What Kit Are Brighton Wearing Today? 2026/27 Kits Graded

Brighton turn 125 this season and the wardrobe is built around it, with the anniversary worked into the collar of both the home and away shirts. The genuine news, though, is the third: for the first time in ten years the club has a brand-new third kit design instead of last season's away shirt with the badge moved.

The Home Shirt: B+

Royal blue with white vertical pinstripes, and a 'We are Brighton 1901 - 2026' inscription inside the collar for the 125th anniversary. Brighton's identity is blue and white stripes, and narrowing them to pinstripes is a meaningful change rather than a cosmetic one: the shirt reads as a blue shirt with detailing rather than a striped shirt, which is a different thing to look at on a pitch. It works, and the anniversary detailing is handled with restraint, but it does give up some of the club's most recognisable feature.

Grade: B+

The Away Shirt: B

The same pinstripe design with the colours inverted, a white base with blue vertical pinstripes, carrying the same 125th anniversary graphic. Inverting the home shirt is the oldest trick in kit design and it is efficient here, giving Brighton a change option that separates from almost everything and clearly belongs to the same family. It is also the least imaginative shirt in the wardrobe by a distance, and in an anniversary season that is a missed opportunity.

Grade: B

The Third Shirt: A-

Deep teal, inspired by the sea and the Downs around the city, with hyper turq accents lifted from the promenade railings and applied to the mesh side panels, shoulder piping, neckline and cuffs. This is the first genuinely new Brighton third kit in ten years and it justifies the wait. Teal is a colour almost nobody in the league owns, the sea-and-Downs idea is specific to this club in a way that a generic black or gold third never would be, and the promenade railing detail is the kind of thing that only works if someone actually went and looked.

Grade: A-

Brighton's 2026/27 Wardrobe Grade

Who Makes Brighton and Hove Albion's Kits

Nike. Every shirt above is part of the Nike Brighton and Hove Albion 2026/27 range.

Frequently Asked Questions

What jersey are Brighton wearing today?

Same answer as the kit question above: the matchday block at the top of this page shows the expected Brighton jersey for their next fixture. In football the shirt is usually called a kit, but jersey and uniform mean the same thing here.

What is the Brighton uniform for the 2026/27 season?

Brighton have three uniforms for 2026/27: a home kit, an away kit and a third kit. Each one is described and graded on this page, and the matchday block tells you which of the three they are wearing next.

What kit are Brighton wearing today?

Brighton travel to Chelsea on Sunday, August 30, and they will change. Royal blue against royal blue is a clear clash, so the white away shirt with blue pinstripes is the expected kit. We update this page as each matchweek is confirmed.

Why does the Brighton home shirt have pinstripes instead of stripes?

Nike narrowed the traditional blue and white stripes to pinstripes for 2026/27. The shirt now reads as royal blue with white detailing rather than as an evenly striped shirt.

What is the Brighton 125th anniversary detail?

A "We are Brighton 1901 - 2026" inscription inside the collar, carried on both the home and away shirts.

Who makes Brighton kits?

Nike.

The Bottom Line

Brighton's anniversary season leans on the third kit, and fairly, because it is the first new one in a decade and the deep teal with promenade turquoise is the best-looking thing the club has worn in years. The home pinstripes are a defensible reinterpretation that costs Brighton a little of what makes them recognisable, and the inverted away is efficient rather than interesting. Good wardrobe, carried by the shirt nobody expected to be the highlight.