Football Gifts – Buy Gifts For Football Fans
Whether you’re looking for advice on buying gifts for football fans or a list of great football gifts to buy, you’ve come to the right place. Read on for our tips on buying football gifts or jump down to our list of best football gifts (most are very affordable).
Football Gift Buying Tips
Set Your Budget: Gifts can range from the $30 to $300, and it’s easy to get caught up in the moment when you’re buying something that you love (or you’re buying something for someone you love). Give yourself a range (e.g. $80-$110) and work with that. As with all such suggestions, use common sense – you don’t HAVE to spend that much, and you can always go above the limit if it’s really good. However, chances are that it looks a lot better now than it will when you’re giving the gift.
Useful over Flashy: The flashy gift looks good in the store / in photos but the ‘useful’ gift last longer and reminds the receiver of you regularly (if that’s what you’re going for). It could be something as simple as a keyring or something like I have, a small Manchester United traveling bag. Scarves work great just for this reason.
Personalise, Personalise, Personalise: If the store gives you the option, spend the extra $10 or $20 to personalise the gift with the receiver’s name / initials.
Differentiate on Age, Taste and Support: Not all football fans like a personalised shirt. And sometimes a footy shirt isn’t the ideal thing for all ages. And sometimes you should think twice before giving a Manchester City fan a crimson-colored gift item 
Buy the DVD / scarf / personalised journal for your dad, save the footy shirt for your mates and make sure you get the team colors right (especially if you’re shopping for your kids).
And if you need just one bit of advice, remember this:
Make It Memorable: Gift-giving is a sacred social custom and a chance for us to show each other how much we care about them (believe it or not, it’s always about the other person). As such, make your gift count and give the receiver something to cherish and remember you with (fondly) for a long time. That’s why the cool keyring and the scarf and the bag works and the shirt not so much – shirts change every year, boots and scarves and bags are with us for longer.
Now let’s move to our recommendations for where to buy your football gifts from online:
Recommended Football Gifts
The perfect gift for every football fan!
If your mantra is TEAM, KIDS, WIFE (in that order) then this little fella is a must have. It’s also a really fun gift for anyone – if they’re a football fan, they’ll love it. The No.1 Fan is all about the fans, people like us who get behind the team every week, proud to wear the shirt and sing the chants. He sways, waves his scarf and sings five famous terrace chants related to your team.
This is official merchandise, and it’s available in your team’s colours (and sings their chants) as well. The ultimate football souvenir!
Subside Sports is the official Soccerlens partner for all official football shirts and for good reason – they have the widest collection of shirts covering clubs, teams and players from all 5 continents. Worldwide shipping, personalised shirts, vintage shirts, special editions shirts, shirts for kids, even non-kit shirts (think football tees) – there’s something there for everyone, and having bought from and recommended Subside since 2006, I can assure you that they are the very best when it comes to buy football shirts.
Hot Item: Get their football slippers.
SoccerPro are one of the best online stores for getting football boots – they have a fantastic collection from Nike to Puma and all that’s in between, along with the usual assortment of shirts and accessories. I had their Mercurial Vapor IVs and if they can ship the right shoes, in 1 week, to Pakistan, they can ship these babies anywhere. Just make sure you tell them the right shoe size.
If you’re in the market for football shoes, make sure you read our guide: 10 Tips For Buying The Perfect Football Shoes.
Hot Tip: The Nike Air Zoom Control II Indoor Boot.
Kiki James is a London based leather goods manufacturer specialising in handmade leather products. Not your ‘traditional’ gift for football fans, I’ll grant you that, but the quality of KJ’s products and sheer usefulness makes them a memorable gift for family or a corporate setting. If you love handmade leather wallets, business card wallets.and / or journals, make a pit stop at Kiki James asap (I own this Tuscan wrap journal).
Again, all products from Kiki James can be personalised, embossed with names, initials or dates.
Hot Tip: Get a leather journal for your dad’s birthday.
If you’re running short on gift ideas for an upcoming birthday or looking to get a jump on your own Christmas wish list, you’re in luck, because Getting Personal likely has what you’re looking for. Getting Personal are UK’s leading online retailers for personalised gifts, with a plethora of amazing football-related goodies that any football fanatic would love.
Along with the usual personalised accessories (wallets, mugs, cufflinks, et all), their featured offering for footballers are their personalised desk calendar and club history book (full of newspaper clippings of your football club’s highlight moments since it’s start) is just excellent for a thoughtful, personal and relatively inexpensive football gift.
Hot Tip: The personalised football book is a great conversation starter and a gift that even the reading-averse will love to pick up and browse through.
ICONS sells exclusive signed merchandise from the world’s greatest footballers from Pele and Maradona to Kaka and Messi. They have 100% authentic signed football shirts, boots and photos (they’ve got photo evidence if you need proof) and although this is the most expensive gift on this list, it’s also the most ‘memorable’ gift you can give a football fan.
Hot Tip: Check out ICONS’ special offers section for discounts.
Studs Up Football Club (SUFC) is a subsidiary of the well known online comic strip Studs Up run by Chris Toy. SUFC brings shirts for you that you can wear casually while staying true to the roots, history and culture of football and looked pretty damn good doing it. You can get all that by just buying a football kit but it’s a football kit! You can’t wear it casually!
SUFC was launched with a line of quality t-shirts and will continue to puch on into carefully crafted accessories, cut-and-sew tailored items and a whole lot more to help kit out football fans.
It will be a very nice present for a football fan.
Hot Tip: I Belong To Messi
So these were our top 6 recommendations for buying personal, useful and quality football gifts for football fans. If you have any suggestions to make to add to this list, please let us know.
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