West Bromwich Albion Football Club, formed on 1 January 1878, is based in West Bromwich, West Midlands, and currently competes in the EFL Championship. For supporters and collectors alike, that long history gives context to signed football shirts offered by specialist retailers, and you can find selected West Brom pieces at Walkouts.
Albion were a founder member of the Football League and have called The Hawthorns home since 1900, a ground as familiar to collectors as it is to matchgoing fans. The club’s domestic record includes FA Cup success and a headline league honour, the club having been champions of England on one occasion, often referenced as a one English championship in historical summaries.
The cup pedigree is central to kit lore: Albion reached ten FA Cup finals and lifted the trophy five times, and they won the Football League Cup in 1966. On the continental stage supporters point to a notable UEFA Cup run and the club’s European nights during the late 1970s, a period that endures in shirt narratives. The club is also ranked 501 by the IFFHS, a contextual data point collectors sometimes note.
Shirt identity is straightforward: navy blue and white stripes for most of the club’s history, the throstle perched on a hawthorn branch on the badge, and variations that mark eras with different suppliers. That lineage makes eras like the late 1960s, the late 1970s and the early 2000s especially collectible, since those shirts are tied to trophy runs, European matches and promotion seasons respectively, and they appear in specialist catalogues with provenance notes and labels to inspect.
Anniversary releases after 1970 are a draw, notably centenary and later commemorative badges and marks that were produced in limited runs and distributed through club channels and retail partners. Shirts from trophy seasons such as 1967-68 and promotion campaigns like 2001-02 remain chased because they represent on-field milestones, match photography and archive use that help verify era and issue.
Collectors prize iconic colourways as much as winners’ medals; the away strip from the 1978-79 campaign in yellow and green, worn during the club’s UEFA Cup fixtures, is a prime example of an eye-catching variant tied to important away wins, and it features heavily in specialist wish lists as the 1978-79 yellow/green away example most sought after. Free worldwide shipping.
Signed retail shirts from fanshops, not only match-worn items, are actively collected, especially early retail runs, player-issue variants and region-specific releases that differ from later mass reprints. Provenance often relies on match photography, press coverage and supporting labels rather than guesswork, and many retail-signed pieces now arrive with a stated verification method like a COA that helps confirm signature authenticity.
For those tracing specific pieces, items tied to Centenary 1978 garments and to seasons such as 1967-68 FA Cup and 2001-02 Division One are frequently referenced in archive notes, and collectors value documentation such as a COA when it accompanies a signed shirt. Walkouts lists curated West Brom signed shirts alongside era details and imagery for direct comparison, helping buyers connect shirts to the club’s FA Cup, League Cup and promotion history.
