Every August the same argument restarts. One outlet calls Newcastle’s home shirt one of the worst in Premier League history. Another ranks Liverpool third. A third puts Ipswich Town above Manchester City. Read four kit rankings and you will find four different lists.
So this one does something slightly different. The ranking below weighs design against what the shirt actually costs, because a brilliant £90 shirt and a very good £65 one are not the same proposition. Ten clubs now charge £80 or more for a plain adult replica. One charges £90. One has not released a new shirt at all.
Here is every 2026/27 Premier League jersey, ranked, with the prices and the honest buying advice underneath.
How this ranking works
Three things decided the order. Design quality came first, judged on whether the shirt says something specific about the club rather than wearing a template with a crest on it. Build and detail came second, meaning collars, fabric technology and how logos are applied. Value came third, measured against the adult replica price the club actually charges.
Kits are assessed as a set where a club has released one. A superb away shirt carrying two forgettable ones does not place as highly as three coherent designs.
All prices are adult replica unless stated. Authentic versions typically run £25 to £40 more.
The 2026/27 Premier League jerseys, ranked
1. Arsenal: Adidas
The only thing every ranking agrees on. Arsenal have the strongest collection in the league and it is not especially close.
The home shirt pairs a red body with white sleeves and a bespoke crewneck collar whose shape takes its cue from the Emirates rooflines, with textured red detailing across the body and adidas Climacool+ for airflow. The away shirt is the headline act, reworking the 1991-93 Bruised Banana into a navy base carrying an engineered geometric print in navy and yellow. The third adds a pale yellow strip with navy trim and the club’s lightning graphic worked into the fabric.
Three distinct shirts, three clear ideas, no filler.
Price: £85 replica Verdict: the set of the season
2. Ipswich Town: Umbro
The ranking most people get wrong. Ipswich sit near the bottom of some lists and near the top of others, and the top is correct.
The home shirt carries a diamond emboss drawn from the floodlight frameworks at Portman Road, which is the kind of detail most clubs claim and few actually execute. The away is better still: cream with red and black horizontal pinstripes, a modern read of the 1996-98 away shirt.
Price: £65 replica, the cheapest in the league Verdict: best value in the Premier League by a wide margin
3. Manchester United: Adidas
The home shirt marks fifty years since the 1977 FA Cup final win, keeping the red base and adding three white stripes across the shoulders, finished with a polo collar and banded cuffs. After several seasons of overworked templates it reads as a relief.
The away goes back to blue, drawing on the change shirts of the late 1980s and the mid-2000s, and it is the one that will sell. The third is the surprise, built in ivory, maroon and deep green with a nod to Manchester’s youth clubs and a subtle Lancashire rose.
Price: £85 replica Verdict: the strongest United set in years
4. Nottingham Forest: Adidas
The away shirt is the single highest-rated kit in the league on fan voting, scoring 4.05 stars across more than 214 votes at Football Kit Archive. Collegiate Green with red trim and a retro white Trefoil, and it works.
The home is a straightforward red, bolder in shade than last season. Forest did not need to do anything clever and did not try.
Price: around £80 replica Verdict: buy the away, not the home
5. Brighton & Hove Albion: Nike
Royal blue with fine white pinstripes on the home shirt, referencing the 1983 FA Cup final side, with a 125th-anniversary message stitched inside the collar. The away inverts it to white with blue pinstripes, and the third goes purple with retro geometric patterning.
Brighton quietly put out one of the most coherent sets in the league most years and 2026/27 is no exception.
Price: £65 replica Verdict: underrated, and cheap for the quality
6. Liverpool: Adidas
The most divisive shirt of the season. adidas rebuilt the 1989-91 Candy design on a deeper Active Maroon base, with thicker three stripes running from the crewneck to the cuffs and Climacool in the fan version.
One ranking has it third. Another has it fifteenth and calls the pattern unfortunate. Both reactions are defensible, it is a bold, busy shirt and you will know within two seconds whether you want it. The away is cleaner, a deep navy with gold and red detailing, unveiled in New York in July.
Price: £85 replica Verdict: try it on before committing
7. Aston Villa: Adidas
Claret and blue with a retro collar placket drawn from 1960s archive designs. Simple and well judged. The away is black with claret, blue and yellow trim, a retro crest and the Trefoil, and the third carries a mosaic pattern based on Villa Park.
Price: £85 replica Verdict: classic done properly
8. Coventry City: Hummel
A promotion shirt done with care. Sky blue with four-tone jacquard stripes and navy pinstripes, marking the 1987 FA Cup win, with an off-white away in hot coral and navy.
Coventry’s first top-flight season since 2000-01 makes this a one-season shirt in the emotional sense even if it is not limited. Those tend to hold their value.
