Black is simply timeless. With all the colour schemes available now, traditional black football boots still hold their own as stylish, sensible and easy to look after. Amidst today’s loud, hyper-coloured landscape, black still does it’s job well. They were good enough for Pele, they’ll be good enough for you too.
Whether it’s the primary colour, or in the detailing, black is the low key, but no less threatening option. Just like Batman. The colour many say all football boots should be, whether you believe that too or are just being made to wear black, here they all are, perhaps you can get away with a touch of colour?
| BOOT | BLACK COLOURWAY | LINKOUT | |
|---|---|---|---|
 Nike Mercurial Superfly 10 | SHADOW Black/Ice Blue |  >> Get Elite Mercurial Superfly 10 at Nike | |
 Nike Mercurial Vapor 16 | SHADOW Black/Ice Blue |  >> Get Elite Mercurial Vapor 16 at Nike | |
 Nike Phantom 6 | SHADOW Black/Ice Blue |  >> Get Elite Phantom 6 at Nike | |
 Nike Phantom 6 Low | SHADOW Black/Ice Blue |  >> Get Elite Phantom 6 Low at Nike | |
 Nike Tiempo Legend 10 | SHADOW Black/Ice Blue |  >> Get Elite Tiempo Legend 10 at Nike | |
 adidas Copa Pure 3 | RADIANT BLAZE Core Black / Cloud White / Lucid Lemon |  | |
 adidas Predator | ELECTRIC STEALTH Core Black / Carbon / Lucid Lemon |  | |
 adidas F50 | ELECTRIC STEALTH Core Black / Carbon / Lucid Lemon |  | |
 adidas Copa Pure 3 | ELECTRIC STEALTH Core Black / Carbon / Lucid Lemon |  | |
 adidas Copa Mundial | OG CLASSIC Black / Footwear White / Black |  | |
Puma Future 8 Ultimate | ECLIPSE PUMA Black-Cool Light Gray-Fluo Green |
>> Get Puma Future 8 Ultimate | |
Puma Ultra 5 Carbon | ECLIPSE PUMA Black-PUMA Silver-Bright Aqua |
>> Get Puma Ultra 5 Carbon | |
Puma ’24 King Ultimate | ECLIPSE PUMA Black-Heat Fire-PUMA Silver |
>> Get Puma King '24 Ultimate | |
Puma Ultra 5 | AUDACITY Matte Aged Silver-Yellow Alert-Sun Struck |
>> Get Puma Ultra 5 | |
Nike Shadow Pairs
Besides specific black releases, Nike usually provides black ‘Shadow’ options for its football silos. This allows anyone who prefer black to have his colour option available regardless of the time of the year. In 2025, Shadow carried out Ice Blue accents that contrasted well with the dark base. We expect Nike to regularly update their Shadow Packs and introduce different accent colours in the future.
adidas Blackout Pairs
Copa Pure 3 Radiant Blaze Pack
You can make the argument that the 2025/26 season-opening Copa Pure 3 was more like an expansion of the black option Electric Stealth, which minimised the accent to the zigzag pinstripe trims of the Stripes. So if you want that volt detailing to be more present (we’re talking about the accent covering the tongue and heel, as well as the edge of the soleplate), then we think the Radiant Blaze Copa will be to your liking.
Electric Stealth Pack
To tie it in with the 2025/26 season-opening Radiant Blaze pack, adidas designed the Electric Stealth boot collection with Lucid Lemon accents. This primarily detailed the trim highlights on the adidas Stripes, the Predator’s Strikeskin and the brading on the soleplates. The Predator and F50 were equally loud on the supporting yellow-green colour, with the Copa noticeably dialling down and keeping it to a minimum.
Stealth Victory Pack
This was not the main pack, obviously. But the partnership between black and the supporting red accents were turning heads for the Stealth Victory pack. This was especially the case for the Predator, which essentially had black and red as part of its classic look. The Copa Pure 3 relatively had minimal application of the thematic accent, while the F50 maintained the speedy look on its Stripes.
Copa Mundial
One of the granddads of leather football boots is going strong to this date and for good reason. The Copa Mundial still has one, if not the best quality of leather you can have in a pair of football boots. You choose the Copa Mundial because you want to go all in on that exquisite comfort. Granted that it does have some issues now like overstretching, water uptake and generic fitting, the Copa Mundial is able to find a home in modern football, usually being worn by coaches and referees.
Black Puma Options
Ultra 5 Audacity Pack
Ultra 5 from the Audacity Pack was part of the 2024/25 season-ending collection from Puma. Its thematic black look was adorned by pieces of silver trims and other streaking accents of pink and yellow on the Formstrip to emphasise to its identity as a speed boot. It also helped that along the quarter was a faded bespoke graphic, showcasing an effect of speeding your way in.
2025 Eclipse Pack
Assuming you don’t have much preference between the Future, Ultra and King, choosing a pair of black Puma boots might come down to the secondary colour detailing. You have the bright green for the Neymar-preferred Future, aqua-blue for the speed option and orange for the synthetic King boots.
