Ranking all 24 Euro 2024 away kits: Spain done dirty while Portugal and France dazzle
This is the good stuff. International home kits are all well and good. There are good ones and great ones, and the current crop is absolutely fine overall.
But away kits are where the funâs at. Youâre constrained in the world of home kits by a specific and often strictly limited colour palette and, often but not always, conservative design choices tend to follow. None of that in the world of away kits where you can, and manufacturers frequently do, offer up whatever you like.
Does it always work? No, but even when it goes wrong like it has for poor old Spain at least itâs usually visually arresting rather than dreary. That said, there are a disappointing number of drab efforts this year and they have been suitably punished in the rankings.
The home rankings can be found here if you can bear to look at what those monsters have done to Croatia.
24) Slovakia
We werenât exactly raving about the home kit, but it at least had a halfway interesting combination of colours. Slovakiaâs away kit is also chucked on the old Vapor template and is⊠white. With a bit more white around the collar.
âJust a white T-shirt with some badges onâ is usually an unfair and simplistic criticism of a football shirt. Usually.
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â Football Fashion (@footballfashion) April 21, 2024
23) Spain
This one is, according to the adidas promotional guff, supposed to represent âa bustling Spanish beach in the middle of summerâ. Alas, it is a beach full of English tourists vomiting up last nightâs cerveza and sangria while apparently still bleeding after picking a fight with the local law enforcement.
We will nearly always reward rather than punish boldness, especially in away kits. But the whole reason we applaud risk-taking in away kits is precisely because of the fact itâs a risk. It can go badly wrong. This has gone badly wrong. Vomit green, pale blue and bright blood red are not a winning combination, it turns out. But hey, at least now we know.
This is Spainâs new 2024 adidas Away shirt.
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â FootballShirtCulture.com (@footballshirt) March 15, 2024
22) Turkey
Instantly forgettable once youâve reminded yourself that yes, this is the away kit and not the home one. The sheer simplicity of it really only adds to the âhome kitâ vibe, because away kits are not the place for such safety-first considerations. Maybe the still-recent decision to switch back to white-and-red for the home and red for the away is considered enough of a jolt for Nike to refuse to consider even the slightest hint of risk in the design itself. Such as actually having any design, for instance.
They might well be right, but this is very dull indeed. Letâs move on.
The TĂŒrkiye/Turkey 2024 Away shirt that will be taken to this yearâs âEuro 2024â European Championship in Germany has been unveiled.
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â FootballShirtCulture.com (@footballshirt) March 25, 2024
21) Albania
Identical design to the home shirt, but the white and black is nowhere near as striking as the red-and-black combo. The bright red of the Albanian crest does slightly lift this, but weâre mainly annoyed at seeing the black Macron logo here, which the home shirt was crying out for.
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20) Ukraine
An old kit, colour-switched from the home. We wonât go into the reasons again, but still. Itâs a decent enough kit, but itâs three years old now.
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19) Czechia
More dreary Puma blandness after the relentless sameness of their home kit offerings. We canât fully explain the science of it, but this looks less like a football top and more like something worn by a surly 19-year-old tennis wonderkid reluctantly adhering to the Wimbledon dress code during a shock four-set defeat to a grizzled British wildcard ranked 273 in the world with an awkward lefty serve who knows his way around a grass court and is cheered to the rafters out on Court Two by Pimms-sipping strawberry-guzzlers in Union Jack waistcoats.
This is the new Czech Republic â Czechia â Puma 2024 Away shirt.
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â FootballShirtCulture.com (@footballshirt) March 28, 2024
18) Croatia
Generally what you do when tasked with making Croatiaâs kits is do a brilliant home kit because itâs almost impossible not to and then have a bit of fun with the checkerboard on the away. This time, some absolute clown at Nike decided to have his fun with the home shirt and manage to b*llocks up the easiest gig in international kit design bar none.
The away kit suffers from being too subdued, which shows how hard this game actually is and also that we are literally impossible to please at times. Thereâs just not enough contrast between the dark blue and even darker blue here but itâs not overtly offensive and therefore miles and miles and miles better than the home shirt. Weâve got all worked up again. Honestly, though. How do you f*ck that shirt up? Itâs almost impressive in a grotesque way.
