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.
Having already looked at Atalanta, Bologna, Cagliari, Chievo and Empoli in part one, let’s take a look at the next five home shirts.
Fiorentina
This season sees a twist on the famous Fiorentina kit, with a return to the black shorts the players wore in the 1970s.
The Viola shirt remains in place though, and this year’s vintage effort is a real classic.
The shirt is entirely purple with no flashes of other colours, and features a classy button-up collar.
An inscription on the back of the collar makes reference to the four quarters of Florence and “one Viola heart”, while the traditional battle cry before a game of Calcio Fiorentina – the precursor to football which is still occasionally played in the city – is inscribed on the inside.
The jersey is a mix of cotton and polyester, with club manager Giancarlo Antognoni explaining they aren't 100 per cent cotton as they were when he played as “at the end of the match they weighed three kilos”.
Fiorentina can always be relied upon for a beautiful home shirt, and this year’s is no exception.
Rating: 10/10
Frosinone
A minimalist effort for Frosinone on their return to the top flight, with a solid yellow kit featuring blue inserts on the shoulders.
The Canarini’s kits are made by Zeus, and the lighting bolt symbol on the sleeves brings extra cool points.
Frosinone’s away kit is more eye-catching, with a mix of blue, yellow and white.
Rating: 8/10
Genoa
The Grifone recruited Michela Moioli, a gold medallist in snowboarding at this year’s Winter Olympics, to help promote their new shirts.
Genoa’s shirts this year feature a button-up collar, with the design seeing the blue half and the red half of the jersey blending into each other in the middle.
Underneath the badge, an inscription reminds people that the Ligurians are “the oldest club in Italy”, with the year of their foundation, 1893, embossed on the back of the collar.
In plain form this would be one of the best kits in Serie A, but having two sponsors on the front somewhat takes away from the traditional look of the shirt.
Rating: 7/10
Inter
While last season was a success on the pitch for the Nerazzurri, as Luciano Spalletti led them back into the Champions League, sartorially it was a disaster.
The ‘barcode’ design of the iconic Inter stripes was hated by fans and mocked by rivals, and was a classic case of “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it”.
This year’s effort is an improvement, combining two fan favourite past kits in the form of the 1998-99 shirt and the 2010-11 effort.
The solid black and blue stripes are back, and develop a snakeskin pattern as they descend, evoking the Biscione nickname.
However, the solid black sleeves are a misstep and the gold standard for recent Inter shirts remains the 2015-16 one.
Rating: 7/10
Juventus
Cristiano Ronaldo’s arrival means Juve have sold shedloads of this year’s shirt already, but that’s more to do with CR7’s superstar status than the kits themselves.
While thicker black and white stripes could work, the black box on the Jeep logo makes the Bianconeri players appear to be wearing a giant H.
Knowing how fashion conscious Cristiano is, the Bianconeri must have sold him on the move using last year’s classy home kit rather than the new vintage.
Saying that, the Portuguese does tend to spend most of his time shirtless anyway.
Rating: 4/10