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Football Shirt

Sergio Aguero shirt worn when scoring last-gasp Man City title winner in 2012 comes up at auction
18 May 2022Probably best to look away now if you are a Man Utd fan...

Record for sporting memorabilia as Diego Maradona’s 1986 World Cup shirt sells for £6m at Sotheby’s
05 May 2022Diego Maradona’s 1986 World Cup shirt worn in the quarter final against England set a record for any piece of sporting memorabilia when it took £6m at Sotheby’s.

Goalie shirt saved since 1879 single appearance
28 February 2022One of the earliest items of football memorabilia to appear at auction emerged at Bonhams in Knightsbridge: an England international goalkeeper shirt from 1879.

Red alert as early Arsenal shirts impress
03 January 2022Arsenal FC’s familiar red jersey with white arms is instantly recognisable to football fans worldwide now. However, a pair of shirts sold at the Graham Budd (20.5% buyer’s premium) December 1-2 auction in London show an earlier look.

Never on a pitch, but Best and Beckham meet in the saleroom
08 November 2021Derbyshire auction house Hansons (25% buyer’s premium) sold memorabilia this summer worn by two Manchester United favourites of different eras: George Best and David Beckham.

Denis Law shirt given to team-mate
08 November 2021Maurice Setters (1936-2020) is perhaps best known to many football fans as the assistant to Jack Charlton as Republic of Ireland enjoyed success in the 1980s-90s.

Football memorabilia highlights: Beckham, Best, Ramsey, Matthews and ‘the greatest fight in English football’
07 September 2021A selection of football memorabilia coming up at auction or sold recently – plus a Sir Stanley Matthews tea set from a dealer.

Norman Whiteside’s memorabilia proves happy hunting ground for bidders at Ewbank's
10 August 2020The FA Cup proved a happy hunting ground for Norman Whiteside in his playing days and at auction many years later the competition was still proving to be a big winner for him.

Great sports: 1911 football shirt and cycling souvenirs
02 March 2020With tripartite appeal to football fans of England, Wales and – most importantly as it turned out – of Millwall FC, a historic shirt was a winner at Hansons’ ( 20% buyer’s premium) sporting sale.

Gary Lineker’s last England shirt to be offered as part of huge online football auction
22 January 2020Gary Lineker’s shirt worn in his final match for England features in what is believed to be the largest collection of ‘soccer’ memorabilia ever offered at auction in the US.

Manchester United winner's medal for their first ever league title sells at Glasgow auction
30 April 2019Manchester United fans distraught at the prospect of their arch-rivals City or… shudder… even Liverpool winning the title this season can perhaps take solace from earlier Red Devils successes.

The late England goalkeeper Gordon Banks' shirt and an early All Blacks kit score at auction
05 March 2019Sport shirts at regional auction houses in Cardiff and Surrey win fans.

World Cup winner Gordon Banks match-worn England shirt comes up at auction
26 February 2019An England football shirt worn by the late, great goalkeeper Gordon Banks is coming up for sale at Surrey auction house Ewbank’s.

Memorabilia from the sporting greats comes to Hollywood auction
17 October 2017From FIFA to F1, Olympics to boxing, Julien’s offers some knock out lots in its November sale

Manchester United enamel pin badge sold at auction for 20-times estimate
22 February 2017The white shirt bears a dark ‘V’ across the front more like St Helens rugby league team, but the ball underneath is unmistakably round rather than oval. Then the words ‘Manchester United’ emblazoned below the figure give the game away.

‘They think it’s all over’… England’s 1966 World Cup victory still holds special place in collecting market
11 July 2016It may only be a few weeks until the 50th anniversary of the 1966 World Cup final but, judging by the way their team exited the Euros, England fans will have to wait a lot longer before their team ever again reaches the final a major football tournament.

Hurst's hat-trick jersey to go under the hammer
06 June 2016In 1996 Frank Skinner, David Baddiel and the Lightning Seeds sang about ‘30 years of hurt’. Sadly for English football fans, it is now ‘50 years of hurt’ since the national team actually won something. Or have even reached a final.

World Cup latest – auctions score with 1966 shirts
13 June 2014“They think it’s all over... it is now!”
Beetles on the ball at £42,000, and shirt proves its Vava voom at £12,000
24 April 2003Pictured right is the highlight of Christie’s South Kensington’s (17.5/10% buyer’s premium) first football memorabilia sale of 2003 on March 26. A Cup Tie at Crystal Palace, Corinthians v. Manchester City, by Charles Ernest Cundall, in oil on panel 231/4in x 2ft 51/2in (60 x 75cm), signed C. Cundall lower right, set a new auction record for the artist when it was knocked down to London dealer Chris Beetles for £42,000, double the upper estimate.
Well-pitched football collectables prove they have a large fan base
12 April 2002While Pelé’s shirt received nearly all the post-sale plaudits, it wasn’t the only piece of football history to go under the hammer at Christie’s South Kensington (17.5/10% buyer’s premium) last week, and CSK was not the only London room offering a sale of football memorabilia.

- Sally Mitchell Fine Art
- Mick Cawston Art
- 22 May 2022 - 17:00 PM
- East Bristol Auctions (timed)
- The Great Train Roobery (1963) - Memorabilia & Autographs
- 23 May 2022
- Gorringe's
- Antiques & Fine Art
- 23 May 2022 - 09:30 AM
- Hansons Derbyshire
- Clocks & Furniture
- 23 May 2022 - 09:30 AM
- Richard Winterton
- Antiques & Home
- 23 May 2022 - 09:30 AM
- Bolton Auction Rooms
- General House, Antiques & Interiors
- 23 May 2022 - 10:00 AM
