Ahead of the 2018-19 kick-off, Football Italia rates all of the kits that will be on show in this season’s Serie A.
The Italian top flight is arguably Europe’s best league when it comes to football shirts, with iconic kits a key feature of calcio.
With the arrival of a new Serie A season there are 20 new home shirts to rate, and we’re here to help you decide which to get your hands on this year.
Ahead of the 2018-19 kick-off, Football Italia rates all of the kits that will be on show in this season’s Serie A.
The Italian top flight is arguably Europe’s best league when it comes to football shirts, with iconic kits a key feature of calcio.
With the arrival of a new Serie A season there are 20 new home shirts to rate, and we’re here to help you decide which to get your hands on this year.
Atalanta
The Orobici’s kit presentation was certainly eye-catching, with four models presenting the home, away, third and goalkeeper kits.
Atalanta’s home kit this season features thicker stripes than last season’s effort and a rounded collar.
With the shirts made by Joma this season rather than off the rack Nike Teamwear designs, there is more of a unique flavour to this season’s effort.
If we’re going to nitpick, the Radici Group sponsor is perhaps a little too prominent, especially as the badge is placed just above it.
Rating: 7/10
Bologna
The Rossoblu shirts for the coming season feature almost a pinstripe design, with the very thin white lines breaking up the thick red and navy stripes.
It’s nothing special, but the away kit is a thing of beauty, a white shirt with Rossoblu hoops over the shoulders and on the sleeves.
Sadly for Bologna we’re rating home kits here, and theirs is a solid but unspectacular effort.
Rating: 6/10
Cagliari
Cagliari’s kits are another effort by Macron, but they’ve gone for a much more traditional feel than with the Bologna home shirt.
This season’s kit is up there with the very best in the design itself, and the small red and blue hoops at the end of each sleeve are a nice touch.
Unfortunately the Isolani have not one but two sponsors on the front of their shirts, making what should be a sleek and minimal kit look cluttered.
Rating: 6/10
Chievo
Since first winning promotion for the 2001-02 season, Chievo’s kits have fast become a Serie A classic.
Playing in bright yellow, usually with a knight riding a horse emblazoned on the kit – what’s not to like?
The addition of a side-buttoning collar to this year’s shirt is welcome, but we can’t help but feel the knight looks better in solid blue, rather than just an outline.
Rating: 8/10
Empoli
Empoli make a return to Serie A with kits featuring both a smiling ice-cream and and the legend Computer Gross.
Having Serie A kits made by Kappa is always a good one for the traditionalists, but this looks rather like something you could buy in any high street sports shop.
We’ll award an extra point for the smiling ice-cream, but the Tuscans are very much in a relegation scrap in this season’s kit table.
Rating: 5/10