World Cup Collection

A difficult time in the modern history of the Dutch game with the national team following up failure to qualify for the 1982 World Cup with similar disappointment in the Euro ‘84 qualifiers - albeit under the most unlikely of circumstances. Leading their group...

France's first 'golden generation' emerged in the immediate post-war years and peaked with a wonderful showing at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden. Featuring a brilliant forward line with playmaker Raymond Kopa, winger Jean Vincent, and Just Fontaine at center forward, France played delightful...

World Cup success on home soil represented the greatest footballing moment for the nation that invented the game. Manager Alf Ramsey's 'wingless wonders' were disliked by some for a pragmatic approach that favored substance over style, but Ramsey was merely aligning himself with the...

Norway entered the late 1980s with a young and developing national team, still searching for consistency but beginning to show signs of the progress that would define the years ahead. The qualifying campaign for Euro ’88 proved challenging, with Norway drawn into a demanding...

There were fine players like Paul Van Himst, Leon Semeling, Jef Jurion, Wilfried Van Moer, and Raoul Lambert, but there was little to cheer for the Belgian national team during the 1960s. A failure to qualify for any significant international tournament meant Belgium's only...

1905 was the year of the first Dutch national team fixture, the first national team victory and the emergence of the first national team superstar. On the 30th of April the Oranje travelled to Antwerp for a debut match against future classic rivals, Belgium....

With plans rapidly advancing to establish Japan's first professional football league, the late 1980s saw the country's national team also start to take its first positive steps in the international arena. During 1987 under coach Yoshinobu Ishii, the national team would successfully secure qualification...

António Oliveira and his Portugal stars took early control of their Euro '96 qualifying group and never looked back. During the 1995 calender year group minnows like Latvia and Liechtenstein were easily dispatched thanks to the considerable firepower players like Figo, Rui Costa, Domingos,...

The first half of the 1970s was hardly memorable for the Colombian national team, but there were moments of interest outside the failed World Cup qualification campaigns. A team led by the attacking flair of Ernesto Diaz and Willington Ortiz participated in the 1972...

Austria arrived at the 1990 World Cup in Italy with a talented and experienced side, hoping to build on a strong qualification campaign and make an impression on the biggest stage. Drawn into a difficult group alongside hosts Italy, Czechoslovakia, and the United States,...

With a promising team built around the core of Real Madrid´s dazzling club side, Spain had enjoyed a promising World Cup campaign in 1986, and coach Miguel Munoz was duly retained for the next European Championship tournament two years later. Qualification from a group...

Throughout his lengthy career, Brazilian legend Pelé dazzled and inspired wherever he played around the globe for Santos, New York Cosmos, or Brazil. For many starstruck opponents, the most memorable moment of their careers was sharing a pitch with the great man, and for...

Champions of the world, champions of Europe, and always the most formidable of opponents thanks to the sheer quality and quantity of top-class talent being created - the 1970s was a wonderful decade for West Germany. The national teams that won the 1972 European...

Missing out on the 1990 World Cup was a disappointment for Portugal's international team and in the autumn of that year they started to build towards the next European Championships. A very credible draw against the new World Champions West Germany suggested promise and...

António Oliveira and his Portugal stars took early control of their Euro '96 qualifying group and never looked back. During the 1995 calender year group minnows like Latvia and Liechtenstein were easily dispatched thanks to the considerable firepower players like Figo, Rui Costa, Domingos,...

All our ‘Designed by…’ T-shirts have football as inspiration and the collection consists of over 125 different styles. We create our T-shirts in collaboration with some of the greatest graphic artists and famous football photographers from all over the world. The superior quality ‘Made...

The outstanding success in finishing in third place at the 1958 World Cup with world class stars like Vincent, Kopa and Fontaine pointed to a bright future for the French game in the coming years. None of those hopes would come to pass however...

António Oliveira and his Portugal stars took early control of their Euro 96 qualifying group and never looked back. During the 1995 calendar year, group minnows like Latvia and Liechtenstein were comfortably beaten thanks to the attacking quality of players such as Figo, Rui...

Trying to achieve what would be a first World Cup qualification since 1974 and just a second overall, Australia's pursuit of a place at the 1994 tournament in the United States would end in play-off disappointment - just as was the case with so...

Dick Advocaat led the Dutch into the 1994 World Cup for what would be the first of his three spells in charge of the national team. A new and exciting side was emerging with a thrilling attack led by Dennis Bergkamp who had burst...

That Spain even qualified for the 1984 European Championships was akin to a miracle. Needing to defeat Malta by an eleven-goal margin in their final group fixture to top their qualifying group, the Spanish incredibly won 12-1. When in France at the tournament proper,...

All our ‘Designed by…’ T-shirts have football as inspiration and the collection consists of over 125 different styles. We create our T-shirts in collaboration with some of the greatest graphic artists and famous football photographers from all over the world. The superior quality ‘Made...

American soccer was enjoying a very high profile in 1976 thanks to the success of the North American Soccer League, but that success had not extended as far as the US national team. Former 1960s international Walt Chyzowych had the role of Director of...

As the 1950s drew to an end the Dutch national side was under the management of Romanian Elek Schwartz and enjoying varying fortunes. The calendar year of 1959 brought a heavy defeat in West Germany, but also crushing home wins over Belgium and Norway....

Qualification for the 1986 World Cup was secured by Portugal in their final group match thanks to a Carlos Manuel winner to defeat West Germany. This famous victory in Stuttgart ensured that the José Torres-led team edged out Sweden and would travel to Mexico...

All our ‘Designed by…’ T-shirts have football as inspiration and the collection consists of over 125 different styles. We create our T-shirts in collaboration with some of the greatest graphic artists and famous football photographers from all over the world. The superior quality ‘Made...

Czechoslovakia had missed out on qualification for the major summer tournaments of 1972 and 1974, so determination to make the finals tournament of the 1976 European Championships in Yugoslavia was high. Václav Ježek‘s team duly qualified from a tough group that featured England and...

The East German national team set out on their qualifying campaign for the 1986 World Cup hoping to reach what would have been just their second-ever major tournament. Although ultimately unsuccessful, East Germany did come very close indeed, and their total of ten points...

A difficult time in the modern history of the Dutch game with the national team following up failure to qualify for the 1982 World Cup with similar disappointment in the Euro ‘84 qualifiers - albeit under the most unlikely of circumstances. Leading their group...

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...