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FKS Publishers. One of the two best known and best loved football sticker producers
from the period. FKS managed to capture the imagination of many a
young boy through bright stickers which could be glued into albums.
All FKS stickers were sold in packets in newsagents, sweet shops etc. A
number of the early stickers are rare now in VG condition, though many are available 'ex-album'.
All FKS stickers were printed in Spain, though a number of the albums
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1966/67 |
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A Full Colour Picture Gallery of World Cup Stars. An album of
colour pictures, not stickers, which is not marked as FKS but which is
clearly the precursor to the FKS sticker sets.
The image on the front of the album is the
same as used for the 1974 and 1978 World Cup albums (see
album gallery).The album was printed
in Spain, but published in England by World Distributors of Manchester.
Set size: 256.
Teams: Argentina,
Brazil,
Bulgaria,
Chile,
England,
France,
Hungary,
Italy,
Mexico,
North Korea,
Portugal,
Russia,
Spain,
Switzerland,
Uruguay,
West Germany.
Album: Price 2s 6d. |
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1967/68 |
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The
Wonderful World of Soccer Stars. This rarest of all FKS football
albums and stickers. The stickers are readily identifiable through the
backs which have the player name and club, but no other printing
including no number. The album has the same cover as the 1968/69 album,
and many of the stickers have the same images as the 1968/69 set.
The stickers do not indicate that they
should only be stuck at the top, so most were stuck completely down in
albums. There was no writing in the space for each sticker in the
albums, so nothing much was lost except that you won't find many of
these stickers 'ex-album'. The album, and therefore the stickers, are
full of errors and omissions e.g. surnames only, misspellings etc.
Set size: 330.
Checklists:
Set checklist
Teams: Arsenal,
Burnley,
Chelsea,
Coventry City,
Everton,
Fulham,
Leeds United,
Leicester City,
Liverpool,
Manchester City,
Manchester United,
Newcastle United,
Nottingham Forest,
Sheffield United,
Sheffield Wednesday,
Southampton,
Stoke City,
Sunderland,
Tottenham Hotspur,
West Bromwich
Albion, West Ham,
Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Album: Price 3s 6d.
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1968/69 |
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The
Wonderful World of Soccer Stars. This first of the more commonly
available FKS sets, and a great favourite. The stickers are readily identifiable
through the backs which have the player name, club and biography.
Set size: 330. Checklists:
Set checklist
Packet: 7 stickers for 6d.
Click for FKS
packets gallery.
Teams: Arsenal,
Burnley,
Chelsea,
Coventry City,
Everton,
Ipswich Town,
Leeds United,
Leicester City,
Liverpool,
Manchester City,
Manchester United,
Newcastle United,
Nottingham Forest,
Queen's Park Rangers,
Sheffield Wednesday,
Southampton,
Stoke City,
Sunderland,
Tottenham Hotspur,
West Bromwich
Albion, West Ham,
Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Album: Price 3s 6d.
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1969/70 |
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The
Wonderful World of Soccer Stars in Action. Similar to the previous
year's album, except that the player biographies are no longer printed
on the backs of the cards. The now familiar phrase 'A full biography of
this player will be found in the appropriate space in the album' first
appeared. Set size: 330. Checklists:
Set checklist
Packet: 7 stickers for 6d.
Click for FKS
packets gallery.
Teams: Arsenal,
Burnley,
Chelsea,
Coventry City,
Crystal Palace,
Derby County,
Everton,
Ipswich Town,
Leeds United,
Liverpool,
Manchester City,
Manchester United,
Newcastle United,
Nottingham Forest,
Sheffield
Wednesday, Southampton,
Stoke City,
Sunderland,
Tottenham Hotspur,
West
Bromwich Albion, West Ham United,
Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Album: Price 2s 6d.
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1970/71 |
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World Cup Soccer Stars
- Mexico 70. An album to coincide with the
World Cup, including the 30-man England squad and 16 players
from each of the other qualifying countries. The offer from FKS to help
complete collections through the order form expired in December 1970.
Set size: 272. Checklists:
Set checklist,
Team checklist.
Packet: 7 stickers for 6d.
