Set_Listing

Set_Name

Brand_Name

Set_Year

Rarity

Number_Issued

Example

Comment

stapo001

Centenary Season Stamps

Australia Post

1996

2

16

 

Each team had a booklet of ten stamps issued with the player picture on the inside cover of the booklet and team statistics on the back.

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Cascade/Boags Series

Burnie Dockers F.C.

1996

5

21 + 1 Gold Card

 

Black and white cards showing action photos of Burnie players. These cards are much harder to obtain than the second Burnie series

otcpa002

AFL Centenary Series

Card Phone Australia

1996

3

18

 

This series of $10 phone cards was issued to commemorate the centenary of VFL/AFL football. One card was issued per team showing the club logo and the AFL centenary logo with a caption '$10 National Phonecard'. A Fitzroy ‘in memoriam’ and a Coca Cola AFL Flag card were also issued.

otcpa003

Centenary Legends Series

Card Phone Australia

1996

4

4

 

This series of $5 phone cards show a black and white action photo of a legend of the AFL game. The cards also have a centenary season AFL logo on them.

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The Legend Lives On

Channel Nine

1996

5

1

 

This single card was advertised on the Channel Nine Footy show to commemorate the inaugural Whitten Legends Football Match. The card opens up with several images of Ted Whitten on the inside.

tccoc007

Eagles Tenth Anniversary

Coca-Cola

1996

5

11

 

Flimsy water-colour caricature cards that had a facsimile signature at the bottom of each card. The caricatures were also printed on a special series of Coca Cola cans.

grdgc002

AFLPA Series

Doherty Greeting Cards

1996

2

30

 

Greeting card series produced by Doherty Cards. The cards show full colour action shots of the players with a facsimile signature.

grdgc003

Club 10 Players/Young Guns

Doherty Greeting Cards

1996

2

30

 

Greeting card series produced by Doherty Cards. The cards show full colour action shots of the players with a facsimile signature. Two different types of card were issued in this set, one showing Club 10 players and the other showing Club 10 Young Guns. The backs of the cards also differed as shown.

grfol002

Pro Squad Collectors Series

Folio

1996

1

31 known

 

This series features action photos of many AFL players on numbered cards. As the Folio company has merged with John Sands it is very difficult to determine all the cards that were issued.

grfol003

AFL Centenary Collectors Series

Folio

1996

1

24 x two series

 

This series shows player photos superimposed over the words 'Pro Squad'. Each card was also available in a gold background edition. The cards were also numbered.

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Geelong Caricatures

Geelong Advertiser

1996

4

10

 

A series of ten colour caricature posters showing Geelong players only, issued as the centre spread of the Geelong Advertiser newspaper.

tcgzn001

Footy Oddbodz

Glow Zone

1996

2

65 in standard set

 

The cards in the standard set have a green border and each player is identified by a nick name. A parallel set with the word HOT on each card is also available, in which the blacked out sections may be rubbed to produce a picture. A red glow/red border set was also available by sending the following six HOT cards (Jarmans, Kernahan, Kelly, Platten, Matera, Doc Fever). The Doc Fever card was not issued with the red glow set. 16 subjects were also issued with a blue border in Uncle Toby's AFL cereal packets.

tchlw004

Kick Butt Quit Eagles

Healthways

1996

3

18

 

These cards differ from the 1995 series in that the back of the card is printed in black instead of blue and card no.15 is different. The front of the card does not have the triple M insignia on it.

othsm003

$100,000 Footy Bingo Tickets

Herald Sun Newspaper

1996

5

50

 

These leaflets were issued over many weeks in the Melbourne Herald Sun and Sunday Sun. They show an action photo without the ball printed, with a numbered grid over it. The aim of the competition was to nominate the grid position where the ball should have been

mphsm007

Footy Hero Posters

Herald Sun Newspaper

1996

3

28

 

This unnumbered poster series was issued on the back page of the Herald Sun sports section every Friday during the football season. They show colour action photos of leading AFL players with a player profile and a facsimile signature on the photo.

