Everton have officially revealed their 2025-26 home kit that will be worn by the players in their first season playing at the Hill Dickinson Stadium. The design has been inspired by the Royal Blue Mersey, on the banks of which lies the club’s new home.
The home jersey features a patterned ‘wave’ that flows throughout the shirt and has a modern V-neck with white trim. The shorts are white and have a flat finish waistband, concealed draw cords and the Everton crest on the right thigh.
The socks are royal blue in colour and will feature Prince Rupert’s Tower icon on the shin and Castore wings on the calf.
The goalkeeper’s shirt is green and round-necked and has matching shorts and socks.
Stake continues to feature as the sponsor at the front of the shirt. This will be their final season as the Premier League will prohibit gambling companies as shirt sponsors from the 2026/27 season.
The Friedkin Group will have to find and negotiate a deal with a new partner to sponsor the Everton kit going forward.
From the men’s team, images and clips from Jarrad Branthwaite, Iliman Ndiaye, Beto, James Garner and Jordan Pickford were used to promote the new shirt on the club’s social media channels and website.
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Michael Kenrick
1 Posted
26/06/2025 at
09:02:59
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…
Jim Bennings
2 Posted
26/06/2025 at
09:11:32
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.
Don Wright
3 Posted
26/06/2025 at
09:31:51
I still don’t like Stake, or any advertising come to think of it, good prom video.
Marc Windmill
4 Posted
26/06/2025 at
09:37:53
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!
Ernie Baywood
5 Posted
26/06/2025 at
09:45:48
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.
Craig Walker
6 Posted
26/06/2025 at
09:52:39
Paul Hewitt
7 Posted
26/06/2025 at
09:57:27
Always has to be blue shorts for me.
Dennis Stevens
8 Posted
26/06/2025 at
10:18:36
I hate to see us in all blue, Paul. It could be anybody. I’d rather we wore black shorts as an alternative to white, as & whenever necessary.
Mark Murphy
9 Posted
26/06/2025 at
10:26:59
Im not sure about the shirt, and Im sure that “modern vee neck” was on our late 80s kits, but love the all blue socks.
I dont usually buy match shirts but IF there is an unsponsored version available for adults I may be tempted!
Keith Gleave
10 Posted
26/06/2025 at
10:28:50
I don’t mind the shirt, but I think it looks far better without the advert. We are starting to get into the realms of the money clubs at £80.
Liam Mogan
11 Posted
26/06/2025 at
10:29:32
I’m sure there will be a tsunami of youngsters lapping it up for the new season down by the river.
Lee Courtliff
12 Posted
26/06/2025 at
10:31:15
I think it looks more like a Chelsea shirt.
Kim Vivian
13 Posted
26/06/2025 at
10:42:24
With you on that Lee. I don’t dislike it but thought it had a bit of a Chelsea vibe. Excellent that it’s available without the sponsor but at £80 ?… Hmm, ouch!
Danny O’Neill
14 Posted
26/06/2025 at
10:50:55
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.
Jon Atkinson
15 Posted
26/06/2025 at
10:52:59
Its shit looks like a pyjama top and least said about the sponsor the better, thats the shirt and ground name ruined
now wheres the not so marquee signings
Lee Courtliff
16 Posted
26/06/2025 at
10:54:21
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.
Ryan Holroyd
17 Posted
26/06/2025 at
10:59:14
The best part is Jarrad Branthwaite is promoting the kit.
Surely we won’t sell him if he’s promoting the new kit
Danny O’Neill
18 Posted
26/06/2025 at
11:02:09
Let’s hope not.
Brian Wilkinson
19 Posted
26/06/2025 at
11:40:53
Thumbs up from me on the top.
Laurie Hartley
20 Posted
26/06/2025 at
11:46:15
Paul # 7 – Blue shorts ??? No way – we are not Chelsea. Our colours are Royal blue and white. If they start messing with that I will spit the dummy.
