The PSG third kit for 2026/27 has leaked online, and the early verdict from one corner of the Paris support is not a kind one. Images circulating on Saturday morning show a shirt that departs sharply from the club’s usual design language — and PSG Talk, who published the leak, described it bluntly as “an ugly mess”.
Paris are unusual in that their season is already several games deep in three competitions before the third shirt has even been revealed. That is the situation now: the kit is understood to be close to launch, but the club has not confirmed a release date, and nothing here is official until it is.
What the PSG third kit is said to look like
Per the leaked images, the shirt is black, with red trim and detailing, and a vertical stripe running down the centre in a blue-green shade rendered in what PSG Talk describe as “an ugly watery effect”.
That is a genuinely odd combination for Paris. The centre stripe is the one constant in the club’s visual identity — it is the entire basis of the Hechter shirt, the design Daniel Hechter gave the club in the 1970s and the template PSG have returned to for half a century. Rendering that stripe as a watery blue-green rather than the familiar red-and-white band is the detail doing most of the work in the backlash.
Why the reaction is split
PSG Talk’s own position is that the shirt is “absolutely hideous”, and they make a fair point about how these things usually go: fans and fashion writers alike tend to talk themselves into liking whatever a stylish club releases, because the club is stylish. Their argument is that this one does not survive that grace period.
The usual counter is worth keeping in mind, though, and PSG Talk acknowledge it themselves before dismissing it in this case — third kits rarely look like much on a hanger or in a grainy leak, and often land completely differently once a first-team squad is photographed in them under floodlights.
What is not in dispute is the comparison. PSG Talk rate this season’s home and away shirts highly, which is why the third feels like such a step down to them. Paris have spent the QSI era turning the kit drop into a cultural event in its own right, a commercial machine as much as a football one — a subject we have looked at before in the context of the away shirt and what it says about the club’s identity. When the shirts are this central to the brand, a miss gets noticed.
When might we see it?
That is the honest answer: nobody outside the club knows yet. No launch date has been confirmed, no first outing has been announced, and third kits are typically held back for specific away fixtures and European nights rather than rolled out immediately.
Paris, in any case, have rather more pressing business. Luis Enrique’s side are still without a win in Ligue 1 after three matches and travel to Brittany this weekend for a Round 4 trip to Brest in search of a first league victory of the season. That comes days after the Champions League holders opened their league-phase defence by thrashing Slovan Bratislava at the Parc des Princes, Ferran Torres taking a hat-trick and Ousmane Dembele scoring twice. Sporting director Luis Campos will not be in the stands at Brest, having picked up a one-match stadium ban after an incident on the touchline during the draw at Lille.
What is not confirmed
To be clear about the limits of this story: the kit has not been officially released, the images are a leak rather than a club publication, no supplier announcement or launch date has been made, and no fixture has been named as its debut. The colour description above comes from the leaked images as reported. The verdict — ugly or otherwise — is opinion, and if the last fifteen years of Paris shirt launches prove anything, it is that opinion on a PSG kit is rarely unanimous for long.