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Nth. Melbourne Premiers

Hypertec

1996

2

1

Advertising card issued at the Hypertec stall at the 1996 Melbourne Home Computer show to commemorate the Nth. Melbourne premiership of that year. The card shows Wayne Carey and Denis Pagan holding aloft the premiership cup.

mpifm012

Fox Sports Collectors Series

Inside Football Magazine

1996

3

32

 

This series was again issued as a centre spread in the Inside Football magazine. The series shows large glossy action photos with the players surname shown vertically in a colour panel. There appears to be two No.1 posters in this series with the Jason Dunstall one stating that it is a Club 10 poster series.

tcjsh001

Screamer Series

Josh Australia

1996

2

6

 

Josh issued a set of collectable figurines which had bendable elbow and knee joints, allowing them to be modelled in different poses. Inside the packaging of these figurines came one of a series of six cards depicting spectacular marks.

tcmcd001

Learn from the Stars

McDonalds

1996

3

12

 

This series was sponsored by McDonalds but the actual cards were produced by Select. The twelve cards show identical photos to those in the 1996 Select series 1 set but the backs are different.

pomcd001

Stars of the Centenary Year

McDonalds

1996

3

4

 

A series of four posters showing full colour action photos of the players.

tcopt002

Pro Squad

Optus

1996/7

3

30

 

This set was issued in two sections over two years. Card numbers 1- 19 were issued in the first year and 20 - 30 in the second. The two advertisement cards and the final eleven cards seem to be much harder to find than the others. Two of these cards (Kernahan and Silvagni) are known to have two different lots of information printed in the player profile on the back of the card, which may suggest that some of the first years cards were reproduced but changed slightly for the second year of issue.

tcopt003

West Coast Footballers

Optus

1996

2

15

 

This set shows identical photos and backs to the 1995 set, the only difference being that the Karl Langdon card does not appear.

mpsfb020

SANFL Superstars

SANFL Football Budget

1996

3

28

 

These glossy colour posters were issued as a centre spread of the Budget. They show action shots of SANFL players with no border. The players name and series name were printed on the photo and an advertisement banner saying 'Enjoy being healthy' appeared at the bottom.

tcsel008

AFL Football (1)

Select

1996

1

250 standard cards, 16 Best & Fairest, 5 Medal cards, 5 Hot Numbers, 5 Case cards, 5 Promotion cards, 1 legend card, 4 Signature cards, 5 Redemption cards.

 

This series shows full colour action photos of AFL players. Several different subsets of the standard cards were issued including All Australians and Future Stars. This series saw the first issue of case cards, which were issued when you purchased a certain number of boxes of cards. The case cards showed the same picture as the medal cards but were larger. A special Treasure redemption card was issued which could be redeemed for all four signature cards.

tcsel009

AFL Football (2)

Select

1996

1

150 standard cards, 12 Top Shots, 2 Legend Teams, 1 Centenary Legend, 1 Case card, 50 Brownlow Competition cards, 1 legend card, 2 Signature cards, 2 Redemption cards.

This series once again follows on from series 1 with the standard cards showing the same format. Subsets in the standard series include Captain cards, Draft swaps and Player Trades. A Brownlow competition was also held where cards were issued containing a players name and if that player won the Brownlow Medal the card owner could redeem it for a monetary prize.

tcsel010

AFL Football (Pop Ups)

Select

1996

2

72

 

These cards were issued as an insert to the 1996 Select sticker set, one card per packet. The series shows action shots of AFL players with perforations around the player so that it can be popped out and used as a stand-up model.

tcsel011

Centenary Classics

Select

1996

2

110 Standard cards 110 Gold parallel cards 10 Future Hall of Fame cards 10 Case cards 1 Redemption + 1 Signature card.

 

