
Football is over, which means fútbol is back! Major League Soccer is kicking off their 30th season this weekend, and to get ready, teams were busy last week releasing a plethora of new kits.
Twenty-six of the 30 MLS clubs — including expansion franchise San Diego FC — get their seasons started on Saturday, February 22. The slate of games starts with Los Angeles Football Club hosting Minnesota United and ends with Seattle Sounders FC welcoming Charlotte FC to Lumen Field. The defending MLS Cup champion LA Galaxy start their season on Sunday, February 23, when they play host to their new Southern California rivals from San Diego.
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As part of the league’s 30th season celebrations, each club has a specially designed Apple TV sponsor patch on the left sleeve of their jerseys. Each design has been tailored to reflect the club’s identity and draws inspiration from the club’s crest, colour palette and visual identity.

As a reminder, MLS clubs typically release one new kit each year, alternating between primary and secondary kits. Each kit stays in the rotation for two years. In 2024, five teams — LA Galaxy, Sporting Kansas City, Portland Timbers, Los Angeles Football Club and Inter Miami — had third kits as part of the MLS x Adidas Archive Collection.
Here’s what all 30 MLS teams will be wearing this season:

Atlanta United aims to bring communities together with their new “Connector” primary kit, which features the club’s traditional red and black vertical stripes and is the only new MLS kit on Adidas’ latest template to feature piping along the seams of the side panels.

Austin FC’s new “The Heartbeat” primary kit features tonal green vertical stripes on the front and sleeves, with black panels on the sides and shoulders. Horizontal woven stripes also run through the side panels, and an anatomic illustration of a heart sits on the jock tag.

Charlotte FC are ready to defend their turf in their new “Fortress” secondary kit. The black kit features an embossed pattern on the front and sleeves and a Coat of Arms shield on the jock tag that’s “inspired by the fans who guard and protect the team, club and fortress.”

The Fire’s new secondary “Municipal” kit is inspired by the Chicago Municipal Device, which is also the basis for the secondary logo in their revamped identity package unveiled in June 2021. “The Municipal Device represents the north, south and main branches of the Chicago River, and their confluence at Wolf Point,” the club says.

FC Cincinnati is celebrating its 10th season with its new “Blue and Orange Legacy” primary kit. The front of the shirt has a diagonal orange stripe — matching the angle of the stripe in the club crest — with tonal diamonds inside separating two shades of blue.

The pattern on the front of the Rapids’ new secondary kit represents the headwaters of the rivers that begin high in the Rocky Mountains. It also features a new secondary crest, with the C from the Colorado state flag inside a circle and surrounding a soccer ball.

The Columbus Crew’s new secondary kit celebrates the city’s own R.L. Stine, writer of the popular Goosebumps series of children’s novels. “The kit also pays homage to the club’s supporters, who have celebrated the author with several spooky tifo designs,” the club says. The Goosebumps logo appears on the jock tag in the Crew’s signature semi-solar yellow.

Entering its 30th season, FC Dallas is paying tribute to its roots and its supporters with its new “Inferno” secondary kit. With its light blue base and red accents, this kit pays tribute to the Inferno, one of the club’s original supporters’ groups back when they were known as the Dallas Burn.

D.C. United’s new “Soul” secondary kit pays tribute to “Washington, D.C.’s rich funk, soul and go-go heritage, showcasing the vibrant influence of art and music that unite the district’s diverse communities.” The base of the shirt is off-white, with a multicoloured pattern in the tapered side stripes and shoulder inserts, as well as in the shield behind the eagle in the club crest.

The Dynamo are celebrating their 20th season in Houston with their new primary kits. The shirt retains the Dymano’s traditional orange base, but with a tonal pattern of intersecting curved lines on the front and sleeves. “Space City” blue returns to the Dynamo’s kits on the collar and tapered side stripes.

Sporting Kansas City’s new “One KC” primary kit “celebrates the deep connection between club, city and community” with a design that combines their traditional hoops with the angled line depicting the border between Kansas and Missouri that has become a big part of the team’s visual identity.

Sunsets over the California coast are the inspiration for the Galaxy’s new “Rizon” secondary kits. “The jersey embodies the relentless energy and resilience of Los Angeles and symbolizes endless possibilities,” the club says. “It pays tribute to the beauty and spirit of the city, capturing the magic hour skyline, blending purple, blue and golden hues to illustrate LA’s bold, unapologetic spirit.”

LAFC’s new white secondary kit is “inspired by high fashion and luxury,” and has metallic gold accents on the shoulders, side panels and on the trim of the polo collar that convey “prestige, craftsmanship and sophistication to evoke a sense of timeless elegance.”

Inter Miami released a new primary kit out of rotation this year, and while the club didn’t come out and say it in their unveiling announcement, it’s speculated that the tonal pink stripes down the front are an homage to the home kit usually worn by superstar Lionel Messi on the Argentinian national team.
The club’s new “Fortitude” secondary kit keeps up Inter Miami’s recent tradition of a predominantly black away kit, though this time around, the front of the shirt is split between black and dark grey. Those colours are meant to represent granite, “a natural symbol of strength and resilience,” according to the club’s news release.

