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ENGLAND

1966 FIFA World Cup

The 1966 FIFA World Cup, the eighth staging of the World Cup, was held in  England from 11 July to 30 July. England was chosen as hosts by FIFA in August 1960 to celebrate the centenary of the standardisation of football in England. London's Wembley Stadium provided the venue for the final, and 98,000 people crammed inside to watch. After 12 minutes 32 seconds Helmut Haller had put West Germany ahead, but the score was levelled by Geoff Hurst four minutes later. Martin Peters put England in the lead in the 78th minute; England looked set to claim the title when the referee awarded a free kick to West Germany with one minute left.

The ball was launched goalward and Wolfgang Weber managed to poke it across the line, with England appealing in vain for handball as the ball came through the crowded penalty area. With the score level at 2–2 at the end of 90 minutes, the game went to extra time. In the 98th minute Hurst found himself on the score sheet again; his shot hit the crossbar, and bounced down and hit the ground either onto or just over the goal line. Whether the ball actually crossed the goal line or not has been a matter of discussion for decades. England's final goal was scored by Hurst again, during a pitch invasion and the goal should therefore not have stood. This made Geoff Hurst the only player ever to have scored three times in a World Cup final. However, the fact of the illegality of the goal is illustrated by BBC commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme, whose description of the match's closing moments has gone down in history: "Some people are on the pitch. They think it's all over ... [Hurst scores] It is now!".

A. FRANCESA (Caramelos) Portugal
Campeonato Mundial De Futebol 1966

Series of 256 stickers issued in Portugal with Chocolate / Caramel sweets.

Special album issued to accompany the series

Bobby Moore

A&BC CHEWING GUM Ltd
World Cup : Football Stickers
Unnumbered series of 50 stickers. Anonymous plain gummed backs.
Issued as 35 vertical format and 15 horizontal national flags and players.

PRICE GUIDE: £50.00

Bobby Moore (England)

1966 was the pinnacle of English football, but surprisingly few cards were produced for the tournament which makes these 'World Cup Footballer Stickers', also known as World Cup stamps amongst the rarest sought after item from the period. The A&BC stickers can cause confusion as they look like stamps with their perforated edges, and sometimes listed and sold as stamps rather than stickers and cards in dealers catalogues.

For the price of 1d. you received a piece of bubble gum, plus one sticker with 50 in the series to collect, 35 player portraits in vertical format including world stars Uwe Seeler (West Germany), Pele (Brazil), Gianni Rivera (Italy) and Bobby Moore who was also depicted as one of the 15 horizontal stickers showing both player and national flag, though most collectors today would be happy to own just one or two from this series.

Their rarity is due to the fact that they had sticky backs, mine ended up on my bedroom door with my football posters, those that do turn up are often found stuck to school books and scrapbooks which were the most common items.

Do you have one of these relics from your childhood, a stuck down version would put a smile on your face at £15, an unwrapped stamp would widen your grin at a whopping £50.

ARAL (Germany)
Fussball Album Weltmeisterschaft 1966
Coloured, unnumbered series of 36 borderless, postcard-size cards plus 1 large card (showing the England and West Germany teams,
along with the referee and linesmen lining up before kick-off at Wembley, at the Final of the 1966 World Cup tournament).
Backs have Aral logo in blue and player name.
Size: 148x105mm.

Bobby Moore

EPOCA Magazine (Italy)
Coppa Del Mondo 1966
Coloured, series of 190 paper cut outs. Issued inside EPOCA magazine and published by MONDADORI over several weeks
prior to the 1966 World Cup. The album for the collection is a hard back book which tells the World Cup story.
The album is divided into the competing countries with spaces for the cut outs.
FEDORA
World Cup 1966
Numbered series of 256 stickers. Issued in the Canary Islands, like so many other promotional releases during the lead up to the
1966 Finals the same image of Bobby Morre was used.

72. Bobby Moore

FKS PUBLISHERS Ltd
A Full Colour Picture Gallery of World Cup Stars
Anonymous album, unnumbered series of 330 coloured player portraits printed on team pages, these are not stickers as they were printed
within the album pages. The album is not marked as FKS but is attributed to them and was clearly the forerunner to the FKS sticker sets that followed.
The Brazilian footballer on the front of the album was used for both the 1974 and 1978 World Cup albums.

ALBUM:

Printed in Spain, but published in England

by World Distributors of Manchester.

SICKER - VERLAG (Germany)
Die Weltmeisterschaft 1966 in England
Series of 302 stickers. 284 numbered and 18 Unnumbered.
Two variations of Bobby Moore and Geoff Hurst, pink and light blue backgrounds.

Album

Album

SORRY NO IMAGE

TEMPO (Italy)
Campionato Del Mondo Di Calcio
The collection consists of 352 regular issue cards plus 6 promo cards cut from the front cover of issue no. 26 of Tempo magazine, dated 29 June 1966. The backs of the promo cards have ads from the inside cover of the magazine but most of the main collection have blank backs, though some do include parts of instructions on how to cut out cards for placement in the album.
The regular cards were issued as 24 card sheets that also included one card with the flag of one of the competing nations and were included in issues of Tempo magazine in the summer of 1966. 
Readers had to mail in a separate payment to get the album. The cards are not numbered so individual player cards can be placed anywhere on the team pages.

Album

Bobby Moore

Geoff Hurst

Martin Peters

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