St Kilda Football Club has unveiled its 2026 Pride guernsey, alongside a new Pride supporter tee.
Designed by AFLW players Jesse Tawhiao-Wardlaw and Darcy Guttridge, the guernsey reimagines St Kilda’s iconic red, white and black tri-stripe, with this year’s design celebrating inclusion and ensuring everyone feels represented when the Saints take the field for Pride Round.
For the first time, the club will also release a Pride supporter tee, designed by local artist and lifelong Saints supporter Grace Mills in collaboration with Guttridge and Hannah Priest.
The Victorian Pride Centre in St Kilda provided the backdrop for this year’s Pride shoot, bringing together players and supporters in the heart of the community whose name the club proudly carries.
The AFLW’s Pride Round will be celebrated across Rounds 9 and 10, with the Saints to host Collingwood at RSEA Park on Saturday 10 October from 1.05pm.
The Round 9 clash will be the centrepiece of St Kilda’s Pride celebrations, with a range of match-day activities planned across RSEA Park.
St Kilda CEO Carl Dilena said Pride Round remained an important opportunity to celebrate the club’s connection to its people and heartland.
“From Acland Street to RSEA Park and beyond, we want everyone to know there is a place for them at St Kilda Football Club,” Dilena said.
“Our club has always proudly represented the diverse community that surrounds it. Creating an environment where people feel welcome, respected and able to be themselves is an important part of what we stand for.
“Pride Round is an important opportunity to make that commitment visible. Our Pride guernsey is a powerful representation of belonging on the field, while our ally tee gives our broader Saints community a way to stand alongside our LGBTQIA+ players, supporters and community.
“We’re proud to continue building on what Pride Round represents and, importantly, to ensure those values extend well beyond a round of football.”
2026 Pride guernsey
Designed by Tawhiao-Wardlaw and Guttridge, the 2026 Pride guernsey reshapes St Kilda’s traditional red, white and black tri-stripe.
The traditionally straight lines have been transformed into flowing waves, representing the fluidity of sexuality, gender and identity.
Colours from the Progress Pride flag are woven throughout the design, with the rainbow running through one side, the pink, white and blue representing the transgender community through the other, and black and brown incorporated around the back to represent LGBTQIA+ people of colour.
“People from the LGBTQIA+ community have always been part of our club, our game and the St Kilda community,” Tawhiao-Wardlaw said.
“This guernsey is about recognising and celebrating that.”
“Everyone deserves to feel safe and seen, and show up as who they are,” Guttridge said.
“To be able to wear something we’ve created at RSEA Park in front of our home crowd will be really special.”
Pride supporter tee
This year, fans will also be able to show their support through a new Pride tee designed by local artist and lifelong supporter Grace Mills.
Growing up on the Mornington Peninsula, Mills’ connection to football has extended well beyond supporting the Saints, having helped bring Pride Rounds to life through her designs at local community clubs before taking her work overseas.
Now based in London, Mills is a hand-poke tattoo artist whose sports-inspired work has built a growing international following, particularly through women’s football and her work with Arsenal and the Matildas, alongside collaborations with Australian women’s cricket and brands including Guinness.
For the Saints’ 2026 tee, Mills collaborated with St Kilda players Darcy Guttridge and Hannah Priest, bringing together the group’s ideas around Pride, allyship and what they wanted the design to stand for.
Mills brought those ideas to life through her distinctive hand-drawn style, combining football, friendship and Pride around the message ‘Pride looks good on everyone’.
“Being a lifelong Saints fan and a lesbian, Pride Round is really important to me and my community, so to have my club support me and showcase my art has been a really special experience,” Mills said.
“It was important for me and the players to create something that felt like one piece and reflected the team, the club and the supporters
“I’m super proud of how it turned out and I think it captures what Pride, and Pride in sport, is all about."
A limited run of the 2026 Pride guernsey and Pride ally supporter tee will be available through Saints Locker (saintslocker.com.au).
