Newcastle United 'colour-shifting' Adidas home shirt design leaked with insider claiming leak is 'close' to final design

As we head towards the end of the Premier League season speculation increases over the designs of next season's kits.

Newcastle United's home shirt design 'leaked' a while ago with the idea that the stripes would be made up of a shepherd's check design.

Indeed, a video has even appeared on social media showing that very shirt being taken out of the packaging with the features being shown.

However, Footy Headlines, who are usually pretty on the ball with kit leaks, are now saying that a new design may actually be closer to the actual final design.

Footy Headlines

A new design has been leaked ahead of 2025/26 kit reveal

The leaked design for the 2025/26 home kit shows a black Adidas three-stripe logo on the chest opposite the club crest which will once again have the white outline.

On the front will once again be three black stripes but this time the stripes will be made up of tiny squares which cause a 'colour-shifting' effect depending on your viewing angle, on the shoulders the three adidas stripes will this time be white.

The photo of the design on Footy Headlines' website makes it look like the black stripe fades diagonally through the middle, but that may be the colour-shift effect in action.

The leaked design is meant to be 'close' to the final product with a couple of changes

Newcastle kit collector @Retro_NUFC has confirmed that the shirt is fairly accurate, with only a few minor changes to the final design, although how they have the inside information, we aren't sure.

We were fairly convinced that the shepherd's check design which has been doing the rounds for a while was going to be the design for next season, so for this one to suddenly come out of nowhere has thrown doubt around that, even in spite of that video that appeared on social media.

The shepherd's check design grew on me over time, and while this latest design initially took me by surprise, I can see myself growing to love this one too.

As for what the actual kit looks like when it's released later this year, we'll have to wait and see and we can look back and see how close these leaks were.