Weāve officially got each teamās new kit for the 2025 season! Another week full of surprises everyone was totally surprised byā¦ for better or worse.
Here are 10 that (regardless of subjective opinions on whether theyāre good or bad) stood out in the crowd.
Authorās note: My qualifications for building this list areā¦ Iām still not really sure, to be honest. Someone asked me to start doing posts like this sometime around 2020 because I was in my early 20s. Nobody in charge has questioned it ever since.
Letās start with one that stood out and ranks among the best of this cycle. Iām a sucker for:
- A secondary kit that keeps the teamās colors in mind.
- A secondary kit with a secondary crest thatās arguably cleaner than the standard primary crest.
- A kit that's straightforward enough to earn the overused ācleanā moniker while adding enough details to remain distinctive.
Charlotteās Fortress Kit accomplishes all of that. The teal accents on black and white look great. Itās their best look since their inaugural primary kit.
Colorado's doesnāt hit quite like Charlotteās, but that secondary logo is freaking great. Thereās something about it that says āMLS 1996,ā but without a whole bunch of MBAs deciding the logos and branding. I believe kits should all be based on skateboarding culture, which, again, is a thing that actually happened.
The Headwaters Kit feels like a distant cousin of the Crayon Flag (RIP) that you didnāt know well growing up but are having a surprisingly good time talking to at this family function now that youāre both adults. More secondary logos on kits, please. They just look better.
Credit to RSL for taking some swings with their last two kits. The checkerboard pattern on the Grid City Kit is distinctive enough in MLS for this to feel like a potential identifier for future RSL secondary kits. And pairing this with last yearās Peak Utah primary kit gives them one of the most distinctive combos in the league.
This coloring would look great spray-painted on a van, but the real key to LA's RIZON Jersey is the bright and shiny sixth star hovering above the crest. That alone makes this a unique look in MLS.
It is really, really hard to mess up a Timbers kit thanks to one of the best colorways in the league. Fortunately, they didnāt mess it up.
The Forever Green & Gold Kit is yet another that could have benefited from a secondary logo that made the crest stand out a little less (three different greens are happening here). Still, the pattern works for obvious reasons and itās clearly a Timbers kit. Thatās enough to make it a good look.
Thereās the obvious Argentina tie-in with the Euforia Kit, but whatās important is this is Inter Miamiās best-ever primary kit and itās not even close.
If they wore this and the Miami Vice kit every other game, theyād have the best combo in the league. And if youāre going to see a million of these with āMessiā on the back at every soccer and soccer-adjacent function you go to for the next few years, you might as well be happy that they look really, really good.
Among all the nods to mid-to-late aughts fashion this cycle, Chicagoās Municipal Kit is the best-looking of the bunch.
All you can ever ask for with an Atlanta United primary kit is it looks like an Atlanta United primary kit.
Personal bias aside, I think itās objectively one of the best and most iconic looks in the league when they get it right. And by āget it right,ā I mean having five red and black stripes that are actually stripes (remember the BLVCK Kit?).
Atlanta will always get an A grade from me when they get it right, and they have with The Connector Kit.
A lot is going on here. Honestly, my eye gravitates towards something different every time.
For Quakes fans, that means some really cool punk rock-inspired details ranging from the club's early days to the iconic Goonies squads in the early 2010s (those teams ruled). Iāve never seen a jersey quite like this.
It's enough to make The Headliner Kit one of my favorites this cycle, even if itās not the most fashionable of the group. Big swings like this should be rewarded.
The Goosebumps Kit is a nod to Columbus native R.L. Stine (author of the Goosebumps series) and glows in the dark. No, really. Lookit:
The Goosebumps books were a big part of my childhood, and this thing is going to kill when they turn out the lights in a bowling alley. Thereās nothing else like it.
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