The most beautiful collars in the history of football After the wide spread in the 90s, the collars are going to return to the big club shirts

A year ago at the presentation of the jerseys for the FIFA World Cup, we noticed how the soccer jersey brands had definitely abandoned the collars in their designs. That particular shape of the jersey, born with the polo and widespread in tennis, was immediately adopted as the official uniform even in the world of football.

The 90s are the moment of maximum spread of the collar, before the gradual disappearance from the beginning of the 2000s, when bold graphics and oversize fits are abandoned in favor of new technology research. The sweaters become less and less bulky and Kappa's Kombat in this sense represents the perfect antithesis to the collar sweaters. Also this season the teams that have chosen the Polo Shirt are very limited. Lazio made the strongest attempt in Serie A, while those of Milan and Napoli are only hinted at. In the Premier League, Liverpool is the only team to have chosen a real collar, complete with buttons and a white finish.

Big brands like Nike, adidas, and PUMA are increasingly focusing on a return to vintage design and the many retro collections are just an example of how the collar could be one of the future trends for soccer jerseys, starting already from next season.

We have thus decided to quickly retrace the history of collars in football, collecting the 30 that we would like to see again in the coming seasons.

Polo collar

By far the most used type, in many variations like the classic one with buttons, the one with the clip buttons on the lapel, with elegant finishes of the same color of the crest - as in the Real Madrid Home '98/'00 shirt - or even with a zipper, like that of the Seville FC worn in the '99/'00 season.