We will have to wait until May 2026 to see the next Real Madrid jersey, that of the 2026-27 season. However, thanks to research on several websites specializing in the advancement of T-shirt designs … football before its official presentation, We already know what the Madrid uniform will look like for next season. A design of which some details had already leaked, such as the use of new colors beyond the characteristic white, and which generated a deep division among meringue fans.
It’s not an easy task to reinvent a team’s jersey year after year. Few symbols are as difficult to change as those of football clubsdue to fans’ powerful identification with their colors, shields and locations. However, to maintain their sales figures each season, companies that supply clothing to clubs have to introduce modifications that make fans want to spend a ton of money to buy them.
This difficult balance is traditionally more accessible at teams like Fútbol Club Barcelona, which in recent years has seen its players dress in vertical or horizontal stripes or different colored pants. However, in other entities such as Atlético de Madrid or Real Madrid, these developments have always provoked much greater rejection. Ask the Colchoneros, who took up arms when the jersey stripes became wavy or the club crest was modernized.
Alternative uniforms to the main uniform
In Real Madrid, traditionally, the same thing has always happened, that is why the brands that dress the whites, like those that do it with other teams, leave the riskiest bets for the replacement kits, respecting more the main uniform. Thus, in recent years we have seen the Bernabéu players playing far from their stadium dressed black, blue, purple, pink, orange, green, gray or red. But since normally the t-shirts that fans usually wear at the stadium are the ones that grab the headlines, we need to innovate on those too.
This is what the German sportswear brand did this time. adidastechnical sponsor of Real Madrid, who took risks and dared to introduce new details into the white uniform for next season, as revealed on social networks ‘Opaleak’. In the first photos of the 2026/27 jersey that have seen the light of day, you can see the brand’s three pink stripes and green details on the collar and sleeves. Tones which contrast in particular with the white of the clothing.
In this race for design innovation, the truth is that both colors They were already present in Madrid uniformsalthough they were the protagonists of the replacement kits, not the main kit, which was given more to dark tones, usually black, navy blue or gold.
Immediately The garment sparked a heated debate on the networksbetween the most purists, who consider it a serious mistake to introduce new colors in an element as important and distinctive as the t-shirt, and the most open and understanding of marketing objectives. A new division within the white fans, already quite polarized due to the team’s poor play so far this season and the direction of the accusations, towards the bench or towards the field.