Newcastle United’s home kit for 2025/26 has apparently leaked from a pretty reputable source.
‘Footyheadlines’ correctly predicted this season’s kits in advance of the official release by Adidas and have once again laid claim to what we can expect from the pending announcement.
If the leaked image this time round is to once again be accurate, it’s sure to split opinion within the fanbase, in a step away from conventional black-and-white stripes.
New photos of Newcastle shirt emerge
Newcastle’s traditional black-and-white stripes will be overlaid by a distracting plaid pattern in the 2025/26 season, if the leaked images doing the rounds on social media hold credence.
It is essentially an all white shirt with two black stripes on, nothing about the back of that kit at all represents the club or the city. In fact, it looks more like a Leeds kit from behind than anything else. See the images below:
From Footyheadlines: “The Adidas Newcastle United 25-26 home football shirt will feature a unique, classic design inspired by a shepherd’s plaid to represent the club’s black and white origin story.”
The predicted kit draws comparison to this season’s Juventus kit, but is less sleek than the Old Lady’s current attire. If we qualify for the Champions League this season you would hope for a kit on the big stage that represents Newcastle, and Newcastle alone.
Adidas will surely do better!
Adidas have released some belters this season, my personal favourite being the LFLSTR long sleeve, but (pardon the pun) you would hope our shirt manufacturers would have better designs up their sleeves for next season!
Even looking at the retro designs reimagined on our hoodies and jackets are a far better representation of our club than the rumoured kit leak, but some details seem to have some grounding.
Here are the three things that Footyheadlines report the brand with the three stripes will include next season: a long sleeve home kit, Adidas ‘Elite Team’ status and the Shepherd’s Check Design seen in the above prediction.
A long sleeve kit will be a welcome addition to collectors, while becoming an ‘Elite Team’ in the Adidas set-up will see us produce a third kit (rumoured to be an homage to the 1997 away kit) featuring the trefoil logo.
The capacity in which the shepherd’s plaid design will be utilised remains to be seen, but the tartan-esque stripes in the Footyheadlines prediction don’t do it for me.
even the castore kits looked better
mat(Quote)
This is great – let’s try something different – the plaid is interesting and the back is 75% covered by name and number anyway (and they are way more legible when not on stripes). Let them do this, if you don’t like it, don’t buy, the season after will be back to more ‘normal’ I bet
KEVIN R BELL(Quote)
If thats Adidas where are their customary 3 stripes?
Must admit I dont like it so definitely wont be buying it.
SteveM(Quote)
It’s not for me.
Not enough stripes.
Tony M(Quote)
Won’t be buying it . Horrible
Margaret Aynsley(Quote)
We play in black and white, not dark grey and light grey. Absolutely not. I’ll not be spending anything on this horrible shirt.
Gilly Toon(Quote)
On closer examination. The top left image has the three adidas stripes over the shoulder, the bottom one doesnt. The club badge on top one looks different to the badge on the bottom (larger image) Top one has a label at bottom left of shirt, bottom image doesnt. Top image has a different cuff detail in that the black stops half way around the sleeve, needeless to say the bottom image is different. Even the Sela log is different across the two shirts.
There is a rabbit off somewhere. I smell total fabrication and fake.
SteveM(Quote)
This is absolute rubbish. No thanks.
davewallace(Quote)
Nowhere near the mark. The Northumberland plaid is unique and clearly hadn’t inspired this wind up.
https://images.app.goo.gl/298yx7VRah3Dv48u8
Andy Reiver(Quote)
This is NOT a Newcastle United Black and White shirt. Where are our black and white stripes. (that is what we are known for). Bad enough this season going back to big block of white on the back but this shirt is Leeds on the back and barely NUFC on the front. Far too much white all round. if this becomes the final offering then I will not be buying it. BRONG BACK OUT STRIPES, ALL OF THEM.
Nigel Welsh(Quote)
Pretty sure these designs did the rounds last season, I definitely remember there being a concept kit image with the plaid pattern circulating social media.
I’d take this with a mountain of salt, never mind a pinch.
Chris F(Quote)
its based upon the Northumberland Tartan
John Docherty(Quote)