Images of what appears to be Manchester City's home kit for the 26-27 season have been published online, according to Footy Headlines, the specialist kit-tracking publication that has built a reliable record of early manufacturer leaks.
The leaked design, as reported by Footy Headlines, pairs a baby blue shirt with baby blue shorts and socks — a head-to-toe monochrome approach that would represent a clean, unbroken use of the club's traditional sky blue throughout the strip. The site published what it describes as a full look at the kit, though no official confirmation has been issued by the club or their kit manufacturer.
City's home colours have, for much of their modern era, remained anchored in the pale blue associated with the club since their early years at Maine Road. The precise shade and the treatment of secondary elements — shorts and socks in particular — tends to shift between cycles, and if the leaked images prove accurate, the 26-27 edition would lean into uniformity rather than contrast.
Kit leaks of this kind have become a routine feature of the football calendar, typically emerging in the months before a new season when manufacturing runs are under way and finished samples begin moving through supply chains. Footy Headlines has consistently been among the first to publish such material, and its images are generally considered credible within the supporter and collector communities that follow kit releases closely.
Manchester City have not commented publicly on the reported leak. Clubs rarely do so at this stage, preferring to manage the commercial moment of a formal launch themselves. Whether the images represent a finalised design or an earlier iteration remains unclear. The 26-27 season kit would ordinarily be expected to go on general sale in the summer of 2026.