24-713: The AFL Record is the official matchday programme of the Australian Football League (AFL). The publication began as the Football Record in Melbourne in 1912, making it one of the oldest magazines in Australia . The Record , in its current format, is owned and produced by Sports Entertainment Network . Physical editions are available for purchase at all nine weekly matches, and digital versions are available to access online. As of 2023,
48-484: A carrier bag for this reason). While, until the 1950s, programmes produced by individual clubs were typically limited to team sheets and advertising, some clubs started to introduce "more sophisticated" magazine formats. Modern programmes have more pages than their four or eight-page predecessors and are often full colour and glossy. In June 2018, clubs in the English Football League voted to end
72-574: A common hobby among fans in Britain during the 1960s and a number of specialist dealers subsequently began to appear. One of the earliest matchday programmes recorded, for an 1873 football match between alumni representatives of Eton College (in England) and Yale College (in the US), was reputedly sold in 2016 for £15,000. In English league football, matchday programmes were used from the late 1880s as
96-700: A digital version of the Record . They were also sold in newsagents in Victoria. Links to these digital editions are made available via the Record's social media pages such as Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, and the SEN website. During 2021 and 2022, a single standard version of the AFL Record is published weekly, containing information on all nine games. This replaces the previous format of one unique magazine per game. It
120-420: A programme from the 1913 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was sold at auction in 2018 for more than € 2,000. Among the traditions in attending a league or cup football match in Britain is the purchase of a matchday programme. Due to their initial expendable nature (like the ticket) it took many decades for the format to gain respectability as a collectible. Collecting football programmes became
144-566: A scorecard which would have been a single card or sheet with dateline, team names, player positions and advertising. West Midlands team Aston Villa were one of the first clubs to publish a programme, The Villa News and Record , which was printed in the form of a journal with a different number and volume for each season and week respectively. Of particular interest for UK collectors is the FA Cup Final programme. The covers of FA Cup Final matchday programmes have had designs which reflected
168-403: Is available at Coles, Victorian newsagents, as well as at every AFL game. However, exclusive variant covers are available at some games. This has been returned to the normal game specific versions as of 2023. Matchday programme A matchday programme or match programme is a booklet associated with a live sporting event which details the proposed starting lineup and other details of
192-507: Is darker too. The programme for the first ever FA Cup Final held in Wembley in 1923 is rarer than the 1966 programme, and would typically cost over £1000. The programme for the 1924 FA Cup Final is also rare; the game was played in torrential rain and fans used their programmes as part of their effort to cover themselves against the weather. An example, offered at auction in 2017, was estimated at between £3,500 and £4,500. Following
216-623: Is distributed in newsagents, available the Monday prior to the Grand Final (the "News Stand Edition") as well as at the game (the "Match Day Edition"). These were discontinued after a time. During 2009 to 2011, the week's records are now published and are able to be viewed in an " online magazine " format. In late March 2020, following the COVID-19 lockdowns and as crowds were no longer permitted to attend AFL matches, Crocmedia began publishing
240-624: The 2020 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final (held behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic ) was made available in physical form for supporters ahead of the game, either online (via an emailed PDF and follow-up copy send through the postal system ) or to purchase at SuperValu and Centra outlets in the competing counties. Home teams produce matchday programmes for National Football League games. County boards , such as Kerry GAA , also produce matchday programmes for their own local competitions. As with Gaelic football,
264-533: The 2022 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final matchday programme's "roll of honour section". Matchday programmes for rugby games are also produced and collected. A programme from a Grand Slam decider, contested by Wales and Ireland in the 1911 Five Nations Championship , was sold in 2009 for £2,400. Starting lineup Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include
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#1732772108038288-479: The AFL Record Season Guide. Today's official AFL Record is published in a sports magazine style format. Nine different versions (one for each game) were published for each weekly round (60,000 copies in total) prior to 2022 and Roy Morgan Research estimated in 2014 that the Record has a weekly readership of over 200,000. To reduce costs, the format for the record changed in the 1990s with
