New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Mamdani NYC World Cup jerseys go on sale this Friday, 13 June, at the NYC City Store, a limited run of hand-sewn shirts priced at roughly $50, made in Brooklyn, and timed to the FIFA 2026 World Cup opening.
The jerseys were designed by Arsh Raziuddin and produced in partnership with Mazzi Sports, a family-owned apparel studio based in Bedford-Stuyvesant. The design carries a soccer-ball-ified Big Apple logo over the heart, a pigeon on the opposite chest, “NEW YORK CITY” across the front, and “26” on the back, the same retro graphic language as the city’s wider World Cup campaign. Three colourways are available: black and white; yellow and black; and a blue and orange-red that pulls double duty for supporters of the Knicks, the Mets, or the USMNT depending on the mood.
The total run is 1,500 shirts (500 of each colourway) every one made by hand at Mazzi’s Bed-Stuy factory. At $50 apiece, that puts them at roughly a third of the price of an authentic World Cup kit from the likes of Adidas or Nike. They go on sale in person only, from 9 a.m. on Friday, 13 June, at the NYC City Store.
‘Jerseys represent more than just the team you support,’ Mayor Mamdani told GQ. ‘They are about pride in where you come from and who you are. With this limited run, we are offering New Yorkers an affordable jersey made for New Yorkers, by New Yorkers. I want to thank Mazzi for partnering with us to make sure that nobody is priced out of showing pride for our city.’
Mazzi Sports: A Brooklyn Factory With Deep Roots
Mazzi was founded by Alexander Campaz, who began making jerseys in Colombia in the 1970s before emigrating with his family to New York in 1983. The factory has moved across the boroughs over the decades, from Jackson Heights in Queens to Midtown Manhattan, then to East New York, Brooklyn, before settling in Bed-Stuy in 2020. Campaz is nearly 90 and still connected to the business, though his son Alex now leads day-to-day operations.
The pandemic tested the studio severely, but Mazzi pivoted. During the COVID-19 outbreak, the factory switched to producing medical gowns for the city, turning out about 20,000 a week and keeping over 100 people employed throughout. Many of those same workers produced the mayor’s jersey run.
Mamdani NYC World Cup Jerseys Are Part of a Wider Access Push
The jersey drop sits within a broader effort by Mamdani’s office to make the 2026 World Cup accessible to ordinary New Yorkers. The mayor has secured 1,000 tickets priced at $50 each to games at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. According to The Guardian, those tickets cover every MetLife Stadium fixture except the final, with roughly 150 tickets available for each of the seven games.
Getting to the stadium, though, has been its own source of friction. New Jersey Transit initially announced that a round-trip train ticket between New York’s Penn Station and MetLife Stadium would cost $150, against the usual fare of $13, The Guardian reported. That kind of pricing is precisely the backdrop against which Mamdani’s ticket and jersey initiatives are positioned.
Free fan events and watch parties across the city are also being organised as part of the same push. ‘I just want to be everywhere,’ Mamdani previously told GQ about his World Cup plans. ‘There’s a magic that comes alive in the city, and it comes alive no matter where the World Cup is.’
The 2026 edition of the tournament, which kicks off across the US, Canada, and Mexico this Friday, has been described as the most expensive in history. Whether it is the train fare, the kit, or the match ticket, cost has become the central tension of New York’s World Cup moment, and these Mamdani NYC World Cup jerseys, stitched together in Bed-Stuy, are one small answer to it. Sales start at 9 a.m. on Friday; the run is 1,500 shirts and will not be restocked.
