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Football jerseys have become entrenched in modern style. Plucked from the manicured grass of pitches all over the world, football jerseys are a contemporary staple, seen everywhere from street style galleries to the runway.
There have been plenty of fashionable takes on the humble jersey. Designer Martine Rose and her namesake label have become synonymous with jerseys, and riffs on them. Fashion designers have also been tasked with designing the jerseys for the teams themselves, with Yohji Yamamoto and Madrid-club Real Madrid bringing back their partnership last year for a diabolically good purple strip.
As hype around the fashion-forward jerseys grows, it’s almost easy to forget that every season, real clubs release jerseys to wear. And while they might not yet be worthy of joining the “classics”, which are the vintage jerseys that have stood the test of time, and help drive hype today. We’re talking the Napoli 1990/91 Home Shirt, with the famous ‘Mars’ sponsor, Japan’s home jersey for the 1997/98 period with the flame decorations on the arm, a huge swathe of English Premier League teams had kits in the ’90s that have become iconic. The list goes on.
But with the ’24/’25 season close at hand, we thought we’d try our hand at ranking some of the jerseys released so far—on how easy they are to wear if you’re not a fan, and whether or not they have what it takes to enter the top echelon of “classics” like the jerseys that came before them. An honourable mention to Juventus, who narrowly misses the list, but we can guarantee the cosmos-inspired yellow jersey will be a regular fixture at festivals as the weather warms up.
