Has AI just leaked Newcastle United’s Adidas home kit for the 2025-26 season?
Newcastle United are yet to officially announce their shirts for the 2025-26 campaign.
Are we heading towards an AI apocalypse? Leading figures around the world have raised concerns about the transformative technology.
As the software increasingly encroaches on our everyday life, will we all be speaking robot language and out of work before long? Unlikely.
AI in its current format continues to conjure up bizarre and, at times, comedic results. NewcastleWorld thought it would be a good idea to put the technology to the test to create a mock-up for next season’s home shirt.
Newcastle United penned a lucrative multi-year deal with Adidas ahead of the current campaign worth a reported £40million per season. Hundreds of Toon fans queued up outside of St James' Park when the kits were released in June.
The Magpies famously repped Adidas from 1995 to 2010 and were treated to some of the Premier League’s most iconic designs. While the away shirt and third kit turned heads, it was a low-key return for the black-and-white stripes last summer.
NewcastleWorld asked AI tool Grok to generate a kit for the 2025-26 season. In fairness, the design could easily be pass the test should the club announce this as the final design tomorrow.
However, it remains to be seen whether Grok could succeed in global domination. BThe software appeared confident when detailing how Adidas will attack creating next season’s shirt.
“Black and white, maintaining the iconic Newcastle United stripes that are synonymous with the club,” Grok wrote. “Possibly a subtle grey or silver trim, reflecting Adidas’ modern design trends and the club’s futuristic outlook, as hinted in the web results about testing fan reactions to new stripe patterns.
“The kit will feature bold, vertical black and white stripes, a classic element of Newcastle’s identity as seen in the 2024-25 home kit inspired by the 2002-03 design. A slight modern twist could include a gradient or wavy pattern within the stripes, as suggested by the controversial “picnic blanket” stripe leak mentioned in web result.
“This could be a subtle, narrow zigzag or chevron pattern within the black stripes to test fan reactions, but still maintain the traditional look fans expect. Since I’m a text-based AI and can’t create or display actual images, this description can serve as a guide for an artist or designer to visualize the kit.”