Everton officially reveal 2025-26 home kit

Not sure about the Mersey Wave motif... I think it's gonna make me seasick if I look at it long enough. Are we now channelling Celtic?

I quite like the neckline though...

If you are going full retro for the 86-87 kit then I'm glad they have gone with the blue socks, more blue should be on Everton kits, I know it upsets traditionalist folk but I think the white socks make us look too much like Birmingham City.

Everton's predominant colour is blue after all.

I can never understand all the uproar about kit release myself. I mean, we've had some absolute shockers over the years, and we've had some I just don't like, such as 1997-98 and 2000-01 which were pretty bad, I didn't much like the 2019-20 one with the overelaborate crisscross design either.

But this one is quite fine. Once it's been worn by the players do we even notice anyway?

All the screaming about that one-off 2013-14 club badge — we finished 5th with 72 points, nobody was concerned about the badge by the end of that campaign.

I still don't like Stake, or any advertising come to think of it, good prom video.

What I do like is they are releasing a non-sponsored version of the kit, be interesting to see which one sells better. I'll have a good guess which one!

But it seems very literal. I can understand the club wanting something to do with the river, but surely Castore could have been a bit more creative than just covering it in crudely drawn waves? I reckon a primary school kid could have conceived and designed it.

I'm sure there will be a tsunami of youngsters lapping it up for the new season down by the river.

I like the blue socks. It's not just 86-87, we wore them in 94-95, although I think they had black hoops in them. Most of the 1960s footage I've watched, we seemed to wear blue socks.

For me, I'd like the away kit to be amber, blue, amber.

Danny, I got the away kit for my 15th birthday in 1996, I really liked it at the time. I also received tickets to watch us down at White Hart Lane on my exact birthday...we drew nil nil.

Typical.

The best part is Jarrad Branthwaite is promoting the kit.

Surely we won't sell him if he's promoting the new kit

Let's hope not.

Thumbs up from me on the top.

It could have been a far more dynamic design, loosely symbolic of water — something eye-catching, unique, even!

Why can't fans have a vote on a number of designs before the kit is set in stone?

Raymond, I don't think it's been stopped, it's just that some of the revenue has to be re-invested in things like infrastructure. But, Premier League clubs collectively agreed to stop gambling sponsorship at the end of the 2025-26 season, so no doubt we'll be looking for new sponsors.

I hadn't thought about that, Brian, but the waves make sense and in line with the official promotional release.

Laurie, I don't think we wear all blue too often. against Man Utd and Arsenal away maybe? I could see it at Leeds next season. Keep the teddy in the pram, it will be one-offs.

I'm in the 'never buy a shirt' camp anyway. My last one was the One2One abomination in the mid-'90s. Still have it somewhere. It's shit.

All taste I suppose.

I don't tend to wear colours to the match. The furthest I go lately are t-shirts or a jacket with the simplified Prince Ruperts Tower logo. If you're not Everton, you wouldn't know.

Everton note that their deal with Stake is a global partnership and maintain they have not advertised the UK market. They also said that they have done what was expected and asked of them in terms of being compliant with the GC's regulations and were provided with assurances from Stake around the measures the company has taken.

So the sponsorship and shirt logo look set to continue through to the end of this coming season, as Danny says, despite Stake incurring the wrath of the UK Gambling Commission and losing its licence for online gambling back in March.

I got last years home shirt for last game at GP and it cost me £15 from m&mdirect.

James 26 - you are 100% right. Kits are mostly for the kids anyway.

As for the new shirt, 'let's just hope your team makes waves on the pitch and not just on the shirt' said my wife. She's not a football fan, but has been to Goodison Park once where she had her picture taken with Speedo Mick. She thinks we've missed a trick by not getting Speedo Mick to pose with the shirt!

Got a good look this morning as I was in town and popped in to Evertontwo.

Personally I think the shirt looks like something I remember Kerry Dixon wearing for Chelsea in the 1980s/90s (so a bit cheap and spivvy).

That said, I don't buy/wear replica shirts so not a big problem.

However if you think the shirt looks good and are thinking of buying one, I discovered they can be bought without the grotesque/hideous Stake logo.

I said to the girl "I thought Stake was gone?"

She replied "No, one more year, but look, you can get 'em in adult sizes with no logo."

For a moment, I kind of wished the new design was something superb and more..um..'Everton' (?) then maybe I would have bought one.

(but then I looked at the price and thought "would I fuuuuuu. . . ")