Raymond Fox
21 Posted
26/06/2025 at
12:03:54
Its ok, I don’t suppose you can do much more with a home shirt.
Is Stake still a sponsor? I thought the FA were banning gambling advertising on shirts.
I’ve no problem with it, I’ve been a gambler all my life, never did me any harm.
We all gamble don’t we, we take out house insurance etc, thats gambling, getting married now thats is a big gamble.
Ryan Holroyd
22 Posted
26/06/2025 at
12:10:26
Stake is on the front of the shirt so I guess it’s still a sponsor.
Roy Exley
23 Posted
26/06/2025 at
12:18:48
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?
Danny O’Neill
24 Posted
26/06/2025 at
12:25:10
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.
Brian Wilkinson
25 Posted
26/06/2025 at
12:31:13
Danny, I’m just glad they left the Everton stadium website logo off, or it would have resembled a whale riding the waves! 🙂
James Marshall
26 Posted
26/06/2025 at
12:43:36
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.
Danny O’Neill
27 Posted
26/06/2025 at
12:51:31
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.
Michael Kenrick
28 Posted
26/06/2025 at
12:54:50
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.
Liam Mogan
29 Posted
26/06/2025 at
12:54:50
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.
Ian Jones
30 Posted
26/06/2025 at
13:03:29
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!
John Hall
31 Posted
26/06/2025 at
13:12:42
There were not enough shopping trolleys in the video to be swimming around in the Mersey or am I out of date?
Tim Welsh
32 Posted
26/06/2025 at
13:39:47
I will never understand the use of blue socks or blue shorts, or when we wear blue-blue-white.
The all blue kit is synonymous with poor performances against united.
Why don’t we return to using yellow socks or shorts when there is a clash with the opposition shorts and socks. If it was good enough for Kendall, Ball and Harvey
Christy Ring
33 Posted
26/06/2025 at
13:42:06
It’s an improvement on some of our home kits, like the neck, and good to have our royal blue socks, but as Ryan says, the most positive aspect is having Branthwaite modelling the new jersey, has to be a good sign.
EUGENE RUANE
34 Posted
26/06/2025 at
13:44:17
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. . . “)
Steve Brown
35 Posted
26/06/2025 at
13:50:27
Lazy design.
Bobby Mallon
36 Posted
26/06/2025 at
14:01:07
I have liked most, if not all our past home kits, but not this one. It’s bloody awful. Imo.
James Marshall
37 Posted
26/06/2025 at
14:03:41
Liam, exactly that. Most of us are 40/50/60 plus and replica shirts aren’t aimed at us.
The game is moving on, not just snazzy shirts but new rules and razzmatazz. Just look at the Club World Cup with their individual player walk-ons. Us oldies won’t like it but just as when the Premier League started, now is the time for Everton to get involved and actually learn to keep up with changing trends.
Football often reflects society and that’s becoming more apparent again lately in my view. We have no choice but to change and keep up this time.
Liam Mogan
38 Posted
26/06/2025 at
14:07:46
‘Most of us are 40/50/60 plus’
Yes my waist line is getting in that vicinity too.
Ian Jones
39 Posted
26/06/2025 at
14:14:25
Tim, funny how my recollections are different with the wearing of blue shorts vs Man Utd, 4-4 draw, 3-3 draw and the Oviedo inspired 1 nil win at their place. However, I have no instant recall of any other matches against them or any others where we played in blue shorts which probably proves your theory correct!
Raymond Fox
40 Posted
26/06/2025 at
14:25:15
You lads who played football to a decent level, whats your opinion about the colour of socks and shorts. Would it be an advantage to have them a distintive colour so you can pick a team mate out more easily.
Forgive my ignorance, but do Everton have to play in that colour of shorts and socks alone when at home, they cant decide to change them for some games?
Eric Myles
41 Posted
26/06/2025 at
14:41:54
I’d buy it wihout the sponsor logo.
