Ranked! Every Premier League kit from worst to best

30. Chelsea home

After the absolute mess of last year, Nike have dialled things back for something a little more classic. Chelsea's home kit has a Bridge-inspired graphic, pairs the blue with white and red and still doesn't have a sponsor – but it's a return to form.

29. West Ham United third

According to Hammers fans, West Ham are massive everywhere they go. We can only assume that's the inspo for that huge badge on an otherwise classy navy top.

28. Nottingham Forest third

Objectively a lovely football shirt. The navy-and-coral colour scheme is stunning, providing Nottingham Forest with some modern-looking thireads alongside their two more classic-inspired kits.

27. Sunderland third

OK, so the blackout kit hasn't been fresh since before the pandemic but we'll make an exception for Sunderland, who have delivered a unique black cat badge and paired this one with the Premier League's yellow font and matching yellow cats' eyes on the back of the neck. Easily the Wearsiders' finest this term.

26. Crystal Palace third

The Crystal Palace third doesn't do anything new – in fact, it feels like they've worn this before – but Macron are experts in delivering modern-looking change strips for the Eagles. This is another fine example.

25. Chelsea away

You could tell us that Nike were simply getting use out of a Portugal shirt they scrapped and we'd believe you – but that's not to say that it doesn't suit Chelsea. The lack of a sponsor really accentuates those pinstripes, too: it's the Blues' best effort this season.

24. Bournemouth away

A remarkable likeness to Ajax's 2021/22 away shirt from a few years back… but who cares? After several fancy shades of blue, Umbro have gone for a stronger, bolder tint this time around for the Cherries, and it perfectly complements the home shirt.

23. Liverpool third

With the shade, badge and Trefoil logo, Adidas have gone back to the 90s for Liverpool's third shade: it feels distinctly modern, too, however, and fit for a new era.

22. Liverpool home

Straddling the line between simplistic and boring perfectly, Liverpool's home effort is everything you want from a Reds home shirt: deep shade, thick cuffs and no frills. It has the potential to become one that future generations flock to collect, depending on how the season pans out.

21. Fulham home

After quite a few years of the Cottagers incorporating red into their home threads, Adidas have stripped this one back to just white and black. The result is minimal and majestic.

20. Nottingham Forest away

Forest have gone with an off-white for their away, complete with Adidas stripes in the same colour and black logos: the result is elegant, like a fine pinot to complement the red home shirt. And that Bally's typeface just gives it even more class.

19 Newcastle United home

The last time that a kit manufacturer tried to deliver Newcastle anything other than stripes, it was a special shirt from 2013/14 that was received with all the support of a Swedish transfer request – so credit to Adidas for bringing a ‘tartan’ idea to the stripes and incorporating blue without invoking the wrath of the Toon. This is a healthy evolution from last year's effort without doing anything controversial, and we're here for it.

18. Brighton & Hove Albion home

Brighton are sometimes forgotten among Nike's clients, with the likes of Chelsea and Tottenham higher-profile – yet they often get nicer designs. Aside from the asymmetrical collar, this is another banger, with teal a nice change as a tertiary colour.

17. Bournemouth home

Bournemouth have had a few away and third tops in recent years inspired by the beach – yet this time, it's the home that brings a sand textures into the stripes. It's minimal, clean and stylish – and their nicest effort this term.

16. Aston Villa home

Sometimes the best ideas are the simplest. Adidas refuse to overcomplicate things for Villa this time with an ornate cuff design inspired by Villa Park and the same gold piping down the sides. It's absolutely glorious.

15. Manchester City away

We don't mean to go on about the rain kit but this more than makes up for it: black-and-silver is an underused but excellent combo, with the collar on this one meaning that it doesn't come across as too modern. Extra points for the iridescent badge, too.

14. Crystal Palace home

Fresh, bright and very smart, Macron have done it again. The Palace home shirt doesn't try and be anything too edgy, it just delivers with bold blocks and a winning colour combo. It's the old mantra that you're not cool if you try to be – and it works fantastically.

13. Arsenal home

It maybe shouldn't come as a surprise that there are 47 shirts worse than any of Arsenal's, given their status as Adidas's clear favourites. The plainest of their three designs is still a lovely top, too, with a thick, round collar recalling the 70s and all-over ‘A’ graphic a reference to the 90s.

12. Tottenham Hotspur away

Tottenham have donned all sorts in their Nike partnership but there's no beating the hits: a sophisticated black number with intricate patterning is all that it takes to knock it out the park for a Spurs away shirt and this is one of their finest in yonks.

