Football Medals

Everyone is familiar with the sight of a winning football team passing the cup or trophy along the line before holding it aloft to cheering fans, but it is the football medals that each player receives that serve to recognise a person’s individual contribution. However, football medals come in a number of different types, from team medals to personalised custom football medals designed for one person only. They are generally round, made of gold, silver or bronze coated metal, with a ribbon enabling them to be worn around the neck. The more expensive football medals usually have high relief engravings of players in action or other appropriate imagery, while less expensive ones often feature designed centres.

It is personal football medals that bring back memories of sporting triumphs for people in subsequent years. This applies to fans of particular teams and players as well as those who are originally presented with them, something that has seen authentic football medals become sought after sporting memorabilia when sold at auction. Just recently two rare original football medals, an FA Cup winners one and the other, which was made for members of an amateur team following a victory over Juventus in the final of the defunct Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy, sold at auction for thousands of pounds each.

However, in addition to those most famous types of football medals, there are other types, which serve purposes such as commemorative presentations. Equally, different centres for football medals are available from shops like CJ Trophies, which enable people to decide on an appropriate one for the occasion. For example individualised custom football medals and ribbons can sometimes be given to a playing, or non-playing member of a football club to recognise long service. Football medals of this kind are also sometimes presented to a club as a memento of a special exhibition match or charity event.