Football Programmes

In May a 1902 Sheffield United v Southampton FA Cup final football programme was sold for £9,400, and on June 17th Bonhams are holding another auction in Chester. including in this sale is twenty-two programmes from Sheffield United's greatest season - when they won the Football League championship for the only time - and is expected to fetch up to £12,000 at the auction.

The ''Munich Air disaster'' which happened in 1957, when Manchester United were returning from Red Star Belgrade, whom they were playing in the European Cup, recently a Football Programme from the match was sold on a eBay auction (September 2008) for £2,750. This is extremely rare programme and is well sought after by many collectors and investors alike.

One of the most popular reason why anyone collect Football Programmes is to get a copy of all their favourite team programmes either all the home games or all the away games ,while some just collect all the home matches and/or ,all away matches.

Using our navigation bar menu system below we have made it easy for you to see what programmes are currently for sale for any one particular team. All you need to do is click on the name of the team. So for programmes involving Tottenham Hotspur just click on the teams name below.

We also have specialised sections for certain type of competitions namely Non League ,International Matches , Scottish Football Programmes and if you are starting out in your hobby then the Collections/Bulk Buy section would be the best pace for you to start.

Football Programme Collectors

Paul Hill from Lichfield, just an ordinary collector has in his collection over 40,000 football programmes, the oldest being a Sheffield United reserve programme from 1899. His collection even prompted the local paper to run an article about his collection, the full article can be found at the Express and Star website web site. It also contains a short video of Paul explaining about his huge collection. Like many of us he began his collection at a young age when he was given a box full of football programmes.

PAUL SIMONON of The Clash had a collection of Football Programmes, in the new book that will be published on October 6th with members of ''The Clash'' telling their stories of how it all started Paul Simonon wrote this extract for the book :---

My father lived just off the Portobello Road. When I arrived we sat down and went through my belongings. He pulled out all my precious football programmes, ripped them in half, threw them in the bin and said: We are not having any of that rubbish in this house!.

Paul Heaton - of The Housemartins and The Beautiful South. has a obsession with football which has manifested itself through his collection of jerseys, badges, scarves, and FA Cup football programmes from the 1950s onwards.His most unusual item in Paul's collection is a Fiorentina kit with swastikas on it, he says. That was supposed to be an accident but Fiorentina had a history of connections with fascism. Such is the size of his collection that Paul has run out of space to store everything.

Paul has just moved to a smaller house and has run out of space for his collection so he might donate it all to the football museum in Preston.

So how many other famous people share the same passion as us.