Price of English football programmes

Answer 1

Football Programmes for English matches, also known as matchday magazines usually cost on the day around the £2-£3 this is for the league matches In the cup games, clubs are out to get as much money out of the fans so invairably charge slightly more.

For the FA Cup Final a programme on the day would set you back about £10, but for those shrewd enough and collect programmes as a hobby, you could pick up a copy for under that amount in the week just after the final.

Old football programmes have some value to collectors, the cost would depend on condition and age. Many can be picked up for about a pound but many football programmes go for much, much more. I think the world record for a football programme at auction is something like £21,850, the sum paid at Graham Budd Auctions in London, in May 2006, for an 1889 Wolves vs Preston single sheet FA Cup Final.

Some recent top priced football programmes can be seen at www.jcprogrammes.co.uk/Top_Sellers, recently a 1957 football programme was sold on eBay for £2,750.