Real Club Deportivo close the loop on their 2025/26 kit lineup in poetic style, launching a deeply meaningful third shirt on Galicia Day, July 25. Developed by Kappa, the club’s technical sponsor, the drop is a heartfelt tribute to Galician identity and cultural pride — a piece that’s less just football and more like wearing a fragment of the region’s soul.
Where the home shirt nodded to tradition and the away kit played with bold reinvention, the new RC Deportivo third jersey from Kappa for 25/26 steps into more symbolic territory. Out goes the usual crisp white; in comes a subtle off-white base, paired with delicate gold detailing. The switch in palette gives the shirt a refined, almost sacred quality — like a relic reimagined for matchday.
Carrying through the design language of the season, the third shirt brings back the Compass Rose mosaic, the same one created by A Coruña-born artist Tono Correa Corredoira and also featured on the home kit. This emblem, with its Celtic echoes and maritime energy, ties the shirt not only to A Coruña but also to Galicia’s broader Atlantic lineage.
More than aesthetic, the symbols embroidered across the shirt are loaded with meaning: each point of the Compass Rose bears an icon of a Celtic nation. The scallop for Galicia, shamrock for Ireland, thistle for Scotland, triskele for the Isle of Man, dragon for Wales, chalice for Cornwall, and ermine for Brittany. Completing the circle is the skull of Tarshish — a reference to the mythic King of Geryon and a nod to local legend.
Every thread of this jersey speaks to heritage. It’s a reminder that Deportivo isn’t just a club — it’s a vessel for Galician identity. With this launch, Dépor gives its supporters something more than a kit: an artefact, a banner, a declaration of where they're from and who they are.
Rooted in the Atlantic, born of Galicia, and woven by Kappa — this is Deportivo at its most Coruñés.
The Deportivo 25/26 third shirt is available now at deportienda.es
