Your favourite kit brands

[Marka Ragnos]

What are your favourite kit brands? If there's one not listed, please do mention. Why do you like them?

This is a non-anonymous, multiple choice poll.

Some of the ones listed are pretty obscure. Some may be defunct. It's hard to decide on 19 choices, but some of this list was based on actual kit brands used in the Football League currently or recently. There are of course historical and in-house brands, too, so that complicates matters. Feel free to add your own in OTHER.

[Marka Ragnos]

Umbro for me. Reasons to like: English and iconic. Reasons not to like: Kind of boring sometimes?

[GarethRDR]

Hummel are presently doing the nicest design work, though I didn't care for the stuff they did for us way back when. Le Coq Sportif do the simple elegant stuff well, but that is all they do and it gets boring as ****. Puma are the binary champs; the bad stuff is **** dire but when they get it right, it's absolute top tier, and in terms of quality and sizing they are the most consistent.

Everything else is dull as dishwater template city that I loathe, especially the purported "big" names like Adidas or Nike... awful stuff as a rule.

[S-Platt]

Been a Kappa fan since the Italy and Roma tops from 2000 was happy when we got them.  Not to everyone's taste as it's a tight fit but I love that.

Hummel seem to make the nicest looking kits.

Umbro timeless and the only true football brand.

[sharkyvilla]

I don't really have a preference, I just look at a kit and think it's nice or shit, doesn't really matter about the brand.  I guess if I had to choose one it would be 90s to 00s Umbro, especially that run of England kits with the St George's Cross.  Macron was the worst we had.

[GarethRDR]

Forgot to mention Umbro, but over the last few years they've gone from guaranteed hit to a fair few stinkers in there. Notable drop off for sure.

[villa4europe]

From what I own the kappa pro shirt is the nicest, the nike pro shirt a close 2nd, in terms of the standard Adidas is nicer than Nike, macron was shit, under armour was underrated, Luke were good, Hummel were mixed, Reebok and ASICS were too long ago to remember 

Would have owned more kappa stuff if I could have tried it on, Corona and living abroad stopped that, their sizes were stupid 

Nikes previous template was one of the worst in football history imo the Adidas one this year is a bit shit (typical)

The only umbro stuff I owned were England shirts and I unfortunately binned too many of them not sure if @NurembergVillan designed the dark blue with light collar? Stil got that one, that's a classic, wish I'd kept the red away kit from maybe 99/00 like was like a towel and the white home polo shirt which imo is the greatest football shirt ever - but I think their club stuff since has been poor 

Never owned a puma football shirt 

Edit - thinking about it more if I had to list my favourite 10 shirts of all time I reckon 9 of them would a Nike or umbro kit from say 98 to 08 with then an Adidas originals Boca shirt being the 10th 

Edited July 3 by villa4europe

[_AA_786]

I know some find their kits a bit unimaginative but the Nike kit we had with Acorns as a sponsor, imo, is still one of the best we had in recent memory.

Admittedly it got extra points for our team being good and having a charity on it but it was clean, simple and didn't look like West ham or Burnley.

Was also one of the best quality in terms of material (now I'm sounding old)

Edited July 3 by _AA_786

[Marka Ragnos]

Interesting to hear about all these kits' pros and cons. You all are experts!