Matchday programme
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A matchday programme or match programme is a booklet associated with a live sporting event which details the proposed starting lineup and other details of the match. To some spectators, the purchase of a matchday programme is part of the "ritual" of attending football and hurling matches in Britain and Ireland.[1][2] Until 2018, the printing of matchday programmes was compulsory for English Football League games.[3][4]
Souvenir programmes are also collected as sports memorabilia, and rare FA Cup Final matchday programmes have fetched in excess of £35,000 at auction houses such as Sotheby's.[5][6] Matchday programmes from early 20th-century hurling and Gaelic football games are also collected in Ireland,[7] and a programme from the 1913 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was sold at auction in 2018 for more than €2,000.[8]