Nigel's Webspace - Galleries of English and Scottish Football Cards - 1965/66 to 1979/80

Football Star is the name of a football magazine produced by IPC/Fleetway. Issue 1 was launched to coincide with the start of the 1973/74 football season on 15 September 1973. The magazine folded in November 1973 after only 11 issues.

Football Star gave away sheets of six stand-up footballers with Issues 1 and 2 (15 and 22 September 1973). These figures may still be available as either individual cards or, more rarely, as an uncut sheet. The player cards each had Height, Weight, Age and First Cap headings on their backs, ready for you to fill in the details.

Many thanks to Martin and Alan who provided the images for these two sheets.

Number in set: 32
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Following on from the giveaway of the standup footballers Football Star printed a high colour page with two images of strikers in hexagons. The ideas was that you collected two of these each week for nine weeks, giving you 18 Super Strikers. There was a round poster which looks like a football with 18 spaces, so the idea was to stick your hexagons onto the poster.

I'm not sure whether these Super Strikers were issued with Issue 3 onwards, in which case they would have just managed to issue them all before the magazine folded after Issue 11.

Many thanks to Martin who provided the image below.

Number in set: 18
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