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Nike Reveal WSL Match Balls for the 26/27 Season.

Ahead of the new campaign, WSL Football and Nike unveiled the official match balls for the 2026/27 season, marking the next chapter in a multi-year partnership that supports players across the Barclays Women's Super League, Barclays Women's Super League 2 and the Subway Players Cup.

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The Worker Bee Takes Centre Stage for Manchester City’s 26/27 Away Shirt

Manchester City and PUMA have just delivered a masterclass in how to launch a football shirt. Forget a few social media teasers and a carefully timed photoshoot. This was a full-scale takeover of Hong Kong Harbour, complete with fans gathering in anticipation and, somehow, a floating football pitch stealing the spotlight. As far as kit reveals go, it doesn't get much better than that.

Performance Football Boots

Nike Pay Homage to 2010 World Cup With New Tiempo Ligera Colourway

The 2010 World Cup was one of the first where brands introduced proper boot packs, uniting their rosters in corresponding colourways. For Nike it was the silver and orange hues of the “Elite Pack”, and now the Swoosh are paying homage to that pack with the Tiempo Ligera getting a retro treatment, arriving in a colourway that instantly evokes memories of South Africa 2010.

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Barcelona & Nike Pay Tribute to Icon Kobe Bryant Once Again With Latest Away Kit Collection

The Mamba lives on in Catalonia. Barcelona's 2026/27 away kit once again honours Kobe Bryant, doubling down on a crossover that continues to push football culture into new territory.

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Arsenal & adidas Continue to Set the Standard With New 26/27 Away Shirt

Another season, another Arsenal x adidas masterclass. Revisiting the legendary Bruised Banana without trying to recreate it, the 2026/27 away shirt proves once again why the Gunners are among football's best dressed.

Performance Football Boots

Nike Lock In for the New Season With Bold Break 'Em Pack

The international stage is done. Now it's time for the weekly grind. Nike looks toward the new club season with the 'Break 'Em' Pack, dressing the Mercurial, Phantom and Tiempo in bold new colourways built to make an instant impression.

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Real Madrid and adidas Unveil 2026/27 Away Shirt

The real ones will recognise this one. Real Madrid's latest 26/27 away shirt sees adidas revive a familiar shade of green, proving that some of the club's best kits have always come away from the Bernabéu.

Design Miscellaneous

12 Pentagons Revisits a Viral Favourite With the New J-Swerve Classic

From viral concept to limited-edition reality, 12 Pentagons has transformed one of its most celebrated experiments into a physical release. Introducing the J-Swerve Classic: a hand-stitched leather football built from eight identical spiral panels, merging mathematical precision, traditional craftsmanship and the inventive design thinking that continues to define Jon-Paul Wheatley's boundary-pushing project.

Digital Cover | Kylian Mbappé Is Already Thinking About the Next Moment

Kylian Mbappé has spent most of his adult life being described like a future event.

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How Amadora Became The Star Of Its Own Kit Campaign

Amadora is not the Lisbon you see on postcards. It sits on the capital’s edge: dense, diverse and shaped by generations of families arriving from across three continents.

Features

The Best Football Rebrands Begin With What’s Already There

For a while, modernising a football club meant teaching it to look less like one, with crests stripped back and typefaces made geometric.

Interviews

How SOCIETAS Made Werder Bremen More Like Itself

Most football rebrands are judged by what they change. A crest is redrawn, a colour is brightened or a familiar symbol is reduced until it feels suited to an app icon.

Features

The Neighborhood World Cup is Where Football, Art & Community Collide

Turns out FIFA aren’t the only organisation hosting a World Cup this summer. Whilst the world’s greatest players have been duking it out, football-inspired lifestyle brand and community space NEIGHBORHOOD SPORTS CLUB has been hosting its own tournament, featuring 16 teams of Bay Area locals representing 16 countries, celebrating the diversity of the Bay and its deep football culture. And frankly, it looked beautiful.

Features

This World Cup Was Broken & Compromised But Still Beautiful

Now the World Cup is over, I've been thinking about the version of this World Cup that belonged to Donald Trump and Gianni Infantino.

Features

The Football Crest Is Sacred – But It Still Needs Updating

Football supporters have a curious relationship with change. Give them a new manager and they'll debate it. A new signing and they'll judge it. A new kit and they'll inevitably buy it. A new badge, however? That's where things get emotional.

Interviews

Meet The Photographer Capturing Argentina’s Football Religion

Before photographer Camila Faraci was born, she says, she already had a football team. Not a name, not yet, but a club.

Features

How Como 1907 Became Football’s Most Beautiful Idea

There are worse places to watch football than Lake Como. That much becomes clear before a ball has even been kicked.

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Interviews

Sam Kerr is Still Chasing More

Whilst the action on the pitch was non-stop at the Nike Toma National finals, we took a quick breather away from it all to chat to one of the best in the game: Sam Kerr. As the Aussie prepares for a fresh start away from the WSL, we get to know a little more about the person behind the player.

Interviews

Bruno Fernandes: Carrying the Weight of Expectation into a Summer of Possibility

Fresh off another standout campaign, we caught up with Portuguese Magnífico Bruno Fernandes to look back on the season that was, and ahead to a summer full of possibility.

Interviews

Digital Cover | Kylian Mbappé Is Already Thinking About the Next Moment

Kylian Mbappé has spent most of his adult life being described like a future event.

Interviews

Mason Mount Is Still Playing for the Love of It

Long before Mason Mount became a professional footballer – before the fame, the scrutiny and the pressures of elite competition – there was the love of the game.

Interviews

Folarin Balogun: From London, With Pressure

Folarin Balogun knows what pressure feels like. He has grown up with it, played through it, moved because of it, and, more recently, learned how to make it work for him.

Interviews

The Quiet Control of Martin Ødegaard

Martin Odegaard rarely gives much away. I’m not talking about possession (although that would be accurate), I mean how he speaks, in the same measured way he plays football: controlled, precise and unrushed.

Interviews

Digital Cover | Malick Thiaw: For The Love of Defending

Malick Thiaw isn’t your archetypal defender. He’s different, and representative of a new, exciting modern era of defending.

Interviews

Digital Cover | Christian Pulisic Explores Self Expression, Creativity, and Composure

As the World Cup rapidly approaches, Christian Pulisic steps into SoccerBible’s Digital Cover spotlight, reflecting on pressure, self-expression, and the journey from Pennsylvania to the global stage.

How Conflict Is Shaping Football Careers in Gaza

For Mohammed Balah, football didn't begin beneath floodlights or inside the managed ecosystem of a youth academy. It began on the streets of Gaza.

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