The book has incorporated a number of illustrations for many years, and since 1948 these have regularly included team photos of a few of the previous season's most successful sides. Like the older publication, it initially aimed to provided coverage of all football codes popular in England, including rugby football (both rugby union and rugby league after the codes split) in addition to association football.

Match Annual 2022 by MATCH | Waterstones

Two long-serving previous editors were 'Tityrus' (otherwise J A H Catton, editor of the Athletic News 1900–1924) [1] and Ivan Sharpe (c. Following the withdrawal of News of the World as sponsors, the Nationwide Building Society emerged to provide new sponsorship in 2008. This publication first appeared in 1887, produced by the Athletic News as a rival to the Football Annual. It contains information from the previous football season, and also contains updated records going back to the beginnings of organised football in the 1800s. This sponsorship lasted for two years, with the title Nationwide Football Annual being retained after the end of the sponsorship.Catch up with all the on-pitch action from your footballing heroes and favourite teams in the 2022 Annual, packed with exclusive interviews, profiles, stats and trivia, this year’s Annual is a must read for fans of all ages! Facsimile copies of the Athletic News Football Annuals for 1887-88 to 1900-01 and 1915-16 to 1918-19, were produced by the Association of Football Statisticians during the 1980s. The final edition to date was published in the summer of 2022 for the 2022-23 season, as no deal could be agreed between the authors and prospective publishers for the 2023-24 edition. Since 1985 the annual has also included very brief obituaries ('The Final Whistle') for selected former players and officials dying within the previous twelve months.

The Nationwide Football Annual 2022-2023 by Stuart Barnes

The Nationwide Football Annual is a compact British football reference book which is produced at the start of each football season. David Jack (1956–1958 – he also made later contributions, not to be confused with the England footballer of the same name); Malcolm Gunn (1958–1966); Frank Butler [2] (1961–1982); Patrick Collins (1967–1977); Harold Mayes (1978); Charles Sampson (1983–1984); Albert Sewell (1983–1997); Bill Bateson (1985–1994) and Eric Brown (1998–1999). Shoot official annual · a style qualified as annuals · an open height specified as "305" · an open width equivalent to "450" · this product are an officiAl · Used.