11. Manchester United third

Eric Cantona highlights on TikTok are enduring proof that if you package up anything that reminds of us our childhood, we'll snatch it with both bands – and sure enough, United's latest away shirt gets an average of 7/10 from our voters. Black-and-yellow is very much in, making this as current as it is misty-eyed for the 90s.

10. Leeds United away

A recent shift towards manufacturers paying tribute to rival kit-makers' backcatalogue is overdue – not least because Leeds' latest away threads are the tribute we never knew we needed to the Strongbow-era change strip we'd all but forgotten about.

Meticulously reimagined from the subtle striping to the underarm panels, this is a great effort: even the Red Bull sponsor recalls the curve of the original sponsor from a distance.

9. Brighton & Hove Albion third

So good they kept it another year, Brighton have a habit of making last year's away this year's third – and we're very glad they did once more.

We've had a year to live with this top so perhaps its familiarity played a part in our voters' minds – but it's a smart kit that does well to combine yellow, navy stripes and white panels. One of the Seagulls' best of recent years.

8. Arsenal

Some years, we'd be lauding a lightning-inspired two-tone blue Gunners away strip with metallic logos as the best of the bunch. It's only that the German manufacturer have done this all before that we firmly believe there are seven kits better this season.

By this point, a design that was originally introduced by Nike now feels just as synonymous with Adidas, though – the red stripes down the sleeves are a great touch and with Arsenal's other two shirts designed to look more retro, this is a more modern-looking away.

7. Liverpool away

You know when you just picture a club's shirt and get an image of what it should look like?

Liverpool's first away effort of this new Adidas deal is perhaps the definitive change strip for the Merseysiders: off-white with red accents, with modern panels under the sleeves. It's a work of art.

6. Crystal Palace away

Yes, football kits are designed months in advance and can't possibly reference events of the previous season's campaign. It just feels so right for Palace to wear gold after winning the FA Cup, though.

We love a gold shirt at FourFourTwo and Macron haven't tried to be too clever with this one: simple black details and no pattern to steal the glare from a winning base colour. Perfection.

5. Tottenham Hotspur third

Nostalgia turned up to 11: the colour's reminiscent of 2000s Spurs away tops, the design draws on Nike's Total 90 range and the old badge is back for the Lilywhites.

The similarities with Chelsea's third shirt are there: maybe the Blues' looks more like a training top (since it has no sponsor) or the blue doesn't mesh well enough with the black.

But Tottenham's is magnificent. It doesn't even feel like it's harking back or referencing 20 years ago: it feels like it was dug up from a time capsule under White Hart Lane.

4. Newcastle United third

Honestly? When we heard Adidas were going to be drawing on the Magpies' 1997/98 away shirt, we rolled our eyes a little. It's not one of their more memorable, it's a design that doesn't exactly lend itself to the 21st Century and there are better to reference.

Yet the manufacturer have taken the base colours from that top – oh, and the badge – and just created something entirely different.

The result is something far greater than the influence. Newcastle's third kit is a future classic in its own right, blending green and orange with dark blue – yeah, really – for something that feels distinctive and modern.

3. Fulham third

Black and gold. You just can't beat it.

Fulham are the latest to try the trend with simple lining down the sides the only defining feature for this one. The Cottagers are no stranger to black change strips but with Adidas often opting for something out-there with Fulham change strips – see pink hexagonal patterns, Barbie shock pink or garish brickwork – it's refreshing to see them play it cool this time.

One of the best black-and-gold kits in the history of the Premier League? Why not. The Whites have a history of pushing the boundaries with their shirts but this one feels timeless.

2. Nottingham Forest home

Forest in Europe: it conjures sepia images of Cloughie barking instructions from the under the lights on winter evenings.

Such an evocative return is fitting of this, the best home shirt in the Premier League this season bar none. Adidas have gone full retro with the collar and introduced new lore with the pinstripes, even placing that lovely badge in a shield for its travels across the continent.

It's rare that a shirt can blend the old with the modern to quite an exquisite standard – but this is an absolute triumph.

1. Arsenal third

Do you know how good an Arsenal shirt has to be to one of their greatest-ever?

The easy answer for Adidas to celebrate 20 years since Arsenal left Highbury would have been to give the Gunners a deep red shirt to recall the home top of 2005/06. But what they've produced even rivals that classic in terms of style.

The white base has Highbury's iconic patterns embossed into the fabric itself, with touches of redcurrant – naturally – and gold for a truly regal effort. This is everything a football shirt should be.