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.
Lazio
The Biancocelesti have returned to the special kit released during the 2014-15 season, featuring an eagle design across the front.
That kit was released to celebrate the 1986-87 season, which saw the team narrowly avoid relegation to Serie C, and was rapturously received by both fans and neutrals.
There are some slight changes, with less blue around the collar, but otherwise this is basically the same shirt. A good thing, too, because it’s a stone-cold classic.
Rating: 10/10
Milan
After breaking off an almost 20 year agreement with Adidas, Milan signed a deal with Puma to become their kit manufacturer.
There was therefore plenty of interest in the new Rossoneri shirts when they were released earlier this summer.
The result is neither dreadful nor a classic. The back collar is a nice detail, but the black sleeves with a thick red line down the centre look rather tacky.
Rating: 6/10
Napoli
While most people are traditionalists when it comes to football shirts, Lazio have shown that you can do something different and still produce a great kit.
Unfortunately Napoli have gone too far in that direction, incorporating a roaring panther into this season’s Kappa kits.
That design is only obvious at close range though, from a distance it simply appears the shirts have been modelled on a paddling pool.
The two sponsors on the front further confuse the issue, making this one a real dog’s dinner.
Rating: 3/10
Parma
We’re only reviewing home shirts here, but Parma’s away shirt modelled on the 1998-99 Giallolbu effort deserves a mention.
The home shirt is a more traditional Crociata design, a white shirt with a large black cross emblazoned on the front.
It’s a simple, minimalist design for the Ducali’s return to Serie A, though it could have done without the red Aon sponsor in the top right.
Rating: 8/10
Roma
Roma’s 2018-19 shirts were actually on show at the end of last season, first worn in a home tie with Juventus.
The Nike design incorporates the Lorica Hamata, the metal armour worn by Roman soldiers on the battlefield.
A new sponsorship deal means Qatar Airways is emblazoned across the front, which has been left blank in recent seasons, but the branding is unobtrusive and tastefully done.
It’s not quite on a par with last season’s, but still a very nice looking shirt – now can we please have the round, wolf’s head badge back?
Rating: 8/10