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:
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 Vapor 16 | COSMIC SPEED Black/Black |  >> Get Elite Mercurial Vapor 16 at Nike | |
 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 | |
 Nike Premier 3 | OG CLASSIC Black/White |  >> 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 |  | |
 Puma Future 7 Ultimate | ECLIPSE PUMA Black-Puma Silver |  | |
 Puma Ultra 5 Carbon | SE CARBON PUMA Black-PUMA White-Fiery Coral |  | |
 Puma ’24 King Ultimate | ’24 LAUNCH COLOURWAY PUMA Black-Rosso Corsa |  | |
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
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.
