Inter Milan and Nike have released the club's third kit for the 2025/26 season, a design that draws heavily on the Total 90 aesthetic Nike deployed across European football in the early part of this century. According to 90min, the kit is produced in Thunder Grey with Safety Orange detailing — a palette and visual language that will be immediately familiar to anyone who followed the sport during that era.
The Total 90 range, which Nike introduced around the turn of the millennium, became one of the most recognisable product lines in football. Its bold colourways and technical styling appeared on boots, balls, and kits across the continent, and it has since attracted considerable nostalgic affection among supporters who grew up watching the game in that period. Inter's new third kit appears to be a deliberate reference to that lineage.
For Inter, the third kit occupies a particular space in the wardrobe. The club's home strip — the famous black and blue vertical stripes — is among the most recognisable in world football, which means alternative kits carry the burden of standing apart without abandoning identity entirely. A throwback design of this kind offers one solution: it draws on football's broader visual history rather than the club's own iconography, giving it room to be bold in a way a home or away kit rarely can.
The 2025/26 campaign will be another significant one for the Milanese club, who remain among the leading forces in Serie A and in European competition. Kits released in conjunction with Nike tend to generate commercial interest well beyond the club's immediate fanbase, and a design with this degree of retro intent is likely to land with the broader collector and replica market as much as with supporters purchasing for matchday use.
Whether the kit will be worn frequently during the season depends on fixture scheduling and the colours of opposing sides, but its release will draw attention regardless. 90min's description of it as a 'banger' reflects the warmth with which Total 90-era design has been received whenever it resurfaces in modern form. Inter and Nike appear to have calculated that the moment for this kind of reference is now.