The Football Shirts Book

They think it’s all over...it is now, with this comprehensive guide to football shirts through the years. From the obscure to the ubiquitous, The Football Shirts Book is packed with over 150 original and super rare shirts from the greatest game on earth. Covering everything from the iconic to the unusual, even the most hard-core fans will find out something new about the kit of their favourite team. Including full-colour photography, as well as interviews with football shirt design teams, musicians, and fashion designers, this guide offers a full exploration of the brands, design, and sponsorship history behind the world’s best-loved football shirts. It is a must-have for those crazy about football shirts, as well as those whose interest is piqued by history, design, and pop-culture.

"The most comprehensive collection ever assembled of iconic football shirts, featuring more than 1,000 illustrations representing 100 countries and 500 teams. In addition to detailing the colourful histories behind legendary shirts, this book also highlights the key players of important matches and celebrates memorable victories. Inside you'll discover why Pelé wore number 10, why the Italian national team plays in blues, and why the us women's team boasts two stars on its jersey. Football shirts have always been of paramount importance to the game, creating a unique visual identity for each national and club team. Open this book and you'll travel around the world and through time in 1,000 shirts, from Arsenal to Zenit, finding the most loved, most beautidul and most off-the-wall shirts along the way." --Cover.

A new, updated edition of the most comprehensive collection of iconic soccer uniforms from around the world, featuring more than 1,000 illustrations representing 100 countries and 500 major teams. This massively illustrated and comprehensive volume presents and explains the team shirts worn by the world's leading soccer clubs and national teams from one hundred countries over the past one hundred years. In addition to detailing the colorful histories behind each shirt, the book also highlights the personalities and players behind historic matches and celebrates iconic victories and goals. Find out why the Italian national team chose blue as their color, why the U.S. women's team boasts four stars on their jersey, the relationship of Vasco da Gama to the colors of the Portuguese team, and what the patterns on the South African shirt signify. Ever since the game began, the colors of each team have been of paramount importance, creating a unique visual identity for each club and a strong sense of allegiance among fans. Millions of replica shirts have been bought by fans to show support for their teams and star players, and this book is sure to appeal to soccer's legions of enthusiasts.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019 'A delightful book ... [and] a valuable resource' - Telegraph International Football Kits (True Colours) charts the evolving football strip design of the world's leading national football teams, from 1966 to the present day. Guaranteed to bring back memories of your favourite team's kits and help you discover new ones, this groundbreaking book features strips that made it to the greatest stage in football – the FIFA World Cup – as well as rare designs that were never worn. John Devlin, the authority on football kits, analyses and evaluates the home, away and third kit designs of the top football-playing nations, detailing when the strip was worn, who wore it and the important matches in which it featured. This carefully curated collection features more than 1,300 never-before-published artworks, and describes the changing styles, varied manufacturers and remarkable controversies of international football fashion over the last 50 years.

An illustrated exploration of the design, meaning and symbolism of world football club crests. Why is there a devil shown on the crest of Manchester United? Which club's crest motto is 'To Dare Is To Do'? And whose emblem depicts a bear and a strawberry tree? From the seahorses of Newcastle United to the royal crown of Real Madrid, via the riveting hammers of West Ham United, Valencia's famous bat design and German club St Pauli's unofficial skull-and-crossbones emblem, there is a story behind every crest, a tale of identity. Covering more than 200 clubs from 20 different leagues, World Football Club Crests explores the design, meaning and symbolism of the game's most famous club crests to reveal why the badges look as they do. This carefully curated collection charts the continuing evolution of the designs and describes the changing styles, varied influences and remarkable controversies that have shaped football's most iconic crests. These important symbols of football heraldry will never be viewed in the same way again.

This beautiful coffee table book tells the history of the famous jersey and the players who have worn it. Compiled using stunning photographs of match worn and player shirts actually donned by many of England's greatest players, the book provides readers with a visual history of the national team - all the way back to the first ever international in 1872. This new book brings together some of the rarest and most iconic England shirts ever seen. As well as the shirts mentioned above there will be a special and rare strips that have been lost in time - such as the rare yellow outfield shirt.

A brand new edition of this highly regarded book on the history of the Spurs jersey showcases the greatest collection of Tottenham Hotspur match worn shirts ever seen The Spurs Shirt was the conclusion of three years of painstaking research. In the process a match worn example of almost every style of Tottenham Hotspur shirt (home and away) since the glory days of the 1960s - including a jersey from every post-war cup final Spurs have ever played in - has been tracked down and beautifully photographed to create a stunning coffee table book which offers a unique perspective on the illustrious history of the club. The book contains over 200 shirts worn or prepared for more than 110 different Spurs players, including legends like Danny Blanchflower, Jimmy Greaves, Steve Perryman, Glenn Hoddle, Ossie Ardiles, Paul Gascoigne, David Ginola, Gareth Bale and Harry Kane. This second edition brings the story up-to-date and will include the 2023/24 home kit and the shirt that Harry Kane was wearing when he became Tottenham's leading goal scorer.