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If anyone is intereste, the European Adidas store is selling the new Timbers kit in a sponsorless version

Oh, come on, this has to be one of the most incredible and visually coherent home/away sets ever made. (I understand if MNUFC fans don't love it becuase they want the wing back, but as a neutral non-US kit fan, I absolutely adore both of them)

Other than the missing sleeve cuffs (downgrade) and armpit inserts (upgrade) the replica version is very similar to the authentic, compared to other kits. One of the best kits of the season anyway (not restricted to MLS and adidas). With the old Alaska Airlines sponsor and without the centered logos it would have been absolutely perfect.

That's the problem when you have to name every single kit, even when it is just a simple and kind of traditional design.

Plain back, as was to be expected. Would have worked better if the blue was a few shades lighter or a bit desaturated IMO. Or even better with a matching back, of course. But nonetheless a very nice kit.

Very nice kit. Has some Colorado 2023 feel to it, but way better executed. Only downside: all yellow will be completely absent from the replica jersey. But it is a regularly returning issue for MLS kits.

First, I am superglad that none of the leaked kits feature the centered sponsors and logos I love that Charlotte FC mountain ridge theme. I hope it turns out well. I don't like the Real Salt Lake one at all. It looks like a very bad fan design. Mountains? Good. Stripes? Good. Mountains and stripes? Hell no.

Anyway, the MLS 2024 kits will be the last to use the WC2022 Adidas template, which for me gave us some of the best kits from Adidas in the last 10-15 years (Roma, Celtic, Mexico, Japan, the WWC2023 away set, some of the MLS2034...) . Looking forward to see these last 29.

This could be really nice. Would have been even nicer with the old Alaska Airlines sponsor

The only good thing about this is they use the old WC2022 template instead of the imminent (and very bad) Euro2024 template.

Tremendous collection by Adidas. Easily one of the best in years. The ones not shown on the teaser are very nice as well (Belgium, Mexico). Also, and maybe even more amazing: on most of these the graphic continues on the back! Take that, MLS.

This remains to this date my favourite Whitecaps kit, and easily one of my favourite MLS kits ever. Stellar jersey and visual storytelling (which is not a must, but if is done right like in this case it is a plus).

I have only now realized that quite a few teams have customized side hems, a nice little detail that basically no team even advertised. Most appeared for the first time on the adidas website. New England: Tricolor (@upperV03 already pointed this one out) Orlando: Man every wall Toronto: soundwave of the drum beat at the stadium Vancouver: dark blue hem with light blue pinstripe inside Minnesota: L'ETOILE du NORD DC United: ALL ARE UNITED - ALL ARE WELCOME Chicago Fire: CHICAGO FIRE FC Philadelphia: Liberty bells Columbus: NEVER STAND STILL Of course, all these are missing in the replica version, and that's a shame, as usual.

Be careful what you wish for. This season is the best example, where basically every single team (29!) received a special treatment by Adidas and bespoke kits, most of them very nice and with very different colour schemes. If you take a look at most European leagues, sure, the kits look (sometimes) more varied because there are more brands and more styles (not many striped kits outside of Europe), but usually at least half of them receive generic, basic templates. I mean, Adidas and Nike produce bespoke kits for maybe 7-8 teams each in the whole European and South American market. And these are markets with huge jersey sales. How many American teams do you think would get sponsored by the big brands (Adidas, Nike, Puma) in this situation? 1-2 each with bespoke kits and another 2-3 with basic templates maybe? And all the rest sponsored by the likes of Macron, Kappa, Castore, but all with generic templates and colours because of the low sales? I think the leaguewide Adidas contract is a blessing, even if it has its disadvantages (similar looks and templates). And lastly, regarding the sentence "They also have 100+ years of history to respect": sure, if we are talking about Real Madrid. But those 100+ years of history were disrespected more often than not if we look at Barcelona, Juventus, Milan and Inter in the last 15ish years. After all, the more the brand pays (and the more the club needs that money), the more the brands can decide how the jersey will look.

But is this actually true? We keep hearing it, but that Vancouver jersey seems to speak differently. And numbers on most patterns that we've seen this year would clearly be way more legible than on Vancouver's hoop. I think it's simply a combo of Adidas' template and their will of playing it safe. And as far as I know, this is also true for most other football leagues. For example in Italy and Spain, where stripes on the back are clearly permitted, if the number contrasts enough, but most brands (especially Adidas and Puma) prefer to produce plain backs anyway. I mean, Inter and Barcelona were even permitted to play in the Champions League with striped backs, and the CL is notoriously extremely strict on uniform rules.

The only qualm I have is that I expected something a bit more colourful after seeing the official teasers But the kit is very nice nevertheless

A few thoughts: - all in all very nice designs and colours. The league deserves some colour and fantasy - those plain backs are a disgrace though - portland again with a kit for the ages - that colorado kit is nice, but underwhelming given the promotional campaign. Someone still owes us a kit with that sweet sunset gradient of the first teaser

Another teaser. Looking forward to this. By now all my bets for kit of the season are on this one, and maybe the Colorado Rapids one if it looks like the first teaser with the gradient.

Nobody of us know how the kit will actually look like, but if it resembles this teaser in any way, this could be one of the nicest kits of the season.

Looks more like some kind of mosaic to me.

It looks like the reverse jackets are a bit simpler than those of the WC and European teams. Meaning they seem to be missing the all-over graphics on the inside mimicking the style of the jersey.

I don't know about the MLS, I've never seen the regulation. But about Europe, it's not 100% true. I mean, there are stricter rules in UEFA competions compared to domestice leagues, but most striped teams (for example last year's AC Milan and this year's FC Inter) have no problem playing with striped backs in the Champions League as well, given there is enough contrast with the numbers. The same can be said for Argentina's national team. I guess most instances of plain backs are simply brands and clubs playing it safe, even safer than the regulations demand.

Really nice shirt, although it's a shame about the stripeless back. The difference with the authentic will be some kind of jock-tag, black underarm panels and some cuff trim, I guess.

I think most kits will have differently coloured armpit panels. As the St. Louis one shows, this is one of the details completely missing in the replica version, and the recently leaked ones are all replicas (therefore, without coloured panels even if the authentic one will have them).

Neutral European fan opinion here. All in all, I think this is one of the most underwhelming MLS collections ever. THE BAD: At least there are almost no white kits, but at the same time no real differntiation between the teams; basically one template; huge majority of plain coloured kits; quite the amount of teams using similar and non-traditional change colours (mint anyone?); heavy relying on almost invisible embossment; drastic differences between authentic and replica (yeah, I know, this has tradition in MLS, but never to this degree). THE GOOD: Charlotte FC, Philadelphia, Vancouver; No white kits; Some collars and sleeve hems are a beauty, I hope Adidas continues on this road for the 2022/23 season in Europe and for the WC national teams; The few teams that tried to do something creative (Orlando, Portland, Montreal) even if the end result ended up pretty bad (NYC, Sounders).