News
06/09/2024 Retrocrafts will be taking a short break between Wednesday 11th September and Friday 27th September. Although it will be possible to order, there will be no shipping between those dates and there may be slight delays due to backlog when we return. Get your orders in before Midnight Tuesday 10th to ensure shipping prior to our break!
16/08/2024 We did previously advise of some disruption to outgoing orders on Monday 19th and Tuesday 20th August. We can now report that this will not be the case and postage will be as normal on these dates
12/08/2024 I am very pleased to say that the English Tier 9 Counties Leagues sets are ready to go and will be released today. I get so much feedback about how important it is to my customers that I publish ladders to this level of English football, and I am very grateful for the support that I receive from the non league community!
As with our Scotland Tier 6 Regional Leagues sets, the Counties Leagues sets feature artwork remembering four of the national team's most fondly remembered strips! I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed creating them!
10/08/2024 Our France, Spain, Italy and Germany sets are out now. This weekend I am working hard to get the England tier 9 sets completed with a view to getting them up and available to buy from the website by Monday.
07/08/2024 We will not be posting orders out on Monday 19th and Tuesday 20th August. Any orders due to be shipped on those dates will go out on Wednesday 21st August. (We normally aim to post same or next working day)
07/08/2024 *Edit: As the France, Spain, Italy and Germany sets have now been completed, I'm going to get them released a little earlier - watch out for them in the next couple of days. There may be no product images for a day or two, but they follow the design style of the 2024/25 ladders currently on sale. (Italy has a wider ladder card as it features five divisions and will ship pre-folded like the Retro style ladders)
07/08/2024: Just an update on England Tier 9 (Counties Leagues) - all being well, these will be released towards the end of the weekend - I'm aiming for Monday 12th August at the latest. These will be across 4 sets comprising the 16 divisions that make up English Football's 9th tier. Believe me when I say that putting these sets together has been a monumental task.
I am also putting the finishing touches to the four Continental sets that we are covering this year - those are Germany, Italy, Spain and France. I'm hoping to also have those sets out around about the same time, although they could run to the weekend after. The top divisions in those leagues kick off on the weekend commencing 16th August, for France and Spain and the weekend after for Germany & Italy. For the first time this season, we'll be covering Serie C in Italy, The Primera Federacion in Spain and the Championnat National 1 in France, none of which I believe we have done before! (*See Edit)
*Edit: As the France, Spain, Italy and Germany sets have now been completed, I'm going to get them released a little earlier - watch out for them in the next couple of days.
05/08/2024: Our Scotland Tier 6 Regional Leagues sets are out today, with artwork remembering two of Scottish football's most fondly remembered national team strips!
29/07/2024: Our Scottish Highland & Lowland Leagues (Tier 5) set is out now!
Also, from today we are trialling a new packaging method for our own design ladders which will reduce the amount of plastic packaging that we use by two thirds.
28/07/2024: Following the latest updates on FC Bordeaux, It remains unclear at this stage whether Bordeaux will be admitted to either National 1 or National 2 and as our France set for 2024 contains National 1, we must regrettably delay release.
22/07/2024: So our Spain, France, Germany and Italy sets are pretty much done. We are awaiting the outcomes of a couple of situations prior to publishing those sets. Most worrying is the situation faced by the once powerhouse of French football, FC Bordeaux who currently appear to be on the brink of bankruptcy. They have administratively been relegated to the Championnat National pending an appeal that they were confident of winning. However that confidence was based on their likely takeover by the Fenway group. It is now understood that that deal has collapsed. We will publish that and the other European sets when we know Bordeaux' fate.
We are also looking forward to publishing our Scottish Highland and Lowland League Set and are targeting Monday 29th July for that.
13/07/24: Our Northern Premier League, Southern Football League and Isthmian League sets are now available to order.
10/07/24: England, Scotland and National League are now out! Images to follow for Scotland and National League but have a look at the images on the England set to get an idea what they're like.
Updates on everything else - Northern Premier League is done and will be released when the Southern and Isthmian sets are ready. France, Italy, Spain and Germany should also be out in the next two weeks or so. Last ones to be released will be the Highland and Lowland Scottish Leagues, Scotland Tier 6 & 7, and England tier 9.