Palace, Nike and England Top arrive together on June 12, with a capsule collection built ahead of the 2026 World Cup and tied to Football Beyond Borders. The release turns an old Palace obsession with England iconography into an official collaboration, and Gareth Skewis called it a "true full circle moment".
Skewis Revisits 2015
Skewis said Palace’s relationship with England stretches back to 2015, when the brand made a pair of socks after knocking off the England logo. He said he negotiated with a Trading Standards officer in the shop after that incident, a sharp contrast to the official line Palace now has with Nike and the England national team.
“Lev and I had always thought about England and Nike.” Skewis said, adding, “This [collection] really is a full circle [moment for us].” The collaboration gives Palace an anthem jacket, tees and tracksuits aligned with the FA for England ahead of the World Cup.
Destroyer Jacket Reference
The anthem jacket is the clearest design bridge in the set. Skewis said the version was built around Nike’s Destroyer silhouette, and he wanted to use “the amazing Nike orange, that infrared” on it. That detail gives the collection a cleaner read than a simple logo swap: it is tied to a specific Nike shape and color choice, not just England branding.
The collection also sits inside Nike’s wider World Cup collaboration roll-out alongside Jacquemus, NOCTA, Patta and more. For Palace, that places the label in a sanctioned lane it did not have in 2015, when the England reference came through a knocked-off sock run rather than an official product line.
June 12 Lands
The practical date for buyers is June 12, when the collection officially lands and proceeds go to Football Beyond Borders. Fans who want the official England capsule have a fixed release date now, and the money trail is part of the story too: this is not just a drop, but a release tied to a named cause.
