2014-15 Champions League Boots Preview

The 14-15 Champions League season kicks off tomorrow and in this article we take a detailed look at the 2014-2015 Champions League football boots.

Football Boots DB added Europe's biggest club tournament including 16 new teams from Europe's smaller leagues, offering in-depth insight of the 14-15 Champions League soccer cleats.

2014-15 Champions League Boots

Nike is unveiling new September 2014 colorways for all four silos this week and it's expected the new colors for the Nike Hypervenom, Magista, Mercurial and Tiempo will be worn by many of Nike's famous testimonials in the CL matches already.

Most Adidas players will continue to wear the Adidas Tribal Pack boots which were unveiled in mid July ahead of the league starts. Only Lionel Messi will debut a new football boot in the new Champions League-exclusive Adidas Adizero F50 Messi Blaugrana Boot against APOEL from Cyprus on Wednesday.

Champions League Boot Statistics

Football boot brands

Football boot models

As in most club competitions and the 2014 World Cup, Nike supplies football boots for most players in the 14-15 Champions League, sponsoring more than 45% of the players. Adidas comes in second as expected, with Puma in third place.

Nike accounts for 45% of the boots on the biggest stage

Puma has bigger share of players in the Champions League than usual, mostly thanks to their shirt & boot sponsorship deal with Swedish team Malmö FF. Puma supplies more than 85% of the club's players.

The smaller teams generally offer the more diverse boot lineups as usually not that many of their players are signed to the big three.

Visit the 2014-15 Champions League Football Boots DB Overview to see all 32 Champions League squads and lineups.