Nike Football (Soccer) welcomes another historic football club to the fold this season, the brand now outfitting original Bundesliga member Eintracht Frankfurt. Today, we unveil the club’s first Swoosh-adorned kits, each predicated on embracing tradition and the club’s history of success, while modernizing and looking toward the future.
In home matches, the Eintracht Frankfurt kits will feature the team’s classic red and black vertical stripes, narrower than on past shirts for a sleeker look, and finished with deep black cuffs and collar. A subtle chevron print appears behind the stripes on the chest, an homage to the stitching pattern that graced Eintracht kits in the 1960s, and a black panel across the back provides a bold canvas on which to display the players’ names and numbers.
Eintracht’s away kit, meanwhile, pays tribute to a specific moment in club history; the most important moment, in fact. In 1959, Eintracht became champions of Germany for the first and only time ever, beating Kickers Offenbach 5-3 at Berlin’s Olympic Stadium, all while wearing white shirts.
Well 2014 will see a return of that clean, classic white, with the shirt reimagined with a modern sarotial flair that includes deep black cuffs and collar. Further, the use of red, black and white is a nod to the old Victoria Frankfurt club of 1899, one of the teams that would eventually become the modern day Eintracht Frankfurt.