PREMIER LEAGUE NEW KIT SPECIAL: The strips your team will be wearing in 2015-16

Liverpool first club to unveil their new 2015-16 home strip in April
New Balance release new Stoke City home and away kits
Tottenham Hotspur lined up in new kit on final home game of the season
Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester City also set for new kit releases

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15:16 GMT, 1 May 2015

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It’s not new to see Premier League teams releasing three new kits every season these days, but it does make it hard to keep track of all the new strips coming out.

There are some big changes heading into the 2015-16 season too, with Manchester United and Liverpool involved in new multi-million pound kit deals, joining forces with adidas and New Balance respectively.

With so many fake kits (some good, some laughable) doing the rounds on the internet, it can make it even more difficult to keep on top of it all.

Luckily Sportsmail will be keeping tabs on every Premier League club ahead of the new season.

Here we will show you EVERY new kit your side will be wearing during the 2015-16 campaign as they are unveiled throughout the summer – and even give them a mark out of 10 too.

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CRYSTAL PALACE

HOME KIT AND AWAY KIT

Crystal Palace have unveiled their new kits for their third consecutive season in the Barclays Premier League as Alan Pardew’s side look to push on, with a glance back to the club’s history.

Manufactured by Italian brand Macron, the red and blue striped home shirt sticks with Palace tradition, while the vertical-banded away offering is said to be inspired by famous sash kits of the past.

Crystal Palace revealed their new home and away kits for next season at the club’s Annual Awards night

The vertical-banded away offering is said to be inspired by famous Selhurst Park sash kits of the past

Both kits feature the words ‘Crystal Palace FC’ below the neck on the back of the shirt

Chairman Steve Parish said: ‘There’s only so many things you can do with a striped shirt so we take a lot of inspiration from the fans and look at kits around Europe and I think the two shirts we’ve got this year, particularly the away shirt, are fantastic.’

The shirts are without a sponsor for now, with a new brand set to be applied to the designs to replace current partners Neteller.

While Parish is correct concerning the limitations with stripes, Macron don’t seem to have found much originality in their home design although points are awarded for avoiding the age-old trick of simply switching the stripe order.

HOME KIT VERDICT: 7/10

AWAY KIT VERDICT 7/10

EVERTON

HOME KIT

Out with the old, in with the… erm slightly older. Like most strips these days Everton’s new kit makes a polite nod to history.

But it was only as recent as 2010 that the Toffees featured a home strip with a large white v-neck, which in itself was a similar design to that of the the 1983-85 kit.

The reverse of the Umbro designed shirt carries an ‘NSNO’ insignia on the back neck area, a reference to the Club’s famous ‘Nil Satis Nisi Optimum’ motto.

Despite the return of the white v-neck though, we reckon this is a very smart kit from the Toffees. Whether the Toffees can now reach their mid 1980s heights again is another question.

HOME KIT VERDICT: 7/10

Everton captain Phil Jagielka is a fan of the new kit which will be worn for the first time against Spurs

Romelu Lukaku, Tim Howard and Leighton Baines show off the new Everton kit for the 2015-16 season

LEICESTER CITY

HOME KIT

After a stunning end to the 2014-15 campaign where a late surge in form, which even a title winning team would have be proud of, kept Leicester up, Foxes supporters would be quite happy with few changes over the summer.

And they have got their wish too – even if it is in the form of a new home kit.

It’s blue and still has gold trim, with the only notable difference being the return of blue shorts for the first time since 2009 and in the top flight since 1995.

But in truth there is little change from the 2014-15 strip, so our advice for any cash strapped supporter hoping to stay up to date would be buy the shorts and you are good to go.

HOME KIT VERDICT: 6/10

Esteban Cambiasso wore the new Leicester City strip on the final day of the 2045-15 campaign

Cambiasso celebrates scoring for Leicester City in the 5-1 win over Queens Park Rangers

Leicester City’s new kit features blue shorts for the first time since 2009

LIVERPOOL

HOME KIT

This is the first offering from US sports brand New Balance, who struck a record-breaking £300million four-year kit deal to replace sister company Warrior as Liverpool’s suppliers.

The message was ‘Hold Nothing Back’ as vice-captain Raheem Sterling, Daniel Sturridge, Martin Skrtel and Simon Mignolet unveiled the new home strip to fans in the Centenary Stand at Anfield in April.