The new 2024 Away shirt for Croatia, which will be taken to the upcoming âEuro 2024â European Championship in Germany, has been unveiled.
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â FootballShirtCulture.com (@footballshirt) March 18, 2024
17) Georgia
We really rather liked the home kit, with its bold attempt at replicating the cross over the shoulders and chest. But retaining that design element in shiny black on a black shirt hasnât worked anywhere near as well. To have any chance, this would need to be a full blackout shirt but the collar and crest are red with the Macron logo in inexplicable white.
We still donât think it would have quite worked, but full commitment to the bit might have given it a chance.
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â Georgian Footy (@GeorgianFooty) June 12, 2023
16) Netherlands
Itâs all well and good to have a shirt inspired by the De Stijl art movement of your Theo van Doesburgs and your Piet Mondrians, but you must, must, must make sure the end result doesnât look like the upholstery from a Megabus. Nike would do well to remember that next time.
Inspired by the Dutch âDe Stijlâ art movement, this is the Netherlandsâ new Nike Away shirt for the upcoming âEuro 2024â European Championship in Germany.
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â FootballShirtCulture.com (@footballshirt) March 18, 2024
15) Serbia
A token effort at interesting from the apparently entirely uninterested Puma design team for this tournament with some mildly distracting red and blue cuff details. It says an awful lot about Pumaâs overall effort at this tournament that this stands out as much as it does. âOh, theyâve done the bare minimum of halfway interesting things you can do to a football shirt, hats off.â And surely at some point we need to talk about the fact Puma have four teams at this tournament, every single one of which has a primarily red home kit and a primarily white away kit chucked onto a very bland template.
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14) Poland
Training-top vibes from a top that is simultaneously somehow too boring and too busy with the assorted shades of red competing for attention yet combining to make something really quite alarmingly bland. That lovely big Poland badge does all it possibly can to try and save things, but even that can do only so much.
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â FootballShirtCulture.com (@footballshirt) March 25, 2024
13) Romania
If youâre going to steer away from the fun route with an away kit, then producing something that complements the home is an acceptable route. No colours to flip on Romaniaâs all-yellow home kit, but all red and maintaining the flag motif to the cuffs makes it an obvious companion piece. But it really is only those cuffs saving this from the basement.
Romania lost the friendly match against Colombia on Tuesday evening, score 2-3, played at the Wanda Metropolitano stadium in Madrid, Spain.
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12) Denmark
Only Hummel and Denmark could just about get away with serving up a plain white polo shirt with a bit of red trim. But just because theyâve got away with it doesnât mean weâre not disappointed in them.
Yes, itâs not fair that we hold them to higher standards than others, but we know what theyâre capable of and this isnât it.
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â FootballShirtCulture.com (@footballshirt) March 20, 2024
11) Hungary
Adidas have gone bold with plenty of away kits for this tournament, but play safe with Hungary by once again demonstrating the three-colour capabilities of their main Euro 2024 template kit. This is absolutely fine, but we prefer the home version.
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â FootballShirtCulture.com (@footballshirt) March 16, 2024
10) Slovenia
The central contrast stripe and Triglav motif works better than on the home kit and the two blues are working together nicely here. Itâs another Vapor template effort, but unlike Slovakia at least Slovenia got some actual design work on theirs rather than just generic teamwear.
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â Football Fashion (@footballfashion) April 19, 2024
9) Switzerland
We hastily dismissed this as nothing more than a late noughties Tottenham shirt on first glance, before noticing the subtle light blue patterns that elevate this really quite significantly. Itâs not the best white-with-light-blue-detail away shirt at this tournament, but itâs still really rather good.
Marketed as being inspired by the Jungfraujoch railway station in the Swiss Alps, this is the new Switzerland 2024 Away shirt by Puma.
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â FootballShirtCulture.com (@footballshirt) March 29, 2024
8) Austria
Really quite funny that the only interesting thing Puma have done on any of their kits for this summer â put some light blue bits and bobs on a plain white base â theyâve done twice. Fair f*cks, though. If it works, it works. Switzerland and Austria both have good away kits which are pretty hard to separate in ranking terms so we havenât really bothered. Both are just miles and miles clear of everything else Puma have offered up.
