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Black Boots

Dean Ariola

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.

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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?

BOOTBLACK COLOURWAYLINKOUT
vapor
Nike Mercurial Vapor 16
COSMIC SPEED
Black/Black
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superfly
Nike Mercurial Superfly 10
SHADOW
Black/Deep Jungle/Black
superfly>> Get Elite Mercurial Superfly 10 at Nike
luna
Nike Phantom Luna II
SHADOW
Black/Deep Jungle/Black
luna>> Get Elite Phantom Luna II at Nike
tiempo
Nike Tiempo Legend 10
SHADOW
Black/Deep Jungle/Black
tiempo>> Get Elite Tiempo Legend 10 at Nike
premier
Nike Premier 3
OG CLASSIC
Black/White
premier>> Get Nike Premier 3 at Nike

adidas Copa Pure 2 Elite
VIVID HORIZON
Aurora Black / Platinum Metallic / Turbo

adidas Copa Pure 2 Elite
REEMERGENCE
Legend Ink / Cloud White / Solar Pink

adidas Copa Mundial
OG CLASSIC
Black / Footwear White / Black

adidas Predator FT
DARK SPARK
Core Black / Carbon / Gold Metallic
black future 7
Puma Future 7 Ultimate
ECLIPSE
PUMA Black-Puma Silver
black future 7
black ultra 5 carbon
Puma Ultra 5 Carbon
SE CARBON
PUMA Black-PUMA White-Fiery Coral
black ultra 5 carbon
black king ultimate
Puma ’24 King Ultimate
’24 LAUNCH COLOURWAY
PUMA Black-Rosso Corsa
black king ultimate

Nike Black Boots

Nike ensures all of its silos have black options, so that no matter which boot you choose you still get that traditional look. As the colour is mostly associated with leather, it looks most natural with the Tiempo Legend, even if the silo is technically now a synthetic leather. Get that focused vibe while staying comfortable and maintaining elegant ball touch at all times with Nike’s longest-running heritage boot.

2024/25 Shadow

With a blackened Phantom, the Swoosh brand offers you a control boot with a serious facade to match its precision in crosses, passes, long-range shots, and a whole lot more of technical ball skills. The boot does this through the sticky yarns called Gripknit that is integrated to the Flyknit itself.

And then there’s the Mercurial, the most iconic Nike silo of all time. The Mercurial, long know for its speed identity, has always been the lightest, tightest, thinnest, and most responsive among the three. It now even have a Zoom airbag on the sole for an added bouncy boost in every step of your acceleration. A black Mercurial is a perfect blend of modern boot qualities and a classic colourway.

Nike Premier 3

premierNike Premier 3
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You can still get a natural leather Nike boot in the form of the Premier 3. What’s more, Nike retain the OG black with white colourway for that classic look that comes with the material. Premier 3 though is available in a variety of colourways, but this combination of black and leather would be I think the most appealing to football boot traditionalists.

Cosmic Speed Mercurials

This one was not black per se, but at its core black loomed heavily with this iridescent, glossy pair. With a unique method of applying thin metallic colourways to fabric, Nike was able to put a variety of bluish to greenish hues that shone brightly as illuminated by light. A visual treat it was for Nike to put up this boot in celebration of women footballers that became part of the Mercurials.

adidas Blackout Pairs

Copa Pure 2 Vivid Horizon Pack

This I think was a missed opportunity for the Copa Pure 2. It was possible that it was already being phased out at that time, but Vivid Horizon could had made the Copa Pure interesting by giving it another colourway besides black. Not only did it looked similar to the Own Your Football launch colourway (except of course Vivid Horizon had metallic stripes and the other accent colour was more red than pink), adidas already had a plethora of black Copa Pure 2s at that moment like the blackout Darkspark and the Reemergence (granted that Reemergence was design-heavy, still it can only do good if the Pure Vivid Horizon’s paintjob was given more thought). adidas at least gave it AG and SG models to provide variety to this silo’s edition.

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 Red Predator Mania 2024 Remake

This remake was one of the nostalgic options you can get for a pair of black boots. Not only did it have the OG launch colourway of the early Predator generations, it also came with the actual tech that made the line famous in the first place. Premium leather made up the entire upper, which also had the swervy rubber elements on the instep and the strapped fold-over tongue.

Copa Pure 2 Reemergence Pack

On the more active side of black boots in terms of visuals, the Copa Pure 2 from the Reemergence Pack fit the bill. It was really a black boot that had been heavily designed, thanks to the repeating pattern that was carried out by the 2014 World Cup Battle Pack. On both pattern and outsole, thing started out as pink and slowly moved to blue toward the rear of the boot.

Darkspark Pack

Darkspark Pack included the first-ever black option of the 2024 adidas F50. The collection launched as a low-key alternative to the Euro/Copa America Pack of 2024, as well as to the coloured releases at least for the first half of the season. adidas matched the black base with accents of gold and carbon, creating a timeless colour combination.

Black Puma Options

Black/Fiery Coral Ultra 5 Carbon

Black Coral Ultra 5 was a special edition release for the Carbon model. It was mostly black (bordering grey) but had a strong presence of that bright vivid red on top, courtesy of the knit tongue and the streaking visual design. The look was said to be inspired by the marks on F1 race tracks. Black Fiery Coral was not released for the regular Ultra 5 Ultimate.

2024 King Ultimate Launch

Puma introduced some improvements to the synthetic leather King in 2024, and gave the launch edition the black treatment. Furthermore, it had a bit of deep shade of red for the accent coming from the Formstrip outline and the brandings. For the latter, you can’t miss the large bold KING branding on the medial side.

2024/25 Eclipse 1

This Eclipse Pack brought us the first black release for the Ultra 5 and the 2024 King Ultimate. Except for the speed boot which was mostly black, the Future 7 and the 2024 King decorated themselves with some white accents. You can also find that this Eclipse found its way towards the takedown models regardless of the silo.

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Dean Ariola

Dean has worked as Chief writer for FootballBoots since 2020, he has an in depth knowledge of all the soccer shoes from the big brands, you have him to thank for all the updates to our Boot Secrets guide and he is first on the scene with all the new releases for you!

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