Nike's Fourth United Pack Goes Icy Blue and Orange

Nike's fourth United pack went on sale October 22, 2026, in icy blue, metallic silver and bright orange across four boots: the Mercurial Superfly 11, the Mercurial Vapor 17, the Phantom 6 and the Tiempo Maestro. Nike says the range was designed with athletes who change the game, and those athletes are six women footballers.

The pack lands five weeks after Kylian Mbappé ended a 19 year sponsorship with Nike, which makes its cast list more interesting than its colourway.

Six Names Behind Four Boots

Lauren James, Salma Paralluelo, Sophia Wilson, Deyna Castellanos, Patri Guijarro and Naomi Girma are the players tied to this chapter. Retail listings pair Guijarro and Girma with the Tiempo Maestro, and Paralluelo wore an unreleased United 004 Mercurial before the launch.

The athletes are not just faces on a poster. In the previous chapter, released around March 30, 2026, the players' names were woven subtly into the uppers of a Tiempo Maestro, Mercurial and Phantom 6 range in burgundy and beige with a safari print running through all three. Nike's stated idea for the series is that the players have a direct role in shaping what they wear.

That structure is unusual for football boots, where the big launches usually hang on one male star. Here the signing is a group of six and the series carries a collective name.

Icy Blue, Silver Swoosh, Orange Heel

The colourway is icy light blue with a metallic silver Swoosh outlined in orange, and an orange Nike United logo sits on the heel. One retailer notes the palette will feel familiar to anyone who remembers the 2019 Women's World Cup Victory Pack.

That reference holds up. Nike unveiled the Victory Pack in Paris in March 2019 and put it in stores on May 9, 2019, covering the Mercurial, Phantom and Tiempo lines. Its boots carried a hand drawn wing pattern, and one account says its Armoury Blue shade was inspired by light through the glass pyramid at the Louvre.

Seven years on, the blue is back with orange added, and the pack covers the same four families Nike has been rotating through the series. A dedicated Mercurial for the 2026 to 2027 season carries the same palette, according to leaked images from Footy Headlines.

Chapter Four Against a Crowded Calendar

October has been loud for football boots. adidas introduced Fútbol y Familia on October 10, tied by Footy Headlines to the fourth Lamine Yamal signature boot, and twelve days later Nike put out a chapter built around six women players instead.

Nike's most recent male face has also moved. On September 18 Mbappé left the brand he had worn for 19 years to become On's global ambassador and product development partner, working on On's first football boot. United is not a replacement for that deal, but it is a statement about where Nike is investing its football marketing this season.

The calendar will keep going. Leaked images from October 5 describe a Mercurial United Chapter 5 for spring 2027, which would make the series a twice a year rhythm: chapter three in March, chapter four in October.

What the Pack Contains and What It Does Not

The four silhouettes are the Mercurial Superfly 11 and Vapor 17 for speed, the Phantom 6 for control and the Tiempo Maestro for touch. A retailer listing shows Elite level versions of each. That spread lets the pack cover a winger, a creator and a centre back in one colour story, which fits the chapter's cast of attackers like James and Paralluelo and defenders like Girma.

Details Nike has not published matter too. The caption confirms only the pack name, the line about designing with athletes who change the game, and that the boots are available now. Per player signature details for chapter four have not been described, and retailer prices are listings, not confirmed launch figures.

Chapter three came out around March 30 and chapter four on October 22, a gap of roughly seven months, and the only names Nike has attached to the pack so far are the six players.

The numbering helps date the series. Footy Headlines files this release as United 004, the fourth in a numbered run, and covered chapter two as a reveal in September 2025. The earlier Victory pack had its own afterlife too: after the 2019 World Cup win Nike made commemorative golden versions of the boots for the USWNT, and those were never sold at retail.