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Everton have released their third kit for the 2025/26 with the River Mersey serving as design inspiration. 

In partnership with Castore, the jersey, much like their home and away shirts, pays homage to the team’s new waterfront stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock.

“The black shirt, featuring a crew neck collar and Prince Rupert’s Tower icon on the chest, incorporates an abstract blue and yellow pattern that repeats through the body and mimics the flow of the river past Everton’s new stadium, which was opened with a 2-0 victory over Brighton & Hove Albion on Sunday,” said the club website.

“The 2025/26 third shirt, available in short sleeve only, is complemented by black shorts that feature a blue and yellow trim, a flat finish waistband, concealed draw cords and the tower icon on the right thigh.

“Black socks with blue and yellow stripes on the fold-over mirror the colour scheme, while the tower icon on the shin and trademark Castore wings on the calf complete the look. 

The striking visual motif on the front of the shirt is influenced by the work of local graphic artist Neil Keating. Keating’s street art described as “colourful, emotionally resonant and culturally grounded” can be found around the city of Liverpool.

The artist also makes a cameo in the jersey announcement video along with summer signings Jack Grealish, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Charly Alcaraz, Thierno Barry, and Mark Travers, among others.

 

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Mike Kennedy
1 Posted 27/08/2025 at 10:00:24
Shocking!!! I'd be surprised if they sold any.
Lee Courtliff
2 Posted 27/08/2025 at 10:08:38
Awful strip.
Derek Knox
3 Posted 27/08/2025 at 10:09:51
Mike, the price or the design?

I don't mind the design and think it better than the pale yellow effort, with a crew neck and a collar.

The price is a complete rip-off!

David Williams
4 Posted 27/08/2025 at 10:27:25
What an absolute shocker! Are the designers at Castore high on mind-warping drugs and walk around calling each other 'Man' all day?

Commercially, this will sink lower than whale shit. TFG will have these Wirral cowboys out soon, to be replaced by a decent American supplier that the Everton fans can wear without the fear of ridicule.

Jeff Spiers
5 Posted 27/08/2025 at 10:36:13
Effin awful. What happened to the proper design of the Prince Rupert Tower?
Derek Knox
6 Posted 27/08/2025 at 10:39:00
I am surprised that there is a need for 3 kit changes per season.

Okay, I get that sometimes when playing a team with a similar colour (home) strip, there is need for one possible change. Quite often when we play a team in red or red and black, there is no clash at all, yet the away strip is worn instead of the traditional one?

I always think of the poor Dad who has match-going and supporting kids. "Dad, I want all the strips!" (Times three). No wonder he is poor!

James Fletcher
7 Posted 27/08/2025 at 10:42:42
Not been a fan of the non-home kits for a while so I almost always go for the pre-match tops instead.

Weirdly they seem to nail them every season.

Steve Brown
8 Posted 27/08/2025 at 11:15:20
The Mersey looks nicer.
Scott Hamilton
9 Posted 27/08/2025 at 11:21:22
I actually like it but…

…would never wear it myself!

Colin Glassar
10 Posted 27/08/2025 at 11:53:06
Looks decent for a kids party. As long as John Wayne Gacy isn’t handing them out.
Jeff Spiers
11 Posted 27/08/2025 at 12:32:14
The keeper's shirt has the proper badge
John Flood
12 Posted 27/08/2025 at 12:48:44
https://apple.news/Aj1gBDcwlQVahus5z8Ui6Dw.

Reading this it looks like this 3rd kit has been designed by the American owners. What is more they want to do something radical with next year's home kit!

Bobby Mallon
13 Posted 27/08/2025 at 12:53:02
Most of you lot saying it's rubbish must be over 50.

These kits are made for the younger fans. It's really good and fashionable. Just go buy one and stop bellyaching.

James Marshall
14 Posted 27/08/2025 at 13:32:57
This is exactly the kind of kits we should be wearing. It's not for us old blokes (I'm 52), it's for the younger generation and should be encouraged.

Stuffy old Everton needs binning off and this is part of that. Well done, Everton.

(I still won't buy one!)

Rob Halligan
15 Posted 27/08/2025 at 13:46:48
If you think this is bad, did you see the one Leeds wore last night…….Hideous!!
Craig Walker
16 Posted 27/08/2025 at 13:50:46
It's possibly the worst kit we've ever had. (I'm 51 years old).

The home one has grown on me but I can't justify the £80. I usually do buy the home shirt.

Rob Hooton
17 Posted 27/08/2025 at 13:53:02
Might get one for £10 from the bargain bin at the end of the season?
Paul Johnson
18 Posted 27/08/2025 at 15:52:35
I am 59 and I think it’s great. New era new thinking. We cannot keep complaining that we are falling behind if we are not prepared to think differently and broaden our horizons. Plus it will intimidate a few teams more than the insipid beige kit.
Liam Mogan
19 Posted 27/08/2025 at 16:09:21
Its one ugly kit that!

Looks like its been drawn on with crayons!

Dale Self
20 Posted 27/08/2025 at 17:43:15
Hmm, they fucked up that top line above the Castore logo and badge (and the badge is wrong).

Should have left that one out or run it along the shoulder and neck, makes it too noisy on the eye.

Paul O'Neill
21 Posted 27/08/2025 at 17:55:04
Aaaannnddd… 3,2,1, cue predictable as the sun rising in the East, a slew of complaining comments on ToffeeWeb about a new replica shirt. Aside from whinging about a Michael Keane performance or anything to do with Bill Kenwright, it’s easily the most predictable thing about supporting Everton.

My only issue with kits is they release far too many of them. Other than that, fine. Horses for courses. No one forces you to buy one.

