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By Joe Short\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Friday, 11 November 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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World Cup kits have the ability to throw us back decades and remember the glorious \u2013\u00a0and not so glorious \u2013\u00a0tournaments from our youth. Some kits inspire joy, others despair, and a fair few total apathy.<\/span><\/p>\n

This winter\u2019s World Cup<\/a> has the opportunity to be one of the best. Players aren\u2019t exhausted from playing a full domestic season yet, so the football should be high quality. England<\/a> are considered one of the favourites, despite their recent results, and Wales could well spring a surprise too.<\/span><\/p>\n

But there\u2019s also the possibility that this will be a disastrous World Cup. Few fans, soulless stadiums and disjointed teams could sap the spirit from the festival of football.<\/span><\/p>\n

But at least we have the kits, right? The World Cup 2022 kits offer us a chance to rekindle our love of previous shirts, find new, diverse designs, and scoff at the most ridiculous attempts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Below, we\u2019ve ranked the World Cup kits from all 32 teams based on the combination of home and away kits. And it\u2019s fair to say nations hosting Nike and Puma shirts have come out worst.<\/span><\/p>

World Cup 2022 kits ranked<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Before we look at the kits individually it\u2019s worth remembering there are nine manufacturers who have produced kits for the 2022 World Cup. Among them, Nike have created the most with 13 and most kits follow the same template. The list of kit manufacturers is as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n
Nike \u2013 13 shirts<\/span><\/li>\n
adidas \u2013 7 shirts<\/span><\/li>\n
Puma \u2013 6 shirts<\/span><\/li>\n
New Balance \u2013 1 shirt<\/span><\/li>\n
hummel \u2013 1 shirt<\/span><\/li>\n
Kappa \u2013 1 shirt<\/span><\/li>\n
marathon \u2013 1 shirt<\/span><\/li>\n
Le Coq Sportif \u2013 1 shirt<\/span><\/li>\n
Majid \u2013 1 shirt<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>
Here\u2019s our ultimate review of the World Cup 2022 kits, ranked from worst to best.<\/span><\/p>\n
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32. Switzerland<\/b><\/h2>\n
Of all the Puma aberrations at this World Cup, Switzerland has fallen victim to the worst. The home shirt is almost acceptable if the brief was to design an identikit 1990s football strip for a retro computer game.<\/span><\/p>\n
The away shirt is an eyesore. Seeming to take inspiration from Instagram\u2019s original borders \u2013 remember putting frames and filters on every picture you ever took? #Inspired \u2013 Puma have handed Switzerland a hospital pass of an away shirt.<\/span><\/p>\n
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31. Senegal<\/b><\/h2>\n
We really have to talk about Puma. Never shy of deploying a freak World Cup kit (who remembers Cameroon\u2019s sleeveless shirts?), Puma seem to think dressing footballers up as wannabe Teletubbies is what constitutes fashion these days.<\/span><\/p>\n
Senegal\u2019s green away shirt is an aberration \u2013 as is Switzerland\u2019s, Serbia\u2019s and Morocco\u2019s. While Puma have just about succeeded with the rugby league style chevron on the white home shirt, this ridiculous away shirt \u2013 which acts as a template for other Puma teams \u2013 is simply an embarrassment for the sport.<\/span><\/p>\n
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30. England<\/b><\/h2>\n
You wait an extra six months for the World Cup and then this is what you\u2019re given as a home shirt. England fans are right to be furious about this \u2013 possibly the worst England home shirt in the history of the Three Lions. We thought we\u2019d got rid of shoulder pads after the traumatic Euro 2016 fiasco, which made Jamie Vardy and co. look like wannabe NFL players.<\/span><\/p>\n
There is not a single redeeming feature of this England home shirt. The blue fade on the shoulder looks like it\u2019s been done on Microsoft Paint. The shoulders themselves have been stuck on to a white bodice with no thought. The England badge is massive, the Nike tick lonely. It looks like the sort of knock-off shirt you could buy for \u00a33.99 during Euro 2004.<\/span><\/p>\n
