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/Deep Jungle/Black |  >> Get Elite Mercurial Superfly 10 at Nike | |
 Nike Phantom Luna II | SHADOW Black/Deep Jungle/Black |  >> Get Elite Phantom Luna II at Nike | |
 Nike Tiempo Legend 10 | SHADOW Black/Deep Jungle/Black |  >> Get Elite Tiempo Legend 10 at Nike | |
 adidas Predator | STEALTH VICTORY Core Black / Grey Four / Lucid Red |  | |
 adidas F50 | STEALTH VICTORY Core Black / Iron Metallic / Lucid Red |  | |
 adidas Copa Pure 3 | STEALTH VICTORY Core Black / Carbon / Lucid Red |  | |
 adidas Copa Mundial | OG CLASSIC Black / Footwear White / Black |  | |
 Puma Future 8 Ultimate | ECLIPSE PUMA Black-Cool Light Gray-Fluo Green |  | |
 Puma Ultra 5 Carbon | ECLIPSE PUMA Black-PUMA Silver-Bright Aqua |  | |
 Puma ’24 King Ultimate | ECLIPSE PUMA Black-Heat Fire-PUMA Silver |  | |
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 2024, Shadow carried out Deep Jungle green accents that somehow blended with the dark base. We expect Nike to regularly update their Shadow Packs and introduce different accent colours in the future.
adidas Blackout Pairs
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
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.
