10 Worst Kits in Football for 2024/25 [Ranked]

What a football team wears when stepping foot on the pitch is important for several reasons. Naturally, the most important is in the context of the game itself. Kit clashes are important to avoid so that teammates can spot each other, and as Manchester United found out in the 1990s, you also don’t want to blend in with the crowd.

There is also the commercial aspect. Produce a lovely-looking jersey and fans will be more inclined to part ways with their hard-earned money to buy it. So for some teams, the state of what they have brought out may backfire financially. With that in mind, the 10 worst kits from the 2024/25 season have been named and ranked below.

10 Tottenham Hotspur

Away kit

If you take a close look at the URL for Tottenham’s press release for their away kit this season, you will see the slogan ‘steal the show.’ However, what came out was far from doing that. Paying homage to the jerseys from the 1980s, the mix-and-match variants of blue and the striped pattern isn’t exactly the showstopper that Spurs were promising.

While Ange Postecoglou remains adamant his side are capable of winning a trophy this season, they won’t be picking up any fashion awards anytime soon. Nor will they be hoping to be donning this outfit if they are to lift their first silverware in over a decade.

9 Como 1907

Home kit

If not for one massive detail, there’s nothing majorly offensive about the Como 1907 kit. The Italian side headed up by Cesc Fabregas could’ve got away with a simple dark blue shirt and white shorts. Instead, the inclusion of a waterfilled bar graph was added to the bottom of the strip that gives the illusion that the designer began to mess around on WordArt before printing the kit.

The exact same design is also apparent on the white away kit. At least on that occasion, the lighter background suits the texture and pattern in the rectangular blocks. The same can’t be said of the more regular fixture.

8 Chelsea

Home

When designing the home kit for Chelsea, it seems as though Nike were working with the instructions of doing whatever they could to distract from the fact the club hadn’t secured a sponsor for the front of their shirts. While this wouldn’t have actually been the case, it’s hard to think otherwise.

The idea behind the bold pattern is that it’s meant to represent the hottest part of a flame, as anyone who ever used a Bunsen burner would know. Unfortunately for the Blues, that’s about as hot as they get, as they have continued to perform inconsistently under the fifth manager of the Todd Boehly regime.

7 Girona

Home Kit

It’s not stripes. It’s not ‘squiggles.’ If anything, it looks like Girona’s home kit is melting. That is the best way to describe the unique design that can be found on the front of their 2024/25 home shirt.

The Catalan outfit shocked the entirety of Spain when they managed to earn qualification into the Champions League this campaign. You would’ve thought that a standout kit to commemorate this historic achievement would be key. Instead, what they are selling to the fans doesn’t even rank as the top result when searching for kits on their website, seemingly implying that last season’s option remains more appealing.

6 Manchester City

Fourth kit

‘Don’t look back in anger,’ is no longer just some lyrics to an Oasis song. It’s also a summary of how Manchester City fans will feel about their limited edition fourth kit. Inspired by the return of the popular rock and roll band, the Cityzen’s rolled out the new jersey in their opening Champions League clash with Inter Milan.

There was one slight problem in the fact that the players couldn’t actually pick out one another on the pitch, as Manuel Akanji explained at full-time. It may be time for Noel Gallagher and co to go back to the drawing board.

5 Southampton

Away kit

Bright yellow kits are always a controversial route. Some become iconic, such as Chelsea’s away number from the late 2000s. It was a classic for the wrong reasons, given that it was awful too. However, it was at least rememberably so. Southampton’s 2024/24 away kit though, is just forgettably bad.

The warmer yellow pattern on top makes things even worse. The club are among the favourites to get relegated, but this kit needs to go straight in the bin. Sadly for the Saints, it’s not the only shocker that the club have come out with this season.

4 Southampton

Third kit

The facial expression Will Smallbone pulls while posing for a photo in this atrocity tells the entire story. That is a man who is thinking ‘why on earth do I have to wear this?’ Thankfully, the fact it isn’t the home or away strip means seeing it should be a rare occurrence. Not that the away option is much of an improvement.

There’s no reason listed as to why neon pink was chosen as the primary colour. Perhaps it is just a trend, as Russell Martin’s side aren’t the only Premier League club to go with that very option.

3 Ipswich Town

Third kit

Competing with Southampton for Premier League safety and in the battle for the worst kit in English football. Ipswich have also opted for the violent pink option – violent because of how dangerous it is on the eyes. While there is a bit more substance to it, the inclusion of Framingham Castle is really a hindrance rather than a help. As are the other minor patterns just below the logo.This is yet another musically inspired number, with Ed Sheeran playing a role in the design. Much like with Oasis, it is clear the artist’s talents lie elsewhere.

2 Hartberg

Away kit

Chelsea might need to speak to Austrian side Hartberg FC, as they appear to have plenty of sponsors to go around. It is incredible to think that 50 years ago, the idea of any sponsor on a football team’s kit was a complete novelty. And yet, the side who sit rock bottom in the Austrian Bundesliga have a total of 13 different logos emblazoned across the front of their shirt alone.

What’s all the more tragic is that the use of the electric blue fading into a darker one could actually be a stunning design. The potential that has to offer is the only thing that saves it from falling to first place on this list.

1 Wolfsberger

Home kit

Wolfsberger decided to take one look at their Austrian Bundesliga rival’s terrible kit and said ‘we can make it a little bit worse.’ While there aren’t as many logos and sponsors on display, it looks as if there are due to the fact that they are placed on a plain white shirt that makes it look like they have been cut out and stuck on in the first place.

What’s worse is that Wolfsberger are genuine title contenders, so there may be a trophy celebration at the end of the season with this monstrosity being paraded around as a kit of champions.