As does the away kit. Yet is harks back to an en-vogue \u201990s style but a patterned collar and tiny V on the neck can\u2019t save what is another dull effort. How Nike could get this so wrong after their successful Euro 2022 England Women\u2019s kits is remarkable.<\/span><\/p>\n
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29. Netherlands<\/b><\/h2>\n
You might need to turn down the brightness on your TV when watching Netherlands in this home shirt this World Cup. \u00a0has seen the shirt up close and it\u2019s an aberration. Glossed with the sort of sheen you\u2019d be pleased to produce from your bathroom tiles, the Netherlands home shirt looks like the orange Quality Atreet \u2013 you can almost hear crinkle of the the plastic overlay just looking at it.<\/span><\/p>\n
Nike have done better with the away shirt. A deep, rich blue is fairly steady work. But the collar is just as bad as England\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n
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28. Serbia<\/b><\/h2>\n
Oh, Serbia, what did your players do that they deserve to wear these shirts? Puma have gone for that traditional Serbian colour combo of red and\u2026 <\/span>gold<\/span><\/i> for the home shirt. The gold is too thick, the red too plain, the collar a miserable combination of both.<\/span><\/p>\n
Serbia\u2019s away shirt is disastrous. It\u2019s another knock-off-esque T-shirt.<\/span><\/p>\n
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27. Australia<\/b><\/h2>\n
There\u2019s a very real possibility this home shirt could come to look and feel just like Nike\u2019s Netherlands aberration. At least the Aussie Green trim exists to distract from the lack of collar, massive logo and garish textual pattern.<\/span><\/p>\n
At least the away shirt is OK, right? Well, no. It\u2019s even worse. Australia\u2019s blue World Cup shirt looks as lazy and uninspired as England and USA\u2019s white ones. It\u2019s another that you\u2019d expect to find on sale for \u00a37.99 in certain high street stores.<\/span><\/p>\n
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26. Germany<\/b><\/h2>\n
Come on adidas. How can you get black and white so wrong? Germany have had some of the best football shirts of all time \u2013 just see 1974, 1982 and 2016 for examples. Yet they also boast some of the worst in history \u2013 hello, again, 1984 and 2006.<\/span><\/p>\n
The Germany 2022 World Cup home shirt falls into the latter category. A black runway strip done the middle, plus the central badge and adidas logo. It\u2019s to wide, too bulky, too stretched. The Germany away kit is OK but fairly forgettable. Still, this combo isn\u2019t as bad as England\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n
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25. Morocco<\/b><\/h2>\n
Puma\u2019s central panel on the Morocco away shirt is and always will be an embarrassment for world football. It looks like the kind of faint pattern frame you find around a shiny football sticker. Yuck.<\/span><\/p>\n
The home shirt is fairly standard \u2013 almost too boring. Why Puma think it\u2019s acceptable to centralise their logo yet shunt the Morocco badge out to the side is beyond us. It\u2019s lopsided and lazy. Their fans deserve better.<\/span><\/p>\n
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24. Ghana<\/b><\/h2>\n
There\u2019s not much to say about Ghana\u2019s World Cup kits that hasn\u2019t already been said. It\u2019s another Puma disappointment \u2013 but perhaps even worse than the others, these shirts genuinely look as though Puma has bought in a job load of nylon T-shirts and printed templates on the front of each one.<\/span><\/p>\n
The home shirt has a nice touch with the black star in its centre. And the sleeve trim is rather nice. And that probably elevates this towards the top of Puma\u2019s 2022 offerings.<\/span><\/p>\n
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23. USA<\/b><\/h2>\n
Nike\u2019s collar nightmare strikes again on the USA World Cup home shirt. A freak smear of collarbone-grabbing blue, it looks more like an NFL jersey than a soccer shirt. But maybe that\u2019s what Nike was going for?<\/span><\/p>\n
While the US home shirt is instantly forgettable, the away shirt at least offers some interesting design. Patterned blue, no collarbone and the USMNT badge slapped right in the middle. The US shirts both have a Pro Evo \u2018fake kit\u2019 feel about them, but the away version just about rescues the whole package.<\/span><\/p>\n
