20. Newcastle United home
They ended on a high, at least. Castore's final Newcastle shirt is high-class indeed; the stripes perfectly weighted, the collar finely detailed and the cuffs matching. No bright shades interfering. No nasty betting sponsor. 100 per cent, pure Geordie loveliness.
Castore won't be missed by many but if Newcastle have a good season, this may well become a classic. And that wouldn't be a bad thing by a long chalk.
19. Luton Town third
Make jokes about Derby's piddly points total, about Carlton Morris sounding like your dad's first car (credit: FFT deputy ed Matthew Ketchell), about the Kenny… and about orange being a colour that simply belongs in the Championship.
It's water off a duck's back when you see this top. It's just cold. It is Premier League quality, come what may this season. Umbro have excelled – and we hope the Hatters pick up a fair few points on the road donning this absolute beauty.
18. Tottenham Hotspur home
It's simple, it's sophisticated and the all-over pattern looks decent. We commend Nike for this one: Tottenham's Big Ange era looks wavy already.
Because it's so hard to reinvent the wheel when it comes to the white home shirt: to constantly reconfigure spokes, adding in a collar, changing the thick navy lining to thin navy lining, moving to volt flourishes, then removing them for something a little more stripped back. Let's be real here: this might be the best Tottenham home shirt that the brand has ever delivered.
17. Manchester City home
This one is Puma at their best: it's not just when they innovate, it's when they create something unique.
Not just a smart piece of kit, it's a slap in the face of anyone who tells you City have no history, with this shirt marking two decades of the Etihad with its cute, turret-like stripes on the shirt. It looks like the ground and it evokes the exact top from 20 years ago: it's ingenious and only City could wear it. Three judges agreed marking it 8, 8 and 8.5.
16. Everton home
This might be Hummel's best-ever Everton home shirt, by the way.
The collar is fancy enough as it is but when you look closely, the Goodison Park architectural patterning adorns the design. And that's the top: no frills, no flourishes, no bright base pattern or other garish gimmicks. A classic home shirt all around.
15. Brighton & Hove Albion home
Brighton have toyed with red as a colour on their shirt to add flair; last year, it was a bright, sunny yellow. This year, it's basic Brighton: blue and white all over. And it look epic.
The raglan sleeves and even number of stripes across the chest give this one a particularly contemporary look: the Seagulls are going to look great wearing this in Europe.
14. Manchester United home
How United reached the fourth decade of the Premier League before adding the famous Manchester rose to their shirts, we'll never know. A geometric pattern was always going to be the coolest way to go.
The amount of black on this one reinstates the meanness that counteracts a flower, with a nice collar and improved sponsor logo. Manchester United home shirts aren't always hits but this one certainly is.
13. Fulham third
Fulham embraced a Barbie aesthetic for their away shirt. For the third, they've incorporated a much more paletable pink.
David Beckham would be more than happy to sign this off as an Inter Miami strip. The black/pink combination is a winner, with added hexagonal line-work to boot. Straightforward and smashing from the west Londoners.
12. Bournemouth away
Umbro have done a great job appropriating Bournemouth the town in recent change shirts. They delivered a beautiful, bright blue effort which evoked the pier in 2020/21, while the Cherries' away shirt last season was purple and patterned with palm trees similar to those down the road in Sandbanks.
Once again, Andoni Iraola's men have a seaside-inspired strip, this time with a simple wavy pattern across the torso over a pale blue base. It feels like a defining away shirt for the club already.
11. Wolves third
This is more like it. While Wolves' other two shirts look like they simply wish to sit at the back of the club's superstore next to the novelty mugs, unassuming and away from the glare, the third kit is having none of it.
Sky blue with white and navy touches, this one begs to be adored – and you know what? We do. Five of us scored it a 7 or above.