Shorts – white
Socks – blue
Liam Mogan
42 Posted
26/06/2025 at
14:50:18
They are simply a bugger to wash and keep clean. End up looking like something Compo from Last of Summer Wine wears.
Mike Gaynes
43 Posted
26/06/2025 at
15:05:44
And here’s one more vote for white shorts and blue socks.
Raymond #40, I never picked out teammates by socks or shorts, maybe because I spent very little time on the ground. It was always shirts for me, and always basic colors. I was miserable for two seasons wearing bright orange shirts and shorts — it may have looked cool for the Dutch, but it made me look like a melting Popsicle — and I always felt sorry for teams that wore phosphorescent green or hot pink. Even though they usually beat us.
Paul Kossoff
44 Posted
26/06/2025 at
15:06:49
Stake will exit the UK market next month amid a Gambling Commission investigation into social media advertising from the operator. The Gambling Commission made the announcement today (12 February) with TGP Europe Limited (TGP), which operates Stake in the UK on a white-label basis, stating they will shut the site down.
Another vote for white shorts and blue socks.
Paul Kossoff
45 Posted
26/06/2025 at
15:08:56
Liam 42. Compo wore wellies didn’t he, how did you know he wore white socks?
Liam Mogan
46 Posted
26/06/2025 at
15:10:28
His dishwasher grey smalls are hung on a line across the front room!
Paul Kossoff
47 Posted
26/06/2025 at
15:15:15
Liam 46.”His dishwasher grey smalls are hung on a line across the front room!” What colour were his plates?😁 Plates you see, slang for feet, plates of meat, dishwasher, socks, I hate it when I have to explain my jokes.😕
Paul Kossoff
48 Posted
26/06/2025 at
15:24:40
Mike 43.; I’m sure you looked very nice. My pet hate wasn’t shirt colour socks or shorts, it was the colour of the ball. I hated brown, I had a mental block with a ball that colour, I regularly had the referee or my captain change the brown ball for a white or I refused to play, blaming mental block.. I even had myself substituted when the opposition refused to use a white ball. True story, I kicked the brown ball into the river and threw our white one on to the pitch, I came on as sub, and scored two.
Ste Blundell
49 Posted
26/06/2025 at
15:40:42
Nice shirt but blue socks are shite.
Peter Mills
50 Posted
26/06/2025 at
15:43:31
Accordingly, the cost of sleeve sponsorship for season 2026-27 is rising considerably.
Mike Gaynes
51 Posted
26/06/2025 at
15:44:46
I did once kick something big and brown but it turned out to be a souvenir from a Great Dane that had toured the pitch that morning.
Ian Jones
52 Posted
26/06/2025 at
15:48:12
I played with these in my early childhood. When wet and soaked through, like heading a medecine ball. No wonder older players suffer from brain related injuries!
Paul Hughes
53 Posted
26/06/2025 at
16:13:07
Ian (52), and a proper ‘casey’ was worse as it was laced up. Head the laces and you certainly knew about it.
Jonathan Oppenheimer
54 Posted
26/06/2025 at
16:22:07
Im in the camp of liking the general design, but finding it pretty lazy.
Im also in the probably solitary camp of only looking for long-sleeve jerseys and worrying that will never be available again.
As much as Ill delude myself into believing Branthwaite promoting the kit is a good sign, hard to imagine that wouldnt change if someone came in with a £75 million bid for him tomorrow.
My biggest peeve when playing, or even refereeing, was teams with green tops: They just blend into the grass and could never see them in my periphery. I believe this so strongly I think they should be banned.
Craig Harrison
55 Posted
26/06/2025 at
16:30:16
This design was most likely settled and approved in September/October 2024 so is likely a parting gift from Moshiri. Surprised we didn’t end up playing in red
Mike Allison
56 Posted
26/06/2025 at
16:40:24
This feels early compared to previous seasons, so impressed with that. However, I dont like the waves and Im white socks all the way so Im overall disappointed. Blue socks make us look like Ipswich or Leicester. I dont know why we change it every now and then, your kit is your identity and so should basically never change.
