Ranking the best & worst Premier League home shirts for the 2025/26 season
Every club’s home shirt is important to them. It’s their most worn shirt of the season and is meant to portray the identity of their club, the team and their fans, whilst also allowing less room for creativity as the colours remain the same season-after-season.
Mystery Shirt in a Box have looked at all the brand new 2025/26 Premier League home shirts and ranked them from 20th to 1st, to show you the best and worst home kits from this season.
20th - Brentford FC
Moving away from Umbro, Joma have taken over kits for Brentford FC this season, but their first home shirt together just hasn’t quite hit the mark. The thick black detailing around the slit in the crew neck doesn’t quite flow with the rest of the shirt, overcomplicating it, despite some nice pinstriping details around the thicker stripes on the shirt.
19th - Brighton & Hove Albion
The Brighton 25/26 home shirt isn’t necessarily bad, but looks so similar to previous season iterations that means it sits low in our list as one of the worst EPL home shirts for the 25/26 season. It is difficult to produce shirts every season that look different from previous years, but the Brighton one in particular feels like we have seen this many times before.
18th - Chelsea FC
The Club World Cup champions have had two incredible kits produced this season in their away and third shirts, but their 25/26 home shirt is forgettable. Featuring a graphic running throughout the shirt and shorts inspired by the city’s architecture, the design feels busy and therefore is one of our least favourite shirts for this season.
17th - West Ham United FC
The 25/26 West Ham home shirt is smart and clean, but fans have voiced opinions on it looking a little like a training shirt which is why it places low on our list. Umbro have produced some great home shirts for West Ham over recent years, and this year’s shirt just doesn’t quite live up to others they have produced. It’s not a terrible shirt, but also not the most inspiring.
16th - Tottenham Hotspur FC
This season’s Spurs shirt is okay, but just that. The centralised badge and Nike logo we are a fan of, and definitely something to differentiate it from previous season’s shirts, but the red AIA sponsor still sticks out and overall isn’t one of the more exciting home shirts in the Premier League for the 25/26 season.
15th - Aston Villa FC
With nice gold detailing around the sleeve cuff, adidas have looked to make changes to differentiate this season’s shirt to last, but overall the shirt feels near-identical to the 24/25 Villa shirt, therefore sits low in our 25/26 EPL home shirt rankings.
14th - Crystal Palace FC
As a neutral, the Crystal Palace 25/26 home shirt is actually really strong. White pinstriping separating the red and blue stripes definitely offers something different, with Macron once again going above-and-beyond for Place to produce something a little different from regular red and blue stripes. However, the larger white stripes running on the sleeve, especially the long-sleeve shirt, against the blue stripes, has left some fans likening the shirt to a Brighton strip, their biggest rivals.
13th - Manchester United FC
The black and white striping on both the collar and cuff are a really nice touch to the shirt, of which is a vast improvement on last season’s United home shirt. However, the stripe detailing on the sleeves look a little out of place on an overall solid shirt.
12th - Fulham FC
A very simplistic design from adidas this season with their Fulham home shirt, however the club have decided to wear full white this season (white shorts and socks) which looks great on pitch - an all-white kit always stands out. Therefore despite being a relatively simple shirt for Fulham for the 25/26 season, it definitely gets bumped up a few places for the on-pitch look.
11th - Wolverhampton Wanderers FC
The 25/26 Wolves shirt is produced by Sudu, one of the smaller names in the world of football shirts and sportswear when compared to the likes of adidas and Nike. The print throughout on the gold-tinged shirt looks great, inspired by Molineaux, with smart detailing around the cuffs. The collar some people love, whereas others won’t, especially with the retro-inspired style, but overall it’s a strong shirt that sits midtable in our roundup of the best home shirts in the 25/26 season.
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10th - AFC Bournemouth
The detailing on the red stripes, with the colour-blocked red pinstripes either side; the gold detailing on the neck to match the sponsor - it’s a great shirt from Umbro this year for the 25/26 Bournemouth home shirt, our first entry into the top half of the table for this season’s best home shirts.
9th - Manchester City FC
A sash on a football shirt is always great, and Man City have had some great sash shirts over the years usually on away or third shirts. This season however, Puma decided to have a sash on the home shirt, and it just works. It offers something a little different to a plain sky blue home shirt, and easily deserves it’s place in our top 10.
8th - Newcastle United FC
This season, adidas have added a small amount of light blue to the 25/26 Newcastle home shirt, which although done before looks really great on the latest shirt. With a slight gradient and blur between the stripes, they’ve been able to take a classic design and add a couple of design changes to make this year’s shirt stick out as Newcastle return to Champions League football.
7th - Burnley FC
The 25/26 Burnley home shirt by Castore is a real winner. Matching the sponsor logo to the crest, Castore logo and trim around the shirt gives the shirt a polished finish on a shirt with contour-line graphic running throughout to represent the hills of Burnley. A really solid effort from Castore.
6th - Arsenal FC
adidas always produce the best looking shirts for Arsenal so they were always going to be near the top of this list. This shirt looks great on pitch too and Arsenal fans are hoping for it to be an iconic kit as they edge closer to their first EPL trophy in 22 years and their first Champions League trophy ever.
5th - Leeds United FC
Leeds’ return to the Premier League sees them return with a great home shirt from adidas, with blue and yellow running throughout the shirt to match the club crest on a classic white base. The pattern used throughout the neck and cuffs gives the fans something different, and the Red Bull sponsor just works so well.
4th - Sunderland AFC
Another club returning to the Premier League is Sunderland, and Hummel have really produced. A centered Hummel logo and club badge, their iconic chevron pattern down the sleeve and the subtle red pinstriping within the thicker white stripes makes for an instant classic.
3rd - Everton FC
The 25/26 season marks Everton’s first season away from Goodison as they start life in the Hill Dickinson stadium, therefore a great kit to match was imperative, and Castore have produced something great. A wave pattern features throughout the shirt, taking inspiration from the club’s new waterfront home and a really simple white trim on the collar ties in the rest of the shirt perfectly. We can see this shirt with “Grealish 18” becoming a real fan favourite.
2nd - Liverpool FC
Pipping their local rivals in Mystery Shirt in a Box’s best shirts of the 25/26 Premier League season is Liverpool, with their much anticipated return to adidas. It’s a relatively simple design, inspired by their fan-favourite 2006/07 home shirt, and the sales numbers have shown how popular it is, outselling their previous home shirt by 700% within the first week. A simple design? Yes. But exactly what Liverpool fans wanted.
1st - Nottingham Forest FC
Taking the crown as Mystery Shirt in a Box’s best home shirt in the 2025/26 Premier League season is Nottingham Forest’s home shirt, another red adidas shirt. The collar, the pinstripe in two colours, the pinstriping detail on the collar and cuff, the new sponsor and the way the crest has been placed on a shield - everything about this Forest home shirt is incredible. After a hugely successful season where they outperformed, they are back in Europe this year and now they have an incredible home shirt to match.
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