Liverpool have produced stylish home kits in recent years and this carries on the trend – in fact it hardly looks much different to the 2014-15 strip. Still, it looks the part and is sure to go down well on the Kop.

HOME KIT VERDICT: 8/10

Raheem Sterling (second right) models Liverpool’s new kit alongside (left-to-right) Adam Lallana, Daniel Sturridge, Jordan Henderson and Philippe Coutinho

Liverpool’s new home strip will be supplied by New Balance in a four-year kit deal worth £300m

The memorial flame and number 96 is also on the shirt in tribute to the victims of the Hillsborough disaster

THIRD KIT

Steven Gerrard’s Liverpool farewell may have been far from ideal at Stoke, but spare a thought for New Balance who saw their brand new strip lose 6-1 on its maiden outing.

Black change strips have been a fairly common occurrence in recent years for the Merseyside outfit, but we wonder how long this one will last given it’s already negative association of being the kit that was worn when Liverpool suffered their heaviest ever Premier League defeat.

While it looks nowhere near as bad as the grey kit Sir Alex Ferguson famously binned as Manchester United boss during a game in 1996, it wouldn’t be a suprirse to see the Reds choose to wear an alternate white away strip next season when they can, which seems to be in the pipeline. Watch this space…

THIRD KIT VERDICT: 6/10

Jordan Henderson (centre) and Daniel Sturridge pose in the Liverpool New Balance made third kit, while keeper Simon Mignolet modess the yellow goalkeeper strip to be worn during 2015-16

Liverpool’s new third kit is designed by club manufacturers New Balance and black with silver detailing

Philippe Coutinho (left), Steven Gerrard (centre) and Lucas wore the new third strip on the last game of the 2014-15 season in Liverpool’s 6-1 defeat at Stoke

Gerrard was playing in his final Liverpool game before departing for LA Galaxy

Gerrard scored on Reds farewell at the Britannia Stadium while wearing the third strip

NEWCASTLE UNITED

HOME KIT

So who would have thought it? All Newcastle needed to return to winning ways was a brand new kit!

On the final home game of the 2014-15 season, Newcastle wore their brand new Puma made 2015-16 home shirt and it delivered the result desired as a 2-0 win over West Ham United kept them in the Barclays Premier League.

And what a looker it is too. Puma proves stripes don’t have to have limitations as a nice accent of blue cutting across the lower half of the shirt really adds a modern feel.

The electric blue trim, a Toon staple, is replicated tastefully across much of the shirt, with the only gripe for supporters being the lack of stripes on the back.

Oh, and the Wonga logo… sorry,…the out-of-date Wonga logo on the front. Still, this can be rectified for 2015-16 and at least it fits in with a colour scheme which makes this one of the best home shirts Newcastle have had in recent memory.

HOME KIT VERDICT: 8/10

Moussa Sissoko celebrates scoring the opening goal in Newcastle United’s 2-0 win over West Ham in May

Emmanuel Riviere reacts following a missed chance against West Ham at St James’ Park in a match where the Toon wore their new home kit for the 2015-16 season

Toon players celebrate Sissoko’s goal in the new home kit which has no stripes on the reverse of the shirt

Newcastle defender Fabricio Coloccini models the club’s new home kit which features Wonga’s old logo

SOUTHAMPTON

HOME KIT

After a year spent making their own strips, you would have thought Southampton may have kept to sticking with DIY kits after a tremendous season in the top flight.

But it’s back to adidas for Ronald Koeman’s team, who were supplied by the German manufacturer for one season back in 2013-14.

In reality they don’t seem to have changed much at all, as the stripes remain the same, with not even the order of red and white getting switched around.

Still it beats the red kit they produced before and as long as the stripes remain, that’s all the fans will care about. Show your stripes is the promotional message and we gather Saints followers will be proud to do so in this shirt.

HOME KIT VERDICT: 6/10

Jose Fonte (left), Graziano Pelle (centre) and Victor Wanyama model the new Southampton strip

After a one-year absence, adidas have returned to manufacture Southampton’s strips

The reverse of the strip is also striped as Southampton hope to build on their top seven finish from 2014-15

STOKE CITY

HOME KIT

It’s not just Liverpool getting a re-branding as Stoke City have also followed suit in having their Warrior strips being replaced by New Balance.

