Adidas To End Most Exceptional Partnership in Football - Full Nike Boca Juniors Home, Away & Special-Edition Kit History
Boca Juniors is set to switch kit suppliers from Nike to Adidas at the start of 2020. The Boca Juniors x Nike partnership began in 1996. It was not just a standard kit deal for Nike - Boca Juniors has been Nike's most prestigious team from South America, and so the Swoosh showed off "what they have to offer in terms of soccer jerseys". We take a look at the full Nike x Boca Juniors jersey history, with most information and images from Argentina-based football marketing website Marca de Gol.
Nike had been the club's kit supplier since the mid of 1996, meaning that the Swoosh has been supplying Boca Juniors' kits for more than 23 years. In 2020, Adidas will take over the contract from the Swoosh almost certainly.
Boca Juniors' home kit " has been traditionally (and basically) always almost the same since 1914, they year since when the now iconic "navy shirt with yellow chest band" design was first used. For the club's away jersey, there are no strict guidelines, meaning that Nike could experiment with the designs a lot. Boca Juniors' traditional away kit color is white, however.
Nike Boca Juniors Home Jersey History
Nike's first-ever home kit for Boca Juniors featured a classic design based on the brand's template of that time. It was rather dark navy with the iconic yellow chest band surrounded by two white stripes.
First-ever Boca kit from Nike
Since the first-ever home jersey, Boca Juniors' home kits from Nike several times changed the shade of its main colors, ranging from a really dark navy to a light royal blue.
Nike Boca Juniors Alternate + Special-Edition Jersey History
As Nike could do not very much with Boca's home kits, the Swoosh not only released standard home and away jerseys for Boca Juniors but brought many, many unique and also controversial kits. All this really started in 1998 with Nike revealing special kits for the Copa Mercosur 1998, and certainly reached its peak in 2005 with Nike releasing not less than five special-edition kits to celebrate the club's 100-years anniversary (Xentenario).
Boca Juniors' likely last-ever Nike kits for a while are not really extraordinary. The home kit features the club's classic design with a relatively large yellow stripe, while the away is yellow with a not-so-great looking navy blue gradient stripe.
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