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packets gallery.
Teams:
England,
Belgium,
Brazil,
Bulgaria,
Czechoslovakia,
El Salvador,
Israel,
Italy,
Mexico,
Morocco,
Peru,
Rumania,
Russia,
Sweden,
Uruguay,
West
Germany.
Album: Price 2s 6d.
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The
Wonderful World of Soccer Stars Gala Collection. A bigger 420
sticker set, including a new Second Division Star Gallery, European Cup
Finalists and the Best Players of Mexico 70. The phrase at the top of
each card has changed from 'Apply adhesive here only' to 'Glue here
only'.
The album credits Jack Rollin (later
well-known as editor of Rothmans Football Yearbooks) for the album
design and editing. At the rear of the album was a place for you to
order and stick a Second Division Team Sheet, comprising photos of 15
players on a single, large sheet. The Sheets were 2/- (10p) each, plus
1s 6d postage and handling. Hardly any of these team sheets have
survived. Click
here to view a
selection of these sheets - kindly supplied by ebay seller
toy-toys).
The image gallery for each team (below)
includes full player career details.
Set size: 420. Checklists:
Set checklist,
Team checklist
Packet: 7 stickers for 6d or 2½p.
Click for FKS
packets gallery.
Teams:
Arsenal,
Blackpool,
Burnley,
Chelsea,
Coventry City,
Crystal Palace,
Derby County,
Everton,
Huddersfield Town,
Ipswich Town,
Leeds United,
Liverpool,
Manchester City,
Manchester United,
Newcastle United,
Nottingham Forest,
Southampton,
Stoke City,
Tottenham Hotspur,
West
Bromwich Albion, West Ham United,
Wolverhampton Wanderers,
Second
Division Star Gallery, Celtic,
Feijenoord
Album: Price 2s 6d or 12½p.
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1971/72 |
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The
Wonderful World of Soccer Stars 1971/72 First Division. The one-off
trial with a small black-and-white head shot on the back of the sticker.
Jack Rollin continued as album editor, while the Professional Footballers
Association (PFA) approved the collection. A club badge sticker was
available for each team, and a place
for each in the album. Each packet contained one self adhesive team
badge sticker and seven player stickers.
Set size: 352. Checklists:
Set checklist,
Team checklist
Packet: 7 stickers for 3p.
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packets gallery.
Teams: Arsenal, Chelsea, Coventry City, Crystal Palace, Derby County, Everton,
Huddersfield Town, Ipswich Town, Leeds United, Leicester City,
Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Newcastle United,
Nottingham Forest, Sheffield United, Southampton, Stoke City, Tottenham
Hotspur, West Bromwich Albion, West Ham United, Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Album: Price 15p.
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1972/73 |
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The
Wonderful World of Soccer Stars 1972/73 First Division. For some
reason FKS reverted to 'Apply adhesive here only' at the top of
each sticker. Last year's team
badges and the black and white head-shot on the rear of each sticker
have disappeared, and there are no extras to buy! The set did, however,
include 25 circular stickers, which were to be stuck onto a poster with
the title 'Munich 74'. Copies of this poster are very rare, so its quite
valuable. Set size: 330. Checklists:
Set checklist (album
stickers),Set checklist
(circular stickers), Team checklist
(circular stickers).
Packet: 10 stamps for 3p. Click for FKS
packets gallery.
Teams: Arsenal, Birmingham City, Chelsea, Coventry City, Crystal Palace, Derby
County, Everton, Ipswich Town, Leeds United, Leicester City, Liverpool,
Manchester City, Manchester United, Newcastle United, Norwich City,
Sheffield United, Southampton, Stoke City, Tottenham Hotspur, West
Bromwich Albion, West Ham United, Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Album: Price 15p.
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1973/74 |
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The
Wonderful World of Soccer Stars 1973/74 First Division and 1973 F.A. Cup
Winners. A new landscape format, complete with club colours and a
small, colour head shot. The centre pages of the album include fourteen
stickers of Sunderland, commemorating their F.A. Cup win - these
stickers are A thru N. The final pages of the album include 2 pictures
each of Bobby and Jack Charlton, stickers O, P, Q and R.
