Puma football boots have been gaining ground in expanding its appeal to players and increasing competition to adidas and Nike. They are becoming an attractive proposition because of their competitive pricing for the quality they possess. Click on the image below to jump straight to recent Puma packs and releases.
At the moment, Puma offers the Future agility boot and the Ultra speed boot. It also has the heritage King, the modern iteration of the classic Puma King boots, though consensus-wise it no longer competes in the space of K-leather boots with its transition to a synthetic upper.
What You’ll Find On This Page:
- Puma Boot Offerings – Future, Ultra and King
- Popular Footballers under the Puma Brand
- Top-end and Cheaper Puma Boots
- Recent Puma Releases
- Frequently Asked Questions about Puma Boots
- Puma Boot Reviews
- Classic Puma Football Boots
What are the Boots Offered by Puma?
The Future, Ultra and King are the football boots under Puma.
Before its emphasis on the midfoot band as the new interpretation of adaptive lockdown, the Future started with the highly-customisable Netfit lacing system. Now, aside from introducing the Fuzionfit+ technology, the current Future is focused on being the most comfortable football boot out there. Speed is the new name of the game, and so Puma gives us the Ultra that has all the ingredients of a modern football speed boot. The modern King has that K-BETTER upper meant to simulate the attributes of K-leather with recyclable synthetic materials.
Future
The Future aims to deliver a boot that is all about freedom of movement. More than a straightforward run, football is all about those pivots, cuts and side-to-side nimbleness.
Ultra
Ultra is Puma’s speed boot and with a lightweight make up it is popular with many players including Antony, Antoine Griezmann, Christian Pulisic, Memphis Depay & Olivier Giroud.
King
The brand’s iconic silo now modernised not just in looks and shape, but also in build and material. It drops the traditional K-leather in favour of its very own synthetic leather material called ‘K-Better.’
Popular Footballers under the Puma Brand
Puma happens to have a marquee name plus a few more football stars, namely:
Neymar
The Brazilian spent 15 years with Nike wearing the likes of the Hypervenoms and Mercurial Vapors before joining Puma in 2020. While he is now the driving force behind the Future Z, he initially wore the King Platinum (the predecessor of Platinum 21) and used his star appeal to renew interest to the silo. He has now received multiple signature releases for his Future boots.
Jack Grealish
As things stand, Grealish could succeed Neymar as the face of the Puma Future if the latter decides to call it quits. He is now a multi-titled player with his stay at Manchester City, and has name recognition to fulfil that role if given a chance.
Xavi Simmons, Christian Pulisic and Kingsley Coman are some of the few quality names aside from Neymar and Grealish to embrace Puma as their boot-of-choice.
Recent Puma Releases
Future 8 Teaser
Puma teased the 8th generation of the Future right before the start of 2025 with a predominantly white paint job. Perhaps done to highlight what is new to the Future, the upper had a ribbed aesthetic design in orange and yellow that also appeared as a background to the Wildcat quarter logos. And speaking of introducing something new, the outsole (or at least the stud configuration) popped in lime against the backdrop of black and white.
Future 8 brought with it a stretchy LYCRA inner layer and a textured high-density mesh on the outside for its Fuzionfit 3 upper. GripControl Pro coating was still part of the silo as far as this generation was concerned. On top of that, Fuzionpods sat on top of the Lycra to amplify touch. Lastly, the blades and an angled stiffener bar were prominent on the boot’s FLEXGILITY soleplate.
Pulisic Stealth
Captain America of Serie A was given by Puma a signature release deep into the first quarter of the 2024/25 season. The Ultra 5 Pulisic Stealth had a black base that acted as the perfect wall for the abstract design. In what seemed to be a representation of the idea of ghosting past defenders, the visuals replicated the spectacle of splintering soil/crumb debris along the sides of the boot in a multi-colour fashion. CP’s lettermark punctuated the overall look of this signature Ultra.
Lights Out Pack
Lights Out Pack celebrated the start of Champions League matches in 2024/25. We got a Puma Future 7 here that was perhaps the busiest of the Lights Out collection in terms of looks. Over the shadow of the navy base came out pops of pastel purple and green. They coloured the PWRTAPE and PWRPRINT, as well as the random mix of striped patches and solid trims that all comprised the boots graphics. Visuals were most active on the heel and medial side.
