Every Premier League 2026-27 Kit Ranked: The Best, the Worst, and the Ones Worth Buying

The Context: World Cup Meets New Season

This is the first Premier League season after a World Cup held on home soil in North America. Several clubs have leaned into the global attention — new kit sponsors, bolder designs, and a general sense that football's biggest club league is trying to make a statement alongside its national teams.

The new Premier League season is edging closer, with the action getting underway on August 21. As Mikel Arteta's Arsenal prepare to defend their Premier League title, all 20 English top-flight clubs have now unveiled their home kits for the 2026-27 season.

The Brighton 26-27 away kit currently has the top spot among fan-rated kits with a score of 4.11 out of 5. Fans have praised the design on social media, noting that Nike has absolutely nailed the aesthetic this year.

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S-Tier: Instant Classics

🏆 Sunderland — 10/10

Sunderland made their fans wait until the afternoon of July 29, when their new home kit was revealed at a pop-up event in New York. It was worth the wait.

The vintage-style shirt keeps the thick red and white vertical stripes but introduces a pointy collar with the club's logo protected by an old-school crest. It's an instant classic as Sunderland play a first season in the Europa League.

The Sunderland shirt is the story of the summer. Red and white stripes, retro collar, a club returning to European football for the first time in decades — this jersey sells on the emotion of the moment as much as the design itself. One of the two shirts to earn a perfect 10/10.

Buy it: The best-looking kit of the season and a piece of Sunderland's historic European return.

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🏆 Coventry City — 10/10

Only two Premier League clubs earn perfect scores — Sunderland and newly-promoted Coventry City.

Coventry are back in the Premier League and their kit celebrates the occasion with a design that honours the club's heritage without looking backward. The sky blue is perfectly executed, the sponsor placement clean, the overall effect one of the season's most satisfying designs.

Buy it: Promoted clubs always have a special energy in their first season back. The Coventry kit captures that perfectly.

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⭐ Brighton — Fan's Choice

The Brighton 26-27 away kit currently has the top spot with a score of 4.11 out of 5. Fans have praised the design on social media, noting that Nike has absolutely nailed the aesthetic this year, which is further backed up by the club's home shirt also cracking the top 10.

Nike's work on Brighton this season is the best kit deal in the Premier League. Both the home and away shirts are among the best-designed kits in the division. For fans who care about aesthetics above club allegiance, Brighton is the obvious choice this season.

Buy it: If you want the best-looking Premier League kit this season, Brighton's away is the answer.

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A-Tier: Worth Buying

Manchester United — Strong but Familiar

Apart from the polo collar and striped cuffs inspired by the kits worn during the club's FA Cup triumph in 1977, Manchester United's new home kit looks similar to last season's. According to the club's website, the jersey feels both nostalgic and progressive. We're not entirely convinced.

The all-red shirt is lovely with a small but eye-catching black and white strip pattern on the collar and sleeve. United are yet another team to bring in a collar for this season. It looks like a classic Manchester United shirt design. You won't get too many complaints about this at all as United prepare for their first full season under Michael Carrick.

The United away kit is another matter entirely. If we were ranking away kits, United would be first place on this list.

Buy it: The away kit specifically. One of the season's best away shirts.

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Arsenal — Champions, Not Quite the Best Kit

Arsenal prepare to defend their Premier League title. We were first introduced to Arsenal's home shirt in mid-May, when they lifted the Premier League title for the first time in 22 years. Not our favourite kit drop of the season by any means, but certainly not the worst.

The Arsenal shirt is perfectly competent — the cannon, the red, the classic look. But for a club lifting their first title in 22 years, this was an opportunity for something more memorable that wasn't fully taken.

Buy it: Yes — you want the champions' jersey. Just don't expect it to top any design rankings.

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Manchester City — Modern and Sleek

Featuring a tonal gradient that darkens across the shoulders before fading into a lighter shade, City's new home kit is said to "reflect the relentless ambition of a club that has spent years making the extraordinary feel routine." A modern, sleek design that will go down as one of City's best home shirts in recent years.

Buy it: The gradient design is genuinely excellent and one of the most wearable kits of the season.

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Aston Villa — Top 3 Fan Rating

Aston Villa's 26-27 home kit ties with Ipswich Town with a strong 4.04 fan rating. Villa have found the balance between their historic claret and blue identity and a modern enough design to feel fresh. With Villa in European football again, this jersey will be seen across the continent.

Buy it: Strong design, European ambitions, and an increasingly global fanbase.

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B-Tier: Fine But Forgettable

Liverpool — 6th in Rankings

Liverpool ranks 6th in the Premier League home kit rankings for 2026-27. The red is always reliable, but this season's Reds shirt doesn't push any boundaries. It will sell in enormous quantities regardless.

Chelsea — Best Away, Average Home

Chelsea's 2026-27 away kit has received a rating of 4.21 stars — the highest-rated individual kit in the Premier League. The home kit, however, is another story — Chelsea's neon-yellow badge wasn't enough for people to be able to recognise the shirt, and they've added a faint extra badge in the detailing, right on the stomach.

Buy it: The away kit specifically. The best individual kit in the league by fan rating.

Tottenham — Inoffensive and Unmemorable

Classic white, clean lines, nothing to offend anyone. Tottenham's home kit is exactly what you'd expect — and nothing more.

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C-Tier: Misses

Newcastle — The Barcode

Newcastle's release for the 2026-27 campaign is one of the most talked-about drops of the summer, with many comparing it to a barcode.

There's too much going on with Newcastle's kit — with far too many lines involved, it might make opponents feel like they're in a life-sized game of geometry dash rather than top-flight football.

It will sell because it's Newcastle and it's controversial — but controversy is not the same as quality.

Hull City — Bottom of the Kit Table

Starting us off in last place is newly-promoted Hull City, who have come out with an absolute howler of a home kit that looks more like a rugby jersey. The Tigers have ditched last season's one-colour body in favour of retro black and orange stripes, but they've got a bizarre new logo featuring just the letters HCAFC, which definitely looks odd.

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The Worst Kit of the Season: Bournemouth

Bournemouth's has been voted one of the worst kits in Premier League history, despite its so-called "subtle" tonal pattern.

One of the most negative reactions to any Premier League kit in recent memory. The "subtle tonal pattern" that isn't subtle at all. A design that has united supporters and critics in rare agreement.

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The Complete Rankings Summary

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Premier League Season Starts August 21

The 2026-27 Premier League season opens August 21. All 20 club jerseys are available now at JerseyFun — from Sunderland's perfect-10 debut European shirt to the defending champions' Arsenal red.

Browse the full Premier League 2026-27 collection at JerseyFun →

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Published: August 10, 2026. Premier League 2026-27 season begins August 21. Arsenal are the reigning champions. Sunderland and Coventry City are newly promoted.