312-606: The Munich air disaster in February 1958, Manchester United's planned game against Wolverhampton Wanderers was cancelled and a majority of programmes that had been printed were destroyed. One of the rare surviving examples of this matchday programme was sold in 2024 for £7,500. Another notable Manchester United programme is the example printed in February 1958 for the FA Cup game between Manchester United and Sheffield Wednesday . This
336-635: The GAA produces matchday programmes for every game in the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship , and sells prints and posters of past programmes. Home teams produce matchday programmes for National Hurling League games. A matchday programme from the 1913 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final sold at auction in Kilkenny for more than €2,000 in 2018. The GAA apologised after forgetting to include Clare in
360-449: The advent of the national league to include an outer magazine which covers regular columns and stories about the entire league and an insert with specifics on the current game such as teamsheets and scoresheets. With the advent of themed rounds in the AFL, the Record is often themed accordingly, with issues such as "Women's round", for example, containing articles about women's involvement in
384-521: The age, with the late 1920s and 1930s covers bearing Art Deco styles, for example. Programmes from the 1940s and early 1950s are rarer due to recycling for paper shortages as part of the war effort and times of post-war austerity. The size of the programmes increased over the decades from a smaller pocket size to a larger A4 size, but a number of clubs in the early 21st century have reverted to more convenient sizes. The FA Cup Final programme has, however, retained its larger size (customarily being sold with
408-524: The country. The AFL Record was known as the Football Record until 1998; in 1999, the current title was adopted. In July 2018, the AFL sold the AFL Record and its related products to Crocmedia (now known as Sports Entertainment Network ) in an $ 8.1 million deal. The sports media company took all weekly match-day magazine content, including the AFL Record , AFL Women's publications, and
432-509: The field. As only their numbers were worn on their guernseys, the record contained a list of player names so that spectators could tell who is who. Over time, the record included a section for keeping track of how many goals and behinds players have kicked while the game is being played and this became a traditional pastime of many footy spectators, something which is fairly unusual to the game. Special interest articles were also added, as well as scores, reports and updates from other leagues around
456-473: The game. Many themed rounds are repeated annually, such as the ANZAC Day edition, Hall of Fame, Derby Day, Showdown, Indigenous or "Dreamtime" round, the "Big Freeze", and Maddy's Round. In addition, players who reach a milestone of 250, 300 or 350 AFL games are typically honoured with a front cover and a feature story. The Grand Final Record is typically more expensive and has significantly more content. It
480-623: The match. To some spectators, the purchase of a matchday programme is part of the "ritual" of attending football and hurling matches in Britain and Ireland. Until 2018, the printing of matchday programmes was compulsory for English Football League games. Souvenir programmes are also collected as sports memorabilia , and rare FA Cup Final matchday programmes have fetched in excess of £ 35,000 at auction houses such as Sotheby's . Matchday programmes from early 20th-century hurling and Gaelic football games are also collected in Ireland, and
504-453: The outgoing editor of the AFL Record is Michael Lovett, who has edited the publication since 1997. The publication began as the Football Record in Melbourne, Australia on 27 April 1912, making it one of the oldest magazines in Australia . It was initially formatted as a pocketbook guide to assist spectators of matches when the league was known as the VFL. The guide helped identify players on
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#1732772108038528-459: The requirement for programmes to be produced for every game. Some clubs have a programme shop for collectors. One of the most sought-after of all programmes is the 1966 FIFA World Cup Final . There have been at least two reprints — with the original being heavier than the reprints at 130 grams — and the inside advert for Player's No. 6 is different. The blue of the Union Flag on the cover
552-590: Was sold in a 2012 auction for £23,500. The programme for the 1973 European Cup Final between Ajax and Juventus is also rare, with only 400 produced. The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) produces a matchday programme for every game in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship . Photographs, prints and posters of past programmes are available to buy from the Croke Park shop. The official matchday programme for
576-555: Was the club's first game after the Munich air disaster and the team layout was left blank. A football programme from the 1882 FA Cup Final between Blackburn Rovers and Old Etonians sold at auction for a world record of £35,250. The programme was sold by Sotheby's in May 2013 to Old Etonians Football Club. The previous record for a football programme was for the 1909 FA Cup Final contested between Manchester United and Bristol City . It
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