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We\u2019ve done the 10 worst kits of the World Cup<\/a>. So now obviously we have to do the 10 best.<\/p>\n This was much, much harder. But in a good way. This was a top 10 that very much gave us the proverbial Nice Headache To Have. We have reluctantly left out a great many kits that we absolutely love because there simply wasn\u2019t room for them all.<\/p>\n Painful, but obviously far better than scrabbling round to fill a 10 with stuff that\u2019s just okay. Nothing here is just okay. Nothing would be just okay in a top 20. Even a top 30. There are other problems with the tournament, sure, but there are some great kits. And that\u2019s the main thing, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n Okay, it\u2019s not really the main thing. But it is something.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 10. Sweden away<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc55\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddea \ud835\udde2\ud835\uddd9\ud835\uddd9\ud835\udddc\ud835\uddd6\ud835\udddc\ud835\uddd4\ud835\udddf: Sweden’s away kit for World Cup 2026.<\/p>\n Yep, rate it \ud83d\udc4c pic.twitter.com\/wjUSUIeXRn<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Football Tweet \u26bd\uea00 (@Footballtweet) March 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n You\u2019ll quickly realise as we get through this that adidas away\/third\/goalkeeper kits are the best in show at this World Cup. These kits all benefit massively from a trefoil logo \u2013 which is always a win \u2013 and having proper adidas stripes instead of the horrible ones that have inexplicably been daubed over the shoulders of all the home kits.<\/p>\n Basically all of them, with the possible exception of Belgium which we\u2019re not yet sure about, are great and any of them would be worthy of featuring in the top 10. But we can\u2019t have them all in here. Argentina especially unlucky to miss out.<\/p>\n Sweden just make it into the top 10 with this patterned blue number. Big patterns are very much in at this World Cup and we are entirely 100 per cent on board with that.<\/p>\n This article is brought to you in partnership with ExpressVPN<\/a>. With millions of fans set to follow the World Cup from around the globe, ExpressVPN helps you stream matches securely and access your favourite football content wherever you are. Find out more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 9. Norway home<\/p>\n Exclusive for @sneakermarketro<\/a>: Official images with Norway’s World Cup 2026 Home Kit made by Nike which is set to release soon \ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf4\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f https:\/\/t.co\/Pv1fml37Ua<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/eNtrpYGU5k<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Vlad Ciutacu (@vladieboi) February 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n Are you paying attention, USA? That\u2019s how you put your whole damn flag on the kit without looking like absolute arseholes.<\/p>\n There\u2019s even a graphic print inside the massive blue cross. It should absolutely be too much and not work. And yet, it does. Magnificently.<\/p>\n The inspiration for the design apparently comes from the 1997 Umbro shirt that also featured a prominent cross shifted over to the right-hand side.<\/p>\n But let us tell you now, that shirt was garbage. It looked like a Man United shirt that had suffered a catastrophic printing error. It was a mess, and not a hot one.<\/p>\n This is a thing of beauty all its own.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 8. Scotland away<\/p>\n \ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc73\udb40\udc63\udb40\udc74\udb40\udc7f Scotland 2026 World Cup Away Kit x adidas.<\/p>\n The shirt reintroduces a scarlet red tone last worn in the 1980s and adds striking purple pinstripes. Inside the collar sits a thistle, Scotland\u2019s national flower.<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude2e\u200d\ud83d\udca8 pic.twitter.com\/AFlME2plQA<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Soccer Jersey News (@soccerjerseynws) March 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n Be very easy indeed to just fill this whole top 10 with adidas trefoil stuff. We nearly just did 10 goalkeeper tops.<\/p>\n But while we\u2019ve reluctantly included some non-adidas trefoil stuff, there must be place for this salmon-pink stunner from Scotland.<\/p>\n It\u2019s flawless, frankly. The pink. The purple. The pinstripes. The adidas stripes. The big bold v-neck collar and chunky cuffs.<\/p>\n That is a proper football shirt and a thing of beauty. Just the thought of Scott McTominay bossing midfields while wearing it is making us feel things. We have to quickly remember John McGinn will also be wearing it just to calm ourselves down.