Set size: 304. Checklists:
Set checklist,
Team checklist
Packet: 10 stamps for 3p. Click for FKS
packets gallery.
Teams:
Arsenal, Birmingham City, Burnley, Chelsea, Coventry City, Derby County,
Everton, Ipswich Town, Leeds United, Leicester City, Liverpool,
Manchester City, Manchester United, Newcastle United, Norwich City,
Queen's Park Rangers, Sheffield United, Southampton, Stoke City,
Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham United, Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Special: Sunderland and Charlton brother's page.
Album: Price 15p.
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1974/75 |
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The
Wonderful World of Soccer Stars World Cup 1974. A World Cup where
England didn't make the last 16, but FKS produced an album anyway
(mainly because Scotland and Australia were in it, perhaps?). The album
contains 17 teams, since it was not certain at the time of going to
press whether Spain or Yugoslavia would qualify, subject to a play-off,
so both teams were included. Set
size: 270
Packet: 8 stamps for 3p. Click for FKS
packets gallery.
Teams:
Argentina,
Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, East Germany, West
Germany, Haiti, Holland, Italy, Poland, Scotland, Spain, Sweden,
Uruguay, Yugoslavia, Zaire
Album: Price 15p.
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album gallery.
Checklists:
Set checklist |
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The
Wonderful World of Soccer Stars 1974/75. A new smaller size for the
stickers, and a new card material (which didn't last for long). FKS
continue to tinker with the size and layout.
The price has gone up significantly since
last year, with the previous 10 for 3p being replaced by 6 for 4p.
Set size: 320
Packet: 6 cards for 4p. Click for FKS
packets gallery.
Teams:
Arsenal, Birmingham City, Burnley, Carlisle United, Chelsea, Coventry
City, Derby County, Everton, Ipswich Town, Leeds United, Leicester City,
Liverpool, Luton Town, Manchester City, Middlesbrough, Newcastle United,
Queen's Park Rangers, Sheffield United, Stoke City, Tottenham Hotspur,
West Ham United, Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Album: Price 20p.
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1975/76 |
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Soccer Stars
'75 '76 English First Division, Stars of Scotland, Ireland and Wales,
European Team Pictures. It's no longer a 'Wonderful World', with the
phrase gone from the title after 8 years, but the phrase 'Picture Stamp
Album' is back on the front of the cover after a 3-year absence -
hooray. The card experiment has been ditched in favour of the original
sticker format. Set size: 360.
Packet: 7 stamps for 4p. Click for FKS
packets gallery.
Teams:
Arsenal, Aston Villa, Birmingham City, Burnley, Coventry City, Derby
County, Everton, Ipswich Town, Leeds United, Leicester City, Liverpool,
Manchester City, Manchester United, Middlesbrough, Newcastle United,
Norwich City, Queens Park Rangers, Sheffield United, Stoke City,
Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham United, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Stars of
Scotland, Ireland and Wales, European Teams.
Album: Price 20p.
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Euro Soccer
postcards. A
new concept for FKS with postcards. Only 55 in the set, with 22 being
English teams. You could buy postcards directly from FKS to make up your
set at a price of 4p each. The
album for these postcards is similar to the traditional FKS albums,
where you were expected to stick the postcards into the album at the top
only. The postcards have no specific markings on them to indicate where
to glue, but the album spaces have instructions to 'apply adhesive here
only'. Set size: 55
Album: Price 20p.
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1976/77 |
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Soccer Stars
1976/77. More tinkering by FKS. Back to a landscape format with two
photos: head shot and action. The album also included lots of 'special'
stickers e.g. action shots, managers and parts of large pictures of Pat
Jennings and Kevin Keegan. Set
size: 360
Packet: 7 pictures for 4p. Click for FKS
packets gallery.
Album: Price 20p. Click for FKS
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Soccer Stars
76/77 Trump Card Game. A
set of 32 cards for a game, plus a Rules card. |
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1977/78 |
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Soccer Stars
1977-78. An expanded collection with players from 28 different
teams. The player name and sticker numbers are printed on the front of
the stickers, with the reverse blank (another FKS innovation which only
lasted one year). It appears that you no longer applied the adhesive
only at the top, which appears a bit foolish since you would cover the
biography in the album. The album was priced at 20p, but reduced to 10p
as a 'Jubilee Offer'. Set size:
400.
