After suffering through the combine, the draft and a seemingly endless stream of complaints about roster mechanisms and other minutiae, we’ve arrived at the most magical time of the year – that time when MLS trickles out its crop of new kit designs.



In 2019, only a few of the new kits have been definite winners. Vancouver’s NASL-inspired throwbacks jump to mind, as do a couple of others. And while there were no truly atrocious kits this year, there were plenty of boring ones, including a flood of drab white kits. Of those, a few clubs in particular — FC Cincinnati, DC United and the Colorado Rapids — took simplicity to new, yawn-inducing heights, releasing the equivalent of a $120 white t-shirt (they don’t even say SUPREME on them).



Every year, it seems, fans crave something truly unique and end up being served something straight out of an Adidas catalog. Every year multiple teams across the league end up essentially using the...