Best ever Brazil shirts (picked by fans and players)

Brazil shirts don’t just sit in football history. They define it. Yellow shirts. Blue trim. From Pelé and Zico to Romário, Ronaldo and Cafu, the Seleção’s greatest sides are inseparable from the kits they wore.

In this piece, fans and footballers pick the Brazil shirts that mean the most to them. From the elegance of the 1982 side that played football like art, to Umbro’s unforgettable 1994 World Cup classic, to Nike’s 1998 France ’98 shirt worn by the world’s best player at the time. These aren’t just designs.  They’re memories of first tournaments, first heroes, and first shirts you truly loved. Bright, bold and brilliant. Just like Brazil.

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What are the greatest Brazil shirts?

1998 Brazil World Cup shirt (France 98)

Chosen by:  Scott McRoy

This was without doubt the toughest one. But I've gone for the 1998 Brazl shirt. The World Cup in that year was the first i remember and Brazil turned up clear favourites for the tournament, they had the best player in the world.

1982 Brazil shirt

Chosen by:  Jason McAteer

There can only be one: Brazil. Yellow shirts, blue shorts. I loved watching the great Brazil teams and their players, the likes of Carlos Alberto and Zico.

They really lit up all the major football tournaments. I love the 1970 shirt, but that was from before I was born so I’ll go with 1982. The shirts seemed like part of the way they played football: bright, bold and brilliant.

1994 Brazil shirt

Chosen by:  Fabio Felice

For every Brazilian football fan that lived in the 90's, the uniform used by Seleção Brasileira during the 1994 World Cup is the top one.

The innovative design made by Umbro, with the three emblems in the backgroup, is something impossible to forget. And impossible not to wish you had one nowadays.

1994 World Cup Brazil shirt

Adam Hurrey

After a string of hand-me-downs from my older brother – including, unfathomably, the Rangers home shirt of 1992/93 – the first shirt I can say I truly owned was Brazil’s 1994 World Cup effort. An indisputable design classic, even allowing for the giant “UMBRO” where the classier diamond logo would surely have been better.

1995 Brazil shirt with Juninho on the back

David Will 

When I was 12, I was obsessed with Juninho at Boro and I was desperate to get a shirt with his name on the back. Because I still wasn't allowed Liverpool shirts, I got myself a classic Brazil kit from 1995. I still remember the bloke in the shop telling me that Juninho didn't get a game for the national team, so he didn't know what number to print on the back. I think we went for 10 in the end as that was his Boro number. I absolutely loved that shirt!! In terms of football shirt designs from history, Im a big fan of the classics.

2002 Brazil World Cup shirt

No list of Brazil greats is complete without 2002. The Nike shirt from the Korea / Japan World Cup feels like the perfect closing chapter to Brazil’s golden era: clean, unfussy and confident enough not to need gimmicks. Worn by Ronaldo with eight goals, that haircut, those finishes, it’s forever tied to one of the most iconic individual World Cup performances of all time. Imagine another player coming back from injury and just turning up to the World Cup and doing that.  

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