Football Programmes Centre

A heads-up for anyone who hasn't seen this - presumably it's the family of Colin Appleton selling off a number of items relating to his time at Leicester and Scarborough. No 1961 and 1963 FA Cup final ...

Bit of a delayed update - Colchester are going online:
https://www.cu-fc.com/news/2025/july/30/u-s-go-digital-with-matchday-programme/

However, Gillingham and Shrewsbury are now going to carry on ...

Warford are ending programme production after last season's top seller was only 1,045 against Luton. "Supporters who would like a physical souvenir from a matchday will be able to buy an A5 squad ...

Gillingham are the latest club to end programme production.

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/sport/end-of-an-era-gillingham-scrap-printed-programmes-325137/

Take it you might already have seen it's on the latest D&D list, although he may not update it when programmes are no longer available.

http://www.d-d-programmes.co.uk/list.pdf

The home issue against AFC Wimbledon had a very low print run and sold out more than an hour before kick-off - you may have to play a waiting game unless you want to spend £60+ for the copy currently ...

Bromley: available free from the club shop, although half the ground does not have access to this on matchdays until after the final whistle.

Stevenage: went last season and in the absence of a pri ...

Norwich City have signed a deal with SeatGeek for next season which will probably all but end printed tickets at Carrow Road. Not that you see many now, given that most supporters have either a season ...

Can only comment on programme prices from an NCFC perspective... frankly who knows these days? There's still a couple of City collectors out there prepared to spend big on pre-war issues, so maybe £3 ...

Yes, it was Norwich's last first-team match as a non-league club. A couple of reserve-team friendlies followed.
BTW, a medal presented to a Norwich player in the Tottenham game - both teams received ...

Norwich played four games with these crowds, all of which had standard, barcoded tickets issued to season-ticket holders and members:
1,000 - Preston, September 19.
2,000 - Sheffield Wednesday, Dece ...

A couple of long-standing Norwich City collectors have steadily been downsizing their collections by selling off some very seldom-seen items in recent years on eBay. One had a single sheet for the Bir ...

I have already made a list as previously suggested. My biggest worry was over obscure issues - such as 1940s/1950s friendlies away to non-league clubs and reserve single sheets - which many people wou ...

In 1978-79, 1979-80 and 1980-81 there was a round-robin pre-season tournament in East Anglia called the Willhire Cup featuring Norwich, Ipswich, Colchester and Cambridge. Ipswich won the first two, wi ...

Idling through NewsNow I noticed this about Grimsby today (Jan 2).
https://www.grimsby-townfc.co.uk/news/2021/january/the-mariner-returns-for-2021/

I collect Ayr programmes, so I like to think I know a bit about other Scottish issues, but sometimes you see huge prices like the first link being realised on eBay and have no idea why. As others have ...

King's Lynn Town produced a triple programme, priced at £7 plus £2 postage, for the three fixtures in the space of eight days this week against Notts County (FAC, cancelled), Wealdstone (NL) and Wok ...

King's Lynn's second home NL programme, against Boreham Wood, was also priced at £15, so this could be a trend which continues for the upcoming fixtures against Wealdstone and Woking. Meanwhile, I'm ...

Late 1960s Division Two issues can be hard to find sometimes if they involve a sought-after club. One Ayr away issue in particular went for around £80 a few years back on eBay. Anyway, for the record ...

This February 1941 Shorts v Norwich City friendly was sold by Sportingold for a hammer price of £160 last year.

http://footballprogrammecentre.co.uk/forum/userpix/4465_Shorts_v_Norwich_1.jpg