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Set_Listing |
Set_Name |
Brand_Name |
Set_Year |
Rarity |
Number_Issued |
Example |
Comment |
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2008 AFLUA Collector Cards |
AFL Umpires Association |
2008 |
3 |
60 |
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This third set of AFLAU cards shows action photos of AFL field,
boundary and goal umpires. The cards have a white curved panel in the bottom left
corner with an orange and black stripe bordering it. An 'Integrity' banner
appears within this white panel. '08' and the umpires name also appear on the
front on the card. |
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stapo010 |
AFL Player Stamps |
Australia Post |
2008 |
2 |
320 |
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A folder of stamps was issued for each AFL club. The folder
contained stamps for 20 different players per club. A large club logo appears
on the front of the folder and a team fixture on the back. |
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150 Years of Australian Football |
Australia Post |
2008 |
2 |
1 |
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Celebrating 150 years of Australian Football this single maxicard features the earliest known engraving of a game
of Australian football. The engraving, entitled "Winter in Australia:
Football in the Richmond Paddock" by Robert Bruce, depicts a game at
Richmond Paddock, the parklands that sit adjacent to the MCG. This image was
first reproduced in the Illustrated Melbourne Post on 27 July 1866. |
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Gladiators Cards |
Channel Seven |
2008 |
2 |
1 Ex footballer |
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This may not really qualify as a Football card, but a set of
cards depicting the characters in the Gladiators TV show were issued in the New
Idea magazine. One of the cards shows Anthony Koutoufides
who was formally a Carlton footballer. |
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Members Cards |
Collingwood FC |
2008 |
3 |
12 |
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A set of larger cards issued to promote Collingwood memberships.
Initially issued in late 2007. The cards were captioned ‘Collingw08d, the
boys are back in town” |
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MCC Library Greeting Card |
Cornflower |
2008 |
2 |
1 |
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This single greeting card shows a reproduction of an oil
painting depicting the 1896 VFA playoff between South Melbourne and
Collingwood at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground. The card was sold at the
merchandise shop at the National Sports Museum in Melbourne. |
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MCC Library Post Cards |
Cornflower |
2008 |
2 |
43 |
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This series of postcards shows reproductions of early football
cards from varying series on a white postcard. Details of the player and the
card series is written below the picture along with Melbourne Cricket Club
Library. They were sold at the merchandise shop at the National Sports Museum
in Melbourne. |
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Ingpen
Postcards |
Cornflower |
2008 |
2 |
5 football related |
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This series of postcards depicts reproductions of Robert Ingpen paintings of various different sports events. Five
of these cards are known to depict football events. They were sold at the
gift shop of the National Sports Museum at the MCG. |
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2008 Player Cards |
East Perth Football Club |
2008 |
3 |
36 |
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The cards show full colour action shots of each of the League
squad at the time with the players details and the Royals
logo on the front of the card. The cards were issued in two series of 18
cards. |
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1958 Premiership Reunion Dinner Set |
Footycards.com.au |
2008 |
3 |
5 cards 1 promo 1 Signature Card |
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Commemorative 5 card set to celebrate the 1958 50th Anniversary
Reunion Dinner as Collingwood defied the adversity of the Melbourne Football
Club to claim the 1958 VFL Premiership. Released to attendees on the 23rd
June 2008, held at the Olympic Room, in the MCG. Several sets were also made
available to the public via the Footycards.com.au website. The cards were
produced using a 3 step process and have a clean-metallic finish. Only 120
sets produced. An additional Thorold Merrett
signature was added to this set in 2009. Only 58 of these cards were
produced. |
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Marngrook Footy
Show Cards |
Footycards.com.au |
2008 |
3 |
6 cards 1 Sig card |
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To commemorate the show's 1st Anniversary, the Marngrook Footy Show in association with
FootyCards.com.au created a special set of cards, featuring the show’s panel
and co-presenters. A hand signed signature card for Ronnie Burns was also
issued. |
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Fremantle Players |
Fremantle F.C. |
2008 |
2 |
6 |
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This series of post card sized player cards issued by the
Fremantle Club follow on from the previous years editions. They show action
shots of Fremantle players on a purple background. Fremantle and LG logos
appear on the face of the card along with a fading green player name panel.
