Italian brand Ezeta has unveiled the Apollon Smyrnis kits for 2026/27, reviving a forgotten 1904 club monogram to mark 135 years since the club’s founding in Smyrna.

The three-shirt collection is Ezeta’s first official club partnership outside Italy. It is on sale through the Ezeta online store, with matchday sales at the stadium also announced.

Apollon Smyrnis began life in 1891 as a cultural and musical society founded by members of Smyrna’s Greek community. After the 1922 catastrophe drove its Greeks from the city, now Izmir, the club rebuilt itself in Athens.

Inside the Apollon Smyrnis kits

The home shirt keeps the club’s traditional blue-and-white stripes, with the blue drawn from the Greek flag. In addition, the blue stripes carry the anthemion, a classical motif of palmettes and lotus flowers.

The black-and-gold third shirt holds the most striking detail. Ezeta found an old Apollon monogram in a club programme from 1904. The symbol now sits on the chest and also repeats across the shoulders.

The pink away shirt features a central image of Apollo, the god of music and poetry, framed by geometric borders. Blue trim with a Greek key pattern edges its collar and cuffs. According to Ezeta, the bold colour reflects the club’s independent spirit.

Across all three Apollon Smyrnis kits, the artwork draws on waves, suns, lions, botanical forms and meanders. The founding year, 1891, appears beneath the rear collar.

The Apollon Smyrnis kits take Ezeta beyond Italy. The brand previously drew on the sirens of local mythology for Sorrento Calcio.

The Kitsman noted that the 1904 monogram links the modern Athens club to its years in Smyrna, long before 1922. That city still holds a deep place in Greek memory, from its martyred Metropolitan Chrysostomos to its displaced families.

Source: The Kitsman