Barcelona's third kit for the 2025/26 season appears to have leaked online, with images circulating that show a design in bright orange and navy — a colour combination that draws heavily on the visual language of Nike's Total 90 range from the early 2000s. According to 90min, the strip represents a deliberate throwback to that era of football kit design.
The Total 90 line was among the most recognisable Nike sub-brands of its generation, associated with a particular boldness in colour and a utilitarian, performance-first aesthetic that defined a significant period of the early Premier League and Champions League years. Its influence on contemporary kit design has grown steadily in recent seasons, as manufacturers have increasingly looked to that period for reference.
For Barcelona, a third kit in orange and navy would sit at some remove from the club's traditional blaugrana identity, though the club has used alternate strips to experiment with colour before. Third kits occupy a different commercial and creative space — less tied to tradition, more open to the kind of statement design that generates attention in its own right.
The leak itself has not been confirmed by Barcelona or Nike. Kit leaks of this nature vary considerably in their reliability; some emerge from supply-chain sources with genuine access to production samples, while others prove to be well-executed fabrications. Until either party offers confirmation, the images should be treated with appropriate caution.
What the leak does reflect, whether or not these specific images prove authentic, is a broader trend across European football. Retro-influenced kit design — reaching back to the 1990s and early 2000s — has become a consistent commercial strategy for clubs and manufacturers alike, appealing simultaneously to supporters who lived through that period and a younger generation for whom it carries a different kind of nostalgia. A Barcelona strip that consciously references the Total 90 aesthetic would fit neatly into that pattern.
Barcelona are expected to confirm their full kit range for 2025/26 ahead of the new season. Whether this particular design forms part of that announcement remains to be seen.