Nike Football Boots

Why It Made The List Five hundred images of Nike boots, shot like artefacts and obsession objects, makes this feel closer to a design archive than a sports book. It charts the brand’s football journey from the early 1970s to today, organised around four key lines, Tiempo, Mercurial, Total 90 and Phantom, then layers in the players who turned them iconic, from Ronaldo and Cristiano Ronaldo to Megan Rapinoe and Kylian Mbappé. The material comes deep from the Department of Nike Archives, with close-ups, on-feet shots, concept work, posters, ads, film stills, sketches, prototypes and ephemera, plus a 12-page glossy insert showing every highlighted model from 1971 onwards. One for boot obsessives, design heads, and anyone counting down to the 2026 World Cup. More on PHAIDON