Price: £70 replica Verdict: the sentimental buy, and sensibly priced
9. Brentford: Joma
Red and white stripes with a tonal wave pattern, honey yellow accents and a beehive emblem. Good, but the design is not the story.
Brentford are the only Premier League club running the same kit across two seasons, 2026/27 and 2027/28. That quietly saves their supporters more money than any sale does, and it deserves more credit than it gets. The away is navy with cream pinstripes, styled like a tailored suit and inspired by the Kingsman films.
Price: £65 replica, and it lasts two seasons Verdict: the most honest proposition in the league
10. Fulham: Adidas
A clean white home shirt with subtle heritage detailing, which is exactly what Fulham should wear and exactly what some critics find boring. The away reimagines the 1990s black and red chequerboard with the FFC crest and the Trefoil, and opinion on it splits hard.
Price: £85 replica Verdict: safe at home, divisive away
11. Leeds United: Adidas
All white with the adidas Originals Trefoil, and a yellow away carrying the white rose crest. Both designs are strong.
The problem is the Red Bull sponsor, which dominates the chest and undoes the clean lines adidas built. The shirt underneath is better than the shirt you can buy.
Price: around £80 replica Verdict: great kit, difficult sponsor
12. Manchester City: PUMA
A lighter blue than last season, presentable and safe. The away is more interesting, built in black and yellow around the worker bee motif that has come to represent the city.
City have the resources to do something remarkable and keep choosing not to.
Price: £85 replica Verdict: fine, and nothing more
13. Chelsea: Nike
Two-tone blue with Midwest Gold detailing, a button-down collar and a woven crest, marking 75 years since Ted Drake arrived. The collar is genuinely good. The oversized central badge is not, and it is the detail most reviewers catch on.
The away is black with Midwest Gold and a laurel wreath at the collar and cuffs.
Price: £89.99 replica, the second most expensive in the league Verdict: decent shirt, hard to justify at the price
14. Hull City: Oxen
Black and amber stripes with a nod to 1978/79 and a large white collar, with a white away carrying orange and black striping across the upper half. Oxen is Hull’s own brand, and for an in-house effort this is a respectable return to the top flight.
Price: around £65 replica Verdict: better than expected
15. Everton: Castore
Royal blue with new trinity amber trim at the collar and sleeves, and a white away with narrow royal blue and amber pinstripes referencing the late 1950s. Neither offends. Neither excites.
Price: around £80 replica Verdict: inoffensive
16. Tottenham Hotspur: Nike
A traditional white home shirt with very little new thinking, paired with an away that draws on London streetwear and the club’s cultural diversity and will divide the fanbase sharply.
The real issue is the price. Tottenham became the first Premier League club to charge £90 for an adult replica, up £5 on last season, and a shirt for a three-year-old now costs £70.
Price: £90 replica, the most expensive in the league Verdict: the weakest value in the Premier League
17. Sunderland: Hummel
The home shirt is a straightforward red and white and perfectly decent. The away is the most talked-about shirt of the season for reasons Sunderland may not have wanted: pink and black, produced in collaboration with the Elvis Presley Estate, with a lyric reference on the collar.
One national ranking called it genuinely shocking. It will either become a cult classic or end up heavily discounted by February. There is no middle outcome.
Price: around £70 replica Verdict: home yes, away at your own risk
18. Crystal Palace: Macron
The home shirt in red and blue drew genuine anger from supporters when it launched, which is rarely a good sign. The Eagle Black away is far better, carrying a tone-on-tone eagle plumage graphic and an eagle silhouette across the front.
Price: around £75 replica Verdict: skip the home, consider the away
19. AFC Bournemouth: Hummel
Wider red and black stripes with a tonal pattern based on the historic crest and gold detailing. On paper that sounds good. In fan voting it is the worst-rated shirt in the Premier League, at 1.91 stars from 739 votes.
Worth noting why: most of the criticism targets the Vitality sponsor logo across the chest rather than Hummel’s design underneath. The away is purple with a retro geometric pattern and will likely be discounted early.
Price: £65 replica Verdict: cheap, and there is a reason
20. Newcastle United: Adidas
Black and white stripes with metallic silver pinstripes, which sounds harmless and has been received as anything but. One national outlet called it likely one of the worst home shirts in Premier League history.
The away is considerably better, charcoal grey and navy with a horizontal geometric pattern, the Trefoil, a retro crest and teal trim. It cannot rescue the set.
