The National Football Museum is home to the world’s largest public collection of football objects and archives.
We house over 40,000 items in total, at the museum in Manchester and at our Research Centre in Preston. You can explore some of that collection below in our dedicated collection content hub.
Our Research Centre
The National Football Museum Research Centre is located at the Deepdale Stadium in Preston.
Whilst around 2,500 objects are on display at the museum in Manchester at any one time, the remaining collection can be viewed by appointment, and we welcome both academic and non-academic visitors to our Preston site.
Book your research visit by emailing us at collections@nationalfootballmuseum.com.
What makes this football shirt a world first?
This shirt was developed by Newcastle United and club sponsors Sela during the 2023-24 campaign – but what makes it so special?
Women’s football winners before the WSL
Women’s football existed long before 2011. Here are four teams that enjoyed healthy measures of success prior to the WSL era.
Ranking the most game-changing transfers before the Premier League
Which football transfers made the biggest impact before 1992? Here are our top ten…
Our YouTube Channel
Quite Unsuitable for Females Podcast
The museum and MIC Media has worked with four community producers – Rosy Akalawu-Ellman, Meg Wilson, Uma Ghelani and Debola Adebanjo – to surface some of the secrets of the women’s game.
This five-part series looks at the game’s early pioneers, representation of women in football and parallels with the modern game.
Get in touch
Do you have a collection-related enquiry, or are you looking to visit our Research Centre?
Fill in our contact form below and a member of our team will follow up with you shortly.
If you have any images you’d like to send to us, to help with your enquiry, please email them to collections@nationalfootballmuseum.com
Our response times to emails and enquiries is currently 4 weeks.