Germany's home kit for the 2026 World Cup has leaked online, with images circulating that point to a design inspired by the shirt West Germany wore when they lifted the trophy in Italy. The report comes from 90min, which published details of the leaked design alongside visual comparisons to the 1990 original.
The 1990 shirt is among the most recognisable in international football history. West Germany defeated Argentina in the final in Rome, and the white Adidas kit worn that evening has retained a strong place in the sport's visual memory across the three and a half decades since. Drawing on it for a major tournament carries obvious symbolic weight for the German federation.
Germany are one of the tournament's traditional powers and will arrive at the 2026 finals — co-hosted across the United States, Canada, and Mexico — having spent recent years attempting to rebuild after a difficult period that included a group-stage exit at the 2018 World Cup in Russia. The kit release cycle for major tournaments typically accelerates in the months immediately before the competition, and leaks of this kind have become a near-routine feature of that build-up.
Adidas have supplied Germany's kits for decades, and the relationship between the manufacturer and the national side is one of the longest-standing in international football. Retro-influenced designs have become increasingly common across the industry in recent years, with several nations and clubs revisiting archive aesthetics for significant occasions.
Neither the German Football Association nor Adidas had confirmed the design at the time 90min published its report. Official reveals tend to follow leaks by days or weeks rather than months, so formal confirmation is likely to come before the tournament begins.