{"id":103145,"date":"2025-08-23T01:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T01:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/103145\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T01:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T01:24:10","slug":"barcelona-again-forced-to-wear-old-24-25-third-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/103145\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona Again Forced to Wear Old 24-25 Third Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n Kit Clash: Barcelona was forced to wear their old third kit because all three of their new 25-26 kits were too similar to RCD Mallorca\u2019s home kit.
\n Nike’s Failure: Nike did not provide alternative yellow shorts and socks for the Mamba away kit, even though the yellow shirt itself did not clash with Mallorca\u2019s kit.
\n Upcoming Match: The kit issue will persist in the upcoming match against Levante, as their dark red and blue stripes are also incompatible with Barcelona\u2019s 25-26 kits. <\/p>\n

Barcelona were forced to open their 2025-26 La Liga<\/a> campaign in last season\u2019s third kit after all three of their new 25-26 full kits were ruled too similar to RCD Mallorca\u2019s home kit. And as it looks, we will see the old third kit right away again.<\/p>\n

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In their 3-0 away win on August 16, Bar\u00e7a took the field in the lime green 2024-25 third kit. La Liga decided that their new home, gold away, and recently launched orange third kit (launched after the match, but not suitable as well) all clashed with Mallorca\u2019s red and black colors, and, particularly, the black shorts and socks.<\/p>\n

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Barcelona wore the Mamba away kit in the pre-season match against Seoul – the black shorts clash was no problem for the referee, unlike as in La Liga<\/p>\n

Nike failed to provide Barcelona with alternative yellow shorts and socks for the Mamba away kit\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

However, the yellow away shirt actually does not clash with Mallorca\u2019s kit, but Nike<\/a> failed to provide Barcelona with alternative yellow shorts and socks, apparently.<\/p>\n

The issue is set to continue this weekend when Bar\u00e7a visit newly promoted Levante. Like Barcelona, Levante wear dark red and blue stripes, which the league has deemed incompatible with all three of Bar\u00e7a\u2019s 25-26 kits.<\/p>\n

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According to SPORT<\/a>, La Liga\u2019s \u201cKit Selector\u201d system determines permitted match combinations, with the final call made by the match director- and the referee still able to intervene if needed.<\/p>\n

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Interestingly, back in 2014, Barcelona was allowed to wear orange away against Levante. La Liga is stricter today, apparently.<\/p>\n

Barcelona is starting the new season with three consecutive away matches.<\/p>\n

Do you think Nike should have provided alternative yellow shorts for the 2025-26 away kit? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kit Clash: Barcelona was forced to wear their old third kit because all three of their new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-103145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}