Retro Football Shirts

With their glorious 70s era looking to be behind them, the Polish national team bounced back in some style with an exceptionally strong performance at the 1982 World Cup in Spain. This was a squad featuring stars like Boniek, Buncol, Smolarek, and Zmuda, and...

1905 was the year of the first Dutch national team fixture, the first national team victory and the emergence of the first national team superstar. On the 30th of April the Oranje travelled to Antwerp for a debut match against future classic rivals, Belgium....

A historic season for a unique shirt. After narrowly missing out the previous year when the dreams of promotion ended in the play-offs, the grigiorossi achieved their goal of securing a return to the Serie A after 54 years. Finishing in 3rd place in...

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...

Club Brugge cemented its role as the dominant Belgian club of the decade with the 1977-78 season proving to be the greatest in the club's history to date. Ernst Happel's team duly won a third successive domestic title, but it was the European arena...

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...

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...

Former midfielder Lucien Müller took charge of Barcelona at the start of the 1978-79 season with high hopes, although the Frenchman would ultimately fail to replicate the success he had enjoyed as a player there in the 1960s and was replaced before the season...

Despite having won the Portuguese title the previous season, Benfica’s coach Toni was replaced by the bigger name of Artur Jorge. This was a season of major change in the playing squad with two major stars in Rui Costa and Stefan Schwarz moving on....

Finally in 1982 Toulouse FC reclaimed their place in Ligue 1 after years in the wilderness. Promotion came under coach Pierre Cahuzac, a former long-serving player from the 1950s, and a respectable 11th place finish was achieved in their debut campaign. Strong recruitment helped....

Much-travelled Croatian coach Tomislav Ivic took charge of Benfica for the 1992-93 season and began the campaign with a number of new arrivals including Abel Xavier, Hélder, Carlos Mozer, João Pinto, and Aleksandr Mostovoi. The new team took a while to settle down, however,...

Then known as AS Red Star ‘93, Parisian club Red Star FC spent the early 1990s as a Ligue 2 side with ambitions of returning to the top division for the first time since 1975. The 1991 - 92 season was unremarkable in League...

The 1998 – 99 season saw Eric Gerets’ Club Brugge finish a solid second in the league, beating rivals Anderlecht both home and away, and claiming Super Cup silverware with a victory over Racing Genk. Featuring a balanced mix of experienced players, goal-threatening midfielders,...

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...

The 1972 - 73 season saw Hennes Weisweiler's thrilling Mönchengladbach side excel in cup competitions. A Bundesliga campaign bringing a fifth-placed finish, but more memorable was the famous extra-time success in the final of the DFB-Pokal against Köln, the winner scored by substitute Günter...

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...

Although the final points total was high on a respectable 52 points, the 1993-94 campaign saw Fulham relegated from Division Two. A win on the final day would have seen the team safe, but a 2-1 defeat at Swansea City meant Fulham finished a...

Jupp Heynckes succeeded Udo Lattek as coach in 1987 and enjoyed his first Bundesliga success during the 1988-89 season with a strong side that boasted both the best defence and the best attack in the division. This was very much a new look team...

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 1970s was an up and down decade for Real Betis. The club reached the heights of fifth place in La Liga, Copa del Rey success in 1977 and a European run which saw them eliminate AC Milan, but also suffered several relegations during...

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...

A season full of milestones on many accounts for Fulham: Even though finishing in only the 18th place of Division one the club scored an impressive 71 goals – the fifth-highest in the division –, played their 2000th league game & 1000th home game...

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...

Trying to achieve what would be a first World Cup qualification since 1974 and just a second overall, Australia's pursuit of a place at the 1994 tournament in the United States would end in play-off disappointment - just as was the case with so...

With a promising team built around the core of Real Madrid´s dazzling club side, Spain had enjoyed a promising World Cup campaign in 1986, and coach Miguel Munoz was duly retained for the next European Championship tournament two years later. Qualification from a group...

Alberto Zaccheroni had made a miraculous start to his Milan career in 1999 by inspiring the club to a surprise Serie A title after a mid-table toil for the previous couple of seasons. The 1999 - 00 campaign was less successful with the title...

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....

With manager Steve Perryman leaving the club on the eve of the 1990-91 season, his assistant Phil Holder stepped up to take charge and went on to enjoy a season of fine promise. This was a team built around the defensive rock that was...

Many a fan will fondly remember Ousmane Soumah's goal against Halmstads: The forward scored a dramatic diving header in extra time that saw Sporting Club de Bastia crown their superb Intertoto Cup run with the championship and a return to the UEFA Cup in...

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...