This is the new 2024 Austria Away shirt by Puma.
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â FootballShirtCulture.com (@footballshirt) March 28, 2024
7) Germany
Likely to divide opinion, but we rather like it and âtoo boldâ is nearly always preferable to âtoo boringâ when it comes to away kits.
Pink and purple certainly qualifies as bold, but the balance of the colours here is absolutely spot on, and the geometric pattern in the gradient from one colour to the other is lovely. We will always be suckers for geometric patterns on an adidas Germany shirt, letâs be honest. We might be overthinking this, but is there also just a hint of a nod to the 1990 goalkeeper shirt here?
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â VERSUS (@vsrsus) March 14, 2024
One more minor but we think crucial decision that helps this work was the acknowledgement that the sheer boldness of the two main colours mean white is absolutely the right choice for badges, crests, name-sets and such. A different choice there could easily have tipped this into âIf anything, Clive, theyâve almost jazzed it up too wellâ territory.
6) Italy
Weâre still adjusting to Italy and adidas being a thing, but this tournament is definitely going to help. What adidas have done with both Italy kits at this tournament is highlight how âtemplateâ need not mean lazy or boring if itâs done right. As with the home effort, thereâs some playful and clever design choices to bring the colours from Italyâs flag into the mix.
Four colours is generally one colour too many for a football shirt, but rules are made to be broken and this shirt does so rather wonderfully.
5) Scotland
Weâre not quite sure how theyâll get on at this tournament, but one thing we do know is that Scotland will look absolutely mint while doing it. Their home kit is excellent, and this might be even better despite opting for the ultimate away kit gamble of making a blue kit the alternate to a blue kit.
Itâs fine here, though, with the away the palest of blues and the home the very darkest, and the purple working superbly as an accent colour.
This would be fine if that were all it had in its favour, but the hero of this kit is undoubtedly those side panels, which give off a pleasing whiff of retro without looking dated. The back of the shirt also features a playful update of the Saltire, about which the nation of Scotland has given precisely zero f*cks. Interesting.
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â Daily Record Sport (@Record_Sport) March 14, 2024
4) Belgium
âWhat if we did a Belgium football kit inspired by Tintin?â is an absolutely brilliant idea and we will listen to absolutely no counter-argument. We just hope whichever absolute hero had the balls to say it out loud at that first design meeting a) got promoted and b) is now working on a Hercule Poirot-inspired kit for the 2026 World Cup.
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â Dawbs (@ben_dawber) June 3, 2024
3) England
Werenât at all convinced when we first saw it, but itâs grown on us relentlessly ever since. Again, risk-taking is good and to be encouraged on away kits and this is certainly that. Purple isnât really the right colour for an England away kit, but â and maybe this is irredeemably stupid on our part â weâre totally taken in by the âAh, but what colour do you get if you mix the light blue and red of traditional England away kits?â marketing spiel.
Trent Alexander-Arnold celebrates scoring for England.
Weâre not even bothered that theyâve called the resulting colour âraisinâ. Who doesnât like raisins? Theyâre natureâs candy. And those side panels donât really make much sense but look really good and at the end of the day thatâs the real quiz. This could easily have gone horribly wrong and ended up bottom of the pile but somehow itâs all come together in the end and worked perfectly. Hopefully the same is true of Englandâs defence in Germany this summer.
2) Portugal
Yes. This is how you do an out-there away kit. The blue Azulejo architectural pattern on an off-white base takes this dazzlingly close to a work of actual art. âHang it in the Louvreâ is a dreadful clichĂ©, but sometimes you have to accept the clichĂ© has a point. Hang it in the Louvre. Itâs magnificent.
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1) France
Just outrageously, ridiculously, provocatively good. Magnifique even. Pinstripes and a massive cockerel would already be a winner, evoking instant memories of a far less complicated time in Michel Platiniâs football narrative arc, but having those pinstripes subtly shift from blue to red across the shirt is utter genius. France have got absolutely spectacular gear for this tournament, the bastards.
Kylian Mbappe during an international match for France.
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