara’s from 2020, but PUMA and Man City wanted to take things further and let fans truly show their creative prompt-writing skills with the help of the German brand’s AI Creator tool.

It would be one thing if this led to some truly cutting edge pattern or motif that had never been used on a football kit before. But for it to produce this bland and milquetoast look that will be forgotten by season’s end? Yawn.

Barcelona Home

While this is certainly a step up from last year’s Barcelona home kit, it’s not quite a return to form for the Catalan club.

Like we saw with AC Milan, sticking to what works is oftentimes the best approach when it comes to traditional home kits. I’ll always respect when teams take a swing, but what’s wrong with classic Blaugrana stripes?

PSG Home

The back-to-back champs of Europe are often among the most stylish clubs in the game, but PSG’s 2026-27 home kit is a rare miss. A weird collar that doesn’t know if it wants to be a v-neck or not, paired with a wider-than-normal Hechter stripe down the middle makes for an awkward look, although the old school colors are quite pleasing on the eyes.

Brest Third

What a wonderful shirt this could be. A pleasing shade of navy paired with cream accents and a classy collar are the bones of a great design. But like Bournemouth, Brest is plagued with some gaudy sponsor logos that take over the design like summer tourists do the Plage du Moulin Blanc.

The Ugly

Newcastle Home

In an effort to save the environment, Newcastle employed this design to take the place of pricetags. However, all of the plastic and paper they’ll keep out of the oceans will be negated by the amount of these kits that will ostensibly end up in a landfill by season’s end.

Leeds Home

Continuing the stationary-inspired design cues, Leeds United’s home kit resembles a sheet of paper straight out of a composition notebook. At least it’ll give players some guidance when they go to give autographs.

Bayern Munich Oktoberfest

Leaked image from FootyHeadlines.

For years, Bayern Munich’s special edition Oktoberfest jerseys have been among the best in all of football. However, if the leaks are true (which they usually are), this year’s installment looks like a disaster.

Resembling a superimposed Monet painting (derogatory), this is too busy, and is especially disappointing considering its predecessors. Many impressionists were misunderstood in their time, so maybe this will be looked upon as a classic in 20 years.

Le Mans Home

We’ve seen some pretty bad iterations of stripes on this list, but this one might be the worst. Three different colors makes for a dizzying aesthetic that’s only made worse by the smorgasbord of logos across the top of the kit. Not very tidy.