The Professional Women’s Hockey League’s newest teams have unveiled their inaugural jerseys ahead of the 2025-26 season.

Players in Seattle and Vancouver, the league’s two expansion markets, will wear jerseys with their city’s name stitched diagonally across the front of the sweater, “paying homage to the designs worn by the PWHL’s inaugural six teams,” the league said in a press release. Seattle’s home jerseys will be a deep slate green and cream with a river blue accent. Vancouver will feature Pacific blue, cream and bronze accents.

Coming to the ice soon😎​@PWHL__Seattle and @PWHL__Vancouver inaugural season jerseys are here!
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“As we welcome Seattle and Vancouver to the league, we wanted their jerseys to prominently feature each city’s name across the front, allowing fans to immediately identify with their hometown’s newest professional team,” said the PWHL’s executive vice president of business operations, Amy Scheer. “These designs also connect our expansion teams to the league’s foundation while they continue building their own traditions and ties to the community.”

There will be no logos or team names on the jerseys this season, but according to the league’s announcement on Tuesday, Seattle and Vancouver will reveal team identities, including names and logos, before the start of the 2025-26 season. That branding won’t be incorporated into jerseys, however, until 2026-27.

Hilary Knight signed a one-year deal with Seattle’s new PWHL team after she was left unprotected during the expansion process. (Courtesy of the PWHL)

The PWHL previously used this style of jersey in 2024, the league’s first season. All original six franchises were identified by geographic location and players wore temporary jerseys with a similar boilerplate design.

As The Athletic reported in November 2023, creating jerseys for a professional sports team is a long process with a particularly lengthy manufacturing timeline. In the NHL, for example, teams are required to submit changes to their uniforms roughly 18 months in advance.

With only six months between the June 30, 2023, announcement of a new women’s hockey league and the PWHL’s official puck drop in January 2024, the league opted not to rush and revealed permanent names, logos and new jerseys for all six teams ahead of Season 2.

“There are decisions you can make that are fast and if you make an error in your judgment on that decision, it’s easy to walk back, or you can learn from it and move on,” Scheer told The Athletic in 2023. “From the team name perspective, it was just better off slowing the process down.

In April, the PWHL announced it was adding its first-ever expansion franchises in Seattle and Vancouver for the 2025-26 season. Seattle will play at Climate Pledge Arena, with the NHL’s Seattle Kraken acting in a supporting role. The Vancouver team will play at Pacific Coliseum, the former home of the WHL’s Vancouver Giants.

A pre-draft signing window allowed the new teams to kick-start their roster building with five signings each — including Sarah Nurse (Vancouver) and Hilary Knight (Seattle) — before making seven selections in the June expansion draft.

Seattle and Vancouver will officially debut their jerseys on Nov. 21 at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver when the two expansion teams face off to open the PWHL’s third season.