The Dockers logo is also on the card along with the words 'Proud, Loyal, Passionate'. |
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Cats Posters |
Geelong Advertiser |
2008 |
2 |
6 |
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These large newsprint posters were issued in the Geelong
Advertiser. They show an action shot of a player with a transparent name in
the background, along with a facsimile signature, Cats emblem and an green panel advertising 'nib'. |
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Members Cards |
Hawthorn Football Club |
2008 |
3 |
9 |
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A series of 9 cards issued to Hawthorn members. Similar in
format to those issued in 2006, with a player photo above a brown and gold
name panel. A Tasmania logo also appeared on the card. |
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Official 2008 Collector Footy Cards |
Herald Sun Newspaper |
2008 |
1 |
192 cards, 17 packet headers, 10 150 year legends, 16 B&F Cards, 16 Sharp Shooters 22 Rising Stars, 4 Sig Cards. |
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This card series was issued by the Herald Sun newspaper in |
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Team Photos |
Herald Sun Newspaper |
2008 |
1 |
10 |
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This poster series shows the official team photo for each of the
Victorian based AFL clubs plus the Victorian and Dream Teams from the HOF
Legends Game from that season. They were issued in the Sunday Herald Sun over
a number of weeks. |
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Members Cards |
Melbourne F.C |
2008 |
5 |
5 |
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This series of 5 cards shows action photos of five of
Melbourne's leading players from the 2008 season. The back of the cards has some
motivational text about the club with each card headed with a different 'P'
word. Prestige, Performance, Professional, Progressive and Partner. It is not
known how of if these cards were actually issued but some prototype sets may
have been released to selected members. |
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Planet Teal Cards |
Port Adelaide Power |
2008 |
3 |
12 |
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This set of cards shows head and shoulder portrait photos of
leading Power players. The cards were issued to junior members of the club
who had joined as Planet Teal members. |
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TEAC Burroughs |
Port Melbourne Football Club |
2008 |
4 |
50 |
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These cards show portrait style half length photos of Port
Melbourne players with a red panel for the player name at the bottom and a
red and blue striped banner at the top reading Port Melbourne. 2008 also
appeared on the front of the card along with the Boroughs emblem. The card
numbers on the front represent the players guernsey
number. |
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Immortal Signatures |
Richmond Football Club |
2008 |
3 |
6 standard, 6 sig cards |
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This set of six cards containing a header card and five Richmond
Immortal players, shows head and shoulder photos of the players above the banner
Signature Immortal. The cards were issued in sets with facsimile signatures
printed on them and sets without signatures. The cards were issued to
attendees of the Richmond VFL/AFL Centenary function in Melbourne. The cards
were produced by Select. |
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Cubs Club Cards |
|
2008 |
3 |
30 |
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This series of cards, issued to Junior Richmond members,
contains 3 cards for ten leading Tigers players, therefore making up a set of
30 cards. All cards showing close up action shots of the players within a
yellow border and Name panel at the bottom. |
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SANFL Budget Posters |
SANFL Football Budget |
2008 |
2 |
24 |
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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 club emblem appear on the poster. |
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AFL Champions Series |
Select |
2008 |
1 |
195 standard, 195 Holographic Foils 96 Blue Foil Signatures 32 Sketch Cards 16 Gem Mascots 17 Draft Rookies 4 Promo cards 3 300 Games |
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This series shows player action photos with a team colour
horizontal name panel and three team colour diagonal stripes. Insert series
in this issue include, holographic foils, blue foil signatures, sketch cards,
acetate gem cards and draft rookies. |
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AFL Classic Series |
Select |
2008 |
1 |
185 Standard, 185 Holofoils, 50 HOF Tribute Match, 12 Premiership Commemorative, 5 Medal cards, 17 Gold Draft Sigs, 17 Platinum Draft Sigs, 16 Premiership Predictors, 6 Sig cards, 3 300 gamers. 4 promos 4 Premier Redemptions 16 Rookie Redemptions |
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This second series for the year shows player action photos on a
predominantly white bursting background with a team colour name panel with
gold text. As with the previous years second series this one contained the
now traditional subsets of Medal winners, Draft Pick signatures, Signature
cards and premiership predictors, but the All Australians are in the standard
set and HOF tribute game players have been added as a subset. The Premiership
Commemorative subset also makes a return. |
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NAB Rising Stars 150 |
Select |
2008 |
3 |
16 |
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This set was issued at the NAB Rising Star award luncheon in
2008. It contains cards of each of the previous winners of the award from
1993 to 2007. A header card was also issued. |
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Pocket Collection Footy Stickers |
Select |
2008 |
1 |
384 |
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This set of 384 player stickers consists of mainly head and
shoulder shots of players, but there are some full length star play stickers
plus foil best and fairest stickers and club emblems. Stickers were issued on
standard card sized sheets with each sheet containing 4, 6 or 8 stickers.
