Schalke jersey voted best in Bundesliga 2 in 2025/26!
The 2025/26 Bundesliga 2 season opens on Friday evening as Schalke host Hertha Berlin. The hosts are already able to celebrate seeing their kit crowned the best in the division after beating Nuremberg in the final round of Kit Kings!
Schalke saw off fellow former German champions Nuremberg in the final round of voting with their new home kit.
Get your hands on the season's new kits
Bochum | Kiel | Elversberg | Paderborn | Magdeburg | Düsseldorf | Kaiserslautern | Karlsruhe | Hannover | Nuremberg | Hertha | Darmstadt | Fürth | Schalke | Münster | Braunschweig | Dresden | Bielefeld
Watch: Schalke to host Hertha in opener on Friday
Results
Results Round 1:
Magdeburg (4912 votes) vs. Hannover 96 (4244)
Kaiserslautern (6684) vs. Braunschweig (2789)
Düsseldorf (2720) vs. Karlsruhe (6312)
Fürth (1585) vs. Bochum (7155)
Schalke (6430) vs. Elversberg (2839)
Dresden (4223) vs. Nürnberg (4664)
Bielefeld (6012) vs. Paderborn (2457)
Kiel (5777) vs. Darmstadt (2682)
Hertha BSC (5291) vs. Münster (3429)
Results Round 2:
Schalke (4148) vs. Bochum (2367)
Karlsruhe (2153) vs. Kaiserslautern (3428) vs. Magdeburg (824)
Bielefeld (2671) vs. Nürnberg (3653)
Hertha BSC (3273) vs. Kiel (2970)
Results Semi-finals:
Schalke (2768) vs. Kaiserslautern (2002)
Hertha BSC (2105) vs. Nürnberg (2569)
Results final:
Schalke (3412) vs. Nürnberg (2014)
How our Kit Kings were chosen
We put all 18 Bundesliga 2 clubs' home jerseys into a knockout tournament. Each day we asked you to pick a winning design between two teams to narrow the field.
The shirt with the most votes from each match-up advanced to the next round to make our two finalists until Schalke triumphed on Friday, 1 August ahead of the campaign's kick-off in Gelsenkirchen that evening.
Note that the second round featured one threeway vote. With 18 clubs involved, this is the best way to keep things fair.
See all the new Bundesliga 2 kits here!
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