The new Crystal Palace home shirt for 2025/26 appears to have leaked online ahead of its official release.
The brand new Crystal Palace home shirt for the forthcoming 2025/26 Premier League season appears to have leaked online, with images of the new jersey, including one wrapped ready for sale, shared on social media – and they suggest an interesting new direction for the club’s iconic kit.
Kit manufacturer Macron appears to be poised to toy with the famous red and blue design in an unusual new way, and initial fan reactions have been mixed, perhaps predictably. The leak remains unconfirmed, although the kit is expected to be officially released soon.
What Crystal Palace’s 2025/26 home kit looks like according to leaks
For the first time since the club switched from predominantly white jerseys to their now-familiar blue and red stripes, Macron are adding a new feature – thick white pinstripes running between the usual vertical pattern.
Although Crystal Palace have used white trim on their shirts on a number of occasions since adopting their current template, they have never incorporated it into the stripes right the way across the front of the shirt. White also features along the sleeves and collar, making it a unique design for the historic club.
According to Footy Headlines, whose social media post above shows us one of the leaked images, the inner collar features the slogan ‘South London And Proud’ stitched into the nape of the neck. Other images show the shirt wrapped in cellophane and seemingly destined for a shop shelf, implying that the formal release of the club’s brand new jersey is imminent, but no launch date has yet been announced to the public.
Mixed fan reaction greets bold new design
Macron’s break from tradition has, perhaps as one might expect, been greeted with a mixed reaction from Palace fans who have been discussing the leaks online. A few supporters seem keen on the new look, with one describing the jersey as “very tidy”, but several others are plainly less than enamoured with the manufacturer’s handiwork, with one fan responding to the reveal by describing it as a “travesty of a shirt”.
Several fans have also responded to the original social media post from which the leak originated by suggesting that the new design looks eerily similar to the blue, red and white jerseys traditionally worn by Brazilian side Bahia, rather than anything one might associate with Crystal Palace across the last four decades. This is a rare departure from the typical Palace look since the stripes were adopted in the 1987/88 campaign, save for the one year in 2008/09 in which Palace switched back to white with a red and blue sash for a single season.
Since taking over the manufacturer’s license in 2022, however, Macron have tried several bold new takes on the usual template, so perhaps something new shouldn’t come as much of a surprise given that it’s the same supplier that outfitted Palace in blue and red halves in the 2023/24 season.
Whatever fans (and the players wearing it) feel about the new shirt, however, the focus will really be on whether we will see the brand new kit in continental competition, with fans waiting for UEFA to make a decision on the club’s participation in the 2025/26 Europa League.
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