Chelsea release 2025-26 away kit
Chelsea have unveiled their away kit for the 2025-26 season.
"In the early 1970s and fresh from securing our first FA Cup and European trophy, Blues manager Dave Sexton, himself an artist when it came to the tactical game, introduced a Chelsea away strip coloured as a tribute to Hungary's famous 'Magnificent Magyars' side from two decades earlier, whose extravagant patterns on the pitch had so influenced his own winning football," the club said.
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"Soon, the simple plain red, white and green of that kit evolved into a white shirt with a broad red and green vertical stripe, whose theme is now reimagined in a subtle form 50 years on."
The club also confirmed that the shirt will be worn in Club World cup matches against Flamengo and ES Tunis and later this month.
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