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22. Croatia<\/b><\/h2>\n
It\u2019s hard not to screw up red check on a white background, but Nike have flirted with it in this Croatia home shirt. There\u2019s a distinct early-2000s feel here, and the mismatch in check pattern on the shoulder panels is clumsy.<\/span><\/p>\n
The away shirt is even worse. We\u2019ve seen shirt designers play with faded colour for the past five years, and when it\u2019s done badly it looks cheap. That\u2019s what\u2019s happened here, which is a shame because colour-wise Croatia\u2019s away shirt could do well.<\/span><\/p>\n
21. Cameroon<\/b><\/h2>\n
We\u2019re still waiting for Cameroon\u2019s design but based on a few leaked pictures Le Coq Sportif may just have scraped together something respectable here. Watch this space.<\/span><\/p>\n
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20. Qatar<\/b><\/h2>\n
The host nation of a World Cup needs a good shirt. France had it in 1998, Japan in 2002. Brazil\u2019s home shirt in 2014 was a delight. Sadly the jury is still out with regards to Qatar\u2019s World Cup shirts.<\/span><\/p>\n
Their red shirt looks like a training top bar the white triangle trim on the sleeve cuff that is a call back to the national flag. The white shirt has a sand-coloured imprint and is the better of the two. But neither inspire the emotions one would hope to have from a World Cup host.<\/span><\/p>\n
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19. Brazil<\/b><\/h2>\n
Nike have gone for a light green trim on Brazil\u2019s traditional yellow home shirt, and it lacks the richness one expects from the five-time world champions. Saying that, the collar is a delight \u2013 we\u2019ve only a few buttoned-up collars this tournament, so we need to protect this rare breed.<\/span><\/p>\n
Unfortunately Nike\u2019s blue Brazil shirt is another you can throw straight into the swamp of disappointment. Neon jaguar print on the sleeves looks nice enough as an idea, but have simply been slapped onto an identikit blue bodice. It\u2019s like sticking a feather on a top hat and hoping that hides its blandness.<\/span><\/p>\n
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18. Portugal<\/b><\/h2>\n
It\u2019s hard not to feel a little queasy when you initially look at that Portugal home shirt. The diagonal slash of red and green through the gut may look good on Cristiano Ronaldo, but a 55-year-old beer belly isn\u2019t going to pull this look off.<\/span><\/p>\n
Portugal\u2019s away shirt is much nicer. A cream base layer, with the Portuguese flag colours strapped across the chest. It could well be an iconic shirt in two decades time.<\/span><\/p>\n
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17. Iran<\/b><\/h2>\n
\u2018Order 20 shirts for your entire junior team and get free printing and boot bags included! Comes in a range of template styles to suit any team.\u2019 This must be how Iran\u2019s football association ordered their tacky Majid shirts for this World Cup.<\/span><\/p>\n
A fading green swirl across the chest, on either a white or red background. These kits might end up being retro. But they\u2019ll probably be consigned to the bin as soon as Iran exit the tournament.<\/span><\/p>\n
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16. Uruguay<\/b><\/h2>\n
The two faces of Puma are showcased in Uruguay\u2019s rollercoaster of emotions that is their World Cup kits. The Uruguay home shirt is a delight. A tight buttoned collar, simple sleeves and white trim, classic high crest. It\u2019s all very 1970s.<\/span><\/p>\n
The away shirt could have been better designed on the Fantasy Premier League kit builder. The central design looks like a placeholder where you\u2019re meant to stick a shiny Panini sticker. Awful.<\/span><\/p>\n
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15. Denmark<\/b><\/h2>\n
Hummel have decided to blend out their branding and the Denmark badge, fading it into the background of their three kits using the same colour.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
The Denmark kits themselves aren\u2019t great. Deep red for home, all white away, and a black third kit. Hummel claims it\u2019s inspired by the \u201992 shirts but Denmark have had far better kits than this since they were crowned European champions.<\/span><\/p>\n
