It’s quite a phenomenon that, somehow, a football kit fan’s interest is similarly piqued by something new and something familiarly vintage. These 1994 “Soccer Master” catalogue pages, which were...

We’ve covered the mainstream hits of this 1992 Bourne Sports catalogue, but here’s something for the even more discerning follower of late 20th century football design. The non-single release album...

Sometimes, a single page advert in a sticker album - the FKS Soccer ’81 album, on this occasion - can give us such football design-related happiness. This advert for Umbro products - though the...

An insert football catalogue in a football magazine in the 1990s was often pored over more than the publication itself. This, from Bourne Sports in 1992, is a great example of exactly that. With...

Puma, born of the Dassler split - Adi formed adidas, brother Rudi Puma - have a storied past, even beyond their beginnings, and, as this 1974 catalogue demonstrates, much of their finest work can be...

First football boots as a child? For many: Gola. The budget option, like a Yamaha Pacifica or Squier guitar rather than a vintage Gibson Les Paul, you never know to what extent you’ll take to the...

Some view Nike’s involvement in football - certainly the association variety - as an ultra-modern phenomenon. Whilst the American brand’s influence and approach has grown exponentially in recent...

The early-to-mid-1990s was a time of huge transition in football kits, as demonstrated by these Bourne Sports catalogue pages from 1993. Kappa had recently taken over from Meyba in supplying FC...

These adidas catalogue pages from 1976 are a confusing affair, as one alternates between laughing at how dated items look - understandably - bemoaning others’ unavailability in 2020, and wondering how the...

In the 1980s, it was hard to argue that adidas had much competition in the European football kit market. In pole position at least, these 1983 catalogue pages show that the teamwear world was...