CT United FC has unveiled its first home and away kits for the 2026 MLS NEXT Pro season. Both come with a clear cloud gaming hook. The club’s debut shirts will carry PHȲND on the front, tying a new Smart TV gaming platform to a new independent pro team.
The home jersey, called the Forever United kit, puts the club’s purple and coywolf crest at the centre of the design. Coywolves run across the shirt, and their intertwined tails quietly shape an eight. That nods to Connecticut’s eight counties and the idea of pulling the whole state into one badge. “Forever United” appears at the back of the neck as a rally call.
On the road, CT United FC will wear the Charter Oak kit. That shirt switches to black and uses the Charter Oak as its main symbol. An extra oak mark sits at the back of the collar. Both shirts are made by Macron using recycled materials, and both will carry the PHȲND wordmark across the chest when the club starts play this spring.
CT United FC opens its first MLS NEXT Pro match on March 1 on the road at FC Cincinnati 2, with kickoff at 6 p.m. Eastern and free streaming through OneFootball. The club plans to sell the new jerseys online starting March 11, ahead of its first home date on April 11. The club also released a 2026 CT United Official Kits Reveal trailer that gives a closer look at both designs before they hit the pitch.
PHȲND’s Take On Free Cloud Gaming
For PHȲND, this is another step in a Smart TV plan that skips boxes and subscriptions. The service focuses on free, ad-supported cloud gaming directly on televisions. You launch games from the TV interface and play with a remote, phone, or controller. There are no installs and no monthly fee.
PHȲND is based in Stamford, in the same city as CT United FC’s parent group. Alongside this local kit deal, the company is getting ready to roll out on Samsung and LG Smart TVs. Support for other TV brands is already in the works. Earlier announcements outlined a public beta in the United States, backed by an ad platform that pays developers while keeping play free on the big screen.
All of these moves aim to turn the TV you already have into a game device, instead of asking you to buy new hardware.
Soccer, Smart TVs, And Who This Could Reach
Jersey sponsors are nothing new in football. Seeing a pure cloud gaming brand across the chest of an MLS NEXT Pro side says a lot about where PHȲND wants to show up. Instead of only talking to tech and advertising circles, the company is putting its name in front of people who watch matches on weekends, scroll short clips, and track a new club as it grows.
If you tune into CT United FC this season, you will see the PHȲND logo in almost every close up of the kit. Home and away shirts both carry the same mark. That means the branding sticks whether CT United FC is playing inside Connecticut or traveling across the league. As MLS NEXT Pro matches reach more viewers through free streaming, PHȲND gets a steady presence in a space where TV and sport already meet.
For cloud gaming as a whole, this is another case of games slipping into regular TV habits instead of sitting off to the side. The shirt becomes a small reminder that you can pick up a remote, open a Smart TV menu, and jump into games without a console.
PHȲND’s Smart TV Strategy Keeps Growing
Over the past year, PHȲND has been sketching out this Smart TV plan in a few different places. A Samsung Gaming Hub partnership and LG’s Gaming Portal rollout set it up on major TV brands.
At CES 2026 with Magnite, the company dug into the ad layer that keeps play free, while Adweek NY 2025 and a Marshawn Lynch Big Game campaign brought the story to advertisers and sports fans. The CT United FC shirt deal fits that same pattern. PHȲND wants games to sit alongside other TV content you can reach with a few button presses on a remote, paid for by ads instead of a subscription.
If that strategy holds, you might first hear about PHȲND through an NFL campaign with Marshawn Lynch. Then you could see the name on a kit during an MLS NEXT Pro match. Later, you might find it sitting next to streaming apps on a supported TV. The more often cloud gaming shows up in those familiar places, the easier it becomes for someone who has never bought a console to try a game.
CT United FC will use its first MLS NEXT Pro season to play matches across Connecticut, promote season ticket deposits, and build a fan base from scratch. PHȲND will be there on the shirt from day one, using the same year to push free Smart TV gaming into more living rooms.
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