Also, people moaning about the badge. The use of the single St Rupert’s Tower badge as an alternative to the traditional one is not Castore’s doing. It’s clearly a club decision and is all over the stadium, and the last few away shirts. And it’s on Everton Way! Everton have changed their badge loads of times over their history. It’s not sacrosanct.

Josh Horne
22 Posted 27/08/2025 at 18:19:20
Destined to be a classic, I approve Everton.
Nathan Goulart
23 Posted 27/08/2025 at 18:21:00
IDK, I think its pretty damn cool.
Si Cooper
24 Posted 27/08/2025 at 18:42:57
Black is one of our historic strip colours, as are the blue and yellow. Then you've got a stylised stadium ‘on' the Mersey.

The simplified badge suits the overall look and could be worn as a simple leisure top.

Craig Scott
25 Posted 27/08/2025 at 20:21:31
WTF??? To think they would have paid Castore a fortune to come up with that.

It’s hideous and unlikely to be sold much or worn even by kids.

Let’s hope there’s not too many games where the team has to turn out in that kit.

Keith Harrison
26 Posted 28/08/2025 at 01:07:18
I was talking with Rob H (above) at the match tonight when a lad walked past with the shirt on. I can guarantee you that it looks a lot worse in the flesh. Hideous.
Mike Gaynes
27 Posted 28/08/2025 at 01:31:51
I'm not buying anything with a Stake logo on it.
Eric Myles
28 Posted 28/08/2025 at 02:44:31
I like it.

Was in a shop the other day that had the home and second kit for £8 but not in my size.

Will have to go back next week to see if they have this one in.

Don't like the tower logo though, looks like they're trying to dumb things down like they did with the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse badge that time. But that one looked a lot better than this.

Alan J Thompson
29 Posted 28/08/2025 at 03:36:14
A black shirt modeled against a black background, nothing to hide there.
Craig Scott
30 Posted 28/08/2025 at 04:47:14
One bonus with the abstract badge logo is that at least few people seeing the shirt will be able to recognise it as ours.
Keith Harrison
31 Posted 28/08/2025 at 21:02:39
Mike (27), I bought the home shirt "unbadged" as our sales reps used to with their BMWs so that no one knew they were bottom of the range. The cost of that without Stake on was £80, and it's a lot better for casual wear than with the logo splurged across the front. Even my good lady, who you know ,thinks its smart.

I assume you could have similar with this top, but frankly, I still think it would be shit!!

Bobby Mallon (13), correct; I'm over 50. If they wanted a fashionable top for the "younger fans", why didn't they just fetch it out as a polo shirt, and not subject the players to this? Thank fuck I sold my Tardis the other week, I would hate to go back and buy this thinking it was trendy!!

Mike Gaynes
32 Posted 28/08/2025 at 21:19:05
Keith, if Christine thinks you look sharp in the shirt, that's as good as it gets!

James Marshall
33 Posted 28/08/2025 at 22:01:25
As is often the case, Evertonians complaining about something forward thinking, preferring to look backwards because it's not 'traditional'.

Numerous complaints in the comments about Castore designing such an awful shirt. When in fact it was designed by Neil Keating, an artist and designer from Liverpool. A local. The club promoting a local artist on their shirts. A good thing, no?

Let's just have the same old boring shirts year in year out and keep living in the past, yeah? No.

We've got a brand new stadium and a brand new culture sweeping through the club so people need to get on board and get behind it.

If you want a successful football club it has to change from the bottom up. And that means us, the fans, we're the bottom and we need to move on, drop the past and create a new and vibrant future - just like our new, vibrant stadium these are new and vibrant designs.

Let go of the past, look forward for once. Don't fear change. Be the cultural change. It's the only way we'll ever let go of the shackles of our 'istory and become something new.

I for one, and I often feel like I stand alone in this view, but I for one embrace change and welcome a new era and a new Everton.

Alan J Thompson
34 Posted 29/08/2025 at 02:03:15
Oh, well, if one of us designed it it must be good? None of this backwards "traditional" rubbish so let's stop playing in Blue and make a complete break as we no longer play in another suburb, Near the Docks United, anybody?
James Marshall
35 Posted 29/08/2025 at 10:21:55
We still play in blue, it's our 3rd kit - and we once wore black so y'know..

You've conveniently entirely missed my point, but well done for trying to have some positive input.

Jeff Spiers
36 Posted 29/08/2025 at 15:05:17
Slightly off topic. Can any one remember Everton playing at home wearing an all white kit? Clue, it was a night game.
Jeff Spiers
37 Posted 29/08/2025 at 15:07:47
Slightly off topic. Can any one remember Everton playing at home wearing an all white kit? Clue, it was a night game.
Pete Hughes
38 Posted 29/08/2025 at 15:11:10
Jeff,fairly certain it was against Inter Milan 63/64?
Jeff Spiers
39 Posted 29/08/2025 at 15:58:48
Pete, spot on. Nil nil on the night. Inter 1 nil at their place
Robin Gomme
40 Posted 29/08/2025 at 17:12:55
Well I'm 66 in 3 weeks time and think it's rather smart. So much so, I have just tried to buy the "unsponsored" version, but it appears to be sold out in Medium so somebody must like it!
Eric Myles
41 Posted 30/08/2025 at 03:15:44
This kit only made #43 in the "Kit Parade" with the home kit dropping to #3 and the away kit at #13.

EPL kits ranked

Mike Gaynes
42 Posted 30/08/2025 at 06:39:20
Eric, I had to laugh at ESPN's comment that it might look like "random graffiti scrawled all over a bus stop."

I'm afraid that's pretty accurate.

The home kit has been ranked #3, and the #1 best home kit in the league, since it was presented.


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