MLS kits 2023

[tBBP]

Hey, if Elvis ain't dead, then Jimi ain't, either...rock on. 

[VampyrRabbit]

3 hours ago, Digby said:

 

FH says Seattle is going to have a red away kit, which seems odd. Can’t really imagine that looking very Sounders, unless they’re going to yank the Kraken’s color scheme and beat them to a red base jersey. Also please enjoy this gem of a sentence from FH.

 

 

I associate red much more with the Timbers, what with most of their road kits in the early days of their MLS existance having been red, and Portland is the Rose City. Red as the main colour for a Seattle team, even for their road jersey, just seems really out of place.

 

 

[DG_ThenNowForever]

Seattle of late seems to really enjoy having ugly uniforms.

 

I can't really remember the last one I loved. The pink one had promise, but it was an ugly shade of pink. Maybe the 2016 title set?

[upperV03]

54 minutes ago, VampyrRabbit said:

I associate red much more with the Timbers, what with most of their road kits in the early days of their MLS existance having been red, and Portland is the Rose City. Red as the main colour for a Seattle team, even for their road jersey, just seems really out of place.

 

 

As a Timbers fan, I can’t help but agree. That said, I’ll be happy to see the Sounders pump out another ugly kit. Basically a tradition at this point.

 

IMO Seattle’s most successful away/third kits have featured a variation of green and/or blue. Their inaugural blue away kits, the 2013 cascade shale kits with the green/blue vertical stripe, the 2015 “pitch black” kits with neon shorts & socks, the 2016 navy/cyan third kit, and their 2017 “Heritage” white kits were all pretty good. 

[Digby]

Considering how play-it-safe most MLS kit decisions are, I appreciate the Sounders' off-and-on willingness to take more risks, even when the results are ugly. As distasteful as I found it to pretend Jimi Hendrix has anything to do with your soccer team, that last away kit really grew on me and I liked the easter egg of how it was basically a color inversion of their usual green/blue.

[MJWalker45]

9 hours ago, VampyrRabbit said:

I associate red much more with the Timbers, what with most of their road kits in the early days of their MLS existance having been red, and Portland is the Rose City. Red as the main colour for a Seattle team, even for their road jersey, just seems really out of place.

I think the idea is to avoid a clash with Portland and Austin, everyone else is less of an issue. Since they both now have contrasting jerseys they don't have to wear their alternates at home. 

 

[Digby]

1 hour ago, MJWalker45 said:

I think the idea is to avoid a clash with Portland and Austin, everyone else is less of an issue. Since they both now have contrasting jerseys they don't have to wear their alternates at home. 

 

 

Going to have to be a bright shade of red to avoid colorblindness concerns in that case. Despite my praising them for not doing the usual boring MLS away kits, white is probably their best bet. Or if away to Columbus and Nashville are concerns, maybe a saturated blue on the lighter side.

[Jer15]

With MLS eventually going to 30, maybe 32 teams there's almost not way to avoid an actual clash at some point. 

While I have previously said I dislike the idea of going white heavy It would make sense to me if MLS  just said all teams wear their primary and all clash should be white. I'd really like MLS to lean on a primary look and a clash as opposed to home/away/3rd. 

I might just be old school. Excuse me while I yell at some kids to get off my lawn. 

[PrimalCookie]

15 hours ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

Seattle of late seems to really enjoy having ugly uniforms.

 

I can't really remember the last one I loved. The pink one had promise, but it was an ugly shade of pink. Maybe the 2016 title set?

I was a pretty big fan of these ones:

Plain, sure, but I really liked the turquoise details.

[TaylorMade]

FWIW, the Sounders' schedule release is all Twin Peaks inspired. There's a red tree at the very end of the video.

 

https://www.soundersfc.com/2023-schedule-release/

[Digby]

1 hour ago, TaylorMade said:

 

FWIW, the Sounders' schedule release is all Twin Peaks inspired

 

Dammit, should have guessed. Will practice my eyerolling before the official jersey release.

[VampyrRabbit]

10 hours ago, Jer15 said:

With MLS eventually going to 30, maybe 32 teams there's almost not way to avoid an actual clash at some point. 

While I have previously said I dislike the idea of going white heavy It would make sense to me if MLS  just said all teams wear their primary and all clash should be white. I'd really like MLS to lean on a primary look and a clash as opposed to home/away/3rd. 

I might just be old school. Excuse me while I yell at some kids to get off my lawn. 

"Light" and "Dark", sure, but having all the clash kits be white would get boring real fast. It got boring when Adidas gave almost every team a white jersey a while back, and a league with 32 teams all having white kits.....(shudders).

[aawagner011]

Atlanta’s new kit has leaked. Definitely a step in the right direction. Not as good as the original but still nice. Fans wanted real stripes back.

 

 

[Jer15]

10 hours ago, VampyrRabbit said:

"Light" and "Dark", sure, but having all the clash kits be white would get boring real fast. It got boring when Adidas gave almost every team a white jersey a while back, and a league with 32 teams all having white kits.....(shudders).

I'm being a total hypocrite, because I've said exactly what you are saying in the past. I get that sentiment 100%.

It just bugs me that teams don't use their primary look as much as possible. More so last season than ever because I hate the current TFC secondary (which is primarily white, I know, I know, I'm contradicting myself). 

 

For example, this game happened in July last year. There is no reason, in my old-school brain, that TFC should not be wearing red in that game.  

 

I just figure teams will be kind of forced to wear their primary as much as possible by having a very similar/boring clash options.  

[aawagner011]

Also new Miami

 

 

and new LAFC (digging the simple crest, hope we see more of that in the league going forward)

 

[TenaciousG]

On 12/19/2022 at 9:48 PM, DG_ThenNowForever said:

Seattle of late seems to really enjoy having ugly uniforms.

 

I can't really remember the last one I loved. The pink one had promise, but it was an ugly shade of pink. Maybe the 2016 title set?

 

They’ve had a run of bad home jerseys, but the current ones are very good (although I wish they went full checkerboard or B/G stripes), and the last blue kit was good. I have loved the weird color choices in the past and this looks like another one. The electric yellow and cyan kits in the early 10s were and I hope they go back. I think the problem has been avoiding a clash with Adidas goalie kits. 
 

Also, to the fellow who suggested every team have a white clash kit: Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

 

 

[WBeltz]

So far out of the 4 (5?) leaked kits, my rankings are:

 

1. Atlanta United

2. LAG

3. Miami

4. LAFC

[Digby]

28 minutes ago, Jer15 said:

For example, this game happened in July last year. There is no reason, in my old-school brain, that TFC should not be wearing red in that game.  

 

 

I agree, and I think that's more an issue with whomever makes these kit matchup decisions at the league level. Or is it up to clubs? I'm curious. But yeah, the point is that teams in MLS seem too quick to switch to their away kit, which honestly wouldn't bother me too much if the away kits weren't almost always mono-white or mono-black with very little to distinguish teams.

[Digby]

29 minutes ago, aawagner011 said:

and new LAFC (digging the simple crest, hope we see more of that in the league going forward)

 

 

This has bee my hobby-horse for years, as well, and LAFC is a perfect candidate for it. 

[upperV03]

That Atlanta shirt is pretty nice, although I would’ve been curious to see it with black sleeves (basically a total inverse of their inaugural shirt). I do like how the 3 red/2 black stripes actually match the crest, something that always bugged me about their inaugural “Five Stripes” shirt.

 

The Miami and LAFC shirts are both pretty forgettable. I do like the simple crest on the LAFC shirt, but the rest isn’t exactly revolutionary.