Collecting football programmes

In general you find four different types of collectors within the football programme communiuty. There is the potential collector who has a passing interest in starting a programme collection, there is the latent collector who collects programmes occasionally, there is the casual collector who may collect old football programmes without having a specific theme to their collection, and also there is the confirmed collector who has distinct aims and regularly tries to acquire 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 finance. To be a collector, there is no need to own highly collectible programmes, just simply something that brings pleasure or a sense of satisfaction to the collector. Football programme collectors come from all sorts of backgrounds.

In the early stages of a collection, a collector may try to buy everything on offer 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 really are a limitless number of themes and sub-themes of programmes that can be collected. However, there are a number of traditional ways to build a collection. For example, for example all those programmes concerned with a particular club, all those concerned with a specific competition, etc. During the course of a collection a person is likely to experience 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 casual collectors will usually own a small number of important programmes for major finals or semi-finals for the team that they personally follow, internationals, testimonials, special fixtures, or other big cup ties. These can basically be classified as a Big Match programme.

If you have a strong affection for a particular football club your mission in programme collecting may be to simply purchase all editions for your favourite team. In addition to the regular league and cup matches, you may also try 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 from which to collect. You might, for example, decide to collect back to 1965, etc.

A collector who is fairly neutral in his or her 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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