Starting a football programme collection

In general you find a number of different types of collectors within the football programme world. There is the potential collector who has a passing interest in starting a programme collection, there is the latent collector who collects programmes very sporadically, there is the casual collector who may accumulate old football programmes without having a specific theme to their collection, and also there is the confirmed collector who has precise aims and regularly tries to purchase programmes in order to enhance their collection.

There is no maximum or minimum size to a programme collection, with the only limitations to it come in the form of your financial restraints. To be a collector, there is no need to own highly collectible programmes, just simply something that brings pleasure or a sense of achievement to the collector. Programme collectors come from all sorts of backgrounds.

When they first start collecting, a collector may try to acquire everything they can find to their collection as quickly as possible in order to give it some substance. However, with this comes a loss of tangible meaning, and later when restraints may mean a particular theme has to be selected and explored in order to enhance a collection.

There truly are a limitless number of themes and sub-themes of programmes that can be collected. However, there are certain traditional ways of building a collection. For example, for example all those programmes involving a particular team, all those concerned with a specific competition, etc. During the course of a collection a person is likely to discover the joys and pitfalls of buying a rare old football programme, or the frustration of not being able to find a source for one that is vital to your collection.

Those collectors who are more causal in their approach to the collecting of football programmes will usually own a small number of special programmes for major finals or semi-finals for the team that they personally follow, internationals, testimonials, special fixtures, or other big cup matches. These can basically be classified as a Big Match programme.

If you have a strong affection for a particular soccer club your mission in programme collecting may be to simply acquire all editions for your chosen team. In addition to the regular league matches and cup-ties, you may also be tempted to collect programmes from friendlies, foreign tours, reserve teams, and youth teams.

One way of improving the depth and scope of your collection is by setting an earlier date for the time period for which you’re collecting. You might, for example, decide to collect back to 1940, etc.

A collector who is neutral in his or her affiliations, and just has a general passion for football will tend to widen the scope of their collection. In these sorts of collections you may find football programmes from a number of clubs at different levels (including non league). For the more adventurous type of collector, football programmes may have been bought from countries other than his or her own.

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