Our friends over at They Think Kits All Over released their Top 50 Shirts of 2025 Podcast Episode earlier this week, where they ask their followers to send across their Top 5 (in order) which they then collate and create a list of the Top 50 shirts… with many other people sharing their Top Shirt Lists, I thought I would share mine which I submitted to the TTKAO gang!
So queue the countdown music, here are my favourite 5 Shirts of the year!
Number 5 – Hamburg SV Home
My countdown starts with HSV’s 2025 / 26 Home Shirt, as we see with most seasons now there is a look back to past, and this template has also been used by Club America in Mexico but this version in Hamburg’s Tri-Colour combination was my favourite and a great example of retro done right as based on 1994 / 95 3rd Kit.
Number 4 – Swansea City 3rd
Gulf colours are one of the most iconic colour schemes in sport, so when Swansea City built on the success of their commemorative fourth kit from the 2023 / 24 season, when the Gulf logo featured on the front of the Swansea City shirt celebrating the 30th anniversary of their Autoglass Trophy win, the third kit went fully in on the Gulf colours of racing blue and orange.
Number 3 – SSC Napoli 3rd
Brown Kits often be seen in “worst” shirt lists, you the one I mean… so this Napoli choice is a brave one in terms of colour but paired with the light blue detailing and logos just works wonderfully well. We discussed this kit in Episode 35 of The Football Kit Podcast and I called it out then as my favourite Kit from Serie A this season.
Number 2 – Germany 125th Anniversary Shirt
There were so many wonderful Anniversary Shirts from Adidas this season, this list easily could have been made up of the 5 shirts from that “Family”, however I decided I would only include one shirt and that one was the Germany 125th Anniversary Shirt. One of the most elegantly beautiful shirts of this century, and does exactly what you want an Anniversary shirt to do… a special call out the blue goalkeeper version as well (which I purchased, in long sleeve of course).
Number 1 – Port Vale Home
So my Number 1 was Port Vale’s Home Shirt, another Anniversary shirt, this time celebrating 150 Years of the club, with its retro club crest, no sponsor, it just looks amazing and when you take the whole Kit into consideration for me it is Kit Perfection. This Puma template is one the best templates of the season as well, with several clubs have great shirts with it but this one is the stand out in my eyes and my favourite shirt of 2025.
Well that’s it, My Top 5 Shirts of 2025 but I am just one single voice and would love to know what you think and what made your Top 5’s!
Again a huge call out and thanks to They Think Kits All Over Pod for their hard work in creating and sharing their list, also if you enjoy these kind list please also check out Friend of Kit Geek and The Football Kit Podcast @ChatShirt who created a wonderful Top 100 List that is worth spending the time reading – you can find it here
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