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 7. South Korea home<\/p>\n This could be Son Heung-min’s last World Cup drip \ud83e\udd79\ud83c\uddf0\ud83c\uddf7<\/p>\n Inspired by the mountain ranges and the national animal \u2013 tiger, South Korea’s 2026 home kit brings an eye-catching look onto the classic colors. pic.twitter.com\/jV6srAtCyw<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Jersey Story (@jerseystory_vn) January 11, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n An absolute beauty, this, a fact rendered even more remarkable when you consider that the away kit is even better. We could lose and indeed have lost a good 45 minutes of our lives staring at pictures of Son Heung-min wearing these kits and smiling at us. We have no regrets.<\/p>\n An all-over pattern is always a bold choice for a kit, but Nike are very good at it. They almost always get the balance right; if you\u2019ve having a dramatic graphic effect on the shirt itself, you need to keep the other details minimalist, simple and not in any way distracting. Given the geometric stylings of the collar on this template, it could easily have gone wrong \u2013 sticking with all red here is a masterstroke. Keeping the remaining details \u2013 cuffs, piping, side panels in unobtrusive black and white also just excellent decision-making.<\/p>\n Chuck in that gorgeous away kit, and South Korea are this year\u2019s best dressed.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6. Ghana home<\/p>\n \ud83d\udca5 Ghana x Puma \ud83d\udca5<\/p>\n \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udded New 2026 World Cup Home Kit! pic.twitter.com\/FoLnrmHvSw<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Opaleak (@opaleak) January 2, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n There\u2019s always a kit, isn\u2019t there? One that grabs everyone by the bollards and becomes a talking point all of its own. At the moment, Curacao\u2019s away kit is getting that kind of attention and rightly so. We don\u2019t think we\u2019re giving away too many spoilers in saying we\u2019ll come to it soon enough.<\/p>\n But the problem for the Curacao away kit is that we probably won\u2019t actually see it during any actual games. That\u2019s a setback.<\/p>\n That\u2019s where Ghana come in. The wild pattern on here emanating out from the trademark black star is based on traditional cloth from the country. That\u2019s all well and good, sure, but also it looks like a psychedelic spider\u2019s web.<\/p>\n And although we\u2019ve never realised it before, it turns out that we really, really like football shirts that look like they have a psychedelic spider\u2019s web on them.<\/p>\n This article is brought to you in partnership with ExpressVPN<\/a>. With millions of fans set to follow the World Cup from around the globe, ExpressVPN helps you stream matches securely and access your favourite football content wherever you are. Find out more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 5. Mexico third<\/p>\n This has honestly got to be one of the best kits at the World Cup. \ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddfd <\/p>\n I really like Mexico\u2019s third kit. \ud83d\udd25 pic.twitter.com\/xE7zfjbj7q<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 \ud835\udc7e\ud835\udc86\ud835\udc94\ud835\udc8d\ud835\udc86\ud835\udc9a\u00b2\u2079 (@CFCFofana) June 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n Is it really as simple for adidas as this? Is all they have to do to get a guaranteed place in our top 10 take some proper adidas stripes (not the ghastly fat ones they\u2019ve slapped on all their home shirts for some reason) and a trefoil, make them tricolour and put them on literally any shirt?<\/p>\n Yes. Yes it is. Mad how much time and effort they put into doing literally anything else with their kits to be honest. Just do this, lads. Any shirt, tricolour stripes, tricolour trefoil. That\u2019s the formula. It literally never fails to produce absolute art.<\/p>\n But this would be great even without the tricolour stuff, with the print woven into the fabric evoking the iconic Mexico 1970 shirt and thus making this the most \u2018reads Mundial once\u2019 kit at this summer\u2019s festivities.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 4. France home<\/p>\n France World Cup home kit \u2014 deep navy blue, copper accents, and that clean collar. \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 \u2014 kitsdo (@kitsdo777) March 27, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n We don\u2019t, as a general rule care for buttons on football shirts. That\u2019s rugby behaviour in our view. But all rules have exceptions. All rules are there to be broken.<\/p>\n And the presence of a button on our number one home shirt from this World Cup should tell you how good the rest of this is. Just look at it, for crying out loud. It\u2019s absolutely beautiful. Hang it in the etc.