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The Team Colours Project.

References 301 - 400.

The years covered by these one hundred numbers are approximately 1980-83. Having previously covered most of the teams in Subbuteo's export market countries, these numbers see a return to England and Scotland, and deal with redesigned kits, often with only minor trim changes. It also sees an increase in the trend for fancy away kits. The main exception is the range of French teams 336-348, enlarging, and replacing those at 137-148.

This is also the point where heavyweight/zombie production stops, and the new lightweight figures become the standard. The main changeover occurs somewhere around 322. Certainly I've seen the home international sides 317-321 in zombie, and heavyweight, whereas 324-326 tend to be handpainted lightweights. However, heavyweight production does seem to creep up to 359. The England kit at 329 is one of the first machine painted lightweights issued - and usually comes in a World Cup 1982 box (which were the first boxes to display the whole team).

The Team Colours.

 

  1. Penarol (Uruguay) 1978-90

  2. Nacional (Uruguay) 1978-86

  3. Exeter City. Then Abbeville (France), Limoges (France) KSV Hessen-Kassel (Germany) and others. 1978-91

  4. Lille (France) 1978-82

  5. Albion Rovers. B'kara (Malta), Senglea Athletics (Malta)

  6. VFB Eppingen (Germany) 1978-82

  7. Torquay United 1978-80

  8. Aldershot 1978-81

  9. Bradford City 1978-80

  10. Falkirk 1978-85


White shorts in 1980Alternate 316 from 1982

  1. Forfar Athletic 1978-86
  2. Kilmarnock 1978-91
  3. Motherwell 1978-83
  4. Strasbourg (France) Blue shorts in 1979, white shorts 1980-84
  5. Bayer Leverkusen, Hanover 96, SpVgg Erkenschwick, Union Salingen (all Germany) 1978-83
  6. Sochaux (France), then later Sweden, Bronby, etc 1978-96
  7. England 1977-1980 Also in C500 etc. 
  8. Scotland 1977-82
  9. Wales 1977-80
  10. Northern Ireland 1977-87

1980 version.

  1. England 2nd 1977-80
  2. Iran 1979-84
  3. Paris FC (France) The two illustrations here are really in the wrong order. The 1980 version with the black diagonal is the original. The plain blue version is 1981-83.
  4. Manchester City 2nd 1980-81 
  5. Manchester Utd 2nd  1980-81 
  6. West Bromwich Albion 2nd 1980-82
  7. West Ham Utd 2nd 1980 only
  8. Luton Town 1980 only
  9. England 1981-84
  10. Wales, then later it was Denmark 1981-85

What 335 looks like in real life (finally confirmed!)

  1. Eire, Corbeil (France) 1981-82
  2. Eire 2nd 1981-86
  3. Aston Villa 1981 only. Replaced by 383, but still a pretty common l/w
  4. Burnley 1981 
  5. Luton Town 1981
  6. Chateauroux (France) 1981-83
  7. Rouen (France) 1981
  8. Caen (France) 1981-83
  9. Le Havre (France) 1981-83
  10. Tavaux (France) 1981-83

  1. Toulouse (France) 1981-83
  2. Montlucon (France) 1981-83
  3. Saint-Die (France) 1981-83
  4. Bezieres (France) 1981-83
  5. Ajacio (France) 1981-83
  6. St Etienne (France) 1981-84
  7. Lyon (France) 1981-83
  8. Martigues (France) 1981-83
  9. Unknown
  10. Southampton 1981-85

  1. Torquay United 1981-84
  2. Tottenham Hotspur 1981-82
  3. Tranmere Rovers 1981-82
  4. Watford 1981-82
  5. West Ham United 1981-83
  6. Dumbarton 1981-84
  7. West Ham United 2nd 1981-86
  8. Paris S.G. (France) 1981-83
  9. Lille (France) 1981-88 and 1990-91
  10. Sunderland 1982-83

Pin-stripe variations on the long-lived 361.

  1. Ipswich Town, Linfield (NI)  1982-91
  2. Celtic 2nd 1982-83
  3. Liverpool 2nd 1982-84
  4. Chelsea 1982-83
  5. Chelsea 2nd. Beveren (Bel), Ikast (Denmark) etc. keep it going into the 1990s 1982-91 
  6. Grimsby Town 1982-86
  7. Southampton 2nd (Usually hand painted). 1982-85
  8. England 2nd 1982-84
  9. Blackburn Rovers 1982-92
  10. Southend United 1982-84

  1. Norwich City 1982-84
  2. Manchester United 1982-84
  3. Manchester United 2nd 1982
  4. Leeds United 1982-84
  5. Leeds United 2nd 1982-84
  6. Dundee 1982-83
  7. Dundee United, Meadowbank Thistle, Newport County. Later Maidstone, Barnet and Wolves 1982-96 
  8. Coventry City. The Classic Talbot Cars kit. 1982-83
  9. Hull City. Alemania-Aachen, Borussia Dortmund (Both Germany), Moss, Start (Both Norway) 1982-86
  10. Norway 1982-86

The original 384 - Everton and Birmingham in 1982.

  1. Sweden, Port Vale 2nd 1982-84
  2. Luton Town 1982-84
  3. Aston Villa 1982-84
  4. Originally a simple blue kit, this was Birmingham City, Everton, and Gillingham. On the 1983 poster, the colour darkens, and it becomes Dunkirque (France), and HJK (Finland) only. Two different kits, or just poster differences ??1982-83
  5. Aldershot 1982-86
  6. Shrewsbury Town 1982-83
  7. Bristol Rovers 1982-96
  8. Burnley 1982-86
  9. Hull City 1982 only
  10. Preston North End 1982-84

By 1990 393 is darker, and 397 has changed socks and trim.

398 Sampdoria always looks the same in the catalogues, but 15 years of production have seen variations. The figure on the left is a 1980s version with shorts and sock trim. The figure on the right is mid 1990s, with white socks, a clearer badge, and a plain blue shirt back. A Scudetto version also exists.
  1. Reading, Morton, Home Farm (Eire), MSV Duisburg (Germany) 1982-86
  2. Charlton, Nottingham Forest, Denmark, Southend Utd 2nd 1982-91
  3. Northern Ireland, Corbeil (France), Germany 2nd 1982-96
  4. Swansea City 1982-85
  5. Unknown
  6. Unknown
  7. Uruguay 1983-96
  8. Sampdoria (Italy) 1983-96
    9.
  9. Gremio FB PA (Brazil) 1983-86
  10. Vasco Da Gama (Brazil) 1983-86

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