World Cup Collection

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....

All our ‘Designed by…’ T-shirts have football as inspiration and the collection consists of over 125 different styles. We create our T-shirts in collaboration with some of the greatest graphic artists and famous football photographers from all over the world. The superior quality ‘Made...

A difficult time in the modern history of the Dutch game with the national team following up failure to qualify for the 1982 World Cup with similar disappointment in the Euro ‘84 qualifiers - albeit under the most unlikely of circumstances. Leading their group...

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...

The end of Yugoslavia as we knew it came in 1992, which meant its appearance at the World Cup two years earlier was the tournament that brought down the curtain on a proud historical record of participation at eight World Cups and four European...

António Oliveira and his Portugal stars took early control of their Euro '96 qualifying group and never looked back. During the 1995 calender year group minnows like Latvia and Liechtenstein were easily dispatched thanks to the considerable firepower players like Figo, Rui Costa, Domingos,...

A difficult time in the modern history of the Dutch game with the national team following up failure to qualify for the 1982 World Cup with similar disappointment in the Euro ‘84 qualifiers - albeit under the most unlikely of circumstances. Leading their group...

That Spain even qualified for the 1984 European Championships was akin to a miracle. Needing to defeat Malta by an eleven-goal margin in their final group fixture to top their qualifying group, the Spanish incredibly won 12-1. When in France at the tournament proper,...

All our ‘Designed by…’ T-shirts have football as inspiration and the collection consists of over 125 different styles. We create our T-shirts in collaboration with some of the greatest graphic artists and famous football photographers from all over the world. The superior quality ‘Made...

Football was a lowly consideration for the new Communist regime following the revolutionary years of the 1950s. The national team had been more internationalist in its outlook during the Batista era, but by the early 1960s games were rare under Castro and when they...

António Oliveira and his Portugal stars took early control of their Euro 96 qualifying group and never looked back. During the 1995 calendar year, group minnows like Latvia and Liechtenstein were comfortably beaten thanks to the attacking quality of players such as Figo, Rui...

By the end of the 1970s, the Turkish national team was improving rapidly, and their qualification campaign for the 1980 European Championships proved to be their most competitive yet. Sabri Kiraz’s side finished runners-up in their qualifying group to West Germany, with only the...

All our ‘Designed by…’ T-shirts have football as inspiration and the collection consists of over 125 different styles. We create our T-shirts in collaboration with some of the greatest graphic artists and famous football photographers from all over the world. The superior quality ‘Made...

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...

With Scottish coach David Gould in charge of what would be his only two games as the United States team manager, the national team traveled to Italy in 1934 to participate in their second World Cup competition. The star of the brief American campaign...

António Oliveira and his Portugal stars took early control of their Euro '96 qualifying group and never looked back. During the 1995 calender year group minnows like Latvia and Liechtenstein were easily dispatched thanks to the considerable firepower players like Figo, Rui Costa, Domingos,...

Champions of the world, champions of Europe, and always the most formidable of opponents thanks to the sheer quality and quantity of top-class talent being created - the 1970s was a wonderful decade for West Germany. The national teams that won the 1972 European...

World Cup success on home soil represented the greatest footballing moment for the nation that invented the game. Manager Alf Ramsey's 'wingless wonders' were disliked by some for a pragmatic approach that favored substance over style, but Ramsey was merely aligning himself with the...

Qualification for the 1986 World Cup was secured by Portugal in their final group match thanks to a Carlos Manuel winner to defeat West Germany. This famous victory in Stuttgart ensured that the José Torres-led team edged out Sweden and would travel to Mexico...

Austria arrived at the 1990 World Cup in Italy with a talented and experienced side, hoping to build on a strong qualification campaign and make an impression on the biggest stage. Drawn into a difficult group alongside hosts Italy, Czechoslovakia, and the United States,...

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...

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...

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...

Croatia became an independent country in 1990 and established a national football team almost simultaneously. This team celebrated its new status by playing a debut fixture against the USA in October of that year. 1992 represented a significant year in the development of football...

West Germany began the 1960s with memories of the Miracle of Bern and the 1954 World Cup win still fresh in their minds. Standards were slipping, however, and a Quarter Final exit in the 1962 competition to Yugoslavia encouraged an agenda of change. Full...

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...

There were fine players like Paul Van Himst, Leon Semeling, Jef Jurion, Wilfried Van Moer, and Raoul Lambert, but there was little to cheer for the Belgian national team during the 1960s. A failure to qualify for any significant international tournament meant Belgium's only...