📸 Ranking every new Bundesliga home kit | OneFootball

The Bundesliga is back and plenty has changed. Not least each side’s home kit.

We all expect Bayern to come out on top come May but where are they in our kit ranking?

18: RB Leipzig

Firstly, there’s little difference between this and last season’s kit. On the other hand, this one looks nicer. The red patterns on the shoulders/arms are far more interesting.

Ultimately, Leipzig are bottom because their kit is nothing but a shameless advertising board for some form of drink, if you can call it that. No thank you.

17: SC Freiburg

What’s with the stripes? Having to twist your neck to read the sleeve sponsor? And that shade of red with black? Just bad.

16: Bayer Leverkusen

The red and black lends itself to really good kits, it shouldn’t be so hard to churn out classics with those colours. Jako disagree. The one big somewhat faint stripe is ugly and the white either side of it makes it look even worse. Random dots on the shoulder don’t seem to make any sense to us.

15: Fortuna Düsseldorf

This looks like a Rugby League shirt. Very basic, very boring. Not how you should to return to the top flight.

14: Hertha Berlin

The stripes gives us a headache and, unforgivably, the shade of blue on the sponsor doesn’t match the shade of blue on the shirt. Here’s the Onefootball newsroom’s resident Hertha expert Konstantin Keller:

“It fulfils my basic criteria for any Hertha jersey: blue and white stripes. A solid design which I’m happy with, even though I liked our previous ones more.”

13: Hannover 96

The home kit is boring, like it was delivered last minute by a sleep-deprived designer at 11pm on a Tuesday.

Contrast that to the alternative kits, which look like they’ve been designed last minute by a sleep-deprived designer at 3am on a Saturday.

Hannover are, in fact, marked down for the Ghostbuster-inspired second and third kits. We shouldn’t be taking that into account but we can’t overlook them. A radioactive monstrosity.

12: FSV Mainz 05

Mainz have kept it simple and we approve. Sometimes that’s the way forward. Shame about the ugly blob in the middle.

11: SV Werder Bremen

The forest green is an interesting choice, the shoulder and collar look like they’ve been imported from a different shirt. Over to our German colleague and Werder Bremen fan Helge Wohltmann:

“Good start with Umbro, especially as they integrated the hideous logo on the chest better. Otherwise a simple green and white jersey, just as it should be.”

10: VfL Wolfsburg

That big X on the shirt? We can’t decide if it’s dreadful or actually quite nice … we’ll let them have it this time around.

Bonus points for the deep green they’ve used.

9: TSG Hoffenheim

Just a simple blue shirt. It’s pretty nice but it also just looks like a plain blue t-shirt. But maybe that’s fine? It’s certainly better than a hideous in your face design.

8: Schalke 04

It looks a bit simple on first glance but the devil’s in the detail. At this point, I’ll hand you over to Onefootball’s Schalke supremo Benjamin Kuhlhoff:

“We all were excited about the new outfitter and they didn’t disappoint us. Classic blue and white, with a little hammer application on the chest to remind us of the mining tradition of the club. A beauty.”

7: Borussia Dortmund

The weird almost fading grey on the arms and shoulders? We’re not convinced by that but it does look a hell of a lot better than Dortmund’s last few attempts.

The shirt is basically high because it isn’t as dull, as dated or as dreadful as some of the league’s kits. And you can’t ever go wrong with yellow.

6: Borussia Mönchengladbach

Retro is always good. Obviously. That big green stripe across the shoulders invokes memories of Gladbach’s glory days of the 1960s and 70s and we love it.

5: FC Augsburg

That’s how you integrate a sponsor – the big green WWK somehow looks like it belongs on this Augsburg shirt.

The home kit (in the centre) has a smart and subtle pattern. It would’ve been higher but, let’s be honest, it feels like Augsburg pretty much have the same shirt every year.

4: Eintracht Frankfurt

We really like this but ignore us, we asked Onefootball’s biggest Frankfurt fan Nico Heymer for his take:

“After a bit of a let down last season, the 2018 cup winners are back with a plain black jersey and, as always with black jerseys, it just looks cool.”

3: Bayern Munich

Diamonds are forever, right? The different shades of red, the pattern, the navy blue on the cuff. Quite simply, adidas have nailed it.

Even when it comes to kits, Bayern land on the Bundesliga podium.

2: 1. FC Nürnberg

This looks great. A proper Nürnberg deep red with touches of black. Umbro’s diamond pattern features on the cuff again and looks good with those colour combinations, while the subtle diagonal stripes stop it from just looking like a T-shirt.

It’s all kinds of right.

1: VfB Stuttgart

That stripe. That stripe is everything.  The stripe, the badge in the middle, the old school numbers on the back.

The kit has a deliberate retro feel as it marks the 125th year in Stuttgart history. A fitting tribute.