Arsenal's away and third strips have been leaked on Twitter. Since Adidas took over manufacturing of the club shirts from Puma, the Gunners have been kitted out nicely in an excellent run of jerseys. Things began well with an away kit for the 2019/20 season that was something of a throwback to the infamous 90s bruised banana kit, while the season after Arsenal sported a lovely effort that referenced the club's famed marble halls at their old Highbury Stadium.
This year it has been no different with a set of kits that have been donned proudly by Gooners in stadiums up and down the country. The home shirt is a traditional red and white number with hints of blue in the famous Adidas three stripes, while the away kit is the traditional yellow and blue and the third kit arguably the pick of the bunch with another throwback to a famous 90s strip, this time the blue lightning kit.
As well as this several limited edition training tops have been released, with one of the most recent batches featuring a popular collaboration with transport for London. It now seems as though the Gunners' good run of kits is going to continue after images of next season's efforts were revealed.
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Images of the expected home kit for the 2022/23 season were already leaked last week. The new strip was the traditional red and white and featured a collar that had red lightning stripes on it - another throwback to Arsenal's legendary partnership with Adidas in the 90s.
While that effort was immensely traditional it seems as though the German kit manufacturer have gone for a slightly more out there effort for the changed strips for the upcoming campaign. Twitter user @semihkececioglu released a series of images which showed that the second and third kits for next season will be black and pink respectively.
The away kit a classy black number that has the Adidas stripes, club badge and Fly Emirates sponsorship logo all in gold. The shirt also features a grey background pattern that is understood to take its inspiration from the large ARSENAL lettering that can be seen at the entrance to the Danny Fiszman bridge outside the Emirates. This away kit also has a canon on the front rather than club's modern badge. That news is bound to delight fans who were pleased to the reference to the shirts of the 1970s and 80s.
The third kit is with a black and light blue neck. The stripes meanwhile are black along with the club badge and the sponsorship logo. The strip also features a pattern on it that appears to be a hint at the Gunners' old badge that was on the front of the shirts of the 2001/02 double winning sides.
This is further vindication of Arsenal's decision to partner with Adidas. Recent research by Club Kit Showdown revealed back in October that Adidas is the leading manufacturer of the top 50 Premier League kits of the past five seasons. The study concluded that Adidas dominated, making 40% of the top 50 kits, a whopping 8% more than fierce rival Nike and that teams wearing Adidas-made shirts have also recorded the most points across the last five campaigns, accumulating 289 points, 107 points more than Nike.
