Names on shirts [Archive]

shedite

08/12/2005, 12:44 PM

Anyone know who the first team to put the players name on shirts were? Been lookin for it on the net.

While I was lookin, found that
- Arsenal V Chelsea 1928 was the first to have numbers
- 1954 World Cup was the first time numbers were mandatory
- First European league to enforce names on number was Premiership 1993
- First game in England with Names was Arsenal V Wednesday League Cup 1993

Anyone know where the first name was?

Risteard

08/12/2005, 12:52 PM

At a guess i'd say the USA.
This wouldn't have been that long ago either i'd say.

Dodge

08/12/2005, 1:03 PM

Last club to play top flight european league football without numbers?

noby

08/12/2005, 1:05 PM

Sounds a bit USAish alright.
On a similair topic, I'm presuming Celtic were the last team to put numbers on their jerseys?

noby

08/12/2005, 1:06 PM

I was obviously answering your question as you were asking it, Dodge

Dodge

08/12/2005, 2:40 PM

Yeah it was Celtic, just wanted to know would someone risk a banning by answering?

TheJamaicanP.M.

08/12/2005, 2:47 PM

As far as I know the first time names were put on the backs of shirts was in the European Championships in 1992. I think Sweden and France in the opening game were the first teams to use it. As for numbers on the backs of shirts, I heard a few years ago that the GAA introduced that idea before any other sport in the world did. Think it might have been back in 1923. And its true about Celtic, they were the last team in a top flight league to put numbers on their shirts. Think that might have been back in the days of Paul McStay and co.

Jerry The Saint

08/12/2005, 3:47 PM

Last club to play top flight european league football without numbers?

Dublin City? The goalkeeper's jersey they bought in Champion Sports had no number for several weeks until the fans had a whipround to get a big '1' printed on the back.

strangeirish

08/12/2005, 4:17 PM

Anyone know who the first team to put the players name on shirts were? Been lookin for it on the net.

While I was lookin, found that
- Arsenal V Chelsea 1928 was the first to have numbers
- 1954 World Cup was the first time numbers were mandatory
- First European league to enforce names on number was Premiership 1993
- First game in England with Names was Arsenal V Wednesday League Cup 1993

Anyone know where the first name was?
It may have been the Yanks, with the NASL. (http://home.att.net/~nasl/nasl.htm)

pineapple stu

08/12/2005, 7:55 PM

Dublin City? The goalkeeper's jersey they bought in Champion Sports had no number for several weeks until the fans had a whipround to get a big '1' printed on the back.
I remember UCD playing AIK Stockholm in a friendly in 1999 (I think?) and we gave pretty much all our squad a run. But we had no number 17 jersey, so we took number 7 and put masking tape on it to make it 17. Lasted about five minutes!

gustavo

08/12/2005, 11:19 PM

didnt we play in the US Cup in 1991 with squad names and numbers .. might have been 1992 , we played Portugal and the US and some other team

onenilgameover

09/12/2005, 12:29 AM

http://www.irelandshirts.com/ireland/bonner.htm

numbers on the front but no name on the back....new fai logo then too...

noby

09/12/2005, 7:28 AM

I remember UCD playing AIK Stockholm in a friendly in 1999 (I think?) and we gave pretty much all our squad a run. But we had no number 17 jersey, so we took number 7 and put masking tape on it to make it 17. Lasted about five minutes!
I remember watching some crappy local 4th division match a few years ago. One team had only 12 jerseys, so for the second substitution they took off the no.3, swapped jerseys, a bit of masking tape, and hey presto no.13. The referee (who must have been so far up his own hole) wouldn't allow it, so no sub came on.

Aberdonian Stu

09/12/2005, 9:44 AM

Only pineapple is wrong. It was the 17 jersey it was just messed up. Declan Fitzgerald was wearing it and it was the 7 of the 17 that got warped.

Lionel Ritchie

12/12/2005, 9:26 AM

didnt we play in the US Cup in 1991 with squad names and numbers .. might have been 1992 , we played Portugal and the US and some other team

June 92. we played basically because we'd missed out on Sweden. Stan scored against Portugal direct from a corner.

pineapple stu

12/12/2005, 12:29 PM

didnt we play in the US Cup in 1991 with squad names and numbers .. might have been 1992 , we played Portugal and the US and some other team
Italy were the other team. Packie Bonner sent off by a ref not even in the same half while the PA announcer read a few ads over the tannoy...