Newcastle United 2025/26 kit 'predictions' emerge as fresh images hint at controversial direction

We’re a few weeks away from kit launch season in the Premier League, and that means that its slightly grubbier and more questionable cousin – kit leak season – is in full swing. For Newcastle United fans, that now means some loose sketches of what next season’s gear might look like.

The veracity of a ‘leaked’ kit which emerged a few weeks back was quickly quashed by our sister publication NewcastleWorld, who were able to offer some descriptions of what the three jerseys for next years’ campaign will look like. Of course, what we’ve since wound up with are some ‘artist’s impressions’ of what those tops might look like as a result.

Still, perhaps these new sketches will give Newcastle fans some idea of what they’re in for – and if they’re accurate then Adidas have displayed a certain lack of originality, even if some of the callbacks being made are a little surprising…

What will Newcastle’s 2025/26 home kit looked like?

To reiterate, the image above is not taken from an official design template, nor has it been created by anyone who has seen the shirt, so far as we know – but it is based on NewcastleWorld’s presumably accurate description.

Adidas seem curiously determined to send us back in time to the mid-2010s, not typically an area Newcastle fans are desperate to recall – the flashes of pale blue trim were last seen on kits in the 2013/14 and 2015/16 seasons, an era in which Puma were – quite frankly – designing some of the worst kits in the club’s history. It’s certainly not a fashion time capsule we expected to see opened again.

Still, the blue trim could look rather sharp if the patterning on the traditional black-and-white stripes is a little less aggressive, which we strongly suspect it will be. NewcastleWorld indicated that a “stitching pattern” would blend black into white, but we suspect it won’t be quite as unsubtle as it is in this picture.

The truth, of course, is that stripes in bold colours like Newcastle’s invariably look better when they aren’t faded into one another. You don’t need to blend black and white. That almost defeats the object.

Still, any fans worried about radical departures from the club’s traditional colours needn’t worry, and anybody who saw the first (inaccurate) ‘leaks’ can perhaps be reassured that nothing quite so experimental will take place. At the end of the day, it’s still black and white stripes. We just hope the final version is a little less… busy… than this image suggests.

Change kits take us back to the Nineties – and to Riyadh

NewcastleWorld also offered some details about the away and third kits we’ll see at St. James’ Park this season, and they’ll probably draw a very mixed reaction.

For the away kit, it looks like Newcastle are set for a return to ‘Saudi green’ with white trim, a reversal of this year’s outfit. Whether a football club wearing the colours of the nation state that owns it or the politics and actions of Saudi Arabia bother any given fan is a determination that most have probably already made, but it’s certainly a reminder that the owners aren’t planning to change tack any time soon.

The third kit is intriguing for different reasons altogether. It’s set to be a throwback to the 1997/98 away kit, modelled above by Alan Shearer, and it’s not a kit that many fans would have had on their list of jerseys that bear repeating.

We’re expecting the design to be a little tighter this time around, with the green and orange stripes down the right side of the kit, the colours a little less murky, and an Adidas trefoil replacing the bulky Newcastle Brown Ale logo. In the middle of those mid-Nineties home kits, it was a pretty iconic sponsor’s insignia, but it didn’t look right taking up half of the left-hand side of the shirt.

In short, Newcastle’s change jerseys could both be extremely divisive, albeit in very different ways. We’ll know for sure once the official kit launch takes place – just remember that until then, that ‘leak’ you see may not be quite what it seems.