Before The 'D'...Association Football around the world, 1863-1937.

C. R. W. Nevinson was an English artist who was an associate of the Italian Futurists and an official War Artist in the 1914-18 conflict. ...

Another beautiful painting by Ángel Zárraga.

During the 1920's the Mexican artist Ángel Zárraga produced a series of vibrant paintings of footballers. More to follow...

Jean Jacoby (Luxembourg) was the Olympic gold medal winning artist in both 1924 and 1928.  This painting , Corner,   was one of his p...

There was a time when the Olympic Games extended to non- athletic disciplines such as art, architecture and music. In 1920 when his coun...

This large ceramic tile was produced by the Spode company in the 1870s. There is some lovely detail in evidence, such as the construction...

1907 Wisła Kraków was founded in May 1906 by students of the Second Practical School in  Kraków ,  In 1925 they made the first ap...

The following plates are taken from the 1906 edition of Football: The Association Game by C.W Alcock. It's hard not to smile at the in...

Kampfbahn  Glückauf  Fußballclub Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04 e. V-  they romanticised themselves as a band of self governing outsiders, at ...

The Sportswoman , painted by the Soviet artist Ivan Semyonovich Kulikov (1928) presents a  positive image of the game for women. This ...

Jedermann sein eigner Fussball  (Everyman His Own Football) was an illustrated magazine published by members of the Dada Movement in  19...

Umberto Boccioni was a leading figure in the Futurist Movement. The precise identity of the soccer player (or players) who inspired h...

Football by Yuri Pimenov (1926) A further extract from  Serious Fun: A History of Spectator Sports in the USSR  by Robert Edelman (...

An Attacking Player Gives the Keeper a Firm Shoulder Barge Sending Him into His Own Net by S.T. Dadd In the early days of Associa...

Sunderland 4 Aston Villa 4, January 2nd 1895, Newcastle Rd, Sunderland. Painted by Thomas M.M. Hemy (1852-1931)

Pichichi Moreno and his wife painted by Aurelio Arteta. Spain at the 1920 Olympics He was just 1.54m and wore a white cap ...

This is a charming London Underground poster by the French artist Andre Edouard Marty (1882- 1974).  The Cup Final in question was th...