Premier League kits 2022/23: ranked from worst to best
We scour the new Premier League kits for our favourites from the 2022/23 season. From Manchester United to Bournemouth and beyond, these are the best and worst shirts
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We all know that the clothes maketh the man, but does the kit maketh the team? Or for that matter, the fan? It’s that time of the year again when the new Premier League shirts are unveiled, an event as eagerly awaited by football fans as the arrival of an Autumn/Winter or Spring/Summer
collection is for fashion fanatics.
The Jedi mind trick of making fans pay over the odds for a luridly coloured shirt made out of flammable synthetic fabrics emblazoned with the team’s sponsor is perhaps a secret that all fashion brands would want to learn. But let’s not be churlish! New season, new kit, and new dreams await!
Here’s a completely arbitrary list of the runners and riders for best shirt of the 22/23 Premier League season.
1/2020 – Wolverhampton FC
Another shirt which seems to have been designed more as a receptacle for the club’s sponsor rather than a celebration of the club’s colours. From £55. wolves.co.uk
2/2019 – Newcastle FC
We’d love to have seen a bolder remix of their vintage black and white stripes, but otherwise a perfectly respectable mid-table design. From £65. nufc.co.uk
3/2018 – Leeds United FC
The club’s sponsor SBOTOP – an online sports betting firm dominates the plain white of the new Leeds shirt. This lack of creativity will surely make them relegation contenders in the fashion stakes. £20. leedsunited.com
4/2017 – Fulham FC
The black and white of Fulham’s team colours should make for a dynamic football shirt but sadly the sponsor’s logo dominates the proceedings. Money isn’t everything you know. From £70. fulhamfc.com
5/2016 – Everton FC
Another classic blue and white strip with something unsual lurking in the background. This time, it’s a geometric graphic which makes it shimmer as though a pool of water. £60. evertondirect.com
6/2015 – Aston Villa FC
A claret and blue shirt, straight up, with no twist. Look carefully though and there’s a chevron graphic running down the middle. £65. avfc.co.uk
7/2014 – Leicester City FC
The retro-sport charm of an extra floppy white colour lifts this classic blue shirt out of the ordinary. From £63. lcfc.com
8/2013 – Southampton FC
The classic red and white stripes but make it big. But this time the stripes have been inverted with the bold red stripe running down the middle. The away kit with what looks like a Hokusai inspired wave print is on an altogether different footballing planet. £55. southamptonfc.com
9/2012 – Brighton FC
The Seagulls enlisted none other than Fatboy Slim to launch their new shirt, which while still in their classic blue and white stripe has been remixed to feature just two jumbo stripes with a bit of yellow piping. Nice. From £55. brightonandhovealbion.com
10/2011 – Chelsea FC
Now the less said about their former Russian benefactor the better because this simple new kit while in their traditional blue has a slightly different tinge to it this year. It’s a kind of cerulean shade which recalls the colour of a clear blue sky on a cloudless day. £74.95. chelseamegastore.com
11/2010 – Tottenham Hotspur FC
The bold luminous yellow piping on the collar and arm on an otherwise simple, predominantly white shirt is surprisingly tasteful for a football shirt. This ‘classic with a twist’ design is the kind of thing Paul Smith might have come up with. From £75. tottenhamhotspur.com
12/209 – Nottingham Forest FC
The once mighty Forest are back in the top flight and to celebrate they’ve kept it clean and simple with a shirt in their garibaldi red colour sans team sponsor, which makes it extra cool. £59.50. nottinghamforest.co.uk
13/208 – West Ham FC
The Hammers’ classic claret and blue shirt has been given a very 2022 graffiti detail on the shoulders. In fashion we like to call this updating the codes of the house. It’s bold and unusual and we like it. £65. officialwesthamstore.com
14/207 – Manchester United FC
Manchester United have also gone for the retro approach with the addition of a collared shirt with chevron detail running down the edge. Which player will dare to pop the collar a la Eric Cantona? Our bet is midfield dynamo Bruno Fernandes. £70. jdsports.co.uk
15/206 – Brentford FC
The team most beloved of Kurupt FM, the nation’s favourite comedy pirate radio station, have kept it classic this season by keeping the same design from last season. This revolutionary act of not gouging their fans for money is also extremely good for the environment (synthetic fabrics don’t recycle well). From £49. brentfordfc.com
16/205 – Manchester City FC
The retro styling of City's new kit recalls their much-loved team of 1967-71 and club icon, Colin Bell. Key to this is the positioning of the club crest in the middle of the shirt. All the better to help you remember that they weren't always the winning machine Pep has since drilled them to become. From £70. mancity.com
17/204 – Crystal Palace FC
It looks like someone at Eagles HQ has been designing the new shirt with a new set of jumbo sized crayons. How else to explain how their signature red and blue stripe looks as though it’s been coloured in all wrong. Whatever the reason we like the haphazard freewheeling nature of it. £55. cpfc.co.uk
18/203 – Bournemouth FC
The lightning bolt zig zag stripe design of this shirt has a kind of high fashion boldness as though it were a garish print from a vintage 80s Missoni shirt. From £55. afcb.co.uk
19/202 – Liverpool FC
No garish graphics or fiddly piping on this shirt. Just a football shirt in Liverpool red, pure and proud. From £69.95. liverpoolfc.com
20/201 – Arsenal FC
True to Arsenal’s bourgeois status as the Soho House of the premiership (football clubs were the original members’ club fyi), Arsenal have a track record of shirts that you might actually want to wear outside of a stadium. The white collar with the zig zag piping is just begging to be popped up. And we love the millennial pink of the third kit too. £70. arsenaldirect.com
