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Barcelona is the deepest single collection on this page, stacked with Messi shirts from his early number 30 seasons through to the number 10 he inherited, plus a Guardiola 1998-99 away kit from a decade before he returned as manager, and Ronaldinho and Ibrahimovic away shirts from the years either side of 2008. Nike held the contract for the whole stretch, so the shield across the chest barely changes even as the sponsor above it does.

Real Madrid runs through the Galáctico era almost intact: Zidane, Beckham, Roberto Carlos, Ronaldo and Kaka all appear in Adidas home and away kits, alongside a 1990-91 home jersey from Hummel, a decade before any of them arrived and a reminder the club wore stripes rather than plain white sponsors long before the Galáctico marketing existed.

Behind the two giants sit Valencia, built almost entirely around David Villa's run at the club across 2005-06 and 2006-07, and Atletico Madrid, including a Torres shirt from before his move to Chelsea and a centenary edition from 2002-04 that marked a hundred years of the club. Both wore Nike through most of this period, the same manufacturer stitched into the Barcelona and Real Madrid stock, which makes brand alone a poor way to tell these shirts apart without looking at the crest.

Several of the players on this page have earned pages of their own beyond the club level: Messi and Ronaldinho are gathered together with the rest of the game's defining figures in legends, while more recent Barcelona arrivals like Neymar sit in modern icons instead. Splitting the page this way keeps a club collection about the club rather than any one name on the back, so a search for "Messi Barcelona jersey" and a search for "Barcelona 2004" both land somewhere useful rather than competing for the same handful of results.

Spanish club shirts from the Nike and Adidas years of the 2000s tend to run slimmer than their English equivalents from the same seasons, which is exactly why every listing gives its own measurements as pit to pit and top to bottom rather than relying on the size printed on the label. A labeled L from a 2004-05 Barcelona kit can measure closer to a modern M, while the boxier Hummel-era shirts from the early nineties run the other way entirely. Checking the actual numbers before buying matters more here than on almost any other page in the shop, and it's worth doing even on a shirt you've worn the same size in before, since a kit made under a different manufacturer's template can fit a full size away from what the label says.