Manchester City is letting fans design its new kit with AI

Manchester City is holding a competition that asks fans to make its early kit creation pinch AI. Players will deterioration the winning creation during the 2026-2027 play arsenic City’s charismatic 3rd kit, and it will moreover beryllium sold to fans.

The nine collaborated pinch Puma to motorboat a text-to-image azygous generator powered by the AI institution DeepObjects. To usage the tool, you’ll person to create an relationship and participate a punctual that describes the look you’re going for. You past person to take a style the AI will usage erstwhile generating your design, specified arsenic “abstract,” “emotive brushstrokes,” aliases “dream visions.”

The Puma AI Creator will past make 4 different creation options that look connected a virtual uniform, allowing you to customize the collars, trim colors, and badges.

You get 15 credits to create designs (generating 1 creation costs 1 credit), but you tin only participate 2 of your creations successful the contest, which ends December 20th. Fan ratings, on pinch experts from Manchester City and Puma will thief find the winner.

Manchester City says its players, Ederson, Stefan Ortega, and Rico Lewis first utilized the Puma AI Creator to creation a goalkeeper kit “creatively inspired by the nett of a shot goal.” It will beryllium the first AI-generated shot azygous to beryllium worn connected the pitch, according to the club.