Canada Soccer unveiled its Nike-made national team home-and-away kits for the 2024 season on Monday, describing them as being “Inspired by Tomorrow.”
The home kit is a two-tone red design, “with a street-style Swoosh bringing back branding made famous on Canadian jerseys of the past,” Canada Soccer said in a statement. The away kit “reimagines a classic style of the past, by featuring 13 red stripes on the centre of the shirt to represent the 10 provinces and three territories of the country coming together as one.”
The kits will make their debut when the men’s team plays Trinidad & Tobago on March 23 in a Concacaf Nations League play-in match, which could also grant the team a spot in this summer’s Copa America. The women will first wear them at the SheBelieves Cup matches, starting April 6.
Canada Soccer and Nike were criticized by fans for failing to produce a new kit when the men’s team played in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. At the time, Nike said: “Canada Soccer is on a different kit development cycle.” Canada was the only nation not to feature a new kit for the tournament.
Soccer fans were quick to weigh in on X, the app formerly known as Twitter, comparing the white kits to another well-known Canadian cultural institution.
The kits will be available for sale through Canada Soccer’s online store starting in May.