Retro Football Shirts

As the '70s ticked over into the '80s, the new decade heralded the start of a new and exciting era for AS Roma. Back in charge for a second spell, visionary Swedish coach Nils Liedholm was beginning to fashion a balanced team featuring the...

The summer of 1987 felt like a new beginning in Stuttgart. After years of doubt, coach Arie Haan brought a breath of fresh air to the Neckarstadion and created a real sense of optimism both on and off the field. Led by captain Fritz...

The Dutch national team came to preeminence in the 1970s, but just a few years earlier, in 1966, the squad was already taking shape. New coach Georg Keßler inherited a squad based around a strong core of Ajax players. Bennie Muller was a fixture...

The 1982-83 season brought major change for Internazionale with the arrival of Rino Marchesi as coach and significant changes in the playing squad. World Cup winning defender Fulvio Collovati crossed over from neighbours Milan to complement the fast-emerging Bergomi, Ferri and Zenga, while two...

It was all change for the 1991-92 season as Internazionale bade farewell to Giovanni Trapattoni after half a decade in charge and appointed the relatively unknown Corrado Orrico as his successor. The squad was reshaped with the addition of new players like Stefano Desideri,...

Betis as we know it is the result of a merger in late 1914 between Sevilla Balompié and Betis FC. Having obtained the royal patronage from King Alfonso XIII a few months earlier gave rise to the iconic name Real Betis Balompié, resulting in...

Bayern München's 1986 Bundesliga title win was one of the most memorable in the club's history. A poor first-half of the season was overturned with a remarkable run in the second half that brought just a single defeat in 17 League games. Even so,...

March 1st, 1981, was the precise day that Barcelona's season came off the rails. The Catalans had just crushed Hércules 6-0 and were sitting well-placed in second spot in La Liga when news came through that their prolific striker Quini had been kidnapped by...

With the 1985-86 season representing an undistinguished one domestically, it was the European arena in which Atlético Madrid shone and nearly brought what would have been a second success in the Cup Winners' Cup. Atlético’s away form in the competition was exceptional, and all...

As the 1970s got underway, FC Porto was a club ready to burst out of the shadows of the Lisbon giants. The breakthrough hadn’t quite happened the previous decade, with the club finishing as Primeira League runners-up on no fewer than six occasions. However,...

A historic season for Watford who reached the FA Cup final for the first time in the club’s history. Curiously their toughest fixture came early on in the Third Round when it took two hard fought games to overcome near rivals Luton Town. Subsequent...

The 1965 - 66 season represented the pinnacle of TSV 1860 München's long and illustrious history as die Löwen became German champions for the first and only time. Max Merkel's fine side rounded off a magnificent three-year period which had brought DFP Pokal success,...

Good work at Udinese gave Giuseppe Bigogno an opportunity to coach Internazionale's star-studded squad for the 1958-59 season and he took them to a respectable third-placed finish. The highlight of the season was undoubtedly the brilliant attacking play in which new-arrival Eddie Firmani scored...

The Ligue 1 success enjoyed by Nantes in 1980 was the climax of an extended run as France’s dominant club. The Bretons had been champions in 1977 and after two successive seasons occupying the runners-up spot, the return of the trophy to the northwest...

1998 represented the year in which the Club Nacional de Football returned to Uruguayan national supremacy. Under the management of their former legendary defender Hugo De Leon, Nacional won both the Apertura and Clausura championships to comfortably win the overall title. From that year...

The mid-1990s were a challenging period for Watford as the club struggled to regain its place in the top division, a position it had enjoyed so much in the previous decade. Seasons under managers Steve Perryman and Glenn Roeder typically ended in the lower...

Consistency seems to be the keyword during the 1972 - 73 season for FC Nantes. With a team consisting out of a strong starting core –with the likes of Bernard Blanchet, Henri Michel & Jean-Paul Bertrand-Demanes amongst its ranks– who would play most of...

Most of the star players in the 1995 title-winning Nantes squad were well established in the first team before the start of this historic season, but their rapid and magical development into such a formidable outfit under coach Jean-Claude Suaudeau took everyone by surprise....

One of Europe's great clubs during the 1960s, even today Dukla Prague remains something of a cult icon because of the famously distinctive shirt they sported during their glory days. And what glory days they were. Winners of five Czechoslovakian titles and four domestic...

Portugal would catch the eye with their fine performances at the European Championships in 2000, but getting there in the first place was a tough task for coach Humberto Coelho and his golden generation of stars. The qualification campaign took place mostly over 1999...

Only promoted to the Premier League via the play-offs the previous season, George Burley’s Ipswich Town side proved to be the shock revelations of the 2000-01 season. An attacking and fluid team featuring solid professionals like Matt Holland, Richard Wright, Herman Hreidarsson, Jim Magilton...

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 hosting by Los Angeles of the 1984 Summer Olympics was a great opportunity for the United States team to enjoy home advantage and capture the imagination of a curious domestic audience in the soccer event. Unfortunately, the adventure ended prematurely in the group...

Norway entered the late 1980s with a young and developing national team, still searching for consistency but beginning to show signs of the progress that would define the years ahead. The qualifying campaign for Euro ’88 proved challenging, with Norway drawn into a demanding...

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...

The first foray of the University of Guadalajara into professional football occurred in the early 70s, with a team made up of students. After a few years in the lower divisions, the team bought a franchise and this is how 'Leones' reached the First...

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...

The 1984-85 season was one of change for Benfica with new manager Tomislav Ivic departing early in the campaign and being replaced by Pal Csernai. New signings Jorge Silva, Wando & Adelino Nunes arrived to replace the departing Fernando Chalana and Glenn Stromberg. These...

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...

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...