New Zealand’s nationwide soccer groups have a brand new look — which, to be trustworthy, isn’t a lot totally different than their outdated look — due to the nation’s new partnership with producer Puma.
New Zealand Soccer and Puma rolled out new kits for the nation’s nationwide groups on Wednesday, January 31. They’ll be worn by nationwide groups in any respect ranges, together with the All Whites (males’s nationwide group), the Ferns (ladies’s nationwide groups), males’s and ladies’s youth groups, males’s and ladies’s futsal groups and eFootball.
The black kits have a “silver and grey camouflage background with black fern accents,” in accordance with NZ Soccer. The nation’s well-known white fern badge stays on the left chest, whereas white Puma logos seem on the left chest and sleeves. The entrance half of the V-neck collar is black, whereas the again half is gray.
The white equipment, in the meantime, has a delicate teal wave sample throughout. The white fern once more seems on the left chest, outlined in black. The entrance half of the V-neck collar can be teal, a colour that represents “the natural beauty of the country.”
The black equipment is paired with black shorts, whereas the white equipment has each white and teal shorts choices.
The brand new Puma kits aren’t a lot of a stretch from New Zealand’s earlier Nike-manufactured kits, which they wore on the 2023 FIFA Girls’s World Cup, co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand. The Nike black kits additionally featured a tonal sample, and the white kits additionally featured teal accents.
New Zealand Soccer and Puma announced their partnership in December 2023, making New Zealand the twelfth nationwide group outfitted by Puma. “This is an exciting new partnership that will take our national teams and New Zealand Football to the next level,” NZ Soccer chief govt officer Andrew Pragnell mentioned in a press launch on the time. “PUMA’s commitment to excellence aligns with our ambition as a football association to continually raise the bar for the game in New Zealand. Football is the biggest participation sport in the country and this partnership will give it the support it deserves to continue that amazing growth.”
Each new Puma kits will make their debut throughout the upcoming Oceania Soccer Convention Girls’s Olympic Qualifier in Samoa. The Ferns kick off their match on Wednesday, February 7, with a match towards Tonga.
