Manchester City’s Club World Cup kits ‘leaked’ – with a truly unique new feature

As clubs up and down the Premier League gear up to reveal their kits for the 2025/26 season, at least one team have decided that they need some new gear solely for the summer – Manchester City, who have decided to wear new shirts just for the Club World Cup.

Those kits, which will be worn in the United States during June and July as Pep Guardiola’s side compete for the chance to be called world champions, have now been ‘leaked’, with Footy Headlines providing new images of the alleged new home and away shirts for FIFA’s new showpiece tournament.

What Manchester City’s new Club World Cup kit looks like

Both the home and away kits have supposedly been revealed, although the graphic showing the away kit in use by Erling Haaland in the above social media post has been mocked up by a graphic designer.

Both kits – the traditional sky blue and a white away shirt – feature a black and red sash running from the top-left corner to the bottom right, a detail last seen on the third shirts in use between 2009 and 2011, with the away kit’s design essentially a carbon copy of that shirt.

The sash has never been a feature of a sky blue home jersey in the club’s history, although of course the kit won’t be used in any games at the Etihad given the Club World Cup’s location.

Both Puma-designed kits have collars which match the main shirt colour and no trim on the sides or sleeves – but few would describe the new jerseys as minimalist given the unique pattern stitched into both shirts…

An iconic celebration woven into the design

Unlike the 2009-2011 away kits – modelled above by former midfielder Gareth Barry – there’s more going on that a simple sash across the front of the top, with Puma adding a distinctive design which runs right the way across the front of the kit.

It features the outlines of fans performing the famous ‘Poznan’ celebration, which became a favourite way for Manchester City supporters to respond to important goals after they copied it from Lech Poznan fans following a meeting in the Europa League back in 2010.

The celebration, which involves fans turning their back on the match en masse, linking arms and joining arms while jumping up and down, will now be immortalised on the club’s jersey’s 15 years after it became a part of Manchester City fan culture, although whether it will be performed by travelling supporters during the Club World Cup remains to be seen.

The kits are expected to be first seen in action on 18 June, when City take on Moroccan side Wydad AC in their opening group stage games. Matches against Al Ain and Juventus will follow before any potential knock-out games.

Details of when the new kits will be formally unveiled or put on sale remain unavailable, and the same is true of the kits that will be in use in the Premier League next season. Details of the expected kits to be used in the 2025/26 campaign have already been leaked as well.