Basic Rule of the football shirts:
There are several things you need to know about football shirts. Every manufacture nowadays (Nike, Adidas, Puma, Lotto...) is producing almost 3 types of the shirts: 3rd class is lowest quality jersey (meterial, details on it...), those shirts cost around £40 in the official stores. 2nd class is better quality, they cost around £60-£100 in the official stores and 1st class is PLAYER ISSUE shirt, usually called CODE 7 Jersey..Quality of those shirts are impressive, sometime their price tag is around £200. They can be RARELY found at official stores, maybe at the end of the season (when club is switching shirts). Because of its rarity and the rule of supply and demand they are very expensive and very hard to find.
About Match Worn Shirts
Match worn memorabilia has over recent years become very serious investment. Sales at auction houses have highlighted this on a global scale. Pele's 1970 WC Final shirt sold for £157,000, Geoff Hurst's 1966 WC Final shirt £93,000 and more recently George Best Man United FA Cup shirt from the game where he scored 6 £24,000!! a Bobby Moore England shirt £9,000 and of more modern day legends Eric Cantona Man United £3,600.
Here at footballshirts 011 we pride ourselves in our own collection of players shirts. This enjoyment of shirt collecting has lead us into the world of selling. After supplying all the major football match shirt websites around the world, we decided to cut out the middle man and offer the collectors, shirts direct. We are able to do this throughour comprehensive and broad base of football contacts. Yes we have more football contacts than any other dealer! This therefore helps us keep prices down and provides you the collector, with that desirable or much sought after match shirt of your hero or a playing legend.
Commonly used terms!
Firstly we need to differentiate the terms you will commonly see associated with players shirts. A replica is a shirt you can buy from your club shop or high street retailer (or from our very own online shop). Match Prepared shirts will often come direct from the kit manufacturer. Whilst these shirts are cosmetically identical to match shirts they clearly carry no true provenance as they will have never been anywhere near the club's kitroom! Unlike other 'leading' dealers we do not sell Match Prepared Shirts. When it comes to players shirts there are only two types - either issued or worn. These two terms can be broken down into either match issued (unworn) or match worn, meaning you can specify from which game they were either issued for or worn in.
What's the difference between a replica and a matchworn players shirt?
Sometimes there can be many differences between a team's replica and a players specification shirt. But with certain clubs there can be very few or none at all. This usually depends very much on the club's shirt manufacturer. Certain manufacturers make players shirts to a higher standard - a better quality product for the team's players and these are not available to buy commercially. Other clubs' players will wear replica shirts but of course differences between these and club shop replicas still exist with the addition of pro size names, numbers and sleeve badges.
So what is an issued shirt?
A player is usually supplied or issued more than one shirt per game - usually two shirts but for the big occassion games it can be as many as four. By having two shirts a player can change his sweaty dirty smelly or blood stained shirt at half time. Remember that most players do not change their shirts at half time. Some will pick and choose depending on the circustances and a few will change to wear two shirts in every game. So an issued shirt is an unworn shirt that may have hung in the dressing room, stayed in the kit skip or never left the kit room, but still issued (printed up) for the player. A match issue shirt is an unworn shirt which can be pinned down to a specific match, eg indentified by match detail embroidery/print such as a Cup Final, Testimonial or comes direct after a match as an unused spare.
And that means a match worn is?
Exactly that, worn in a match, off the players back. Please remember that most clubs do not issue new shirts to players for every game. A number of Premiership clubs in fact notify their players that they will only be issued a pre-determined number of home and away shirts per season with any additional shirts used being paid for by the player!!! So a match worn shirt most probably will have been worn in a number of games and can only be described as specific from a particular game when you know 100% that is the case. This is the ultimate for shirt collectors, a MATCH WORN shirt, a unique genuinely rare item of memorabilia.
There are several things you need to know about football shirts. Every manufacture nowadays (Nike, Adidas, Puma, Lotto...) is producing almost 3 types of the shirts: 3rd class is lowest quality jersey (meterial, details on it...), those shirts cost around £40 in the official stores. 2nd class is better quality, they cost around £60-£100 in the official stores and 1st class is PLAYER ISSUE shirt, usually called CODE 7 Jersey..Quality of those shirts are impressive, sometime their price tag is around £200. They can be RARELY found at official stores, maybe at the end of the season (when club is switching shirts). Because of its rarity and the rule of supply and demand they are very expensive and very hard to find.
About Match Worn Shirts
Match worn memorabilia has over recent years become very serious investment. Sales at auction houses have highlighted this on a global scale. Pele's 1970 WC Final shirt sold for £157,000, Geoff Hurst's 1966 WC Final shirt £93,000 and more recently George Best Man United FA Cup shirt from the game where he scored 6 £24,000!! a Bobby Moore England shirt £9,000 and of more modern day legends Eric Cantona Man United £3,600.
Here at footballshirts 011 we pride ourselves in our own collection of players shirts. This enjoyment of shirt collecting has lead us into the world of selling. After supplying all the major football match shirt websites around the world, we decided to cut out the middle man and offer the collectors, shirts direct. We are able to do this throughour comprehensive and broad base of football contacts. Yes we have more football contacts than any other dealer! This therefore helps us keep prices down and provides you the collector, with that desirable or much sought after match shirt of your hero or a playing legend.
Commonly used terms!
Firstly we need to differentiate the terms you will commonly see associated with players shirts. A replica is a shirt you can buy from your club shop or high street retailer (or from our very own online shop). Match Prepared shirts will often come direct from the kit manufacturer. Whilst these shirts are cosmetically identical to match shirts they clearly carry no true provenance as they will have never been anywhere near the club's kitroom! Unlike other 'leading' dealers we do not sell Match Prepared Shirts. When it comes to players shirts there are only two types - either issued or worn. These two terms can be broken down into either match issued (unworn) or match worn, meaning you can specify from which game they were either issued for or worn in.
What's the difference between a replica and a matchworn players shirt?
Sometimes there can be many differences between a team's replica and a players specification shirt. But with certain clubs there can be very few or none at all. This usually depends very much on the club's shirt manufacturer. Certain manufacturers make players shirts to a higher standard - a better quality product for the team's players and these are not available to buy commercially. Other clubs' players will wear replica shirts but of course differences between these and club shop replicas still exist with the addition of pro size names, numbers and sleeve badges.
So what is an issued shirt?
A player is usually supplied or issued more than one shirt per game - usually two shirts but for the big occassion games it can be as many as four. By having two shirts a player can change his sweaty dirty smelly or blood stained shirt at half time. Remember that most players do not change their shirts at half time. Some will pick and choose depending on the circustances and a few will change to wear two shirts in every game. So an issued shirt is an unworn shirt that may have hung in the dressing room, stayed in the kit skip or never left the kit room, but still issued (printed up) for the player. A match issue shirt is an unworn shirt which can be pinned down to a specific match, eg indentified by match detail embroidery/print such as a Cup Final, Testimonial or comes direct after a match as an unused spare.
And that means a match worn is?
Exactly that, worn in a match, off the players back. Please remember that most clubs do not issue new shirts to players for every game. A number of Premiership clubs in fact notify their players that they will only be issued a pre-determined number of home and away shirts per season with any additional shirts used being paid for by the player!!! So a match worn shirt most probably will have been worn in a number of games and can only be described as specific from a particular game when you know 100% that is the case. This is the ultimate for shirt collectors, a MATCH WORN shirt, a unique genuinely rare item of memorabilia.