Packet: Click for FKS
packets gallery.
Teams:
Arsenal, Aston Villa, Birmingham City, Bolton Wanderers, Bristol City,
Chelsea, Coventry City, Derby County, Everton, Ipswich Town, Leeds
United, Leicester City, Liverpool, Luton Town, Manchester City,
Manchester United, Middlesbrough, Newcastle United, Norwich City,
Nottingham Forest, Notts County, Queens Park Rangers, Stoke City,
Sunderland, Tottenham Hotspur, West Bromwich Albion, West Ham,
Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Album: Price 20p.
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Soccer Stars
Trump Card Game, Series One. A
set of 32 cards for a game, plus a Rules card.
Click here for
Series One set gallery |
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Soccer Stars
Trump Card Game, Series Two. A
set of 32 cards for a game, plus a Rules card. |
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Euro
Soccer Stars '77.
Set size: 135
Packet: Click for FKS
packets gallery.
Album: Click for FKS
album gallery. |
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1978/79 |
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Argentina
78. Another FKS World Cup special. This one appears to have been
produced for the general European, as well as English,market. FKS
have learnt from their errors and now publish the biographies under the
sticker spaces, so that you can still read it once the sticker is stuck
in! Set size: 300.
Packet: Click for FKS
packets gallery.
Teams:
(Qualified) - Argentina, Brazil, Deutshland (West Germany), Espana
(Spain), France, Iran, Italia, Magyarorszag (Hungary), Mexico,
Nederland (Holland), Österreich (Austria), Peru, Polska, Scotland,
Sverige, Tunisie.
(Not qualified) - Belgique, Danmark, England, Ireland, Wales.
Album: Price 10p. Click for FKS
album gallery.
Checklists:
Set checklist or
Team checklist. |
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Soccer Stars
78/79 Golden Collection. One of the rarer FKS sets. This collection
included, for the first time, the Scottish Premier Division as well as
the English First, and various team photographs.
Set size: 448. Checklists:
Set checklist,
Team checklist.
Packet: 5 stickers per packet. Click for FKS
packets gallery.
Teams:
Arsenal, Aston Villa, Birmingham City, Bolton Wanderers, Bristol City,
Chelsea, Coventry City, Derby County, Everton, Ipswich Town, Leeds
United, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Middlesbrough,
Norwich City, Nottingham Forest, Queen's Park Rangers, Tottenham
Hotspur, West Bromwich Albion, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Aberdeen,
Celtic, Dundee United, Hearts, Hibernian, Morton, Motherwell, Partick
Thistle, Rangers, St. Mirren.
Album: Price 15p. Click for FKS
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1979/80 |
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Soccer Stars
80 English First and Second Divisions, Scottish Premier Division.
The albums just keep getting bigger. This one includes Second Division
Team photos, plus England Under 21 players.
At the back of this album was the change to
order the bronze medallions (see below).
Set size: 450.
Packet: 5 stickers for 5p per packet. Click for FKS
packets gallery.
Teams:
Arsenal, Aston Villa, Bolton Wanderers, Brighton and Hove Albion,
Bristol City, Coventry City, Crystal Palace, Derby County, Everton,
Ipswich Town, Leeds United, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester
United, Middlesbrough, Norwich City, Nottingham Forest, Southampton,
Stoke City, Tottenham Hotspur, West Bromwich Albion, Wolverhampton
Wanderers, England Under 21 players, Second Division Teams, Aberdeen,
Celtic, Dundee, Dundee United, Hearts, Hibernian, Kilmarnock, Morton,
Partick Thistle, Rangers, St. Mirren.
Album: Price 15p. Click for FKS
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Soccer Stars
80 - Send-away bronze
medallions. A set of 22 (one for each First Division team from
1978/79) available by sending away to FKS. Each medallion is 1½"
diameter, 3/16" thick, made of solid bronze. The cost was 50p each if
you also sent in 15 empty packets of Soccer Stars 80 stickers (a
reduction from the Price List of
£1.99). Set size: 22.