<\/p>\n And France\u2019ll probably win the whole thing wearing it too, the swines.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 3. Mexico goalkeeper away<\/p>\n “World Cup Ochoa” is set for his last dance.<\/p>\n The goalkeeper has been called up by Mexico for the 2026 Mundial.<\/p>\n Together with Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, Ochoa will be making his 6th appearance on the World Stage and will retire after the competition. #3Sports<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/Lk9q65jpSl<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 #3Sports (@3SportsGh) June 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n We did give some thought to just filling this entire top 10 with different adidas away goalkeeper tops. We\u2019d have been morally right to do it. We could have stared God in the face and said with our full chest that we meant it.<\/p>\n But we must also concede it might not have made for the most interesting content and wouldn\u2019t really have shown off the full range of what the World Cup kits smorgasbord has to offer.<\/p>\n Consider this, then, a win not only for Mexico but for all the adidas away goalkeeper kits. They\u2019re all on the same template, and all of them are lovely. We also particularly like the Argentina one, and are extremely taken by the fact Scotland have an equipment-logoed, fat-striped grey \u2018home\u2019 keeper kit and a trefoil-logoed, proper-striped grey \u2018away\u2019 keeper kit that is obviously far superior. And also that these exist among the five goalkeeper kits available to them for what will, let\u2019s be honest, because it is the history of the Scotland, be a three-game North American stopover.<\/p>\n But Mexico takes the win. Why? Tricolour innit. Always. And putting those national colours on a two-tone purple base is just bold and brilliant. No notes.<\/p>\n It\u2019s also Guillermo Ochoa, isn\u2019t it. A man up there with Pele and Miroslav Klose as the most World Cup-coded of all time.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 2. South Korea away<\/p>\n More images with the upcoming Korea Kit \ud83d\udcf8 pic.twitter.com\/1tyzznX1s6<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Vlad Ciutacu (@vladieboi) March 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n Everything that\u2019s great about South Korea\u2019s home shirt is also in place here. Bold all-over graphic given space to shine by a simple (but not simplistic) template. But this one is just even better.<\/p>\n Officially the colour is \u2018space purple\u2019 for those of you who enjoy the Dulux colour chart nonsense football-kit manufacturers like to indulge in. The important thing about space purple is that it\u2019s a lovely colour.<\/p>\n And there\u2019s also just no escaping the fact that going with so unapologetic a floral design \u2013 based around South Korea\u2019s national flower mugunghwa \u2013 in a pastel colour is a statement choice at a tournament that exists under the whims and tantrums of the world\u2019s most pathetic \u2018alpha\u2019 male.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 1. Curacao away<\/p>\n Curucao debuted their World Cup away kit last night. And it goes hard. pic.twitter.com\/h0gv2uJE99<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Sports Illustrated FC (@SI_FootballClub) June 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n We\u2019ll grudgingly concede it\u2019s not the worst thing about this World Cup, but the fact that if Curacao go out in the group stages as they likely will then the best and most talked-about kit of the entire tournament will never actually see the light of day is among the grave scandals that 2026 will be remembered for.<\/p>\n Particularly galling in a tournament that is cheerfully and unapologetically sh*tting on tradition wherever it can, and in an age where away kits are worn for absolutely no truly necessary reason all the time anyway, that Curacao will play all their home games wearing their perfectly adequate home kit rather than this spectacular masterpiece.<\/p>\n The shirt itself is absolutely very good, with a good, proper football shirt crossover crew collar, but it\u2019s the colourway of those stripes that truly elevate this to greatness isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n We are once again asking adidas to stop f*cking about, stop overcomplicating matters, and just put tricolour trefoils and\/or stripes (proper ones, mind) on all of their kits from now on.<\/p>\n This article is brought to you in partnership with ExpressVPN<\/a>. 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This one\u2019s made for the big stage.
Who\u2019s wearing it first? \ud83d\udc47#France<\/a> #WorldCupKit<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/D4iq4EB8oY<\/a><\/p>\n