Inter Milan's home kit for the 2025/26 season has been 'leaked' - and it's utterly hideous

Milan is the self-styled fashion capital of the world, and for years its two famous football teams have been fine ambassadors – Inter Milan and AC Milan have invariably had some of the best and most iconic kits in football. So it’s a crying shame that apparent leaks of one of the Serie A superpowers’ new kits for the 2025/26 season reveals one of the most hideous shirts we’ve ever seen.

Inter are the culprits, here. For decades, the simple black and blue stripes have graced many great players and have been a staple of the international football hipster’s wardrobe. Those Nerazzurri jerseys have always been first rate. Not any more.

Footy Headlines are among a number of outlets carrying new photographs of Inter Milan’s shirt for next season - and sadly, we have some horrors in store whenever we sit down to watch the Serie A highlights.

Inter Milan’s hideous new home kit for the 2025/26 season

Yet again, Nike have toyed with the simple style that Inter have been with associated with for generations – not since 2019 have they had the design we all immediately summon to our mind’s eye when the club’s name is mentioned.

Some of Nike’s attempts to play about with a classic have been passable (the zigzag stripes from the 2020/21 season), some have been mildly infuriating (the complete change of pattern on the right side of this season’s top), and some have simply been sacrilegious (dropping the stripes entirely while being sponsored by an NFT company in 2021/22).

The 2025/26 jersey, however, is the worst of the bunch. Everything about this top is wrong, an assault on both the senses and a design tradition that stretches back to 1929. If any club has to take the field in an uglier kit anywhere in the world over the next year, they will have our immense sympathy.

For some reason, the stripes this season are all over the place. They’re much too narrow, but that’s just the start of the problems – they bulge and warp, thinner at one point and fatter at the next. Instead of carrying on up to the collar, they end abruptly at an angle. They look like they were designed by a desperate first-year fashion student in the middle of a peyote trip.

Apparently, the black stripes are meant to spell ‘Inter’ across the chest. They don’t. They spell the final nail in the coffin of the club’s reputation as one of the best-looking clubs on the continent. Then there’s the badge, manufacturer’s logo and sponsor, picked out in a colour that’s a sort of eye-gouging neon turquoise. Everything about it Inter’s new home shirt is wrong… and fans are stuck with it for a full year.

Away and third kits set to be little better next season

Sadly, Nike don’t fare much better with the ‘leaked’ away and third kits, details of which appear on Football Kit Archive’s page for the club.

The away jersey, largely white with geometric flashes of pale purple and mint green, is merely bad rather than execrable, like the home shirt, while the third shirt – a dull blue and orange affair – is simply uninspired. Overall, though, one wonders what Nike did with the designers who made so many classic shirts in the past.

Nike may not have come up with the black and red stripes, but they did pretty much perfect the form, after all, producing perfect Inter Kits on several occasions in the 2000s and 2010s. They were also responsible for the gorgeous white kits with a black and blue diagonal sash, one of the best change kits in Europe on several occasions.

Admittedly, vintage Inter shirts were often even better. The Misura-sponsored kits of the eighties were design classics (as modelled handsomely by Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and Hansi Müller above) and the sponsor-free jerseys that preceded them arguably even better.

Those days are long gone, however, and AC Milan will comfortably be the better-dressed team in the San Siro next season – while the footballing world, as a whole, has become a little uglier thanks to Nike’s refusal to stick with one of the finest shirts in the game.