Paris Saint-Germain’s 2026/27 home jersey returns to the design element that made the club recognizable long before it became a global football brand: the Hechter stripe. After several seasons in which PSG moved in and out of that classic identity, Nike places the vertical red-and-white band back at the center of the shirt.
What is the Hechter stripe?
The stripe is named after fashion designer and former PSG president Daniel Hechter, whose early-1970s kit design established the club’s defining visual code: a blue shirt split by a bold red vertical band framed in white. Variations have appeared across decades, becoming to PSG what hoops are to Celtic or red-and-blue stripes are to Barcelona.
A wider, more symmetrical interpretation for 2026/27
The new shirt uses Old Royal, a noticeably lighter royal blue than many recent PSG home kits. White and University Red complete the French tricolor palette, while the Hechter band is made wider than usual so the key logos can sit directly inside it.
Both the PSG crest and Nike Swoosh move to a centralized position. That symmetry gives the shirt a very different feel from most modern club jerseys and makes the stripe itself the main piece of architecture rather than a background graphic.
Thirty-seven consecutive seasons with Nike
The 2026/27 release also continues an unusually long relationship: Nike has supplied PSG for 37 consecutive seasons. During that time, the home shirt has moved through many interpretations of the club’s DNA, sometimes minimizing the Hechter stripe and sometimes embracing it fully.
This season belongs firmly to the second category. The result feels modern because of the lighter blue and centered layout, but the reason it works is historical. PSG does not need to invent a new symbol when it already owns one of football’s most distinctive shirt designs.