I’m going to leave this for you guys right here. These are 99.9% the kits we will be wearing in North America this summer.
The home red and whites I can live with. They are a much better upgrade than the largest ever checkers we have played in during the 2024 run. However, what is up with the away blues?? AWFUL! This is what Nike came up with? Looks like a basic training top you can buy at the mall down the street more than anything else.
Cannot wait for Adidas!
Usually, I like the away kits better, blue or black, but this year the design is way too subtle.
Moving forward, if they are still executing the same 70’s type design at Adidas, still with the 3 /4 racing strips count me out on that too. Definitely no low life naked ladies logos. keep them on trucking mud laps.
Can see Dalic wearing it otherwise.
typo “can’t” see Dalic wearing it otherwise.
Didn’t Footy Headlines get their “leaked” Croatia kits completely wrong last time?
Btw 100% these are not the “final final” kit – they have no Nike/HNS stamp on the inside where the neck is – which seems odd given the video as the Nike brown tag attacked (but anyone can make that and attach it in a couple minutes)
The design should on no account be left to the manufacturer. It should be designed by a top Croatian artist. With several options, decided by online poll. You heard it here first.
I always wondered what the benefit was from signing an agreement with a corporation like Nike anyway?
Do they even pay the HNS that much? Or even give the HNS a cut of the sales? (doubtful)
Would it not be better to do what Denmark does… and have a local company (like Galeb) produce the kits?
You could have young Croatian professionals work together on a design, and Galeb could probably make them.
The Quality will be infinitely better than Nike’s recycled plastics material from Vietnam, and Croats could keep 100% of the sales.
Ante posted about Rimac too
Why not get Rimac to design the kits – the actual manufacturing gets outsourced to 3rd party locals as “private label” for Rimac
Rimac gets “free” advertising as the “manufacturer” (and work around the otherwise ban on adding sponsors logos to kits)
Win win win
Anonymous comes up with the best ideas !!!!
you’re so entrepreneurial anon
The home one would be good for the handball team, and I like the Italian one with the HNS logo on it.
Hopefully Adidas go back to black for the away strip, that should be the go for all future away strips if they’re going to be serious.
Well it looks like Adidas went black for Argentina’a away kits, so they’re getting the memo 😆
After a long injury lay-off, Alphonso Davies made a short appearance in Bayern’s CL win over Sporting. He is expected to become a regular starter in 2026. With Laimer in excellent form at RB, we’ll see what happens to Stanisic in the 2nd half of the season…
Guess I’m the odd one out here. I actually don’t mind the home shirt but away is a flop, looks like a training top to me.
The 2018 away is classic beauty it’s the only one I bought other than the original home jersey in the mid 90’s
So gvardiol has scored from a header on the weekend and created another goal via his head today …vuskovic is a beast in the air…stanisic is what 6’3” and good in the air …there is NO reason we can’t get at least 2 or 3 goals on set pieces in a WC or EURO going forward once all 3 are integrated.Refresh my memory but we seem to suck at scoring on set pieces and it has to get better!
No!
We ride or die with the short corner!
I can see our backline contributing significantly to our offense in WC. Other than Gvardiol, Vuskovic and Stanisic whom you have mentioned, Jakic (if he starts) has been scoring lately for us too (in each of the Montenegro games) as well as providing assists (last year 1-1 NL home draw vs Portugal and winning a penalty in Montenegro).
It’s a nice tall backline.
Just a shame that Dalić still seems to favor Gvardiol at LB…which then pushes Stanišić from LB to RB… and also forces us to play our out of form CBs (with Gvardiol at LB and Vušković on the bench).
Blue away is not that bad. The home shirt doesn’t do it for me. Gradient effect is amateurish,too much red with the sleeves and no eye-catching design element. Home shirt C-/D+ Away B-
From what I can see (despite Ante’s big Dalmatinac glava being in the way)…
The home kit is better than our current kit (which isn’t saying much).
But it’s still way too busy, with the middle stripe, the blue side stripes, solid red sleeves, solid white back, oversized logos… too much going on.
It looks like a person wearing a checkered scarf around their neck and running down the front of the body (like a svećenik).
But these will still look better than our current Polish National Team kits.
The Away kits look like any basic blue kit that teams like Azerbaijan or Faroe Islands would wear.
The oversized HNS logo in middle makes it look like the standard blue HNS fan t-shirts that Nike sells.
Very disappointed that there are no distinct “inverse checkers” on the away kits. That was a big positive on our recent away designs. Not sure why they would move away from that. Plus (of course) the fact that they’re not using black on the aways anymore. That sucks too.
Hahahahaha you got me with that one you little shit 😉
I really liked the 2008 away one with the checkers in the corner. Doesnt seem to get much love but I thought it was classy.
I think they ain’t using black anymore because they believe it will ignite the ZDS in us and we will tear up the World Cup in 2026 😃
Does anyone know where I can get an authentic 98 lotto away sz xl or xxl?
These jerseys are horrid. I will always rep the 2018 black kit or the 98 og blue one Ante is wearing. In terms of Champions League. Kotarski had a win over Villarreal. At this point why wouldn’t we start him at the World Cup. He doesn’t have as much experience as Livakovic of course. However, keep in mind that Liva hasn’t started a match since August. He won’t be prepared enough in June. Give the young guy a talent who’s starting in champions league and actually getting minutes.
Although he has allowed 3 goals per game in CL. Better than Livakovic above all.
He’s not better than Livaković.
Despite not playing, Liva has still been solid for us in our recent qualifiers.
He bailed out our backline again… Which may not be a blessing because maybe we needed to lose a game to Faroes or Montenegeo for Dalić to stop messing with the backline.
I beg to differ. You really want a guy in that will be playing 4 games or less in friendlies before the tournament. I understand Livakovic is our starting keeper. It’s pretty easy to be solid against low quality teams. Villarreal, Tottenham, Dortmund, etc. he has conceded lots of goals but look at the quality teams he has with a lower end squad. He challenges a lot more than Livakovic and punches the ball well.
Not loving the home or away kits, but I will learn to love them in 2026 when we lift the World Cup in New Jersey on July 19th 🙂
For real ? Like I said in the other thread they both look like training tops to me.