Manchester Metropolis are set to unveil a equipment so horrible that it bought us contemplating the ugliest Premier League kits in historical past – and Newcastle United, Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United all characteristic.
We haven’t included goalkeeper kits for this rating, as a result of their wild and wacky designs (significantly within the Nineteen Nineties) belong in their very own distinct class.
With out additional ado, listed below are the ten ugliest Premier League kits of all time.
10. Newcastle United – 2014-15 (dwelling)
You’ll discover this listing dominated by away and third kits. House kits are typically the place producers play it protected. Hold it basic and also you gained’t go far flawed.
Puma evidently didn’t get that memo for Newcastle’s 2014-15 equipment. How do you mess up black and white stripes ffs?
Wonga on the entrance says all of it. John Carver within the dugout. Mike Ashley within the boardroom. Pure mid-2010s austerity distress. We guess George Osborne beloved it.
9. Leeds United – 2022-23 (third)
It’s virtually as if the chairman let his youngster son design this one.
No, actually, he really did. How else do you find yourself charcoal and orange? A equipment worthy of a depressing relegation marketing campaign.
Leeds one way or the other outdid this one the next season with a spectacularly gaudy ‘rhubarb and custard‘ effort. Had they remained within the Premier League, we’d have needed to think about that for the highest spot.
8. Liverpool – 2013-14 (third)
We confess to having a little bit of a comfortable spot for Warrior’s infamous ‘house invader’ Liverpool away equipment in 2013-14.
It was an objectively ugly strip that recalled the extra garish efforts of the Nineteen Nineties, nevertheless it was adorned throughout an unforgettable Premier League marketing campaign.
We will’t assist however image Luis Suarez doing one thing ridiculous, or ending up in tears at Selhurst Park, once we see it. It grew on us and have become iconic in its personal peculiar approach.
Nevertheless it’s laborious to make that argument for the lesser-spotted third equipment. Bizarre however not good bizarre. Sick-thought-out panels and random splashes of purple. What have been they considering?
7. Cardiff Metropolis – 2013-14 (dwelling)
Out of context, this one isn’t hideous. Very generic, very forgettable. A template completely serviceable on your native Sunday League workforce.
However that is Cardiff Metropolis. Taking part in in crimson. All types of flawed. Luckily, proprietor Vincent Tan got here to his senses and adjusted them again to their conventional blue the next 12 months.
Spiritually, if not aesthetically, ugly.
6. Manchester Metropolis – 2021-22 (third)
We’re all for attempting one thing a bit completely different. Package releases have gotten more and more boring and formulaic. However there are some stuff you don’t mess with.
Eliminating the badge and changing it with a strip of textual content displaying the membership’s title was fairly frankly an abomination.
It would’ve labored as a Sports activities Direct basement bin coaching prime you put on down Powerleague (at a push), nevertheless it shouldn’t have been wherever close to a Premier League pitch.
To make issues worse, Puma inflicted this reign of terror throughout Europe – from Manchester to Dortmund to Krasnodar to Marseille. And it didn’t work wherever.
5. Portsmouth – 2005-06 (away)
A uncommon entry from the prime Barclays period; in the course of the mid-noughties, equipment producers appeared to have struck an agreeable stability between the tasteless Nineteen Nineties and the groanworthy advertising spiel that started to rear its ugly head within the 2010s.
However the odd catastrophe slipped by means of the web when the likes of Morten Gamst Pedersen and Yakubu have been strutting their stuff.
None extra so than this hideous red-and-gold strip Portsmouth wore in 2005-06.
Farewell, Jako. You had your probability. And also you blew it.
4. Coventry Metropolis – 1992-93 (away)
As with goalkeeper kits, we might’ve crammed our whole prime 10 with loud Nineteen Nineties designs that have been assaults on the corneas.
However we’ve tried to be various with our selections right here, representing a variety of terrible types from throughout completely different eras.
The poster boy for an entire array of terrible 90s away kits is Coventry’s bombastic effort from the inaugural Premier League season.
We like a few of the most egregiously out-there 90s equipment designs, however this isn’t one in all them.
3. Chelsea – 1994-96 (away)
It was a criminal offense towards soccer to have gamers as nice as Glenn Hoddle and Ruud Gullit carrying this ridiculous orange and gray(!?) quantity.
We’re off to bleach our eyes, be proper again.
2. Manchester United – 1995-96 (away)
Manchester United grew to become a monetary behemoth within the early years of the Premier League.
Their supreme dominance on the pitch was complemented by a savvy advertising division that did an outstanding job at ‘constructing the model’ (move us the bucket) for followers abroad.
And you may see the logic in them designing a equipment to be worn casually by supporters with denims, because the story goes. We don’t assume they fairly pulled that off with this hideous two-tone gray quantity, although.
No matter how good it would’ve seemed (not good in any respect) within the stands, it was a catastrophe for the gamers.
So unhealthy that Sir Alex Ferguson infamously demanded his gamers change at half-time after going 3-0 all the way down to Southampton.
This one stood because the Premier League’s all-time biggest monstrosity for 3 many years. It’d must take one thing really disgusting to lastly knock it off the highest of the charts…
1. Manchester Metropolis – 2025-26 (third)
#ManCity’s 25/26 rain impressed third equipment. 💧
📸 @grhaer9/@opaleak pic.twitter.com/YtGmJm4gIr
— Metropolis Report (@cityreport_) June 3, 2025
*tbc
Primary with a bullet.
We await with baited breath whether or not this leak seems to be actual, and whether or not Metropolis are daring/silly sufficient to unveil this to their followers anticipating them to stump up exorbitant quantities of money to purchase it.
The launch occasion will certainly find yourself with shocked gasps, like when Homer Simpson unveiled the automotive he’d designed to a horrified public.
Puma have loads to reply for, don’t they?
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