Football Shirt World

Djibouti – Training – 2018

In summary: Nice design, crap quality, and as previously mentioned I was conned into buying this – the Djibouti team never wore AMS. Move along now.

Lebanon – Home – 2016

When I first started out collecting I managed to pick up the Leabnon home and away shirts from Classic Football Shirts quite easily. But as if often the case with national football shirts, they’ve been nigh on impossible to find ever since. Patience is key in this game, when a shirt might be worth £250 one week due to scarcity can easy be worth less than £100 a week later if that country suddenly decides to make their shirts commercially available.

I badgered Capelli about this shirts for months, and they finally contacted me via facebook to let me know that they are now available through their German website.

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Kenya – Home – 2017

Following on from Kenya’s first every sponsorship deal (with Joma), they’ve now signed a more lucrative one with Mafro. In a change to Mafro’s slightly more subtle designs with Zimbabwe and Zambia, they’ve gone all out this time with a rather spectacular star pattern. Known as the Harembee Stars the Kenya national team have never qualified for the World Cup, but have qualified for the African Cup of Nations of five occasions (most recently in 2004), without ever making past the first round.

The deal with Mafro was very short lived, and in the end the white home shirt was never used in a senior team match, although was used in the warm up for the Sierra Leone game.

A small number of the new Mafro Kenya shirts are available from the Football Shirt World online shop in sizes S-XXL, along with a few of the previous Joma shirts.

Zambia – Third – 2017

Despite winning the 2012 African Cup of Nations to become African Champions for the first time it has always been difficult to get hold of Zambia shirts. Even the Nike shirt that they wore during AFCON 2017 is not easy to find, the only ones that I have ever seen available in shops was this pretty awesome looking Nike design, but even then there was controversy. Nike were selling this in the shops, and online, but the Football Association of Zambia were denying that it was their shirt – before they finally used it a year later.

Mafro (eventually) supplied the shirts to Zimbabwe during the 2017 African Cup of Nations, and have since signed contracts with Sierra Leone, Kenya and Zambia. The Zimbabwe shirts aren’t great, but I am really impressed with the quality and design of the Zambia shirts.

A small number of home, away and third shirts for the Zambia national team are available through the Football Shirt World online shop in sizes S-XXL.

Guinea-Bissau – Away – 2017

I’ve already uploaded photos of the 3rd shirt and the alternative shirt, this is officially the away shirt, although it wasn’t used at the African Cup of Nations. These are of course available through the Football Shirt World online shop.

Djibouti – Away- 2018

To be honest, I’m pretty sure I’ve been scammed here. Whilst AMS claim that these were supposed to be worn at the 2017 CECAFA Cup, its was common knowledge that the tournament was going to be cancelled – how convenient. Given that the Djibouti FA document everything on their facebook page in mind numbing detail, and hold a celebration every time they get a new shipment of shirts, it seems very strange that there is no mention whatsoever of AMS. To be honest I’m sick of their lies, and fake shirts sold through their ebay page. At one time it was great that we were able to get hold of some very difficult countries form our lists such as South Sudan and Eritrea, but now it’s spoiling it for genuine collectors.

Comoros – Home – 2015

Comoros is a relatively new country having only gained its independence from France in 1975, and as such competed as part of France until joining FIFA in 1979. They’ve never qualified for any major tournaments, but do enter the COSAFA Cup, Arab Nations Cup and the Indian Ocean Island games. recent results are looking up though with wins over Botswana and Mauritius. Pretty much the entire squad plays in the French Leagues, but it’s captain Nadjim Abdou who is best known in England having made 300 appearances for Millwall.

Guinea – Home – ?

As with the away shirt I have yet to see this design in use, although I know that Errea did supply the Guinea national team at some point. I have my suspicions that they were made before Guinea decided to go with Airness. Either that, or someone has faked a load of Guinea shirts.

I do actually have some Guinea shirts that have been used by the Guinea national team, including a few player issue, so do use the search bar on the left hand side to search for them. if you do have photographic evidence of these shirts in use, or more information then please get in contact.

Pohnpei – Home – 2017

The story of football in Pohnpei is an interesting one, I won’t go into too much details because former coach and current ConIFA commercial director Paul Watson has written a book about it – one I can thoroughly recommend. This is my second Pohnpei shirt after the one I bought back in 2010 (although the pictures are loading so I’ll have to dig it out of storage to photo again).

Comoros – Away – 2015

I already had a couple of Comoros shirts in the collection, you can see those here and here. But this is the first time that Comoros shirts have been made commercially available, and the first time that I have been 100% about their authenticity. There are a few available, but do be careful because I have seen fakes – the biggest clue is in the collar, make sure it overlaps at the front.