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National Team Football
FIFA has announced that the winners of the 2026 World Cup will receive something never before seen at a FIFA tournament: championship rings. In addition to...
National Team Football
Turns out FIFA aren’t the only organisation hosting a World Cup this summer. Whilst the world’s greatest players have been duking it out, football-inspired...
Club Football
Football supporters have a curious relationship with change. Give them a new manager and they'll debate it. A new signing and they'll judge it. A new kit and...
Club Football
The release of the Nike Scorpion Pack has got us all bleary eyed and nostalgic, remembering the golden age of football that was 2002. So we figured rather...
Club Football
With Nike launching the Scorpion Pack today, we've spent the morning in something of a dizzy mess of nostalgia. 24 years ago that came out, which is...
Player Profiles
Whilst the action on the pitch was non-stop at the Nike Toma National finals, we took a quick breather away from it all to chat to one of the best in the...
National Team Football
Mexico v England. Scheduled for a 1am kick-off in Britain on a Sunday night, or, more accurately, a Monday morning. It was never going to be a traditional...
National Team Football
Norway’s 2-1 victory against Brazil in the last 16 of the World Cup has changed the temperature of a nation.
Club Football
For two days in May, the smallest things at Protein Studios, Shoreditch, received some big treatment.
National Team Football
There will be plenty of people in England who look at Wednesday’s Round of 32 tie in Atlanta and see a favourable draw.
National Team Football
There are easier ways to do Paris Fashion Week than flying its spirit 4,500 miles west and staging it in an Inter Miami stadium during the World Cup.
Club Football
Alvaro Alonso Martin’s artistry usually begins with a coffee: coffee with milk, left beside a blank page until the ideas start to move.
National Team Football
For a few minutes in Santa Clara, Jordan were ahead at a World Cup. Nizar Al-Rashdan had put them in front against Algeria, giving the country its first lead...
National Team Football
The World Cup was supposed to be about the football, so why can't anyone stop talking about the stadiums? As the tournament unfolds, America's colossal...
Club Football
Haiti lost 3-0 to Brazil. On paper, that is the story: one of football’s great superpowers handling a side making only their second World Cup appearance...
Club Football
Amid the spectacle and intensity of the World Cup, it’s often the quieter creative stories that leave a lasting impression. One such project comes from Design...
National Team Football
The World Cup always brings out the best in boot culture, and 2026 is already delivering. A sea of pink? Expected. The latest pack colourways may have...
Club Football
In Tashkent, history will arrive with breakfast. Around 7am on June 18th, while much of Uzbekistan is waking up, the national team will walk out at the Azteca...
Club Football
Fresh off another standout campaign, we caught up with Portuguese Magnífico Bruno Fernandes to look back on the season that was, and ahead to a summer full of...
National Team Football
We recently rounded up the Nike X2 collection for a closer look and generally to just swoon over it a bit. But those with a keen eye will have noticed that...
Club Football
Dropping a slice of Parisian culture into the rhythm of New York City, La Maison de Merc reframed what a football gathering can be, inviting guests to slow...
National Team Football
Every World Cup has a moment when the tournament suddenly clicks into place. This year, Cape Verde against Spain felt like that moment.
Club Football
In amongst the spectacle of the 2026 World Cup opening ceremony, an unexpected figure took centre stage for a brief moment: Kenia Os, styled out by Will...
Club Football
Before football lived online, it lived in your bag. In half-finished albums, battered swap piles, shiny badges, creased team pages and the heartbreak of...
National Team Football
Before photographer Camila Faraci was born, she says, she already had a football team. Not a name, not yet, but a club.
Club Football
In amongst the noise of modern kit launches, Newcastle United have taken a step away from the routine and into the culture. It’s a rare move from a club...
Club Football
We teamed up with Pro:Direct and Nike to officially open the doors to House of Merc NYC with 'Time for Legends', bringing together lovers of the game to...
National Team Football
For most brands, designing a collection alongside Nike for the England national team would be a career milestone. For Palace, though, it feels more like...
Club Football
Malick Thiaw isn’t your archetypal defender. He’s different, and representative of a new, exciting modern era of defending.
National Team Football
In a world of highlight clips and endless scroll, Michael Mapes slows things down. As part of Chobani’s ‘Feed the Dream’ campaign, he’s taken focus in his own...
