Chelsea's 'gritty' new home shirt for 2025/26 season 'leaked' online ahead of release

Chelsea’s new home shirt for the 2025/26 Premier League season seems to have been ‘leaked’ online after it was allegedly spotted and photographed ahead of official release in an American sportswear store.

Footy Headlines have offered up the pictures and details of the new jersey, which partially corroborates previous unofficial leaks of Chelsea’s home, away and third kits for the coming season.

While such leaks can be unreliable, it seems as though we now have a better idea of what Enzo Maresca’s side will look like as they battle for a top four spot from August, especially after a similar leak of the Blues’ new pre-match kit in recent days.

Chelsea’s new kit for 2025/26 season ‘leaked’ online

As the social media image above suggests, kit manufacturer Nike have kept things pretty simple for the coming season, with the traditional blue shirt outlined with three small flashes of white and red, on the collar and underneath each sleeve on the sides.

The rest of the collar, sleeves and flanks are picked out in a darker blue, while a pattern which appears to show elements of a cityscape is printed across the chest and back, with the club badge and manufacturer’s logo picked out in white above the breasts.

The urban pattern is, according to Footy Headlines, “a grunge graphic intended to represent the city’s gritty nature”, although given that we’re talking about West London here, we doubt that’s going to be a sentence in the official press releases.

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The new photograph appears to partially corroborate a prior leak which suggested that we had details for each of Chelsea’s forthcoming home, away and third kits, including the graphic and white trim on the collar, although mock-ups based on previous information were missing the red flashes.

If the leaks as a while prove to be largely correct, then Chelsea will have a cream coloured away kit with red and green details and a black third kit with dark blue trim and the vintage Nineties Chelsea club badge – but none of these leaks have yet been confirmed.

Summer release set for new Chelsea kits

Footy Headlines claim that next season’s shirts could start to be officially unveiled from May, but may not be on sale until July. That suggests that the club intend to play through the Club World Cup, which takes place in the United States from mid-June to mid-July, in the ‘liquid’ pattern shirts currently in use by Maresca’s team.

Whether Chelsea wear their new kits or old ones at FIFA’s new showpiece event this summer, they may still end being without a front-of-shirt sponsor again – the new deal struck with Dubai-based development firm Damac, which will see them act as front-of-shirt sponsors for the rest of the current season, does not extend past the end of the domestic and European campaign.

As it stands, Chelsea still don’t have a front-of-shirt deal in place for the Club World Cup or the 2025/26 season, which may also be a reason for a late planned launch – it would give the club more time to print updated jerseys if a deal was struck early enough.