Price: £85 replica Verdict: buy the away or wait for next season
What a Premier League shirt costs in 2026/27
Prices climbed again. Eight clubs raised them this season and ten now charge £80 or more for a plain adult replica with no name, no number and no sleeve badges.
| Club | Adult replica |
| Tottenham Hotspur | £90 |
| Chelsea | £89.99 |
| Arsenal, Aston Villa, Fulham, Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd, Newcastle | £85 |
| Coventry City | £70 |
| Ipswich Town | £65 |
Add personalisation and Premier League sleeve badges and most of these cross £100.
The consequences are measurable. A FootyComps survey found half of Premier League fans cannot afford their club’s shirt this season, with 46% of EFL fans in the same position. A quarter admitted buying a counterfeit from an unofficial site, and 23% had bought one for their child. More than a third had turned to second-hand platforms such as Vinted instead.
Three ways to pay less
Wait until January. Prices typically start dropping midway through the season, and the shirt is still current for another five months.
Buy last season’s. Discounts of 20% to 50% land once the new kit launches, and clubs often run further sales at Christmas.
Go second-hand. Vinted, eBay and dedicated shirt marketplaces carry genuine stock. Check it properly before paying, see the authentication section below.
Who makes which Premier League kit in 2026/27
adidas dominate, supplying eight clubs: Arsenal, Aston Villa, Liverpool, Leeds, Manchester United, Newcastle, Nottingham Forest and Fulham. Their away shirts with the Originals Trefoil have been the standout story of the season, taking six of the top ten places in fan voting.
Nike supply Brighton, Chelsea and Tottenham. Hummel have three in Bournemouth, Sunderland and Coventry. PUMA have Manchester City. The remainder are spread across Castore at Everton, Macron at Crystal Palace, Umbro at Ipswich, Joma at Brentford and Hull’s own Oxen brand.
The pattern worth noticing is that the smaller suppliers are producing some of the most interesting work. Umbro at Ipswich and Hummel at Coventry both out-designed clubs spending far more.
Authentic or replica? Which one you should get?
A replica is not a fake. It is a fully licensed official product made for supporters, with embroidered logos and a relaxed cut. An authentic is the shirt the players actually wear, with a slim athletic fit, heat-pressed logos and top-tier fabric technology.
For most buyers the replica is the right answer. It survives the washing machine, fits a wider range of bodies and costs £25 to £40 less. Buy authentic only if you will play in it or you are collecting.
One sizing warning: the fits genuinely differ. If you wear a medium replica you may need a large in authentic.
Our tips on how to avoid a counterfeit
More than £18 million of counterfeit football shirts were seized in the UK during the World Cup alone. Before you pay:
- Check the price. A brand-new current-season shirt at £15 to £25 is not a bargain, it is a fake.
- Check the inner tags. Genuine shirts carry a hologram or security label, a style number and consistent branding across every care label. Mismatched fonts are the tell.
- Check the crest. On a genuine replica it is embroidered cleanly, with no loose threads or bleeding colour.
- Check where you are buying. Club stores, brand stores and established retailers are safe. Unfamiliar sites with no returns address are not, and neither are holiday market stalls.
FAQ
Which Premier League club has the best kit in 2026/27? Arsenal. Their home, away and third shirts are the only complete set in the league where all three work, and the away reworking of the 1991-93 Bruised Banana is the standout single shirt of the season.
Which Premier League shirt is the cheapest? Ipswich Town at £65 for an adult replica. Brighton, Brentford and Bournemouth also sit at £65. Brentford’s is arguably better value still, because the same kit runs across two seasons.
Which Premier League shirt is the most expensive? Tottenham Hotspur at £90, the first Premier League club to reach that figure. Chelsea follow at £89.99.Why are Premier League shirts so expensive in 2026? Eight clubs raised prices for 2026/27 and ten now charge £80 or more. A FootyComps survey found half of Premier League fans say they cannot afford their club’s shirt this season.
Do Premier League clubs release new kits every season? Nearly all do. Brentford are the only club running the same kit across 2026/27 and 2027/28.
When do Premier League shirts go on sale? Prices usually start falling midway through the season, with the best discounts in January and again when the following season’s kit launches in May or June.
What is the Arsenal bruised banana kit? The nickname for Arsenal’s 1991-93 away shirt, a yellow and navy geometric design. The 2026/27 away reworks it on a navy base with the pattern in navy and yellow.
Which Premier League kit will hold its value? Promotion and anniversary shirts. Coventry’s return to the top flight after 25 years and Sunderland’s Elvis collaboration are both one-season-only in practice, which is what drives resale demand.
Our Final Recommendation
If you want the best shirt in the league, it is Arsenal’s away. If you want the best value, it is Ipswich at £65 or Brentford at £65 across two seasons. If you support Newcastle or Crystal Palace, buy the away and wait.And whatever you choose, buy it from a club store, a brand store or a retailer you recognise. A £20 shirt that peels after three washes is not cheaper than an £85 one that lasts five years.