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In general you find a number of different types of collectors within the football programme world. There is the potential collector who has a passing interest in starting a programme collection, there is the latent collector who collects programmes infrequently, there is the casual collector who may collect old football programmes without having a specific theme to their collection, and also there is the confirmed collector who has precise aims and regularly tries to buy programmes in order to enhance his or her collection.

There is no exact size to a programme collection, and the only limitations to it come in the form of your available finance. To be a collector, there is no need to own highly expensive programmes, just simply something that brings enjoyment or a sense of achievement to the collector. Football programme collectors come from all walks of life.

When they first start collecting, a collector may try to acquire everything on offer to their collection as soon as they can in order to give it some substance. However, with this comes a loss of tangible meaning, and later when restrictions may mean a particular theme has to be selected and explored in order to enhance a collection.

There really are an unlimited number of themes and sub-themes of programmes that can be collected. However, there are a number of traditional ways of building a collection. For example, for example all those programmes concerned with a particular team, all those played in a specific competition, etc. Whilst collecting a person is likely to discover the highs and lows of acquiring a rare old football programme, or the frustration of not being able to find a source for one that is vital to your collection.

Those collectors who are more causal in their approach to the collecting of football programmes will usually own a limited number of important programmes for cup finals or semi-finals for the team that they personally support, internationals, testimonials, special fixtures, or other major cup ties. These can basically be classed as a Big Match programme.

If you have a strong affection for a particular soccer club your mission in programme collecting may be to simply purchase all editions for your chosen team. In addition to the regular league matches and cup-ties, you may also try to collect programmes from friendlies, foreign tours, reserve teams, and youth teams.

One way of increasing the depth and scope of your collection is by setting an earlier date for the time period for which you’re collecting. You could, for example, decide to collect back to 1965, etc.

A collector who is fairly neutral in their affiliations, and just has a general passion for football will tend to widen the scope of their collection. In these sorts of collections you often find football programmes from a range of clubs at different levels (including non league). For the more adventurous collector, football programmes may have been acquired from other countries.