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Starting a football programme collection

May 11, 2009

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 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 his or her collection.

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

In the early stages of a collection, a collector may try to acquire everything on offer to their collection as quickly as possible in order to give it some bulk. However, with this comes a loss of focus, and later when restraints may mean a particular theme has to be selected and explored in order to further a collection.

There really are an unlimited 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 particular competition, etc. During the course of a collection a person is likely to experience the highs and lows of buying a rare football programme, or the frustration of not being able to find a source for one that is vital to your collection.

Those casual collectors will usually own a limited number of special programmes for major finals or semi-finals for the team that they personally support, internationals, testimonials, special fixtures, or other big cup matches. These can basically be classed as a Big Match programme.

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

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

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

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