THE HOME OF FOOTBALL HOBBY CULTURE
Football is more than 90 minutes. Hobby FC is the home of collecting, culture, travel, gaming and everything in between.
EXPLORE THE HOBBY
5 FM Wonderkids Who Actually Lived Up To The Hype
What Really Happened to Federico Macheda
Why Emile Heskey Deserved His 2010 World Cup Call-Up
Craig Gordon on FM06: Hearts’ Broken Goalkeeper
Is the Monopoly World Cup Prizm Box Actually Worth It?
Romário at PSV: The Making of a Brazilian Legend (1988-93)
How to Start a Football Shirt Collection in 2026 Without Overpaying
How to Store Football Cards Properly (& Safely)
Ronaldo at Corinthians: The Story Behind R9’s Return to Brazil
How to Approach Your First Card Show
Saba Kharebashvili: The Next Real-Life FM 26 ‘Wonderkid’?
How to Spot Fake Football Shirts on Vinted
EXPLORE HOBBY FC
Explore the stories, guides and ideas that make football more than just 90 minutes.
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Hobby FC was created to make the football hobby easier to explore — whether you collect cards, shirts, stickers, memorabilia, stadiums, stories, or simply love the culture around the game. This is a place to discover more, collect smarter and enjoy football beyond the 90 minutes.
FROM THE JOURNAL
Before Barcelona, before the 1994 World Cup and before becoming one of the most recognisable footballers on the planet, Romário was terrorising…
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By the end of 2008, many believed Ronaldo Nazário’s career was over. Myself included. I was only 11 at the time, but…
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Wondering if the 2026 Monopoly World Cup Prizm FIFA World Cup box is worth buying? Discover what’s inside, the hit rate, and…
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As a self-confessed failed goalkeeper in my own time, I love a broken stopper. And when it comes to FM06, few come…
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As football games have become progressively more complicated these days, there’s clearly still a nostalgic love and desire to play FIFA Street.…
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I dread to think how many football cards I had in my earlier collection as a kid that have since been reduced…
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The art of an FM Wonderkid is to find someone in some faraway land with very little PR, unearth them and then…
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One of the areas that seem like a decent entry point into football cards is blaster boxes, so let’s look at it…
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I was an absolute fiend on FIFA 15 but always wanted to be ‘different’. That being said, even I had to relent…
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Newcomers, much like myself a few years ago, might think that PSA grading is enormously complicated and only for the ‘elites’ within…
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