DISQUS

EPL Talk: Are Football Match Programmes Slowly Becoming Extinct?

  • Oldham Fan · 1 year ago
    The price of programmes and the relatively out of date information (compared to the internet) does mean I fear, programmes will become extinct.

    I wonder if simple A4, one page affairs should be issued instead. Something similar to a team sheet with a quick bit of blurb that could be knocked up on a home PC by office staff on the day of the game.
  • Kartik · 1 year ago
    MLS has stopped publishing the informative magazines they used to sell at the book shoppes in the early days of the league: the season preview, the all star program, etc. Also, they now give the paper thin programs away which features out of date info. MLS' website is very good, but you cannot "collect" websites.

    Football magazines too are suffering. Recall Total Football from England? Gone. Shoot is going bye bye also. Four Four Two? Still alive but getting less useful as time goes on. World Soccer? Still indispensable but needed a major makeover to stay that way.
  • Lonnie · 1 year ago
    I love what Arsenal do or were doing. They (at least last season) allowed visitors to their website to download PDF versions of the match programme's. I thought it was such a brilliant idea...I wish more teams would do that for their supporters. I hope Arsenal continue the downloads and that others take up the idea as well.
  • Football programmes · 1 year ago
    Very interesting article, but i don't fear for Football Programmes, they are not a dying breed. Over the years being involved in both buying and selling football programmes, interest now is as high as they have been in the past.

    Your visit to Switzerland for Euro 2008, though the game you went to did not have it's own individual football programme a guide was produced for the tournament which covered the entire competition, i believe this is due to the close proximity of all the games.

    Football Programme at matches are ,well it seems to me, to be a British thing, though for the European competitions the foreign clubs do produce a matchday magazine.

    Just recently a Newcastle fan bought a 1910 FA Cup Final programme for £3,000,and there is always large interest in FA Cup Final Football Programmes. So no they are not dying.