The centre of attention but often overlooked, the humble football is the essence of the game. Doesn’t quite come in all shapes and sizes (spherical is essential) but it does come in some pretty radical looks these days.
“There’s a lot of shouting with boots in the space,” says Ben Chehebar. “We didn’t want to add to that noise.” Spend any amount of time looking at football boots right now and you’ll understand what Chehebar, the founder and creative director of Eleven, means.
From designs inspired by female artists to colorways changing the heavily guarded men’s national and club palette, bespoke women’s jerseys emerging on the biggest stages are trading nostalgia for experimentation – and changing jersey culture in the process.
23 July 2026. Philadelphia Union's young prodigy, Cavan Sullivan, makes history, becoming the first player to wear a fully 3D-printed football boot in a professional match. On the surface, it's a landmark moment for football footwear innovation. But look a little closer and it raises a much bigger question: does this signal the beginning of the end for football boots as we've always known them?
Kylian Mbappé has spent most of his adult life being described like a future event.
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When you're the Golden Boot winner at back-to-back World Cups and the all-time leading goalscorer in tournament history, a standard player edition just isn't going to cut it. So it's only right that Nike has celebrated Kylian Mbappé’s incredible legacy with a brand new signature Mercurial Superfly 11. And yes, as you'd probably expect, it's dripping in gold.
For Mohammed Balah, football didn't begin beneath floodlights or inside the managed ecosystem of a youth academy. It began on the streets of Gaza.
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