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14. Tunisia<\/b><\/h2>\n
Remember the Kombucha Girl video from three years ago? This is how you\u2019ll react to the Tunisia World Cup 2022 shirts. Good at the start, then doubts begin to creep in, before finally settling on acceptance.<\/span><\/p>\n
Kappa have messed around a little too much with the home Tunisia shirt. But the white away kit with constellation design is unique and eye-catching. By no means the best shirt, it\u2019s the sort that could end up on pub quiz picture rounds in years to come.<\/span><\/p>\n
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13. Spain<\/b><\/h2>\n
adidas\u2019 designers created Spain\u2019s home shirt for the 2022 World Cup by picking the 1998 kit off the floor and giving it a wipe down. This is classic Spain. Blood red, blue trim, gold embroidery. It\u2019s fine.<\/span><\/p>\n
The away shirt, meanwhile, could swing either way in the eyes of football fans. The wavy blue is a surprisingly pleasant pattern. And it contrasts well with Spain\u2019s traditional red in its badge. We don\u2019t even mind the central placing of badge and brand logo \u2013 a design choice that can ruin the best of shirts. Generally, adidas have done well here.<\/span><\/p>\n
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12. Argentina<\/b><\/h2>\n
Like Brazil yellow, it\u2019s hard to screw up Argentina stripes. The light blue and white verticals in the home shirt scream classic Argentina. Black trim works well, and adidas have just about got away with that collar.<\/span><\/p>\n
The away shirt is a little disappointing. We\u2019re treated to violet flames lapping up to a blue top half. But the blanched AFA crest saves this shirt. It\u2019s good. Not the best, but pretty damn good.<\/span><\/p>\n
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11. Belgium<\/b><\/h2>\n
More flames? Oh go on then. As the Red Devils, it was inevitable Belgium would eventually have fire on their home shirt. And it comes in the form of flamed sleeves, which lick the armpits. Unfortunately the flames don\u2019t really complement the plain red bodice and classic crest. Lose the fire and Belgium could have the best home shirt at the World Cup.<\/span><\/p>\n
However, they do boast one of the best away shirts. The multi-colour trim, badge and adidas logo are perfect design features for a barrier-pushing, alternative away shirt. It is genuinely lovely.<\/span><\/p>\n
10. Costa Rica<\/b><\/h2>\n
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Guess what? Costa Rica\u2019s home shirt is red, the away shirt is white. Nothing new here, and New Balance have done well to keep things simple. There\u2019s a worry they\u2019ve kept things a little too simple actually \u2013 contrary to popular style there isn\u2019t even a fabric print to boast of.<\/span><\/p>\n
But Costa Rica\u2019s shirts, with their tight sleeve trims, are the ideal accessory for gym buffs. Big chested, strong armed, tight fitted. If you can wear it, do.<\/span><\/p>\n
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9. Saudi Arabia<\/b><\/h2>\n
A surprise contender as one of the better World Cup 2022 kits is Nike\u2019s effort with Saudi Arabia. There\u2019s an actual collar \u2013 in Saudi green \u2013 and no pointless collarbone distraction. The white home shirt has a \u201990s inspired textual print while actually looks quite good.<\/span><\/p>\n
Meanwhile the away shirt could, potentially, become a classic. If Saudi have a big moment in this shirt \u2013 say, they score against Argentina \u2013 then it could become an iconic image from the World Cup. This is a rare success for Nike at this tournament.<\/span><\/p>\n
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8. Mexico<\/b><\/h2>\n
Hello Mexico! We were hoping for something a little whacky from the Mexicans and they have delivered. Mexico is blessed with a classic deep green that usually looks good as a home shirt, and the red trim and mountainous imprint really works on this adidas number.<\/span><\/p>\n
But all attention falls on the away shirt. A traditional pattern across the shirt, the Aztec\/Mayan eagle with a football (not a snake) in its claws, bursting out of the confines of the badge. It\u2019s delightful, it\u2019s truly Mexican, and it\u2019s an instant classic.<\/span><\/p>\n