Stickers appeared in varying combinations on the sticker sheets. An album was
issued to house the stickers. |
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AFL Star Figurine Cards |
Select |
2008 |
2 |
24 Series 1 24 Gold Series 1 24 Series 2 24 Gold Series 2 |
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Select issued two series of 24 figurines very similar in style
to the Prostar figurines from 1996. Inside each box
was a figurine and a small card showing a picture of
the figurine. Each figurine was issued in a standard edition and a gold
edition as were the cards. Both the standard edition and gold edition cards were later
released in boxed sets. |
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2008 Premiers |
Select |
2008 |
2 |
25 |
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This set was issued to commemorate Hawthorn's victory in the
2008 Premiership. Each premiership player is featured along with a header card,
team photo and premiership cup card. The cards were sold in clear plastic
boxed sets with a box cover headed 2008 Premiers. |
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Vice Presidents Player Collector Cards |
Sturt Football Club |
2008 |
4 |
25 |
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This set shows full colour action photos of Sturt players. The
series has a header card titled Sturt Football Club Vice Presidents Limited Edition
Player Collector Cards. 250 sets were produced. |
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Footy Legends Tazo |
Smith's Crisps |
2008 |
2 |
16 legends, 16 Future legends 16 Modern legends 16 Club legends 1 brownlow |
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This is the third series of AFL Tazo's.
They are smallish plastic cards issued in bags of Smith's Crisps. One team legend
and one team future legend formed the initial issue of 32, and 1 modern
legend and 1 card with three club legends formed the second series of 32. An
additional brownlow winner tazo
is also available with the purchase of an album. |
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West Coast Players |
SGIO |
2008 |
3 |
11 |
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The ninth year of the Eagles cards sponsored by SGIO. They show
full colour action shots with the players name in a blue panel at the top of
the card. The blue three spiked panel appears again at the bottom of the card
as it did in the previous year, however, this time it contains a West Coast
logo. |
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Team 2008 |
Team Zone |
2008 |
1 |
166 Standard 166 Gold Cards 166 Silver Cards 166 Platinum Prize Cards 16 Star Wildcards 16 Captains 16 Team Checklists 16 Platinum Checklists 16 Common B&F 16 Gold B&F 16 Silver B&F 2 Prize Wildcards |
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This series shows action shots of players with a team coloured solid
surround and border and statistics that assist in playing the Team 2008
competition, run as per the previous year with prizes of gold and blue series
of cards. The collectors’ edition packets contained standard, silver, gold,
B&F and checklist cards and again this season, a special star wildcard
insert series showing WEG caricatures of star players. Silver team captain
cards were available separately inside the J-Squad magazine. Each silver card
was issued with three different backs each containing a different quiz
question. *Note* Silver
Quiz cards have been issued in game day AFL Footy Records. These cards show a
fourth question on the back for the player issued. The cards also show a
slightly longer photo of the player than those issued in the packets. |
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TAB Sportsbet Tickets |
TAB |
2008 |
3 |
16 |
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This series of tickets used for describing how to bet on the
football show team colours on the front with the caption ‘Team Nickname $10
combo’ in italics and a TAB Sportsbet logo. |
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Official 2008 Collector Footy Cards |
The Advertiser/Sunday Mail |
2008 |
1 |
206 cards, 17 packet headers, 16 B&F Cards, 16 Sharp Shooters 22 Rising Stars |
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Almost identical release to the Herald Sun cards from this year,
however the Advertiser logo appears on the back of the card. Similar inserts
were also issued but not the signature cards nor the
150 year legend cards. The day 17 bonus pack was instead six addition Crows
and six addition Power cards. |
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AFL Chipz |
Topps |
2008 |
1 |
100 Standard 16 Leading Goalkickers 16 B&F chipz 16 Rookies 16 Star Players 16 Gold logos 16 Gold logos with team border 4 Medal Prize chipz |
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A series of Casino style chips or player discs showing player
photos surrounded by team colours. Subsets issued include Gold Star players,
Rookies, Leading Goal Kickers and Best and Fairest chipz.
A collector’s tin was also issued. The gold edition logos were initially issued with a team colour
border, but were later issued with the gold border. |
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WAFL Sticker Series |
WAFL |
2008 |
3 |
90 |
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This series of horizontal stickers show training action shots of
WAFL players superimposed on a head and shoulders shot and also a team
mascot. The players name appears along the bottom edge in a grey panel. The
club logo and player stats appear on the sticker face as well. All teams
include a captain and a legend in the series except Peel which has a captain
and Coach sticker. They differ only slightly in format from the previous years
stickers with an '08' in the background. |
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Under our Wing Stickers |
West Coast Eagles |
2008 |
3 |
10 |
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A series of 10 stickers, nine showing action shots of West Coast
Players and the other showing a 'Rick the Rock Eagle' cartoon. The stickers
were issued on a sheet under a banner sticker that read 'Under our Wing' |