Joe McMahon
57 Posted
26/06/2025 at
16:40:56
I really don’t like it, but I don’t wear them anyway. A collar would add something but maybe I’m old fashioned.
Alan McGuffog
58 Posted
26/06/2025 at
16:42:39
Paul…the casey ! That was why Nat Lofthouse preferred crosses from Tom Finney rather than Stanley Mathews. Finney made sure the lace was on the other side of the ball when he rose to head it. Honest.
mike corcoran
59 Posted
26/06/2025 at
16:52:19
Never wore any kit bar on the pitch myself. Kids will look fine in it. Will it actually be available to buy pre season and at multiple outlets. Thatd be a turn up.
Duncan McDine
60 Posted
26/06/2025 at
17:09:17
Nothing wrong with the neckline or shorts and I like the socks, but that shirt doesn’t do it for me.
Mike Gaynes
61 Posted
26/06/2025 at
17:11:33
Mike, I wear my shirt around the neighborhood (US). Got one on this morning to deliver Meals on Wheels. People asking about it gives me a chance to evangelize footy in general and Everton in particular.
Jack Convery
62 Posted
26/06/2025 at
17:22:59
It defo has shades of the Kerry Dixon Chelsea kit.
When do they unveil the two away kits ?
Kim Vivian
63 Posted
26/06/2025 at
17:41:30
The wave effect seems to work better when not seen in a detailed close up shot. In the images with (very serious looking) players wearing it it looks more wavelike, especially from a bit of a distance. I think it may work on the pitch but it still has that Chelsea vibe for me. At £80 or £115 I wont be buying it, but I might get a £20 copy from my mate with the far east contacts though… if I can get past the Chelsea thing once the season starts..
Jonathan Oppenheimer
64 Posted
26/06/2025 at
18:02:43
Mike 61, fair point. My memory isn’t so good, so I’m more thinking about the past 15-20 years, since everything has become artificial turf.
As a kid, it was lots of brown — brown patches, brown turds on the field. But I’m not old enough to remember brown balls (insert brown ball joke below).
Craig Scott
65 Posted
26/06/2025 at
18:22:19
What’s with the preferences on here for blue socks? I thought that Everton’s kit for most of its history was white socks. Blue socks are what Ipswich wear.
I’m a traditionalist and would love them to be playing in the same simple royal blue shirt every season with white shorts and definitely white socks. And I hate the ever-changing sponsorship blazoned across the front.
Josh Horne
66 Posted
26/06/2025 at
18:27:24
The symbol means “because”… should this mean something to me?
Mike Hughes
67 Posted
26/06/2025 at
18:37:06
However, I think the shirt design is underwhelming. Not making any waves with me. Don’t like the two-tone blue or the collar. It’s down there with the NEC shirt for me.
Probably just an age thing … but some of the 70s designs would have been a good starting point.
Blue, white, white – with a bit of amber thrown in for the away kit or socks.
I wouldn’t go as far as longer shorts and Brylcreem but this newfangled cack misses the target.
Craig Scott
68 Posted
26/06/2025 at
18:44:25
Well, there you go.
Lewis Barclay
69 Posted
26/06/2025 at
19:27:21
I thought Stake was being replaced?
Danny O’Neill
70 Posted
26/06/2025 at
19:32:14
It’s a kit. They’ll still be running out as Everton in Royal Blue next season.
Raymond Fox
71 Posted
26/06/2025 at
19:33:54
Sorry Tim @ 32, I didn’t read your post before making mine, which is more or less the same idea.
Scott Hamilton
72 Posted
26/06/2025 at
19:38:01
Its not red so thats the main thing, eh.
