Retro Football Shirts

As the 1970s got underway, FC Porto was a club ready to burst out of the shadows of the Lisbon giants. The breakthrough hadn’t quite happened the previous decade, with the club finishing as Primeira League runners-up on no fewer than six occasions. However,...

For the 1982/83 season Berchem Sport hoped to regain the Belgian top-flight place the club had lost in 1981. In the previous campaign, the club had finished in a respectable fifth place, but this season did not bring the improvement that coach Raoul Peeters...

The end of Yugoslavia as we knew it came in 1992, which meant its appearance at the World Cup two years earlier was the tournament that brought down the curtain on a proud historical record of participation at eight World Cups and four European...

Following a successful debut season in charge at FC Porto which brought a Primeira Divisão title, Artur Jorge continued where he left off in the 1985-86 season and put together a successful title defense. The ever-dependable goalscorer Fernando Gomes contributed 20 in the League,...

We now know of Panathinaikos as Greece's most successful team in European club football, but no-one was expecting the miraculous European Cup campaign that took the Greens all the way to the Final of the 1970-71 tournament. No Greek club had ever progressed beyond...

In this season Barcelona was a free-scoring team that would entertain the fans with exciting and attacking football. Unfortunately, this wasn't quite enough to turn them into a winning one too. A two-horse race for the title developed with Atlético Madrid, but Barcelona's scoreless...

As the 70s ticked over into the 80s, the new decade heralded the start of a new and exciting era for AS Roma. Back in charge for a second spell, visionary Swedish coach Nils Liedholm was beginning to fashion a balanced team featuring the...

Having taken AS Roma to fourth place the previous season amidst a flurry of goals, Czech coach Zdenek Zeman hoped to take his side even higher in the Serie A table as the 1998-99 season kicked off. Once again there was great attacking football...

As Italy opened its doors to foreign imports for the first time in a generation, Roma benefited more than most fellow Serie A clubs by winning the race for the influential Brazilian midfield general, Falcao. He was at the heart of a powerful midfield...

For Nottingham Forest the 1960s was a decade of consistent performance that saw the club firmly established as top-flight regulars for the first time since the turn of the century. The pinnacle of the decade - indeed the high point in Forest's League history...

The early 1990s was a good time for Eintracht Frankfurt with the club consistently competitive in the upper reaches of the Bundesliga. The 1990-91 season saw the club finish in 4th place on the back of exceptional home League form in which 4 goals...

A number ten, a playmaker, an unerring finisher, a devastating set-piece taker, a physical powerhouse, endlessly brave, a leader of men, an inspiration, an otherworldly talent. Quite simply Diego Armando Maradona was all of these things and one of the few footballers in history...

With veterans like Heinz Hermann and Alain Sutter still an integral part of the Swiss scene as the decade ticked over into the 1990s, a new generation of younger attacking talent was emerging to complement them through players like Stephane Chapuisat, Kubilay Turkilmaz, and...

Port Vale returned to the second tier in 1989 after 33 years, beginning a proud new chapter in the club’s history. The early 1990s brought fresh faces and memorable occasions that supporters still cherish. The 1991 – 92 season saw the arrival of record...

Holland was producing fine players from its earliest days and under English coach Bob Glendenning the national team would first thrust itself onto a grander stage when qualifying for the World Cup in 1934. Experienced players like Puck van Heel, Wim Anderiesen and Leen...

Determined to go one better than the runners-up spot earned at the 1974 tournament, the Dutch qualified comfortably for the 1978 competition ahead of local rivals Belgium and traveled to Argentina in confident mood. Form was slow to build, however, and qualification from the...

The 1964-65 season proved to be even more spectacular for Internazionale than even its wildly successful predecessor. This time round the club won back the Serie A title with an emphatic campaign that brought just two defeats and won a first Intercontinental Cup after...

Internazionale enjoyed a successful European campaign during the 1985-86 season which saw them reach and lose to Real Madrid in the UEFA Cup semi-finals for the second successive season. But while the goals and creativity of players like Rummenigge, Altobelli and Brady shone through,...

Internazionale enjoyed a successful European campaign during the 1985-86 season which saw them reach and lose to Real Madrid in the UEFA Cup semi-finals for the second successive season. But while the goals and creativity of players like Rummenigge, Altobelli and Brady shone through,...

A number ten, a playmaker, an unerring finisher, a devastating set-piece taker, a physical powerhouse, endlessly brave, a leader of men, an inspiration, an otherworldly talent. Quite simply Diego Armando Maradona was all of these things and one of the few footballers in history...

The early 1990s was a turbulent era for Real Betis with the club beset by financial issues and stuck playing in the Spanish second tier. Things started to improve by the 1993-94 season when, under Lorenzo Serra Ferrer, Betis finished as runners-up a point...

It was the arrival as new coach of a young, bold and ambitious José Mourinho from União de Leiria that would bring a miraculous reversal of fortune for a FC Porto team that had been in the midst of a slump. Promising players already...

The Chilean coach Fernando Riera took charge this season from the hugely celebrated Béla Guttmann and enjoyed a mixed season by the towering standards that Benfica set during the early 1960s. The Portuguese title was won in some style with the goals of striker...

A well-established top flight side for much of the 1980s, the 1986-87 season saw Watford achieve a respectable 9th placed League finish. The main talking point of their season came in the FA Cup however as the Hornets battled past Maidstone, Walsall, Chelsea and...

While much of the focus during the 1979 80 season was concentrated on Nottingham Forest’s ultimately successful quest to retain the European Cup, Brian Clough’s side was involved in a largely positive domestic campaign too. After top two finishes the previous couple of seasons,...

A strong qualifying campaign saw Portugal edge out the Soviet Union to reach the finals of the 1984 European Championships, the nation's first international tournament participation since 1966. At the tournament proper the players quickly proved they were destined to light up the tournament....

When you think back to VfB Stuttgart’s 1987 - 88 season, two names stand out: Günther Schäfer and Guido Buchwald. Both were examples of the team’s fighting spirit. While Buchwald dominated the defensive centre, Schäfer was a passionate driving force on the left side....

The Dutch national team came to preeminence in the 1970s, but just a few years earlier, in 1966, the squad was already taking shape. New coach Georg Keßler inherited a squad based around a strong core of Ajax players. Bennie Muller was a fixture...

The 1998 – 99 season saw Eric Gerets’ Club Brugge finish a solid second in the league, beating rivals Anderlecht both home and away, and claiming Super Cup silverware with a victory over Racing Genk. Featuring a balanced mix of experienced players, goal-threatening midfielders,...

Bayern München's 1986 Bundesliga title win was one of the most memorable in the club's history. A poor first-half of the season was overturned with a remarkable run in the second half that brought just a single defeat in 17 League games. Even so,...