A wooden presentation case was available for the set.
Teams: Arsenal, Aston Villa, Birmingham City, Bolton Wanderers, Bristol City,
Chelsea, Coventry City, Derby County, Everton, Ipswich Town, Leeds
United, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Middlesbrough,
Norwich City, Nottingham Forest, Queens Park Rangers, Southampton,
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Soccer - 81.
A sign of the times in football, reflected in the FKS collection, with
the addition of a section on USA Star Players i.e. those from the
English and Scottish game who had traveled across to America to play.
The lucky collector of this FKS set could
send away 20 empty Soccer '81 packets and quality for a discount Umbro
sports bag (4 different bags in 2 colours each). There was also a
competition where you answered some questions, sent away 10 empty
packets, and could win one week at Bobby Charlton's Summer 81
Residential Soccer School (children 10 to 16 only), plus an Umbro strip
and tracksuit (10 to be won!). The names of the winners were printed in
the Soccer 82 album.
Set size: 450.
Packet: Click for FKS
packets gallery.
Teams:
Arsenal, Aston Villa, Birmingham City, Brighton and Hove Albion,
Coventry City, Crystal Palace, Derby County, Everton, Ipswich Town,
Leeds United, Leicester City, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester
United, Middlesbrough, Norwich City, Nottingham Forest, Southampton,
Stoke City, Sunderland, Tottenham Hotspur, West Bromwich Albion,
Wolverhampton Wanderers, Second Division Star Players, Third Division
Star Players, International Trophies, Scottish players, Top Transfers,
USA Star Players.
Album: Price 25p. Click for FKS
album gallery.
Checklists:
Set checklist or
Team checklist. |
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World Cup Special 1982.
FKS jumping the gun with an album for the 1982 World Cup made available
to the public in early 1981. The closing date for the special offer and
competion in the album closed in June 1981, and the offer of stickers to
complete your collection closed in December 1981.
Set size: 307
Packets: Click for FKS
packets gallery.
Teams:
Argentina, Spain, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria,
Belgium, Canada, Chile, Czechoslovakia, China, Denmark, Egypt,
Eire, France, West Germany, Wales, England, Scotland, Northern Ireland,
East Germany, Hungary, Holland, Italy, Greece, Japan, Mexico, Morocco,
Nigeria, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia,
Uruguay, USSR, Yugoslavia
Album: Price 25p. Click for FKS
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1981/82 |
Soccer 82.
The album has changed this time, from the traditional portrait to a
landscape format. The glue on the stickers was not designed to last.
Stickers which have survived through until today will often be found
without their backing, making it hard to identify the players (hence the
value of the galleries).
The album contains a notice about the Spain 82
collection: "F.K.S. will be publishing a comprehensive world cup sticker
collection, prior to the competition which begins in Spain in June
1982". Collectors were offered a free album, plus 5 packets of stickers.
The album notes that, for the Spain 82 collection, "Publication will
take place early in 1982. Your set will be sent to you when available".Set size: 400.
Checklists:
Set checklist,
Team checklist
Packets: The packet states 'Average contents 5 individual self adhesive
stickers'. Did we lose our ability to count precisely? Click for FKS
packets gallery.
Teams:
Arsenal,
Aston Villa,
Birmingham City,
Brighton and Hove Albion,
Coventry City, Everton,
Ipswich Town,
Leeds United,
Liverpool,
Manchester City,
Manchester United,
Middlesbrough,
Notts County,
Nottingham Forest,
Southampton,
Stoke City,
Sunderland,
Swansea City,
Tottenham Hotspur,
West Bromwich Albion,
West Ham United,
Wolverhampton
Wanderers, Aberdeen,
Celtic,
Rangers.
Album: Price 25p. Click for FKS
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Spain 82. Copies of this album, plus 5 packets of
stickers were available to collectors from the Soccer 82 album.
Set size: 300
Packets: Click for FKS
packets gallery.
Album: Price 25p. Click for FKS
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