Jonathan Oppenheimer
73 Posted
26/06/2025 at
19:43:33
Just wait for the away kit — that will absolutely unite the fan base!
Billy Shears
74 Posted
26/06/2025 at
20:48:29
So,what happened to the long sleeved version then?
Liam Mogan
75 Posted
26/06/2025 at
20:51:37
You can still buy the long sleeve version from last season on discounted websites
https://www.mandmdirect.com/01/details/3Y31512/Castore-Mens-EFC-Everton-24-25-Pro-Home-Long-Sleeve-Jersey-Blue-White
Michael Spear
76 Posted
26/06/2025 at
20:54:27
When I started watching in 1961 (7 Oct, a 6-0 win against Forest) the socks were white with blue tops! Something for everyone and I have the programme to prove it. And this also shows what I’ve always wanted to make a come back… blue stripes down the side of the white shorts.
The programme for my first away game a few months later, against Burnley in the cup (lost 1-3), has us playing in ‘Black and Old Gold’! But my memories of those times (such as they are these days) were Danny’s favourite of amber/blue/amber.
The new kit? I’ve seen worse and we all know it’s only here for a year anyway.
Mark Murphy
77 Posted
26/06/2025 at
21:20:52
Mike, I once scored a hat trick with a brown ball in the 70s for my u13s side – a header. I wasnt aware Id scored a hat trick until after the game when the coach gave me the ball. My best mate, the coaches son, told me I slept on the touchline for 20 minutes.
These days I would have been taken to A&E.
True story.
Billy Shears
78 Posted
26/06/2025 at
21:49:40
The socks should be Amber ONLY with our home kit also!
Kunal Desai
79 Posted
26/06/2025 at
22:09:26
I don’t mind the new home kit, but even without the sponsor £115 is bloody steep. If they are available for £15 end of the season i’ll consider getting one.
Jonathan Oppenheimer
80 Posted
26/06/2025 at
22:19:05
Billy 74 I read that theyre not releasing a long-sleeve one. Will be interesting to see if players like Ndiaye get special ones made for them or if theyll have to wear long sleeves underneath.
Dan Nulty
81 Posted
26/06/2025 at
22:34:13
Can’t wait to get rid of this sponsor
Rob Williamson
82 Posted
26/06/2025 at
22:39:07
Mike Gaynes. Re your comment about buying a ‘Stakeless ‘ shirt when you come over….. I think I saw somewhere that this is a limited edition, so you might want to think about buying one before then (online etc) to save yourself any disappointment.
Good luck.
Jamie Crowley
83 Posted
26/06/2025 at
23:16:19
Youre moving onto your river in your town. The wave pattern representing the iconic move to the royal banks is perfect.
If you dont like this theres something off about you…
😜
Or maybe theres something off with me? Perspectives and all that.
Craig Scott
84 Posted
26/06/2025 at
23:52:27
I have a nostalgic fondness for the 1977 strip with the collar probably because that was when I started following Everton, and the more recent Hummel version with the chevrons on the yoke I quite liked because it reminded me a bit of that kit back then.
Everyone’s tastes are different.
Paul Kossoff
85 Posted
26/06/2025 at
23:56:07
Actually lads re brown ball, my memory must be fading, it was the orange balls I hated, not brown, but I hated them as well.
Mike Gaynes
87 Posted
27/06/2025 at
00:56:58
Murph #77, that explains some of your more offbeat comments here!
Si Cooper
88 Posted
27/06/2025 at
01:37:52
I dont mind it.
I understand that the wave pattern simply serves as a nod to the move to the new stadium.
Mark Andersson
89 Posted
27/06/2025 at
02:38:22
I like it, but then again I like The Beatles yellow submarine song..
Dale Self
90 Posted
27/06/2025 at
02:54:34
I was going to bash the shirt but they did line up the waves on the seams at the arms. James is right but let’s see how it looks after a couple of wins at the Dick.
Blue socks though, last seen under Martinez?
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