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The Drua's new kits for the upcoming season:

One of the newest teams in the Super Rugby competition, the Fijian Drua will have their kits supplied by New Balance.

Bath's new European kits:

Gloucester's new European kits:

Harlequins new "Big Game" jersey. The khaki-camo pattern is dedicated to their "fan army".

Osprey's new third kit is... interesting... Also there will be a new club in the NRL next season, The Dolphins who will play in Melbourne and will be supplied by Classic:

I may as well throw some league stuff in here as well. From Australia's NRL, the Gold Coast Titans have a brand new logo and kit for this season: Old logo for reference:

Some more URC: Emerites Lions new away kit: And the Dragons third kit:

As terrible as that name and logos were, there is still some nostalgia for me. I remember when they became the Cinderalla team of the 2001 BCHL playoffs the one year and went all the way to the BCHL-AJHL championship series. The old Barn on Blanchard was rocking that year and it was a great atmosphere to be in. Ultimately they lost to the Camrose Kodiaks and I don't think they have ever come close since that run.

The BCHL is celebrating their 60th season and each team will wear a retro inspired jersey for a few games this season. They released them all today:

Not a huge deal but URC's Zebra have slightly rebranded to include the city name from where they play. They are now called "Zebra Parma".

The IIHF has released their 2020/2021 Season Summery magazine and on pages 30 & 31 have all the members up to date jerseys. Of course their are the top nations who all have the typical Nike templates and there are some other countries that are pretty cool as well. I think its always interesting to see how non traditional ice hockey countries dress their teams. 2020/2021 IIHF Season Summery

I guess I sort of understand Nike's templates for international teams. Create 3-5 standard templates that federations can choose from, allow them to put in their colours and maybe add a line or two here and there then be done with it. It's cheap and makes it easy to produce is mass quantities. On top of that, with teams in the IHWC that are being promoted and relegated all the time, they also want to make sure that Tackla can produce the template as well. Canada has been the lone exception to change their template and only had this new one for the Olympics. Sweden has always been one to really rebel against the templates. In the 2006 Olympics they didn't wear the brand new Nike Swift template but then switched to the template for the world champs (which they also won). I think 2005 was the last time we really saw unique international team jerseys by Nike. USA had one of the best looking ones as did Canada. At least in the NCAA has a bit more creative freedom with the new Nike templates as they don't have to reproduce a whole lot of them as its only a few teams that are supplied by Nike. I think if Nike did get the NHL contract, we would have seen the teams with their individual identity kept.

URC's Lions from South Africa:

URC's Dragons new home and away kits:

Bath's Macron kits. No change to the home kit but the away kit has changed for this season:

URC's Scarlets from Wales:

Rainbow Cup Champions Benetton from have revealed their new kits for the upcoming URC season:

Here is the Wasp's new away jersey:

URC's Ulster with their new thrid kit:

Remember those fake Charlotte Checkers rebrand thing they did around April Fools and how popular the logo became? Well it looks like the team has used the logo for a 3rd jersey this season:

More kits. Frace's Racing 92 Nike away kit: And Cardiff's full kit by Macron:

Yes, yes they did. My bad lol. I thought they had put promotion/relegation on hold because of the pandemic but they only allowed promotion.

And some more... URC's Edinburgh: And a better look at the Saracens:

Even more kits coming out today. From England, Worchester have a new home shirt: Newcastle Falcons: Sale Sharks: Osprey from the United Rugby Championship: Finally Saracens... even though they aren't in the top division because of their salary cap violations.