Welcome to Auction Action: the monthly low-down on Hull City apparel auction highlights. After Keeptember and Keeptober, months where goalkeeper jerseys were among the more notable listings, we’re progressing towards the end of the year, and seemingly Matchworn-mas… (writes Mike Carter, aka @MikeyCarter)

First up in November was a listing by, err, Hull City Kits. We had a duplicate of an unsponsored Admiral 1987/88 primary shirt in number 2 that was used by the Tigers’ youth team. It found a new home after selling fr £231.57.

The sale of the 1987/88 youth shirt allowed us to finance a move for this 1998/99 primary shirt from the first batch which featured fully embroidered club crests and a different neck tag to the replicas and the subsequent batch player shirts. The final price for the number 8 shirt was £227, but we weren’t the only interested party, 14 bidders made 23 bids to secure this piece of local sports history.

The matchworn shirts keep on coming this month as next up is this long sleeved 2000/01 change shirt that was worn by Mark Atkins. Match-worn shirts from most eras are quite rare and sought after, so it didn’t come as much of a surprise to us when this one went as high as £180. I would say it’s not often these come up, but if you check back next month, you will see another!

David Meyler formed cult hero status during his time at City, so it did come to us as a major shock when this 2015/16 home shirt worn by the Irishman sold for just £70.77. Timing is everything with selling on eBay and it could have been possible that this ended at the wrong time, but we’re fairly sure the new owner won’t mind that one bit…

Now we will move into the replica sales, starting with this 1990-92 primary shirt in size small. It was listed at £84 with the best offer option active. The price is about right and reflects the size of the shirt.

As we see a slight step up in size, we see a slight step up in value here too. Now we have another 1990-92 home shirt, but this time in medium. This sold for £92, again, this is about right for the size of the shirt, compared with historical sales.

Auction Action doesn’t feel complete unless we have a tiger print shirt or two to cover, so who are we to let you down! Here is a pair of 1992/93 home shirts both in size small, with quite the difference in sale price. Both were listed as auctions, but there was around £59 different in the end values. The first sold for £104 on the 6th November and the second sold for £162.88 on 27th November.

The ‘limited edition’ shirt released during 1994/95 has been one that has held its value in and around the £200 mark for as long as we have been covering Auction Action, especially those in sizes large to XXL. This one is size XL and will likely have sold for around £179.99, after a best offer was executed.

This next shirt was the ‘bargain of the month’ in the Hull City replica world as someone picked up a 1997/98 home shirt in XXL for just £24.99! The last time we saw one of these sell in XXL was in May of this year and it sold for £109.99.

The ‘purple cactus’ third shirt from 2016/17 divided a lot of the fanbase at the time of its release, of which the cracks became more uneven after a narrow defeat at Watford and a thumping at Bournemouth, but to me it will always be a stunner. This one in size XL sold for £27 during November.

When a listing includes ‘Match worn?’ you should always have doubts. This 1999/00 home shirt with Edwards #7 on the back finally sold after being listed on eBay for a very long time. The best offer option was exercised after being listed at £119.99. Match worn shirts from this season would feature sleeve patches (and don’t give me pre-season, we wore an entirely different kit in friendly games) and would all be in a bigger size than this one.

He was that good, they named him twice! This 2007/08 home shirt printed with the name of Jay-Jay Okocha and Coca-Cola football league patches sold for £109.99. This is above what we would expect, but there is no direct comparison in our data base. However, there will be next time.

Another 2007/08 home shirt with personalisation was available in November. This time printed with the name of Bryan Hughes. The shirt was listed as match-worn, and even though we can’t prove that it isn’t match-worn, it doesn’t have the GEMTEC sponsor on the reverse of the shirt that we would expect to see on match-worn shirts from our promotion campaign. The fact it only attracted one bidder and sold for £50 tells me that plenty of other would be suitors thought the same as we did at HCK HQ, hence finding its way into the printed replica section of Auction Action.

This one raised my eyebrows when it popped up as a new listing. It appears to be a 2010/11 home shirt printed with Ashbee #4. It also has the Neil Hudgell solicitors branding which was used by the first team on player specification shirts. The interesting point here being the shirt is size XXL. Ashbee used to like a baggy fit, but we think that this will have been a bit too excessive to be a player issue shirt. The seller also had many other shirts listed, all of a similar size, meaning we weren’t keen on taking the risk on this shirt as it finished up at £40.

The final printed replica for this months’ edition is this 2018/19 away shirt printed up with Fraizer Campbell’s name and number. A quick sale at the asking price of £35 sold this one in no time at all.

A bonus inclusion in Auction Action is this early 90s tracksuit made my Matchwinner. A true original retro piece of merchandise and it sold for £82. The only thing going against it was its size. The fact it has a 38″ chest would have meant the target audience would have been lower.

Remembrance fixture poppy shirts were once again available via the MatchWornShirt website, the 2022 editions were worn in the 2-1 defeat Against Reading on 12th November. Following on where he left off in 2021, Jacob Greaves once again commanded one of the top fees, replacing the departed Keane Lewis-Potter for the most valued shirt. The £523 paid was around £100 more than his shirt raised a year ago. Regan Slater was the only other player to break the £400 barrier with his shirt, followed by Greg Docherty on £325.

Here’s what each shirt sold for…

Jacob Greaves – £523
Regan Slater – £402
Greg Docherty – £325
Jacob Greaves 2 (MI) – £285
Nathan Baxter 2 (MI) – £280
Ryan Longman – £280
Cyrus Christie 2 – £278
Dimitris Pelkas 2 – £278
Ozan Tufan – £276
Nathan Baxter – £262
Dimitris Pelkas – £258
Greg Docherty 2 – £258
Alfie Jones – £255
Jean Michael Seri – £255
Regan Slater 2 (MI) – £255
Ozan Tufan 2 (MI) – £235
Cyrus Christie – £234
Dogukan Sinik – £233
Tobias Figueiredo – £219
Jean Michael Seri 2 – £212
Dogukan Sinik 2 (MI) – £191
Ryan Woods – £189
Tobias Figueiredo 2- £188
Lewie Coyle – £188
Ryan Longman 2 (MI) – £187
Matt Ingram (MI) – £167
Sean McLoughlin (MI) – £167
Alfie Jones – £166
Lewie Coyle 2 (MI) – £166
Ryan Woods 2 – £165
Callum Elder (MI) – £143
Tyler Smith (MI) – £143
Brandon Fleming (signed only) – £122