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He wears 8 for Manchester City and 8 for Croatia, and the shirts here come with that nameset applied.
Yes. Every shirt here is licensed Puma product made for Manchester City.
Yes. Namesets and patches are pressed in-house. Customized jerseys take 2 to 3 weeks if the set is not in stock and are final sale.
Count the medals first, because nothing else on the Manchester City shelf comes close. Kovačić has won four Champions Leagues, three at Real Madrid and one at Chelsea. Add a Premier League title, a La Liga title, a Europa League, an FA Cup and a League Cup, and the count runs past twenty. His Croatian teammates called him the Professor of Football when he was still a teenager, and the nickname has aged well.
Kovacic wears 8 at City. He also wears 8 for Croatia, which is worth knowing before you order, because it means one nameset works for both halves of how you think about him. The shirts in this collection are Puma, licensed, and printed with that number.
The Mateo Kovačić Authentic Third in Dark Jasper is the design piece here. Puma pulled the maroon from City's 2012/13 away shirt, the season after the club won its first Premier League title, and then did something clever with it: the ship from the City crest is blown up into an all-over tonal graphic, with a smaller ship printed on the upper back as a nod to Manchester's canal and shipping history. Gold logos, patterned front panel, sewn-on badge. It is currently $121, down from $186.
The Authentic Away is the other one worth your time, and it carries the better story. In 1998/99 City were in the third tier, having fallen out of the Premier League in 1996. They finished third and won promotion through a penalty shoot-out against Gillingham. Puma rebuilt that shirt for 24/25: wide neon yellow and navy horizontal stripes, thinner sky blue bands between them, the retro collar back, and "30 May 1999" printed inside the neck. City fans of a certain age do not need the date explained.
Both shirts in this collection are Authentic builds, which means player-spec construction: lighter fabric, closer to the body, heat-applied detailing. That is the version City players actually wear. Replica shirts use dryCELL in a relaxed cut and cost less, and if the shirt is a gift or is going to live in a wardrobe rather than on a pitch, replica is usually the safer call. Both are genuine, official, licensed product.
Mateo Kovačić lost most of 2025/26 to injury. Achilles surgery took out the start of his season, an ankle problem took out most of what was left, and he finished with nine appearances across all competitions. Then Croatia went to the World Cup and he played 90 minutes against Portugal in the round of 32, completed 94 percent of his passes, hit the target three times, completed every dribble he attempted, and rattled the post with the shot that would have taken the game to extra time. Croatia went out. He was, briefly, the best player on the pitch.
That is the case for the shirt. Not the season he had, but the player who is still in there. He arrived at City from Chelsea in 2023 having already won everything, and he has spent his career adapting his game to whatever the team in front of him needed, at Dinamo Zagreb, Inter, Real Madrid, Stamford Bridge, and the Etihad. He scored on his Dinamo debut at 16, the youngest scorer in the history of the Croatian top flight.
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