Player Profiles
As the World Cup rapidly approaches, Christian Pulisic steps into SoccerBible’s Digital Cover spotlight, reflecting on pressure, self-expression, and the...
National Team Football
Pro:Direct and Nike’s House of Merc World Cup pop-up opens its doors this weekend, a dedicated football space, built around Nike’s Mercurial universe and the...
Club Football
During last weekend’s UEFA Champions League Final in Budapest between Arsenal and Paris Saint-Germain, Heineken turned one of the Puskás Aréna’s loneliest...
National Team Football
It’s been highly anticipated, and Nike’s ‘Rip the Script’ World Cup campaign ad does not disappoint. It’s a six minute(!) who’s who of stars from not just the...
Club Football
There’s nobody really moving through football quite like New Balance right now. The boots are getting sharper, the kits are getting better, and the...
National Team Football
After 21 years, the Swoosh is going back to one of its most storied addresses alongside Pro:Direct: Mercer Street.
Club Football
Sitting down with Phil McCartney, EVP Chief Innovation & Product Officer at Nike, we get an insight into the brand's ever-evolving relationship with...
Club Football
FCSB’s 2025/26 home kit feels almost plugged directly into the present. Some shirts are built on history, whereas this exists somewhere in between: shirt...
National Team Football
Let’s not beat around the bush here, okay: Palace’s World Cup Nike collaboration absolutely slaps, doesn’t it?
Club Football
Some shirts rely on complexity, while others rely on confidence. Sparta Prague’s 25/26 away kit, however, is a masterclass in restraint.
Club Football
Ricardo Pepi has always had that striker thing, that belief that the ball will eventually fall where it needs to. Miss one, move on. The next one is coming kind of thing.
National Team Football
Before a ball has even rolled across North America, Nike has already started to treat the 2026 World Cup like something far bigger than a tournament.
Club Football
Folarin Balogun knows what pressure feels like. He has grown up with it, played through it, moved because of it, and, more recently, learned how to make it work for him.
Club Football
There are worse places to watch football than Lake Como. That much becomes clear before a ball has even been kicked.
Club Football
Ahead of the UEFA Women's Champions League final on Sunday, there will be a notable absence in Oslo. Local advertising restrictions in Norway prevent longtime...
Club Football
Most kids grow up dreaming of influencing the game from on the pitch, being the next Messi. Not many will grow up dreaming of shaping it from off the pitch...
National Team Football
There’s something about a football tournament that makes the whole world feel briefly understandable.
Club Football
Stone Island and New Balance have reached the point in their relationship where the collaboration no longer needs to announce itself.
Club Football
Of all the things football leaves behind, the shirts are often the easiest to hold onto. Scores blur, matches collapse into highlights, players become...
Club Football
Copenhagen lifestyle brand Les Deux has launched Les Deux International Club, a limited release of 15 football jerseys inspired by nations that have shaped...
Club Football
There is something unique about winning a league title and then watching it unfold through shaky phone footage.
Club Football
Some shirts don’t follow structure. They follow feeling. Brøndby IF’s 25/26 away kit is exactly that. A piece that leans into expression over rigidity, where...
Club Football
As PUMA hands its World Cup travel wear and goalkeeper kits to Salehe Bembury, football gets something it has been missing: a little productive disruption.
Club Football
For over two decades, Nike’s Mercurial line has defined speed in football boot design, with the Vapor and Superfly each carving out distinct identities. But...
Club Football
Some shirts don’t need reinvention. They need precision.Benfica’s 25/26 home kit sits firmly in that space.
Club Football
Before the adidas Trionda becomes the focal point of the world’s attention it was the focus of a very special project; one that turned it into a piece of art...
Club Football
Topps brought the world of card collecting to life in London this week, opening the doors to Topps Chrome Gallery: The Art of Card Collecting, an immersive...
National Team Football
Adidas has dipped into football’s past and present for its first big advertorial swing at the 2026 World Cup, rolling out a short film called Backyard Legends.
Club Football
The adidas F50 has always existed at the sharp end of the game’s obsession with speed. Over the years, that pursuit has become increasingly refined, until...
Club Football
From the Lawn. To the Bridge. And now to the Beach. Nike’s TOMA La Noche tour rolled into Venice for its latest stop, transforming Dogtown into the stage for...
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