Unfortunately we have very little information about these football cigarette cards, they were issued in 1936 by a company called Godfrey Phillips Ltd and according to the back of the card were a set of 50.
That is though the only info we’ve got, we cant find any record of Godfrey Phillips issuing any other sets of football cigarette cards but we would welcome any information to the contrary !!
As mentioned above there were 50 in the series but we have only been able to identify 30 of these so faras listed below;
Arsenal – C Bastin,
Aston Villa – Massie, Astley, Phillips
Birmingham City – Stoker
Brentford – Hopkins, Richards, McCulloch
Celtic – McGrory
Charlton Athletic – Hobbis
Chelsea – Bambrick
Derby County – Barker, Bowers, Napier
Everton – Dixie Dean, Sagar
Glasgow Rangers – Simpson
Grimsby Town – Bestall
Hearts – T Walker
Huddersfield Town – Young
Leicester City – E O’Callaghan
Liverpool – Cooper
Manchester City – Broox, P.Doherty, Tilson
Middlesbrough – G Camsell, R.Birkett
Newcastle United – Weaver
Portsmouth – Easson, F.Worrall
Sheffield Wednesday – Rimmer
Stoke City – Matthews
Sunderland – Carter, Connor
West Brom – Murphy
West Ham Utd – Marshall
A few examples of Godfrey Phillips football cigarette cards
As you can imagine these cards are pretty scarce now but we do have some for sale on our Footybits site, if your interested in these particular football cigarette cards simply click here.