Jari Litmanen captained Finland from 1996 to 2008 and is widely held to be the country’s greatest footballer, an attacking midfielder who played for Ajax, Barcelona and Liverpool. The stock behind this page reduces all of that to one item.
It is a 2001-03 Liverpool away shirt, Litmanen #37, graded 8/10, in 3XL, at around £108. The squad number is the tell: #37 is a number from the back of the list, not a first-team one.
The years that made his reputation leave nothing at all in this catalogue. There is no Ajax shirt of his and no Finland shirt. Finland has never reached a World Cup, which keeps its shirts almost entirely out of the international resale trade, and Dutch league printing from the 1990s is scarce in the British market this stock is drawn from.
The catalogue holds 35 Finland items, running from 1976 to 2024, and 16 of them are Match Issue with three more Match Worn. Almost half the Finnish stock in existence here was issued to a squad rather than sold in a shop, which is why the median Finland price is around £179 — far above the median for most countries — and the top listing reaches £599.
An 8/10 on a shirt of this age is a good grade: light wear, nothing structural. The size is the harder part — 3XL in 2001 sizing was cut boxy rather than fitted, so it will hang differently from a modern 3XL.
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