Italian brand Ezeta has unveiled the new Apollon Smyrnis kits for the 2026/27 season, and the collection carries somethi...

Italian brand Ezeta has unveiled the new Apollon Smyrnis kits for the 2026/27 season, and the collection carries something far heavier than a club crest. The centerpiece is a forgotten Apollon monogram, discovered in a club programme from 1904, now printed on the chest of the black-and-gold third shirt and repeated across the shoulders. It is Ezeta's first official club partnership outside Italy. Apollon Smyrnis was not born as a football club. It began in Smyrna in 1891 as a cultural and musical society, founded by members of the city's Greek community. The 1922 catastrophe ended that chapter, driving the Greeks from the city now known as Izmir, and the club rebuilt itself in Athens. The three-shirt collection carries that history into every detail. The home shirt keeps the club's traditional blue-and-white stripes, with the blue taken directly from the Greek flag. The anthemion, a classical motif of palmettes and lotus flowers, runs across those blue stripes. The pink away shirt places Apollo, god of music and poetry, at its center, framed by geometric borders, with a Greek key pattern trimming the collar and cuffs. Across all three shirts the artwork pulls from waves, suns, lions, botanical forms, and meanders. The founding year, 1891, sits beneath the rear collar on each one. The collection is already available through the Ezeta online store, with matchday stadium sales also announced. The 1904 monogram on the third shirt predates the catastrophe by 18 years. It connects the modern Athens club directly to its years in Smyrna, before the city's Greek community was destroyed. That detail is unlikely to go unnoticed. #ApollonSmyrnis #Smyrna1922 #GreekFootball