This series shows action photos of leading AFL players on a metallic silver finished card. One parallel gold series card was also issued per packet. The case cards show the same pictures as the Future Hall of Fame cards but without the metallic finish.

sksel007

Centenary Season Footy Stickers

Select

1996

1

234

 

This series of Select football stickers again shows action photos of AFL players. The set was issued with an album providing space to stick each sticker. Foil club emblems were issued with three distinctly different patterns. A single redemption card was also available which could be exchanged for a complete set of stickers. This was the first of the Select sticker series to include the players name and the sticker number on the front of the sticker. A series of pop-up cards was also issued with this set.

tcsel012

Hall of Fame

Select

1996

1

110 Standard cards 22 Team of the Century cards 12 Legend cards 4 Promotion cards 8 Redemption + 8 Signature cards 1 Platinum special

 

This series shows photos of all players inducted into the AFLs Hall of Fame. Many of the pictures of older players are reproductions of earlier cards. The inserts include a 'Team of the Century' set and a set of the twelve players voted as AFL Legends. A parallel series of platinum cards was also issued which included a special case card of three legends all personally signed.

tcsel013

Super Swans

Select

1996

5

13

 

This series shows action photos of Sydney Swans players surrounded by a red border with the words Super Swans printed on it. The cards were only issued in Sydney and are one of the rarest sets of Select cards.

acspl001

Collector Series

Sporting Links

1996

5

3

 

Based on the design of the 1975 Scanlens cards, this series of three cards was produced by the Sporting Links company to be used as business cards for the director, who appears on each card.

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Player Profile Magnets

Sporting Souvenirs

1996

1

Unknown

 

Fridge magnets showing a player photo and details. Any senior AFL player could be produced by contacting the manufacturer.

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Carlton Cares For Kids

Sportscards

1996

3

1

 

A single postcard issued on sports centre postcard stands showing Stephen Silvagni with a group of kids.

tcsts001

Merrett Strategy Cards

Strategy Sports

1996

3

106

 

This series of cards show tips on how to play Aussie Rules football and strategies devised by Roger Merrett. Cartoon drawings appear on a majority of the cards and they appear to show Carlton and Collingwood players.

pcste001

Centenary Postcards

Strictly Entertainment

1996

2

16

 

A single Post card for each team in the competition that year was issued. The post card showed a player photo superimposed on a photo of the team running onto the ground.The post cards were issued both with a real stamp and a post mark or with the stamp printed on the card and no postmark.

tctmp001

Pumped Up Downunder

Tempo

1996

2

23 footballers

 

A set of modelling cards that comprised several AFL footballers posing as models.

tcagn001

Nick Howson Prints

The Artist's Garden Nursery

1996

6

13

 

These cards show prints created by Nick Howson of different footballing actions. The captions listed below were printed on the back of the card followed by the team nickname (e.g. Melbourne appeared as Dee's)

tcttp003

Hyfibe Heroes

Tip Top

1996

2

38 Standard cards 3 Redemption cards 3 Autograph inserts

 

This series shows action shots of AFL players. Three redemption cards were available which could be exchanged for a player signature card.

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Cazaly Beer Label

Toohey's

1996

5

2

 

These beer labels appeared on stubbies of Tooheys Blue and Red beer and showed a photo of Roy Cazaly in a Victorian guernsey. The labels were either blue or red in colour.

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Triple M Centenary Stickers

Triple M Radio Station

1996

3

18

This set of long horizontal stickers shows the text 'Triple M Rocks the team nickname' in team colours. There is a silver panel at either end, one showing the AFL Centenary season logo and the other showing the Optus Vision logo.

tctuk001

Australian Heritage Card Series

Tuckfields

1996

2

1

 

A single painting style card in a larger series on Australia's Heritage produced by Tuckfields.

tctvw001

TV Week Classics

TV Week

1996

2

1

 

Single card in the TV Week series of 32 cards showing the stars of various television shows. The principle characters in the 'Footy Show' are shown on this card.