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Same unis as the last two seasons. Throwbacks coming at some point in the fall.

Barça unveiled their new away kit on Wednesday and then debuted it that night vs. Arsenal. The kit as a whole really is a beaut; love the retro badge and the hooped socks are exceptional: The shirt itself is quite plain, but since it’s a throwback I can appreciate that they didn’t do too much to with it other than adding the blaugrana cuffs. I saw some concern on Twitter about whether or not they’ll have clash shorts and socks with this kit, and I personally am guessing they won’t. There’s no way they’ll do white shorts and socks, and they’ll have their yet-to-be-released teal third kit and carried over yellow Senyera fourth kit in the rotation for when the away kit doesn’t provide sufficient contrast.

It’s the miCondivo 22 kit, which was available in catalogs and on Adidas’ now-retried miTeam site with that chevron design as one of the many customization options. It worked well enough, and I’m sure the light blue is to tie in with AT&T. Not that it mattered, but I thought it was interesting/funny that Arsenal’s keepers looked so similar to the field players with the green/black/green keeper kit combo: They have the blue keeper kit colorway as one of their other options, which I’m sure is what they’ll wear for the ASG tonight.

As someone who thinks the Mariners’ best look is the teal tops over white pants, I think the American League set-up is actually pretty nice. The National League uni definitely needed some more work. Teal collar and cuff trim would’ve been a nice pop of color, and obviously gray pants would’ve been better than the black/dark navy. Both unis would benefit greatly by having navy caps. I actually like the gray caps on their own, but they really don’t go with either uni.

Oh yeah, I’d absolutely love to see those. Actually pretty surprised they haven’t done that yet. This year’s throwbacks won’t be those, though, since the pants that were spotted on a recruit don’t have stripes:

Update on this: it’s a go. I don’t have confirmation of what year they’re throwing back to, but I’m fully expecting it to be 1994 again. I also don’t know what game they’ll be worn, but looking at the schedule I’m guessing it’ll either be Oct. 21st vs. Wazzu or Nov. 4th vs. Cal.

They may have lightened the shade a touch ( @TruColor, do you know?) but they have the exact same dazzle fabric and same cut as they did pre-Nike.

I can’t speak to the others, but for Portland this isn’t even remotely close. I feel like I’ve posted this exact same response before because you’ve guessed this more than once.

Huh? The Raiders still wear the ripon pants with dazzle fabric. They have since Nike took over the contract.

That’s just something the Timbers’ EQ staff did, not a league-wide thing. For the last couple of years their EQ guy has customized all of the special warmup jerseys:

I really doubt they will, tbh. Nike rolled out the new template for the NBA ahead of the 2017/18 season (the first year of the contract), but they’ve kept all of their men’s college basketball teams in totally different templates. Ditto for women’s college basketball teams; they’re in totally different templates than the new template that Nike unveiled for WNBA uniforms in 2021.

Nope, not really. The closest the football team has come was in 2017 with these uniforms: The women’s lacrosse team has come the closest to doing a throwback-type design with the current colors, although the stripe colors are flipped:

Over the last several months there have been some soft rumors about the Ducks wearing throwbacks this upcoming season, but there hasn’t been any concrete evidence to back those rumors up. Well, we may now have the first real indication that those rumors are true. A recruit posted photos yesterday of his recent visit, and he’s wearing the 1994 throwbacks that were worn in 2014… but with a subtle difference. The pants he’s wearing are Vapor FUSE pants, not the Mach Speed pants that were actually worn in ‘14. You can tell by the integrated padding system, and in some of the other photos on his IG you can see the ventilation pattern and seams. Is it possible that the EQ staff ordered new pants just so recruits could wear them on visits? I suppose, but not particularly likely with Oregon. I would say this is definitely a sign of things to come, whether that’s 1994 throwbacks again, 1998 throwbacks (last worn in 2009), or a hybrid/fauxback design. Definitely something to keep an eye on.

I really love the shirt, and I agree that the pattern being carried over to the socks is a fantastic touch. I hate the white turnovers on the black socks, though. Feels a bit too white heavy, and will also look out of place when paired with the black shorts. Both the black and white socks would be better with red turnovers and black adidas stripes IMO.

The Blazers just unveiled their new G-League team’s name and branding and it is incredible:

I don’t think the designs need an upgrade, but they’re long overdue for a template change. Still wearing Elite 51 with flywire is ridiculous. Based on what Jackson State wore under Deion, I don’t have any confidence that an updated uni design would be anything other than awful.

Montreal has now (finally) officially revealed the new kit: Black shorts and black-topped blue socks. I actually like it quite a bit, though I do still wish the stripes were darker. Sure seems like they could’ve revealed it earlier this week and worn it last night in Vancouver instead of going gray vs. white.

I have to say that I really love the new Man City home shirt. I prefer when City shirts are more white heavy, and this one works really nicely with the classy v-neck. The socks really bug me, though, as they have blue stripes instead of white: That darker blue color is completely absent from the shirt and only appears as a small panel on the back of the shorts: The clash shorts are that darker blue color, which may ultimately be the reason the socks feature that color more prominently. It’s a lovely shade of blue, and I do like it being used for the clash shorts. The women will surely use these shorts instead of white like they did with the maroon shorts this year.

Hell. Yes.

Miami in red at Boston just feels right. Same matchup as one of the most iconic playoff performances this century.

That new Juve kit is another abomination in what has become a series of abominations between Adidas & the club. They got it (mostly) right in 2015/16 and nailed everything in 2017/18, but other than that this partnership has been a trainwreck.

Footy Headlines giving us our first glimpse of this year’s Pride prematch top:

Here’s my stab at this week’s matchups, with a few teams having already confirmed their kit choices. Chicago (navy/navy/red) vs. St. Louis (all-gray) *Atlanta (stripes/black/red) vs. *Charlotte (blue/white/blue) Columbus (all-yellow or y/b/y) vs. Orlando (all-purple) DC (all-black) vs. Nashville (all-yellow) *Miami (all-pink) vs. *New England (all-navy) Montreal (all-gray) vs. Toronto (gray/red/gray) NYRB (all-red) vs. NYCFC (all-city blue) Austin (green/black/black) vs. Dallas (all-white) Houston (all-orange) vs. *Seattle (green/blue/green) SKC (all-sporting blue) vs. Minnesota (all-black) Colorado (burgundy/light blue/burgundy) vs. Philly (tan/light blue/tan) *RSL (red/navy/red) vs. *LAFC (all-smog green) Portland (all-green) vs. Vancouver (all-white or w/b/w) LAG (all-white) vs. San Jose (all-black)

Not yet, but it’ll be the version that teams with UCLA stripes get. The catalog version with shoulder stripes has the horizontal seams as well. Based on the retail versions for sale, we’ll at least be seeing it in the NFL this year on the Seahawks, Colts, and Falcons. I have to assume the Falcons requested it because of the large chest wordmark; the Cardinals and OkSt. should’ve done the same.

Really great update overall. I only have a few minor nitpicks, all of which have already been covered here. The wordmark and numbers being so low does bug me, especially because it was somewhat avoidable (as it was on the Cardinals’ new red jerseys). I’ve mentioned it in the NFL thread, but Nike has an alternate version of the Vapor FUSE template with horizontal seams on either side of the collar instead of the V-shaped seam below it: Had Nike used that version on the new OkSt jerseys, the wordmark and numbers could’ve been shifted up an inch or two.