August! The most hopeful month of the football year, when every fan thinks their side has has won the transfer window and H.M.S. Piss The League has set sail. Picking up new shirts spikes in August too, whether it’s the brand new club replica, or going all in on a costly but oh so cool vintage shirt for opening day sartorial smoothness.

In this edition of Auction Action, we bring you a mammoth 20 shirts! Yep, August was a fine month for Hull City player-issue and vintage resale shirts, and Mike Carter is here to track them… 

Five of the 20 shirts we will cover are player-issue/match-worn, including one that sold for £800! So, let’s get cracking… 

First up, we have this 2003/04 long-sleeved away shirt by Patrick that was worn by Jamie Forrester. It eventually sold for £199.99, after initially being listed at around £350, before being gradually reduced to its selling price. This technique isn’t necessarily the best way to get interest in an item, as you may price a potential buyer out, but it can lead to finding an item’s true value. 

We have given this shirt the benefit of the doubt and included it in player shirt sales. This shirt was listed as a match-worn Damien Delaney 2005/06 away shirt, and there is no real reason for us to question that, but the seller didn’t include an image of the back of the shirt, causing slight concern.

You can just make out the back of the shirt in a picture of the care label. I don’t think there was any malice in not including the image; it was probably just an error, but it may have been a costly error, as the shirt sold for just £56.04.

One of Ben Amos’ 2012/13 goalkeeper jerseys by adidas in ‘Alarm Orange’ was available for the great price of £79.99. It was listed as a buy-it-now item and sold for the asking price.

We’ve said in the past that poppy shirts don’t tend to hold their value on the resale market. This is because the premium paid on poppy shirts that isn’t there on regular match-worn shirts is a charity donation, which people who might bid on such a shirt when it’s resold aren’t obliged to refund. We have a great example of that here. This Paul McKenna issued/worn poppy shirt from 2011/12 was listed at £78.68 and sold for the asking price.

This Allan McGregor 2017/18 goalkeeper jersey by adidas featuring a WWF patch sold in August. The World Wide Fund for Nature appliques was used in a game against Sunderland and shirts were later auctioned by the club. This shirt has been fully signed by the squad of 2017/18 and came with the COA provided by the club. £167.08 was the price paid for this shirt by its new owner.

The final player spec. item for August is the highest value shirt we’ve covered some time for Auction Action. It was sold by Hull City via their new Auction platform on Tiger Leisure. It was worn by Oli McBurnie for his Hull City home debut against Oxford United on Sunday 17th August 2025.

McBurnie assisted both first-half goals before scoring a 93rd-minute winner. The winning bid was a ridiculous £800, but it is clear to see that the winning bidder is very happy with their new “Tee-shirt” – as seen on TikTok – just search for @itsjayinaday.

For the second time this year, we’ve been able to cover a goalkeeper jersey from 1999/00 by Avec. These shirts are pretty rare, and backing up the navy one that sold in May is this green one, just three months later. This one was listed as a medium/large and sold for £70.36.

The 1993-95 away shirt by Pelada has always sold well and featured regularly in Auction Action. This one in size XL sold for £130.68 – a price which is fairly consistent with the last year or so.

A medium 1995-97 away shirt by Super League, you know the one made famous by the Renford Rejects, sold for an offer after being listed at £99.48. As you know, it is impossible to be sure what the shirt sold for

We have a pair of 2000/01 away shirts by Avec up next. The first one, which is size medium, was listed at £78.68, but sold using the best offer feature. The second 00/01 away shirt sold for £77.08, but this time is a size large. Looking at the list prices, there wasn’t much in it all, giving the idea that the listings were fairly priced.  

A 2001/02 away shirt by Patrick in size 3XL was available last month. Strangely (to me anyway), it only sold for £39.05 after just 3 bidders placed bids. Shirts in size 3XL (or 50-52”) don’t come up that often on the resale market, so I would have expected this to surpass the £50 mark. Anyway, as you were.

The printed replica shirt market was HOT in August. Shirts spanning the 90s, two-thousands and twenty-tens were all up for grabs!

This 1998/99 home shirt by Olympic, in size medium and printed with #3 Rioch on the back. This shirt sold for £115. Typography fans will notice the number style is what the Premier League used between 1997 and 2007, and City were certainly not in the Premier League in 1998/99, dubbed the ‘Great Escape’ season as we looked unlikely to remain in the Football League at the end of 1998.

The club shop did not offer shirt printing at that point, so that Rioch home shirt and this 1998/99 away shirt by Olympic in size medium, printed with #5 Whittle on the back may have been taken to a city centre sports shop and it was they who added the name and number. JJB in Princes Quay offered this service for example. £136.59 was paid by the winning bidder to add this shirt into their possession.

In case you’re wondering, the club shop introduced shirt printing the following season, 1999/2000, which was the first in which the Football League had player names and squad numbers.

The fourth goalkeeper jersey to feature is this 2005/06* top by Diadora in size L, printed with #1 Myhill. This shirt also has competition patches added , too! It was listed at £99.99 and sold for the buy-it-now asking price.

*The listing says 2004/05 but the ‘Electrical’ is much smaller on the 2005/06 kits.

We continue with the legend prints, with a pair of shirts baring the name Windass! This first one is from 2006/07 and is a home shirt by Diadora in XL, with #20 Windass on the reverse. It sold for £41.03.

The second shirt with the name of City’s first-ever Wembley hero is a 2008/09 home shirt by Umbro, in size XXL with long sleeves with #9 Windass printed. Fifteen bids on this shirt saw the final price settle at £38.

A 2009/10 home shirt by Umbro, in XL with #8 Barmby on the back sold for £35.04. A lot of these shirts have finished at a similar price this month, meaning they’ve either found their value or over saturation gave buyers too many options.

Our penultimate shirt this month comes from 2010/11 and is a home shirt by adidas in XL, printed with #7 and the surname of Australian Richard Garcia. This shirt has the Neil Hudgell sponsor on the back, but it doesn’t have competition patches, making this likely just a supporter’s shirt. It sold for just £21.07 – the cheapest shirt we’ve covered from August.

Closing us out in August in this adidas 2011/12 home shirt in XXL, printed with the name of popular right back and former head coach Liam Rosenior! Also featuring the back of shirt sponsor, it sold for a modest £30.05 after 4 bidders placed 9 bids between them.

That’s yer lot for August, we’ll be back next month with September’s offerings.

Caveat emptor!

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