Crystal Palace, Valencia Headline Recent Kit Launches From Around Europe

It’s been a busy week for clubs in Europe’s top domestic soccer leagues, with several new home and away kits for the 2024-25 season being unveiled. Here’s a look at the kits that have been launched recently:

CRYSTAL PALACE — Home

Crystal Palace will look to soar high in the Premier League in 2024-25 in their new home kits made by Macron. After experimenting with a half-and-half look last season, the club returns to its traditional red and blue vertical stripes in 2024-25, but the stripes themselves are anything but conventional. The red stripes have a mottled pattern to them, while the blue stripes contain a tonal eagle pattern. Crystal Palace are celebrating the 100th anniversary of their home ground, Selhurst Park, with a special commemorative “stamp” on the back collar. This is their first year with their new front-of-shirt sponsor, online gaming website NET88.

🇪🇸 VALENCIA CF — Home

La Liga side Valencia CF celebrates the 20th anniversary of their treble-winning season with their home kits for 2024-25, made by Puma. In 2003-04, Valencia won the La Liga title, the UEFA Cup and the European SuperCup. They’re marking the occasion this coming season by bringing back the black sleeves that they wore in 2003-04, and adding gold accents like trim on the sleeve cuffs and Puma logos on the chest and shoulders. The club crest on the left chest is also rendered in black and gold.

🇪🇸 GETAFE CF — Home, Away & Third

Meanwhile, La Liga side Getafe CF dropped all three of their 2024-25 kits, made by Joma, at once earlier this week. The home kit is blue with a tonal print all over and red and yellow trim on the navy blue sleeve cuffs and polo collar. The red away kit features blue stripes on the collar and shoulders, mimicking what the club wore in 1994-95. The white third kit goes back even further, drawing inspiration from their inaugural kits from 1946 with green accents like the collar, sleeve cuffs and logos.

🇩🇪 BORUSSIA MÖNCHENGLADBACH — Home & Away

German Bundesliga side Borussia Mönchengladbach celebrate the 50th anniversary of one of their most successful seasons with their new home and away kits for 2024-25, made by Puma. The white kit with broad green and narrow black stripes harkens back to the kit Gladbach wore in 1974-75, when they won the UEFA Cup for the first time. The tonal pattern inside the green stripes is made up of “conical, disruptive design elements … [that] are reminiscent of the shape and surface structure of the famous UEFA Cup.” That same pattern is writ large all over the green away kit. The back half of the collar and the sleeve cuffs are black, while panels under the arms are white.

Photos courtesy **Borussia Mönchengladbach**

🇫🇷 STADE RENNAIS — Home

French Ligue 1 side Stade Rennais’ new home kit for 2024-25, made by Puma, celebrates the River Vilaine, which flows through the city of Rennes and right by the club’s home ground, Roazhon Park. The shirt is predominantly red, with a tonal map of Rennes across the front, with the river highlighted. The collar and sleeve cuffs are black, as are side panels that widen as they reach the hem of the shirt.

🇫🇷 RC LENS — Away

Ligue 1 side RC Lens’ new away kit for 2024-25, made by Puma, is mostly dark green with a pattern of crossed black pickaxes all over the front and sleeves, highlighting the coal mining history of the club’s home region. The pickaxes appear in white inside the collar along with the motto “FIERS D’ÊTRE LENSOIS”.

🇫🇷 FC NANTES — Away

Ligue 1 side FC Nantes has attempted to capture “the soul of Nantes” with their new away kit for 2024-25, made by Macron. The black kit features a tonal print of numerous landmarks around their home city, including le Château des Ducs de Bretagne, le Théâtre Graslin, la Tour de Bretagne, le Passage Pommeraye and their home stadium, le Stade de la Beaujoire. Metallic gold accents include the notched collar, sleeve cuffs, club crest and sponsor logos.

🇵🇹 SL BENFICA — Home

Portuguese powerhouses SL Benfica are back in their familiar red home kits, made by Adidas, for 2024-25. This season’s version features a subtle chevron pattern woven into the fabric on the front of the jersey. The front half of the V-neck collar is white, as are the Adidas stripes on the shoulders.

🇵🇹 FC PORTO — Away & Third

Elsewhere in Portugal, FC Porto is leaning into their “Dragons” nickname with their away and third kits for 2024-25, made by New Balance. The orange away kit is dubbed “The Flame of the Dragon,” and features a tonal geometric pattern that creates “the desired abstract interpretation of Dragon’s fire.” The blue third kit, meanwhile, is dubbed “The Dragon’s Skin,” and features a pattern of tonal parallelograms meant to mimic dragon scales and a “disruptive camouflage effect.”