Stadium newspaper
Stadium newspapers and programs are published by football clubs before each game and provide stadium visitors with everything there is to know about the upcoming game. A uniform term for these publications has not yet emerged. In addition to the stadium newspaper and football program, they are also called the stadium booklet or simply program.
Stadium newspapers as a collecting area
The collecting of stadium newspapers originated in England . There they began to take the little booklets home with them back in the 1940s and to archive them carefully. The passion for collecting in England continues to this day. There are numerous specialty stores that specialize in football programs and tens of thousands of collectors. Collecting programs in England is comparable to collecting postage stamps in Germany.
In the mid-1970s, the collective fever first reached the GDR and, in the mid-1980s, finally also western Germany. In 1984 the "German Program Collectors Association" (DPV) was founded, which today has around 100 members. Collecting stadium booklets is also very popular in the successor states of the Soviet Union , as well as in the other Eastern European countries, in Scandinavia and the Netherlands . However, this hobby is hardly widespread in southern Europe.
In the meantime, individual programs are auctioned for several thousand euros.
Traditional booklets
In Germany there are many stadium newspapers that have been published for decades and some of which are still around today:
- The blue sport show (Munich clubs) since the 1920s until 1998
- Foal Echo ( Borussia Mönchengladbach ) 1965 - today
- Billy Goat Echo ( 1. FC Cologne ) 1957 - today
- in ( 1. FC Kaiserslautern ) 1947 - 1996
- Short fifteen ( Rot-Weiss Essen ) 1951 - today
- Schalker Kreisel, (2010/2011 season on Schalke ) ( FC Schalke 04 ) 1971 - today
- Werder Echo ( Werder Bremen ) 1965-1996
The currently oldest known example of a football program comes from the Queens Park Glasgow game against London Wanderers on October 9, 1875.
Web links
- German-language site about stadium newspapers
- numerous scans of stadium programs of the DFB, ÖFB, SFV, 1860