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7. Poland<\/b><\/h2>\n
Nike have again messed with the shoulder pads in an effort to bring some sort of design feature to an otherwise boring white shirt. But while England\u2019s home shirt is an eyesore, at least Poland\u2019s shoulders blend somewhat into the bodice.<\/span><\/p>\n
All attention, though, should be on the red Poland shirt for this 2022 World Cup. The double trim, bold red and iconic eagle logo all stand out. It\u2019s a gorgeously simple kit that harks back to 2009 when Nike took over the manufacturing rights.<\/span><\/p>\n
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6. France<\/b><\/h2>\n
France have succeeded in avoiding a desperate repeat of their true blue home shirt they wore at the 1998 World Cup \u2013 an iconic kit that should never be sought to replicate. Thankfully Nike have decided to maintain the dark blue presented at the 2018 World Cup and during Euro 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n
The white away shirt with blue pattern imprint is pretty stylish too. As reigning world champions, France needed a world-beating shirt combo. And they\u2019ve got it.<\/span><\/p>\n
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5. Canada<\/b><\/h2>\n
Nike have decided to go minimal with the Canada World Cup shirt \u2013 and it works. Whereas England and Netherlands have to endure experimental garbage, for Canadians this is a jersey range they can be proud of.<\/span><\/p>\n
And it\u2019s exactly the right style a nation needs when playing its first World Cup since 1986. Plain, simple and stylish. It will stand the test of time. Both the red and white kits are practically leisurewear.<\/span><\/p>\n
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4. South Korea<\/b><\/h2>\n
South Korea\u2019s glorious red shirt from the 2002 World Cup remains a classic largely because they succeeded in it. Nike have tried to do something similar with their 2022 edition but it\u2019s fairly bland. What saves this shirt is an eye-catching logo that looks like it belongs in the Classic Football Shirts shop.<\/span><\/p>\n
While the home shirt flirts with being a classic, South Korea\u2019s away top is an instant hit. Getting wild pattern right is tricky but Nike have nailed it here. This could be a retro \u201990s kit, or a modern classic. Coupled with the badge, we\u2019ve found one of the best World Cup shirts right here.<\/span><\/p>\n
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3. Wales<\/b><\/h2>\n
\u200b\u200bYou know what? adidas have absolutely nailed it. Wales have one of the best World Cup home and away kits, and if they progress out of the group stage these could become instant classics. The red home shirt has a diagonal streak pattern that is subtle and draws the eye. The crest on both the home and away shirts screams classic Wales.<\/span><\/p>\n
A little bit of interesting trim on the away collar and the classic adidas stripes don\u2019t interfere too much with an otherwise sleek shirt. Even the adidas logo looks good. Wales can be proud of this one.<\/span><\/p>\n
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2. Ecuador<\/b><\/h2>\n
Marathon have made Ecuador\u2019s shirts for years and usually nail the all-yellow home kit. They\u2019ve done so again here, with a delightfully smooth shirt, underarm trim and classic national crest. You just know Enner Valencia will look a million dollars in it.<\/span><\/p>\n
Both the blue and white alternative shirts look good too. We\u2019re particularly fond of the traditional print on the blue offering, and simple collar design. Ecuador may not go far at this World Cup but their shirts will last long in the memory.<\/span><\/p>\n
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1. Japan<\/b><\/h2>\n
Insert pinch emoji here adidas have already won this World Cup. Japan\u2019s home and away shirts are sensational. The home version boasts an origami pattern across the bodice in subtle white on a blue background, complete with neat circular collar and a classic crest.<\/span><\/p>\n
The away shirt pulls aspects of that home version and keeps it on the shoulders. It\u2019s a nice reference that links both shirts, providing unity but also difference. This is what the likes of England and Australia severely lack. These are two beautiful shirts on their own, and together.<\/span><\/p>\n
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