With winter drawing in, those summer days when it was too hot to play football seem a lifetime away. Nowadays, it's the cold biting at you at five-a-side every Wednesday.
The change in weather doesn’t mean that you need to give up your weekly kickabout though, so we’ve pulled together 10 training gear pieces that will help you get through those cold, cold nights in the cage.
adidas£90.00 from adidasArsenal has been churning out some top-level pre-match and training gear for a while now – referencing everything from the Bruised Banana kit to the London Underground. One of the best is their most recent, which celebrates the club’s Jamaican fans through its yellow, black and green pattern. It was released to coincide with this year’s Carnival, but it can still bring the heat in the depths of winter.
In case you haven’t heard, Venezia are the coolest club in the world at the moment. The Italian team has continued its work with Kappa and Bureau Borsche onto its pre-match gear, and this jacket is perfect for keeping warm. Its colour palette brings the club’s gold, green and orange colours onto a black base, but the stand out feature is the Kappa logos down each arm, alternating between green and orange.
Nike£74.95 from NikeEveryone remembers 2018 and Nigeria’s record-breaking Nike kit. This year, they’ve released more heat. One of the stand-out features is the Academy Pro jacket, which comes in the country’s black and green colours and is covered with two slightly different geometric patterns. As if that wasn’t enough, its moisture-wicking fabric will keep you warm while also keeping the sweat away.
adidas£90.00 from adidasAll adidas training gear this season follows the same format – just look at Arsenal’s Jamaica-inspired design – but one of the best is Real Madrid’s. Everything has been kept simple, with the club’s white and purple colours used for the diagonal stripes. It’s a pretty clean design, and the brushed fleece interior guarantees warmth.
adidas£90.00 from adidasAjax’s collaboration with Daily Paper extends to the pre-match version of its third kit. This design references the same diamond pattern, inspired by North African beadwork, in the Pan-African black, red and green colours. Finishing off the collaborative creation, Daily Paper’s logo appears just below the Ajax crest. Ajax have always been one of the most fashionable five-a-side kits, but this takes it to another level.
Everyone love’s Fiorentina’s purple, and the viola has been reinterpreted for this season’s pre-match quarter zip. The base comes in white, while pink and purple squares radiate out from the club’s diamond-shaped crest. The design creates an abstract pattern, while the heavy interlock fabric is perfect for the colder nights.
adidas£90.00 from adidasDrawing on Germany’s World Cup away kit, the pre-match warm up top comes in the same black, gold and red colours, while a striped pattern helps to add another dimension. In anticipation of the cold months ahead, adidas has even added thumb holes in each sleeve to give even more hand coverage.
adidas£63.00 from adidasThere’s nothing flashy about Celtic’s track jacket for the upcoming season, but there’s a number of retro-inspired touches that set it apart. First off, there’s the slightly darker shade of green and then there’s adidas’ signature white stripes down each sleeve. The best of the lot, though, is clearly that crest, taken from the club’s 1992-93 away shirt.
Umbro£70.00 from UmbroWest Ham have a pretty strong claim to the 2022/23 Premier League shirt of the season, and they’ve carried the same ethos to this quarter-zip. The black base is the perfect support for the graffiti-inspired pattern, which reinterprets claret and blue and nods to the club’s East London location.
PUMA have kept things consistent across all pre-match kits this season, and the same pattern is used on them all. It’s at its best on this Marseille shirt, which complements the club’s traditional light blue with a darker shade.
