Retro Football Shirts

Watford ended their 1995 - 96 League campaign strongly with 13 points from their final 6 games, including 15 goals scored in successive home games against Port Vale, Reading and Grimsby Town. Unfortunately form earlier in the season had not been so strong and...

Global music megastar Sir Elton John, a diehard Watford FC fan born in neighbouring Pinner, lived a childhood dream when he became Chairman of the club in 1976. Sir Elton, alongside manager Graham Taylor, transformed Watford into 'The Original Family Club' and oversaw the...

Under coach Raymond Goethals the Belgian national team began the decade at the World Cup in Mexico, their first major tournament appearance since 1954. Group stage elimination with just a single victory over El Salvador was the best they could achieve, but with the...

FC Porto started the 1986-87 season with a target of completing a domestic hat-trick of League titles, though few supporters would ultimately care that this ambition would not be realised. This was a season in which domestic events were dwarfed by Porto’s miraculous ascent...

The 1998-99 season brought the penta for FC Porto - a fifth successive Portuguese title win and an 18th overall for the club. Fernando Santos took over at the start of the season and kept the successful run going with the club finishing a...

Having enjoyed a series of strong seasons the 1996-97 campaign proved a more challenging one for Borussia Mönchengladbach. Swedish striker Martin Dahlin left for Roma and his absence was felt in the early months of the season as the team fell into the relegation...

The East German national team set out on their qualifying campaign for the 1986 World Cup hoping to reach what would have been just their second-ever major tournament. Although ultimately unsuccessful, East Germany did come very close indeed, and their total of ten points...

The much-traveled Carlos Alberto Silva took over coaching duties at FC Porto for the 1991-92 season and successfully wrested the Portuguese title back from Benfica after the club had missed out narrowly the previous season. A talented squad featured domestic stars like Vítor Baía,...

The football revolution that Danish football underwent in the 1970s paved the way for the nation's emergence onto the world scene in the following decade. Despite the many good players produced in Denmark, football there had long and resolutely stuck to its amateur principles...

With veterans like Heinz Hermann and Alain Sutter still an integral part of the Swiss scene as the decade ticked over into the 1990s, a new generation of younger attacking talent was emerging to complement them through players like Stephane Chapuisat, Kubilay Turkilmaz, and...

The 1980 – 81 season was one of highs and lows for TSV 1860 München. In walked Rudi Völler, a young talent joining from Kickers Offenbach, who quickly looked at home at 1860. Völler hit double figures in the iconic Doppeldusch-sponsored shirt in his...

The 1998 - 99 season was a landmark one in the history of FC Lorient as the Brittany club kicked off its first-ever Ligue 1 campaign. The architect of the club's rise was coach Christian Gourcuff who managed the club for a quarter of...

The 2001 - 02 campaign was a bittersweet one for FC Lorient mixing disappointment with relegation from Ligue 1 with joy of a first-ever major trophy win in the club's history - the Coupe de France. Les Merlus overcame Rennes, Louhans-Cuiseaux, PSG and Nimes...

Having taken AS Roma to fourth place the previous season amidst a flurry of goals, Czech coach Zdenek Zeman hoped to take his side even higher in the Serie A table as the 1998-99 season kicked off. Once again there was great attacking football...

In this season Barcelona was a free-scoring team that would entertain the fans with exciting and attacking football. Unfortunately, this wasn't quite enough to turn them into a winning one too. A two-horse race for the title developed with Atlético Madrid, but Barcelona's scoreless...

With plans rapidly advancing to establish Japan's first professional football league, the late 1980s saw the country's national team also start to take its first positive steps in the international arena. During 1987 under coach Yoshinobu Ishii, the national team would successfully secure qualification...

Former club playing legend Fabio Capello took over from Arrigo Sacchi in 1991 and ushered in a new era with a more pragmatic style, one that proved to be hugely effective and brought extraordinary success over the next half decade. The 1993-94 season brought...

A number ten, a playmaker, an unerring finisher, a devastating set-piece taker, a physical powerhouse, endlessly brave, a leader of men, an inspiration, an otherworldly talent. Quite simply Diego Armando Maradona was all of these things and one of the few footballers in history...

After a run of mid-table finishes Bernd Krauss led his Mönchengladbach side to a successful 1994-95 campaign which brought a fifth-placed Bundesliga finish and the club's third DFB-Pokal success. The latter rounds took die Fohlen past Mainz 05, Schalke 04 and Kaiserslautern and on...

The mid 1990s marked a strong resurgence for Borussia Mönchengladbach in the upper tier of German football. Under the intelligent guidance of Bernd Krauss, and strengthened by key signings such as Stefan Effenberg, Patrick Andersson, Martin Dahlin and Heiko Herrlich, Die Fohlen once again...

The 1958/59 season saw Real Betis finally return to the La Liga after many years drifting between the second and third tiers. Fears that competition at this level might be too fierce for los verdiblancos were never realised as the well-drilled side crafted by...

The 1980s was a strong time for the FC St.Gallen 1879. Under its influential coach Helmuth Johannsen, the 1983-84 season brought European football for only the second time in the club's history. The goals of attacking trio Martin Gisinger, Paul Friberg and Manfred Braschler...

The 1984-85 League campaign was a successful one for Servette Geneva, which saw the club finish as Swiss champions for the fifteenth time in their history. That title was won with a four-point margin over runners-up FC Aarau and was forged by excellent form...

AS Roma showed their grand ambition by appointing Fabio Capello as coach in the summer of 1999. A respectable sixth-placed Serie A finish would arrive in his first season, but this campaign was about gradually assembling the squad which would bring title success the...

Swiss businessman Hans Kamper (later Joan Gamper) arrived in Barcelona in 1898 en route to Africa with his uncle and so fell in love with the city that he stayed for good. In October of the following year, he placed an announcement in a...

The early 1990s was a turbulent era for Real Betis with the club beset by financial issues and stuck playing in the Spanish second tier. Things started to improve by the 1993-94 season when, under Lorenzo Serra Ferrer, Betis finished as runners-up a point...

Holland was producing fine players from its earliest days and under English coach Bob Glendenning the national team would first thrust itself onto a grander stage when qualifying for the World Cup in 1934. Experienced players like Puck van Heel, Wim Anderiesen and Leen...

The little-known Arrigo Sacchi shocked the world of Italian football when he was appointed as Milan coach in the summer of 1987. He arrived with new ideas and new players like Carlo Ancelotti and the two brilliant Dutchmen Marco Van Basten and Ruud Gullit....

This particular 1990 retro shirt was not in use for long. Players wore it only occasionally and in a limited number of matches, as at this time clubs rarely used the same design for an entire season. Yet, despite its brief appearance, it eventually...

A number ten, a playmaker, an unerring finisher, a devastating set-piece taker, a physical powerhouse, endlessly brave, a leader of men, an inspiration, an otherworldly talent. Quite simply Diego Armando Maradona was all of these things and one of the few footballers in history...