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Coming soon

Your matchdayGrip socks

German designed and built to match standard. Most grip socks are made to a training-sock price and wear like it by the fourth time you pull them on. These are the pair you keep for a Saturday.

A close-up of the grip sock cuff, with the First Touch to First Team pitch mark embroidered in green on white — The only part we are showing

The glimpse

We are not showing you the whole thing

Move your cursor across the photo, or drag a finger over it on your phone. You get one small circle at a time. The sock is in there somewhere.

A photo of the grip socks, deliberately blurred until launch

Drag to revealFull look at launch

What we will say so far

Three things.
One still under wraps

The knit

Dense knit, proper hold

A heavier, tighter yarn than a training sock, so the foot sits locked in rather than shifting around inside the boot. It holds that shape for ninety minutes instead of going slack at the arch by half time.

The cuff

Stays where you put it

Proper elastic recovery, so it does not slide down your ankle every time you sprint. Inside it, where only you see it, two words: enjoy the journey.

The grip

Still under wraps

Three zones mapped to the way a footballer actually plants, turns and pushes off, laid out in a pattern built to survive the wash rather than peel off it.

Revealed at launch

Why we made them

We kept seeing the same thing on the pitch. A player buys grip socks, wears them four or five times, and they are already loose. The knit has given up, the grip has started lifting, and what is left is an expensive training sock.

So we went the other way. A heavier fabric, a cuff with real recovery and a grip pattern designed to last, chosen so the socks are the ones you want on for a match rather than the ones you keep for training.

That is the same standard the podcast is built on. If our name is on the cuff, it should feel professional when you put it on.

Sold by Eleade Fussball. Shipping Australia-wide.

Most grip socks are loose after five wears. That was the whole problem.

Last thing