Manchester City FC is a club of ever-increasing stature, competing for and regularly claiming major honors. Inspired by classic Manchester City designs of the past, the club’s new home shirt kit blends timeless colors and detailing with Nike Football performance innovation to unite the club’s past and future with distinctive and sophisticated Mancunian style.

The shirt is in the club’s iconic sky blue with a contemporary, slim white polo neck collar finished with concealed buttons beneath the placket. This detail is a strong visual reference to Manchester’s take on casual wear — structured yet laidback, and heavily influenced by the aesthetics synonymous with the city’s legendary music and fashion scenes.

The shirt also features a white stripe running down each flank, which continues in light blue down the sides of the traditional pure white shorts.

The new home socks are light blue with a white band at the top, and feature a tonal performance stripe of small chevrons on the back of the calf.

This season, the home kit was launched with the help of those who truly make the club what it is – the City fans (Cityzens) themselves. Through the Nike Football App, an exclusive selection of blues were given the opportunity to attend the City Football Academy, be the first to see the new design and hear about the insights that went into the creation of the kit.

Getting exclusive, behind-the-scenes access and time with the players at the shoot, fans took photos with their team, and became part of the launch, as the club shared the resulting images directly with those very fans via social media.

The new Manchester City home kit is available buy from nike.com, mcfc.co.uk/shop and in store from July 10.

Manchester City Women’s Football Club will debut the new home kit in their FA WSL fixture on July 12, 2015.