Welcome to Auction Action, where we check out what fine Hull City apparel has been up for grabs online. In this instalment we’re looking at July’s best buys of the items that went under the virtual hammer. (Writes Mike Carter)
Our only match-worn shirt to cover this month is a 2010/11 ‘keeper jersey by adidas that was worn by Italian stopper Vito Mannone against Nottingham Forest on 5th March 2011.
It was initially listed as a ‘buy it now’ offer at a much higher price than it went for, £135.90. As a seller, this is probably the best way to find ‘the best price’, but it can take longer to find a sale.
In a modern world full of reproduction shirts and outright fakes, it is nice to see some shirts of genuine vintage appear online, and July was a really strong month for this.
This 1986-88 primary shirt by Admiral is just that! It isn’t often that these come up in popular sizes, but this one is a large, with a chest measurement of 41-43″ – due to age, that might not be correct anymore, but still, it is a good sign. The shirt sold for £286.69 and appears to be in great condition for its age.
A shirt which is quite popular on the resale market is the 1993/94 primary shirt by Pelada. This one is size XL and sold for an offer after being listed at £231.60. Within the title, though, was a note to ask potential buyers to read the description, and that was to inform any suitor of a hole in the back, which is hardly noticeable in the images, so fair play to the seller for being very honest here.
The 1995/97 change shirt by Super League featured prominently in a 1990s Nickleodeon TV show, giving it a profile beyond Tiger Nationals watching a side scratting around in the lower leagues. It was listed at £104.70, but sold via the best offer option – a nice pick up for the shirt’s new owner.
This 2001/02 primary shirt by Patrick in XL was available in July, and was listed at £78.80. It appears to have been sold using the best offer feature, which may have come into play based on some elements of the condition. The seller listed the shirt as “good vintage condition”, but the shirt does have some small holes in a prominent location on the front of the shirt.
We have a few GK elements to this edition of Auction Action, so I thought I would throw this one into the mixer, too. A 2005/06 Goalkeeper jersey by Diadora. This is one which I haven’t seen a load of in the past, so it certainly hit the threshold to be included in HCK AA! The shirt is size small and sold for £22.99.
We have included this shirt in the printed replica section because that is what we think it is, although it isn’t out of the realm of possibility that it isn’t more than that… This 2009/10 primary shirt by Umbro has been pimped up with competition patches and the name and number set of Nigerian Seyi Olofinjana.
The appliques all look pro-sized, but the club shop used the same felt-like Lextra Senscilia fabric numbers and letters that the player shirts had on replicas in the their first two Premier League seasons, leaving the door open to an awful lot of misinterpretation, hence the location of this shirt in the printed replica section. The shirt was listed in Indiana, USA for $59.99 – which, according to current information, is around £45.
Lastly, we have two sets of Goalkeeper gloves which were listed on eBay as part of a fundraiser by seller ‘mez1997’.
At least one of the pairs, those issued to, and signed by Dillon Phillips for the 2025/26 promotion season were donated by Ezbil Bozkurt (City’s current goalkeeping coach). They sold for £31.07 after two bidders battled it out.
The second set were those of former number one, Ivor Pandur, also from the 2025/26 season and also signed. These proved more popular, as you would imagine, after 5 people showed enough interest to bid, pushing the end price to £61.10 – there is no mention of a fundraiser nor if there were donations.
So that wraps up July with a couple of sets of safe hands – we’ll be back in September with August’s offerings after the Tigers kick off their 2026/27 Premier League journey.
Finally, we end each instalment with ‘Caveat Emptor!’, which is Latin for ‘Buyer Beware’, the principle that the buyer alone is responsible for checking the quality and provenance of goods before a purchase is made. There seems to be a tsunami of snides, a flood of fakes, a torrent of counterfeit tat when it comes to City shirts appearing online at the moment. The BBC reckon they’re a fire hazard, but either way they’re rather uncool. Do your research before buying, or you could end up with a dupe!
Caveat Emptor!