WORLD CUP 2026

None of the shirts here are from the 2026 tournament itself, since it hasn't kicked off yet. What ties this page together instead is the countries taking part: a shirt from the Netherlands or Germany here says something about the nation heading into next summer, even if the shirt itself is decades old. A Van Nistelrooy home jersey or a Beckham away shirt reads as a piece of the country's football history rather than a prediction of who scores next June.

North American nations covers Mexico, the USA and Canada in their own right, three countries about to host a World Cup on home soil for the first time this century between them. The Mexico stock includes a 2003-04 Marquez home jersey from the years he captained the side, a reminder that the hosts arrive with their own history rather than just home advantage. The USA and Canada pages are thinner by comparison, which fits a region where football has grown more in the years since these shirts were made than in the decades before them.

A large share of this page pulls from Europe: England, Germany, France, Spain, Netherlands, Portugal, Belgium, Turkey, Scotland and Sweden among the countries whose earlier shirts sit here, tied to squads that have reached recent tournaments and are expected to again. A Ballack Germany shirt sits near a Zidane France away kit and a Raul Spain home shirt, three of the biggest names any of these countries have produced in the last thirty years, alongside an Ibrahimovic Sweden shirt from 2003-04 and a Hakan Sükur Turkey jersey from the mid-2000s.

Brazil and Argentina, gathered under South America national shirts, round out the countries most likely to be talked about between now and kickoff, the two nations with the most World Cup history behind them. A Ronaldo Brazil home shirt from 2006-08 and a Maradona 1994 Argentina jersey, from his final tournament with the national side, sit alongside a Messi 2006-07 away shirt from close to the start of his own international career, and a Tevez home shirt from the same Argentina generation.

Every shirt on this page also sits under its own country's page as part of national team shirts, so browsing by continent works just as well as browsing by what's coming next summer. A search for "Portugal 2010" or "England 1994" will surface the same jersey either way, since this page is a different route into the same stock rather than a separate collection built on its own. Which countries end up qualifying will shape how relevant a given nation's shirts feel here as next summer gets closer, even though the shirts themselves won't change.