Minnesota United draws inspiration from water their new “Convergence” secondary kit. It depicts the meeting of the Mississippi and Minnesota River that is reflected in “the movement and colors of the two rivers as they meet, uniting in the center.”

CF Montréal are throwing it back to the early days of the Montréal Impact with their new “Montréal Original” primary kits for 2025-26. “In connection to the club’s origins, the jersey features the five blue and black stripes that have been a defining element since CFMTL’s founding in 1993,” the club says. “From the pre-MLS era to today, Bleu-blanc-noir players have worn this symbol over the past three decades.”

Nashville SC is honouring the city’s vibrant arts scene with its new “Heart of Nashville” secondary kit. The shirt is solid navy blue with yellow accents on the shoulders, sides and collar. According to the club, the city’s art scene “extends well beyond music and features a wide range of creative artists, performers and mediums. It’s a tribute to the city’s community, filled with passion, creativity and energy, and the many people who are the Heart of Nashville.”

To mark the 250th anniversary of the first use of the New England flag by colonies in the Revolutionary War, the New England Revolution have immortalized the Eastern White Pine tree from the flag on their secondary kit. Green chevrons are arranged to resemble pine trees, which run up and down the front and sleeves.

The fragmented tonal pattern on the front and sleeves of New York City FC’s new “Excelsior” primary kit draws inspiration from the skyscrapers that define the Manhattan skyline and reflect the club’s “relentless pursuit of excellence.”

The Red Bulls’ new secondary “Stone Kit” is inspired by the ”continuous growth of soccer culture across New York and New Jersey’s urban landscape.” The tan base has a digital stone pattern on the front and sleeves, along with black panels on the sides, shoulders and collar, along with black Adidas shoulder stripes.

Orlando City’s new “Perfect Storm” primary maintains the club’s traditional purple base but adds a swirling digital storm pattern on the front and sleeves that will be unique to each jersey produced. “The pattern is “The kit is inspired by the convergence of sea breezes from each coast colliding in skies above Orlando, creating an intense Central Florida climate,” the club says.

The Union hope to strike quickly with their new “Voltage” secondary kit. The lightning design on the front and sleeve “represents energy, electricity and power. It also features sharp neon bolts that run across the chest, symbolizing the Union’s dynamic, fast-paced presence on the field – while the bright electric yellow and blue are drawn from the Philadelphia city flag.”

With a history dating back to the North American Soccer League of the 1970s, the Portland Timbers are celebrating their 50th anniversary this season with their “Forever Green & Gold” primary kits. The base of the jersey is dark green, with tree rings (an indicator of a tree’s age) radiating out from behind the crest.

Real Salt Lake look to their city’s checkered past for inspiration for their “Grid City” secondary kit. “The Grid City Kit’s square patterns represent the architecturally famous grid system that shaped Salt Lake City’s urban form,” the club says. “The kit pays homage to Utah’s grid system, designed by settlers to fit a horse-pulled carriage.”

San Diego FC heads into its inaugural MLS season wearing a predominantly navy blue — or “azul,” as the club calls it — primary kit with chrome accents. The tapering side panels fade from light blue at the hem to red at the top, mirroring part of the gradient found in the outline of the team’s crest
Their “Woven Into One” secondary kit, meanwhile, features a tonal pattern swirling across the front of the white jersey. The club says it “provides a blank canvas for the people of San Diego to come together and imagine the future of the club.”

Designed in collaboration with punk rock icon Lars Frederiksen, best know for his work with the band Rancid, the Earthquakes’ new “Headliner” primary kit pays tribute to the flyers of the Bay Area punk scene, as well as memorable moments from Quakes history.

The Sounders are honouring their “deep connection to the Puget Sound and our shared responsibility as stewards of the greater Salish Sea watershed” with their new secondary kit, which was designed in collaboration with artists from the Puyallup, Muckleshoot, and Suquamish Tribes. The kit features a variety of green and blue shades “that embody the heart of the Sounders and the spirit of the Salish Sea” and a geometric pattern based on traditional Southern Coast Salish weaving techniques that reflect an “intricate balance of form and function.”

The sets of five diagonal embossed stripes running across the front of St. Louis CITY SC’s new primary shirt represent the five players from St. Louis who played on the 1950 United States national team, which pulled off a major upset for the time by beating England 1-0 at the World Cup while wearing shirts with diagonal stripes across the front.

After inexplicably going with a mainly grey primary jersey two years ago, Toronto FC have course-corrected and gone all-in on red with their new “Club” primary kit. “The kit’s many shades of red represent the club and the city’s diversity,” the club says.

The Whitecaps are looking to reach new heights in their new “Peak” primary jerseys. The club’s traditional navy blue band across the front of a white base is accented by narrow light blue stripes near the top and bottom. This striping pattern also extends to the bottom of the sleeves.