On Tuesday, Nike and the National Women’s Soccer League released the 28 new kits that will grace the field for the league’s 2024 season. It’s the first time Nike has done a league-wide refresh for a women’s soccer league and the first time every kit has been changed out for a new NWSL season.
Naturally, it’s time for the highly subjective and totally polarizing task of ranking the kits from from best to worst.
First, some notes: I’ll be ranking only the primary kits, and for good reason. As I reported for ESPN, each team went through a process to customize a bespoke primary kit. Secondary kits across the NWSL all follow the same gradient pattern, just in different colors, as part of a league-wide theme that Nike and the NWSL are calling “the strength of the collective … a reminder that soft and fierce.” The reality is, all the secondary kits will be changed out next year for bespoke designs to create alternating two-year cycles for primary- and secondary-kit refreshes. These secondary kits are effectively stopgaps in a new and largely…
