Classic Football

Diego Maradona

World of football in mourning as Diego Maradona passes away

25 Nov 2020

Josef Bican in action

The master of marksmen

25 Sep 2020

Argentina's Francisco Varallo at Uruguay 1930

Varallo: I would eat second helpings before a match

30 Aug 2020

World Cup Final, 1930, Montevideo, Uruguay, Uruguay (4) v Argentina (2), Uruguayan striker Hector Castro scores his side's fourth goal.

Uruguay conquer in battle of the balls

30 Jul 2020

Brazilian star Romario drapes himself in his country's flag

Romario: We made a downtrodden nation ecstatic

17 Jul 2020

The Romania team before their game against Uruguay at the 1930 FIFA World Cup

Romania’s football-crazy king

14 Jul 2020

Zinedine Zidane heads home the opening goal for France in 1998

Zidane heads France to the heavens

12 Jul 2020

Lothar Matthaus and Rudi Voller celebrate at the end of the 1990 World Cup final.

A magical night in Rome

08 Jul 2020

West Germany's Gerd Muller, scorer of the winning goal, waves to the crowd as the team parade the trophy

Muller: All hell broke loose in '74

07 Jul 2020

Paolo Rossi is followed by Brazil's Junior

Rossi wakes to stun Brazil’s dream team

05 Jul 2020

Diego Maradona, Argentina

The day Naples belonged to Argentina

03 Jul 2020

USA hero Joe Gaetjens is raised aloft in Belo Horizante in 1950

The miracle of Belo Horizonte

29 Jun 2020

Hungary 4 v Brazil 2: Brazilian goalkeeper Castillo leaps high

The Battle of Berne

27 Jun 2020

Sport Football. pic: 22nd June 1974. 1974 World Cup Finals in Germany. Hamburg. Group Match. East Germany 1 v West Germany 0. East Germany's Jurgen Sparwasser, left, shoots past West German no 2 Bertie Vogts and goalkeeper Sepp Maier to score the winning goal.

East Germany edge battle of brothers

22 Jun 2020

Igor Belanov scores against Belgium at the 1986 World Cup.

Belanov strikes thrice but Belgium prevail

15 Jun 2020

Manchester United celebrate winning the 1999 UEFA Champions League final

When the winners cried and the losers danced

26 May 2020

Argentinian Adolfo Pedernera of River Plate playing against Independiente in 1944 (Photo courtesy Museo River)

The engine driver of La Máquina and El Ballet Azul

12 May 2020

The team of Peñarol that won the Intercontinental Cup against Benfica in 1961

Let the Copa commence!

19 Apr 2020

The British Ladies Football Club, who first played in 1895

The women's game's organised origins

23 Mar 2020

Soviet Union's Lev Yashin makes a save from West Germany's Uwe Seeler at the 1966 FIFA World Cup England™

Lev Yashin, the impregnable Spider

20 Mar 2020

Pickles, the dog who found the FIFA World Cup

Pickles and the stolen World Cup

20 Mar 2020

Rinus Michel with Johan Cruyff, Johan Neeskens and Ruud Krol

The watchmaker behind the Clockwork Oranje

03 Mar 2020

The Italian team is pictured with their coach Vittorio Pozzo before the 1934 FIFA World Cup semi-final against Austria.

Meazza stars in unique Greek tragedy

25 Mar 2019

Manchester, England, 3rd February 1958: The Manchester United team prepare to board their aeroplane at Ringway airport for the journey to Belgrade prior to their European Cup tie against Red Star.

The flowers of Manchester

06 Feb 2019