2
Runner-up
Beijing Guoan — Home
Chinese Super League
9.4
/ 10 score
Rankings · 2025 Season Edition
The 50 kits that defined Chinese football this season.
From Super League title contenders to second-division surprises — our editors ranked every notable jersey released for the 2025 campaign. Updated weekly. No sponsorships, no paid placements.
The Top 10
The podium: our three highest-scoring kits of 2025.
Scored on fabric quality, design originality, cultural fit, and the gut feeling our reviewers get when they pull a shirt over their head for the first time.
1
Champion
Shanghai Port — Home
Chinese Super League
9.6
/ 10 score
3
Third
Chengdu Rongcheng — Home
Chinese Super League
9.2
/ 10 score
04
Wuhan Three Towns — Away
8.9
Score
05
Shandong Taishan — Third
8.7
Score
06
Dalian Pro — Home
8.5
Score
07
Zhejiang FC — Away
8.3
Score
08
Meizhou Hakka — Home
8.1
Score
09
Suzhou Dongwu — Away
7.9
Score
10
Yanbian Funde — Home
7.8
Score
Best-of Awards
Six categories, six winners.
Beyond the overall ranking, our editorial team awards specific jerseys for the things they do exceptionally well — or exceptionally badly.
Best Cultural Design
The most thoughtful local reference work in the league this season — not a pastiche, a conversation.
Winner: Meizhou Hakka — HomeBest Fabric & Build
Heaviest, coolest, softest. Worn, washed, stretched, and still held its shape after the 38th match.
Winner: Shanghai Port — HomeBoldest Concept Kit
The one we'd buy even if our team never won another match. Pure visual risk, well executed.
Winner: Shandong Taishan — ThirdBest Minimalist
No busy patterns, no third colors, no graphics. Just one great color, one great collar, and a clean crest.
Winner: Zhejiang FC — AwayBiggest Improvement
From last place in 2024 to a top-half finish in 2025. Sometimes a kit change really is a turning point.
Winner: Tianjin Jinmen TigerMost Underrated
The kit that nobody is talking about and absolutely should be. Stock up before the next print run.
Winner: Changchun Yatai — Away
Kit Standings
Where every CSL kit sits after matchday 28.
Think of it as the league table, but for shirts. Points are awarded for kit quality (40%), cultural fit (25%), fabric performance (20%), and fan reception (15%).
| # | Club | Pts |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SPShanghai Port — Home | 96 |
| 2 | BGBeijing Guoan — Home | 94 |
| 3 | CRChengdu Rongcheng — Home | 92 |
| 4 | W3Wuhan Three Towns — Away | 89 |
| 5 | STShandong Taishan — Third | 87 |
| 6 | DPDalian Pro — Home | 85 |
| 7 | ZJZhejiang FC — Away | 83 |
| 8 | MHMeizhou Hakka — Home | 81 |
Style Index
Six design styles dominating the 2025 season.
Group the kits however you like — by template, by region, by sponsor. We prefer to group them by what's actually on the chest.
Heritage
Throwback Heritage
Reissued crests, retro collars, and colors pulled straight from a club's founding decade. Fans lose their minds. We mostly agree.
8.4
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Cultural
Local Cultural
Tulou fortresses, Yangtze bridges, Jiangnan gardens, Manchu paper cuts — Chinese design vocabulary, modern kit templates.
8.1
Explore
Concept
Concept / Artist Series
One-off, often non-official designs commissioned from Chinese illustrators and type designers. A small but brilliant category.
8.6
Explore
Minimalist
Modern Minimalist
One color, no graphic, small monochrome crest. The aesthetic that quietly wins design awards in every league on earth.
7.6
Explore
Gradient
Gradient & Color-Block
Two-tone, three-tone, or ombré across the body. Often the most divisive kits in the season — loved by half, hated by the other half.
7.2
Explore
Template