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.
What You’ll Find On This Page:
Black is modest and arrogant at the same time…
-Yohji Yamamoto
Whether it’s the primary colour, or in the detailing, black is the low key, but no less threatening option. 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 Maestro | SHADOW Black/Ice Blue |  >> Get Elite Tiempo Maestro at Nike | |
 adidas Predator 2026 Fold-Over Tongue | IMMORTAL DNA Core Black / Cloud White / Lucid Red |  Learn more about the Predator here | |
 adidas Predator 2026 Laceless | IMMORTAL DNA Core Black / Cloud White / Lucid Red |  Learn more about the Predator here | |
 adidas Predator 2026 Laced | IMMORTAL DNA Core Black / Cloud White / Lucid Red |  Learn more about the Predator here | |
 adidas F50 Laceless | IMMORTAL DNA Core Black / Cloud White / Lucid Red |  Learn more about the F50 here | |
 adidas F50 Laced | IMMORTAL DNA Core Black / Cloud White / Lucid Red |  Learn more about the F50 here | |
 adidas Copa Pure 4 Laced | IMMORTAL DNA Core Black / Cloud White / Lucid Red |  Learn more about the Copa here | |
Puma Future 9 | ECLIPSE PUMA Black-Glowing Red-Strong Gray |  Learn more about the Future here | |
Puma Ultra 6 | ECLIPSE PUMA Black-PUMA Red |  Learn more about the Ultra here | |
Puma King 20 | ECLIPSE PUMA Black-PUMA White-PUMA Gold |  Learn more about the King here | |
 adidas Copa Mundial | OG CLASSIC Black / Footwear White / Black |  Learn more about the Mundial here | |
 adidas Copa Pure 4 Laced | BLACKOUT Core Black / Cloud White / Lucid Red |  Learn more about the Copa here | |
 New Balance Tekela v5 | LIVE WIRE Black 100 with Punch Yellow and Fire Cracker |  Learn more about the Tekela here | |
 New Balance 442 v3 Knit | LIVE WIRE Black 100 with Punch Yellow and Fire Cracker |  Learn more about the 442 v3 here | |
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. Nike decided to include the Tiempo Maestro with its release a year later. We expect Nike though to regularly update their Shadow Packs and introduce different accent colours in the future.
adidas Stealth Boots
The latest adidas black pack, dubbed Immortal DNA, applied the classic Predator colours of black, red and white across all its silos for that timeless, iconic look. The Copa Pure 4 arguably had the cleanest execution, having a black glossy sheen on its leather and white Stripes plus a red pinstripe design on either side. On the other hand, the Predator 2026 and the F50 utilised a hint of grey on their respective toe texturing to express a bespoke pattern (snakeskin for the former and checkered flag-like for the latter).
Puma Eclipse Options
Puma’s latest black collection saw the Future impressed a Glowing Red accent on its bespoke swirl design, Wildcat logo outline and stud tips. It kind of reminded of the Neymar Future Batman that was launched as part of the 2022 movie’s promotion. The same shade of red accented the Ultra through the outline logos and outsole. Where the black pack deviated was with the King, which opted to have white on its Formstrip and soleplate. It also had touches of gold on the minute brandings and on the detailing of the upper edge of the classic Puma livery.
Other Black Choices
adidas 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. At the moment, this is one of the permanent black options that stays year-in, year-out.
Tekela v5 and 442 v3 from New Balance Live Wire Pack
New Balance dressed their Tekela v5 and 442 v3 with one of the timeless colour combination in black and yellow. More importantly was that the former was the predominant look, with yellow providing the accent around the logos. The Tekela had this added haze of red for its forefoot microtexturing, while the 442 further expressed the pack’s electric theme through the iridescent mould with the letter branding.