In contrast to the boot above, Lights Out Ultra 5 and King 2024 that were relatively smoother with their colourway application. Ultra 5 here sought to display the predominance of that Fizzy green apple shade, backed by those accents in recognisable blue tones. The accent were most active on the heel, where they expressed a hazy visual and coloured the heel counter. King 2024 kept it elegant with a white K-BETTER, thematic green Formstrip and greyish blue finish towards the heel.
Looking at the Future 7 and Ultra 5 together, can’t help but find them as some kind of a reinvention of the colourways found in the 2022 Fastest Pack.
Why Do I See The Same Puma Boot at Different Price Points?
If you browse Puma boots now, you might see, for example, the Puma Future Ultimate costing almost three times as much as the Future Match. Why is that?
Those who really take football as their career need the very best objective performance the boot can give them, while recreational players might not need as much. Puma then allows its boots to be available at multiple price options to accommodate these casual players who would need to strike the right balance between quality and budget considerations.
Puma has its unique naming system in labelling the top-end and its cheaper counterparts. From top to bottom, we have the Ultimate, the top-end level, followed by the Pro, Match and Play. The succeeding lines after the Ultimate are the more affordable alternatives, with the key features being downgraded or outright removed in each successive tier.
But is it really the case that the more expensive ones are the better Puma football boots? More often that not, yes, but there are still those few instances where the cheaper variants seem to be the better boot depending on what you’re looking for. Football Boots UK sorts this kind of information with our review and analysis of each and every boot, so all you have to do after reading our content is to get your Puma pair from your favourite online or physical store…
Puma Boots FAQs
Which Puma football boot is best?
Puma’s silos do vary in terms of concept, actual build and incorporated technologies, so the best one is the Puma boot whose overall makeup matches what you like in a pair. Wide/narrow, synthetic/knit/leather/, snug/relaxed fit-you name it, Puma has it all!
Do Puma make good football boots?
Yes, and yes. At least with the Future Z and Ultra, Puma is able to produce boots with out-of-the-box comfort (or minimal break-in time whenever applicable), not to mention being cheaper than the base prices set by Nike and adidas.
Football Boots UK Reviews of Puma Boots
For more information check out our Boot Secrets guide, where we help you choose your next pair, including all those from Puma.
Classic Puma Football Boots
Over the years, Puma accumulated boot entries that are hall-of-famers by now if there is one for football boots.
evoSPEED
The evoSPEED competed with the very best Mercurials and F50s Nike and adidas have to offer, and Puma’s iconic speed boot entry always tried to be the lightest boot of them all.
evoPOWER
Cesc Fabregas, Yaya Toure and Marco Reus all at one point wore the Puma evoPOWER, a boot that simply aided the power and accuracy of these players. It normally joined the evoSPEED in carrying the half-and-half design of the Tricks Packs.
Kings
Pele, Johan Cruyff and Diego Maradona-indeed, only the true Kings of Football have worn this classic Puma leather boot
V1.11
One of the popular ones that came out of the V-series, it was meant to help with balance and stability, on top of the velcro tongue design to clean up the striking surface. Aguero’s 2012 boot when scored the famous QPR goal that clinched the league title for Manchester City
About Puma Boots
Founded in 1924, Puma made their first football boot, the Atom in 1948, they created the first football boot with screw-in studs, known as the Super Atom, which was lauched in 1952. In 1970, at the World Cup in Mexico, Pele wore Puma Kings as he was named player of the tournament. Diego Maradona wore Puma boots at his appearances at the finals in 1982 and 1986 and Lothar Matthäus had on Puma boots as he captained Germany to World Cup success in 1990.
Puma boots are well known as being worn by the likes of Pelé and Maradona, both players wore the Puma King’s when playing at and winning World Cups. You too can wear Puma on your feet, but Puma overhauled their entire boot lineup, looking to kick start the brand with their new future facing boots, leaving behind the evoSPEED and evoPOWER lines and even the iconic King, the boot that brought them their most attention and respect in the boot game.
