Mohamed Salah's Match Worn Adidas X17+ PureSpeed Football Boots, Used During the 2017/18 Premier League Goal Record Breaking Season

In the world of football memorabilia, few items capture the spirit of a historic campaign quite like a pair of extensively used match-worn boots. They tell a unique, intimate story of a player, a season, a moment that shaped the history of the beautiful game. Even rarer still are boots worn by a player during a record-breaking season. One such pair—the Adidas X17+ PureSpeed worn by Mohamed Salah during his unforgettable 2017/18 debut season with Liverpool FC—encapsulates the electrifying rise of a superstar and the magic of a campaign that rewrote the Premier League history books.

 

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The Story Behind Mohamed Salah’s Match-Worn Adidas X17+ PureSpeed Boots: A Monumentally Historic Piece From a Record-Breaking Season - Captured in Footwear

This is not just a pair of football boots. These are battle-worn artefacts, steeped in history, performance, and personal triumph. This is a piece which captures iconic goals, assists & victories, freezing them in time within a physical entity. Every once in a while, a a pair such as this surfaces which goes just that bit beyond rare, a pair that withholds not just personal achievement & records, but era-defining performances.

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The Boot: Adidas X17+ PureSpeed - Built for the Fastest

Released as part of Adidas’ innovative 'X' series, the X17+ PureSpeed was engineered for one purpose: speed. Featuring a laceless design, the PureSpeed offered players a snug, streamlined fit, allowing for explosive movements and minimal distractions. The TechFit compression upper adapted perfectly to the foot, while the SprintFrame soleplate, complete with a soft ground (SG) stud configuration (Salah's usual preferred choice, as seen here), ensured maximum traction in England’s famously wet and slippery conditions. Lightweight yet stable, it allowed Salah to cut inside and explode past defenders effortlessly.

These boots weren’t just worn by a fast player—they amplified Salah’s pace and confidence, helping him become virtually unstoppable in the most competitive football league in the world.

The X17+ was positioned as the top-tier, elite-level boot within the X silo, sitting one level above the X17.1. But in Salah’s case, it was far more than just a tool of the trade—it became a symbol of transformation, goalscoring genius, and a season that no Liverpool fan will ever forget.

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The Player: Mohamed Salah – Liverpool’s Egyptian King

When Salah joined Liverpool in the summer of 2017, few could have predicted the scale of his immediate impact. But the 2017/18 season would go down as the campaign that catapulted him into global superstardom. Wearing this very pair of Adidas X17+ PureSpeed boots, Salah went on to break the Premier League’s 38-game single-season goal record, netting a staggering 32 goals in 36 league appearances. Across all competitions, he amassed an eyewatering 56 goal contributions (44 goals and 12 assists) in 54 appearances. It wasn’t just a prolific run—it was a rewriting of the rulebook.

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A Season Etched in Every Stitch

This exact pair were match worn by Salah throughout a host of competitive fixtures during the 2017/18 campaign, including matches in the Premier League, FA Cup, and UEFA Champions League. He also laced them up during international friendly matches with the Egypt national team, showcasing their utility and durability at both club and international levels.

In these boots specifically, Salah racked up 14 goals and 3 assists, directly contributing to 17 goals across competitions. Some standout moments include:

• 4 goals and 1 assist vs Watford in a dazzling, iconic Premier League display

• A UEFA Champions League goal vs Porto, Salah added to Liverpool’s 5-0 rout with a coolly taken goal in Europe’s biggest club competition on their route to the Final

• 2 goals vs Tottenham Hotspur in a thrilling Anfield showdown

• A goal against Portugal in an international friendly

• Goal involvements against Bournemouth, Newcastle, West Ham, Southampton, Crystal Palace, and Huddersfield Town all saw their defences breached by Salah in this pair

Each goal, each turn of pace, and each celebration was made in these very boots, making them a time capsule of brilliance. Every action in which Salah made in this pair just added to his personal affection, love and admiration to them. During what was up there with the greatest Premier League debut seasons of all-time, Salah achieved;

• The Premier League Golden Boot

• Named PFA Players’ Player of the Year

• Propelled Liverpool to the UEFA Champions League Final

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A Collector’s Dream: More Than Just a Boot

Let’s be clear: match-worn boots from a record-breaking season are exceptionally rare. But match-worn boots with confirmed photo-matches, personalisation, and direct links to unforgettable goals elevate these to another stratosphere entirely.

Salah didn’t just wear these in training. He wore them through battles. Through rain-slicked nights at Anfield. Through Champions League knockout rounds. Through personal and professional milestones. Even after sustaining visible damage, Salah continued to play in these boots—because they worked. Because they were part of him.

That he only switched to a new pair once Adidas released a new colourway further proves how attached he was to this particular pair, something that is rare at the professional level where players often rotate boots frequently.

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Personalisation & Player-Specific Features

This particular pair showcases unique player customisations:

• 'SALAH' is laser etched onto the lateral side of the external heel counter, a subtle but significant touch of ownership and identity. Whilst many players may add more details than others when it comes to personalisation, such as religious lines with Romelu Lukaku, their children's names & DOB's with Kevin De Bruyne, or fun emojis and phrases like with Antoine Griezmann, Salah tends to always keep it simple by having only his surname.

• The Egyptian flag is proudly embedded on the TechFit Collar, celebrating his national pride and international stature. It also signified his global identity as 'The Egyptian King.'

 

What makes this pair even more special is the presence of a small tear in the toe box area of the right boot, which occurred during a match around the centre of the period of use across those 10 matches in which he wore this pair. Remarkably, Salah continued to use the boots in multiple fixtures following the damage—providing excellent reference points for photo-matching and reinforcing just how much he trusted and loved this specific pair. Rather than switching to a fresh version of the same colourway, Salah only moved on when Adidas released the next model in a new colourway which from there, he was contractually obliged to move on from them, highlighting his preference for this pair’s comfort and performance.

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A Rare Collector’s Item

Authentic, match-worn boots from an iconic season are hard to come by. But this pair? They represent a singular moment in time—a moment when Mohamed Salah not only announced himself to the Premier League but etched his name into footballing folklore. To own these boots is to own a piece of Salah’s legacy. A reminder of the moment he became the Egyptian King. A token of Liverpool’s resurgence under Jurgen Klopp. And a testament to one of the greatest debut seasons ever witnessed in English football.

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A Testament to Greatness

Mohamed Salah’s match-worn Adidas X17+ PureSpeed boots are more than football footwear—they are relics from a legendary campaign. The tear, the personalisation, the goals, the assists, the glory—every scuff and stud tells a story.

To hold these boots is to hold the moment when Mohamed Salah became “The Egyptian King.” When he transcended expectation and rewrote the Premier League narrative. They serve as a frozen relic of brilliance — forged in wear & tear, grass stains, and goals. These boots are a breathtaking reminder of what happens when talent meets destiny.

For fans, historians, and collectors alike, this pair serves as a priceless artefact from one of football’s modern greats. As the years pass and Salah’s legacy only grows, this pair of boots will stand as a physical embodiment of greatness, capturing the very essence of a season when the world truly began to sing, “Mo Salah, Mo Salah, running down the wing…”

And in these very boots, he didn’t just run. He soared.

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