Chelsea unveil their new away kit for 2025-26 season and will debut it in Club World Cup – as they bizarrely pay tribute to HUNGARY in strip

Chelsea have revealed their new away kit for the 2025-26 season. 

A standard shirt for an adult weighs in at £84.99 while a premium Dri-Fit Adv kit will set fans back £124.99. 

The Blues will give their new strips their first outings at the Club World Cup in the United States, where they will face LAFC, Flamengo, and ES Tunis in the group stages.

Once again, they begin a season with neither the home nor away shirt featuring a sponsor on the front. 

The tick of manufacturer Nike is present along with a Chelsea badge, but no further branding adorns the front of their new clothing. 

Surprisingly, the story of Chelsea’s away kit is rooted in 1950s Hungary.

The white, red, and green design is a tribute to the Hungarian nation’s colours – after former manager Dave Sexton was enamoured with their team in the 1950s

The basic adult pricing is £84.99 but the premium option comes in at £124.99

Former Chelsea manager Dave Sexton – who won the FA Cup and European Cup Winners’ Cup in the early 1970s – loved the ‘Magnificent Magyars’ Hungarian team of the ’50s so much that he introduced a red, white and green kit in tribute to the nation’s colours. 

Now, Chelsea have paid tribute to that old jersey by adding green and red lines down the centre of their white away shirt. 

Nicolas Jackson, Noni Madueke, and Kadeisha Buchanan modelled the gear in the Saatchi Gallery in London. 

Chelsea said in a statement: ‘In the early 1970s and fresh from securing our first FA Cup and European trophy, Blues manager Dave Sexton, himself an artist when it came to the tactical game, introduced a Chelsea away strip coloured as a tribute to Hungary’s famous ‘Magnificent Magyars’ side from two decades earlier, whose extravagant patterns on the pitch had so influenced his own winning football,’ the club said.

‘Soon, the simple plain red, white and green of that kit evolved into a white shirt with a broad red and green vertical stripe, whose theme is now reimagined in a subtle form 50 years on.’

If you’re wanting to buy the away shorts, that will cost a further £44.99, while the socks come in at £17.99. 

Their blue home kit went on sale a few weeks ago. 

Chelsea’s supporters reacted with enthusiasm as they saw their new shirt on Thursday morning – the same time as United revealed their home kit. 

Fans reacted with excitement after seeing the kit release on social media on Thursday morning

‘This kit is quality good job Chelsea,’ said one on X. 

‘A true true work of art,’ said another. 

‘A masterpiece. Gotta get one before a front of shirt sponsor ruins it,’ one commented. 

‘Need to get myself this kit,’ another wrote.