Bradford City was formed in 1903 evolving from Manningham FC that was originally established as a rugby union club in 1880. A leading figure in Bradford, Alfred Ayrton orchestrated the historic switch in codes from Rugby to association football.

Alfred was President of Bradford City from 1903 until 1907, prior to the club being registered as a Limited Liability Company in 1908. The Presidents badge below belonged to Alfred Ayrton and was subsequently given to a family friend by the Ayrton family.

That family friend subsequently auctioned the badge at a local auction house in 2014 and I was lucky enough to buy it. It is generic President badge from that era, but comes with provenance.

A gentleman contacted via by my old website saying that he had 3 old Bradford City Badges that he would be happy to sell them to me.

The 3 badges date from the early 1920s. The oval Supporters Club badge is very rare, as is the Committee badge.

However as far as I am aware, the Vice President’s badge has never been catalogued anywhere before.

What makes the badges even more special is that they came packaged in their small original cardboard Fattorini boxes, wrapped up in their original tissue paper.

I produced a set of 8 badges to commemorate the historic 2013 Capital One Cup run when League 2 Bradford City progressed through to the Wembley Final ultimately losing to Swansea. On the way to the final, they beat Arsenal at Valley Parade on penalties, prior to beating Aston Villa over 2 legs to reach the final.

Each badge features the day and date of the fixture, the venue, attendance, Club logos, kit colours, result, as well as the Bradford City scorer’s.

The set shown in the photo above is autographed by every squad member whose name is featured on any of the badges, as well as the then Bradford City Manager, Phil Parkinson.

This set was produced to commemorate the 1911 Bradford City Cup win in 1911.

The badges feature the date of the fixture, the round, venue, attendance, kit colours, the Bradford City players names, scorers, and result.

The badges were produced in different metal platings as featured in the League Cup section of the website.

In 2010, I commissioned 3 separate badge issues to mark the 25th anniversary of the Bradford City fire tragedy to raise money for the Bradford Burns Unit. The first set of 4 badges was a Limited Edition of 250 and featured the Boar’s Head shield in 3 different enamel colours, the 4th badge in the set was Silver and also sold as a single badge. Because the release was so popular and quickly sold out, I decided to commission another set of 4 badges (as featured above) to raise more money for the Burns Unit.

This set of badges celebrates Bradford City’s successful play off campaign in 2013. City beat Burton Albion in the Semi Final, before returning to Wembley for their second visit of the season, beating Northampton 3-0 to secure promotion to Division 1.

These set of badges were commissioned by the One in a Million charity as a fundraiser. Just 25 sets of the 4 badges were produced for badge collectors, but 925 badges in the Antique Bronze were sold to supporters.

This is another badge that dates from 2010 and this badge depicts the bronze commemorative sculpture that adorns the main stand at Valley Parade to remember the 56 people that died in the Bradford City fire tragedy. This was a limited edition set of 56 badges.

The cumulative sale of all these badges raised in excess of £5000 for the Bradford Burns Unit.

This is the favourite badge that I have ever produced.

The Bobby Campbell badge set were commissioned in 2012 to coincide with Paul Firth’s book launch about the Bradford City legend. There were only 25 sets produced @ £25 per set of 4 badges. Each set was individually signed by Bobby Campbell and all proceeds donated back to Bradford City.

Bingley Bantams commissioned a limited edition set of badges in 2017 for their members and collectors. Only 25 sets were produced and the set cost £20