Premier League new kits 2022-23: every shirt ranked

Our annual review of every Premier League home and away kit traditionally arrives a good week before the season begins. Sadly this is the year of supply chain chaos, manufacturing misery and polyester purgatory. 

Clubs have been coyer than ever to let the dog (eager consumers) see the rabbit (questionable football shirts). As Carole King so nearly once sang “kits too late, baby”. 

With the season is under way, we can no longer wait for tardy Chelsea (away) and Leicester City (away) and will have to slot them in at an appropriate place when they arrive. If this causes you to put your foot through your mobile, tablet or Amstrad e-mailer in anger, send Chelsea and Leicester the bill.

Three overall trends to note this season. 

Here is this year’s manufacturing chart, with Castore highest climbers:

Now steady yourself for at least a dozen inappropriate uses of the adjective “iconic” and let us begin with the worst football kit of the new season: 

We all had a humbling childhood experience when first allowed into town unaccompanied and able to spend money however we liked. Mine was attempting to buy Roy Chubby Brown’s sweary remake of Smokie’s Living Next Door To Alice. It had a rude word in the title, you see. Irresistible. My mum, predictably, was not having that. I had to take it back to Our Price and fill out a return form. The exasperated cashier, who must have been a teenager himself, told me to be more careful in future. A valuable lesson was learned that day: don’t give any of your money to Roy Chubby Brown. 

Anyway, good luck to any kids trying to get this past their parents when they arrive home from the AFC Bournemouth AFC Megastore. “What on earth is that? Is that a marijuana leaf?! I will not have this house