Arsenal’s kit choice for Saturday’s 2026 Champions League final in Budapest was confirmed on Friday: the club will wear its red home kit against PSG, as a resurfaced video of Achraf Hakimi signing a PSG jersey for Rihanna — directly over the number 2 — has been circulating on social media ahead of the match.
That clip has helped push searches for the PSG jersey back into the foreground this week: fans are hunting the signed shirt, while casual viewers arrive at the same search terms trying to work out whether the two teams’ colours will clash on match day.
The decision itself resolves a concrete match‑day question. Arsenal will take the pitch in red for the final in Budapest — the first time the club will wear its home kit in a Champions League final — while PSG will play in their home kit as the nominal home side. Arsenal were placed on the blue path in the knockout‑phase draw in February 2026, which left their blue away kit as the default alternative; had Bayern Munich reached the final, Arsenal would have been obliged to wear that blue strip. The club’s white and burgundy third kit had been listed as a fallback if a change proved necessary.
For context, Arsenal last contested the European final stage 20 years ago, losing 2-1 to Barcelona in Paris after an early red card. The 2005-06 team ended up wearing a changed yellow kit in that final because of a colour clash; this weekend’s choice breaks with that precedent and makes the red strip itself part of the story.
There had been suggestions in the build‑up that Arsenal might be forced off red because PSG’s strip contains some red elements. Those conversations now look moot: Arsenal will wear red. Still, the match‑eve picture leaves a gap — officials have not explained why PSG’s red was judged not to require Arsenal to pick a different shirt. The practical outcome is clear on the pitch, but the reasoning behind the call has not been laid out publicly.
The resurfaced Hakimi‑for‑Rihanna clip adds an odd human detail to the logistics debate. It has sent collectors and casual viewers alike back to the same search terms — PSG jersey — while broadcasters and photographers prepare for a final in which two clubs with overlapping colour palettes will appear together at centre stage.
What happens next is straightforward and immediate: Arsenal and PSG meet in the 2026 Champions League final in Budapest on Saturday. The more consequential unresolved question is not which kit either side will wear, but who set the threshold for what counts as a clash and why that threshold was met in this case. That procedural answer will matter to clubs, kit makers and broadcasters long after the final whistle has blown.
