Ranking every Women's Champions League kit in league phase

With Arsenal coming successful blistery arsenic defending champions, the UEFA Women's Champions League league signifier is scheduled to statesman connected Oct. 7 aft the last 8 clubs navigated their mode done the qualifying rounds to scope the main draw.

Now we yet cognize the 18 teams progressive -- which includes immoderate of European football's biggest clubs, arsenic good arsenic a fistful of somewhat much obscure teams from astir the continent -- it's clip we measure the 2025-26 home, away, and 3rd kits they volition beryllium wearing portion competing.

We've got plain kits and patterned kits, kits inspired by landmarks, kits inspired by stadiums, kits inspired by past civilizations and adjacent kits created successful collaboration with 1 of the top hoops stars of each time.

There is besides an inordinately precocious fig of out-and-out, nostalgia-heavy, retro third-kit designs successful the premix this season, with immoderate hitting the people much than others.

With astir 50 offerings, each of the kits person past been pored implicit and ranked successful bid accordingly, from apical to bottom, and purely successful presumption of the aesthetics connected show -- oregon deficiency thereof!

46 + 47. St. Pölten (Nike)

Austrian broadside St. Pölten play successful a bluish jersey that has a precise faint "zigzag" effect added to the worldly to lend a smidgen of dynamism to the proceedings. Unfortunately, each of that has been good and genuinely carpeted implicit with a chaotic array of sponsor logos, which has the unfortunate effect of making their players look -- much than accustomed -- similar walking billboards. The distant kit is conscionable the aforesaid again, but successful red.

45. Valerenga location (Adidas)

Valerenga's caller location jersey is astir identical to past season's design, with the lone notable quality being the stripes connected the shoulders, which person switched from achromatic to reddish this clip around. Other than that, it's reasonably basal fare from the Norwegians, who person present successfully qualified for the UWCL radical signifier successful back-to-back campaigns.

44. FC Twente location (Castore)

Twente qualified for the Champions League radical signifier with a lively 8-1 aggregate triumph implicit Polish hopefuls GKS Katowice, but unfortunately, the aforesaid can't beryllium said astir their location kit, which consists of a plain reddish garment with a "Harlequin" diamond signifier thrown successful to assistance lighten the mood. The results are meager astatine best.

43. Valerenga distant (Adidas)

Valerenga's distant kit is conscionable a predictable colour inversion of their blue, reddish and achromatic location strip, which is hardly the astir inspired prime of direction. In truth, it's small much than a template, but the nice, bold and enjoyably retro "V.I.F" nine crest is worthy of mention.

42. FC Twente distant (Castore)

Marginally much absorbing than their location shirt, Twente's 2025-26 distant kit is bluish with a integer dot graphic, which is inspired by the cobblestone walls of the aged Het Diekman Stadion; the Dutch club's location from 1965 until 1998, erstwhile it was torn down and replaced by their existent base, De Grolsch Veste.

41. OH Leuven location (Stanno)

The Belgian nine has represented its accepted nine colors successful pinstripe signifier by etching lines of red, achromatic and greenish implicit the apical of their achromatic location shirt. Nothing fancy.

40. Valerenga 3rd (Adidas)

Decked retired successful each greenish from caput to toe, Valerenga's 3rd kit erstwhile again falls firmly into the generic class with small other successful the mode of benignant oregon flourish to crow about.

39. Benfica location (Adidas)

Fundamentally unchanged for implicit 100 years, determination is astir thing caller oregon absorbing astir Benfica's latest location kit. Obviously, staunch contented dictates that the Lisbon nine play successful reddish with achromatic trim, and it would look that the chunky achromatic blocks of collar-and-cuff trim are the closest we're ever going to get to innov...