The latest club to enjoy the use of Subbuteo to aid player development is Irish Premiership side Glentoran. Their 08/09 development team in the club’s academy, managed by Chris Lyttle, enjoyed an interactive classroom session involving a Subbuteo pitch and video clips. Former Glentoran defender Michael Ferguson also joined in….
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First look at the new Nigeria World Cup 2018 Subbuteo team
After Italian company Centauria revealed it was launching a Subbuteo set based on the Nigeria World Cup kit of 2018 we have been eagerly awaiting news of the team. Now the first look at the team has been revealed and the detail on the kit is staggering. The kit, which…
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Subbuteo in the stadium at Serie A match
Seven Subbuteo pitches were set up in and around the stadium before the recent Serie A clash between Lazio and Fiorentina at the Olympic Stadium in Rome. A collaboration between the SS Lazio Table Football Club and the Lazio club saw three stands in different locations in the ground to…
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Subbuteo World of Sport Compendium sells on eBay for a surprising price
A Subbuteo set dubbed one of the rarest, largest and most expensive ever made has been sold on auction website eBay for a bargain price. The 1981 Subbuteo World of Sport Compendium is the Holy Grail for many Subbuteo collectors because it combines four full Subbuteo box sets in one…
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Does the UK need club licenses to get Subbuteo back on sale?
It’s now three years since we last saw an official Subbuteo team released in the UK. The return of Subbuteo thanks to Paul Lamond Games and Hasbro in 2012 saw a number of teams released both licensed and unlicensed. The “big six” were the English clubs that had licenses, namely…
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Official UEFA Champions League competition for Subbuteo was planned
A competition for Subbuteo players to be run under the UEFA Champions League brand has been scuppered. UEFA and Subbuteo struck a deal for the production of sets, teams and accessories until at least 2020, and part of that deal was to include some promotional events, where players and teams…
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New La Leggenda Platinum collection could yet be made available to UK fans
Demand could see the new Subbuteo La Leggenda Platinum Edition made available to fans in the UK and beyond. The collection launched in August and will include 80 teams in total, based on the best national teams in history. Produced by Centauria s.r.l. hey are currently only available in Italy…
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What does Subbuteo’s cryptic message mean for the future of the game?
The official Subbuteo Twitter account sent out a cryptic tweet at a relatively quiet time on the platform in the Subbuteo community. At 9.15pm on a Wednesday evening the account sent an intriguing message that talked of Subbuteo being ‘back’ – and hinted at some big news on the horizon….
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The children’s book that encapsulates the beauty of Subbuteo
Being the son of a librarian, my childhood was full of reading – mainly as much sports fiction as possible. That’s how I discovered the book “The Table Football League” a copy of which I still own today. The story centres around young Noel Hooper, who receives a Subbuteo set…
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The Nigeria World Cup kit in Subbuteo form has already been created by one fan
A fully licensed Subbuteo team wearing Nigeria’s green and white zig-zag World Cup kit from 2018 is on its way – but one Subbuteo fan has already beaten them to it. Just days after we reported Italian company Centauria was planning to build a vintage-style Nigeria team as part of…