But there doesn’t seem to have been much thought put into the Potters’ home strip. The basics are there in that red and white stripes are present (which are continued on the reverse.)

However, while that may be good enough for most fans, switching the order of the stripes so that red is in the middle is hardly pushing the design boundaries.

HOME KIT VERDICT: 6/10

Peter Crouch (centre) and Steven Nzonzi model the new Stoke City home kit, while Asmir Begovic shows off the New Balance goalkeeper strip to be used during the 2015-16 season

Stoke City’s new home strip stays faithful to red and white stripes which continue on the reverse

AWAY KIT

Always a favourite for a kit designer these days is to make a nod to the past and apply a modern twist, and there is no shortage of that on Stoke’s away strip.

But while the home number falls flat, this change kit has gone down a route not seen since the 1990s as green and black graces the Potters’ away jersey.

The River Plate style diagonal has featured on a few Premier League kits in recent times (like Stoke’s blue number from 2014-15) but with black shorts and black socks to complete the look, it’s at least better than flipping the colours.

AWAY KIT VERDICT: 7/10

Green and black return to the Stoke City away kit for the first time since the 1990s

SWANSEA CITY

HOME KIT

After looking at the new Swansea City home shirt, we really wanted to call the latest effort from adidas a cop out.

Nothing in relation to the actual design, just a cheap gag to how the 2015-16 strip will contain the usual white kit and the new copper coloured trim.

Why the copper, you may ask? According to Swansea: ‘The special copper stripe edition pays tribute to Swansea’s industrial past as a city renowned for its copper-smelting and manufacturing history in the 18th and 19th century.’

The cop out gag would seem a tad harsh (even if that white does seem a little off), as this is actually a good looking kit – certainly on par with the gold number which fired the Jacks to League Cup glory in 2013.

HOME KIT VERDICT: 8/10

Swansea City’s new home strip for the 2015-16 season will contain copper coloured trim

Swansea City players model the new adidas home kit in a promotional video

TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR

HOME KIT

Finally some stability at Tottenham, and we don’t mean the fact that the north London club are set to stick with Maurico Pochettino following the Argentine’s first full season in charge.

Instead we refer to a Premier League strip which will feature the same sponsor and kit supplier for the first time since 2010.

And what a beauty it is too. Using a River Plate style sash, which has six broken lines to reflect on the crest underneath the cockerel on top of White Hart Lane, Spurs will at least look the business next season even if the quest for Champions League football remains a tough ask.

HOME KIT VERDICT: 8/10

Striker Harry Kane pictured in the new Tottenham Hotspur home kit for the 2015-16 season

Tottenham’s emblem with six stripes sits on the East and West stand underneath the golden cockerel

Nacer Chadli was the first Tottenham player to score in the new kit as Spurs wore their 2015-16 strip in the 2-0 victory over Hull in their final home game of the 2014-15 season

WATFORD

HOME KIT

The 2014-15 campaign proved a memorable one for Watford as they sealed a Premier League return for the first time since 2007.

So on promotion back to the top flight, you might have thought Puma would adopt a conservative approach and produce a strip which at the very least would be dominated by a traditional yellow design.

Instead, the whole kit takes a radical turn and not really one for the better, as for the first time in the club’s history horizontal lines stretch all the way down the shirt.

Black is usually a trim colour for Watford but it takes over far too much on this strip.

HOME KIT VERDICT: 4/10

Watford have revealed their 2015-2016 home strip ahead of their return to the Premier League

The Watford 2015-2016 home shirt has a specifically-cut design for female Hornets fans

WEST BROMWICH ALBION

AWAY KIT

If you are going to produce a strip which is a nod to the past then at least do it properly and it looks like West Brom have struck gold with their attempt at nostalgia for 2015-16.

Adidas may have angered sections of support by bringing in pin-stripes to the home strip last season, but the majority of fans will be delighted at their latest away kit.

For the first time in 30 years, an old style crest will be brought back on to a red strip which will also be sponsor free, helping recreate a classic look not seen since the 1970s.

It’s one of the best retro kits you will see this season even if it doesn’t help reproduce retro top three finishes from the same era.

AWAY KIT VERDICT: 9/10