The LEGO Group has released football-inspired sets of all shapes and sizes, from highly interactive, experimental sets to ones targeted at the older LEGO fan. Switching up the standard to offer a new avenue in the game, adidas launch Gamemode: a revolutionary new approach to football footwear, which celebrates a more human side of football, giving you the ultimate choice to express yourself on the pitch. Design: Consider whether your kids will prefer bright and bold colours or more subtle colour schemes when it comes to the style of their boots. Sets like 3409 Championship Challenge demonstrate this idea; you can create a conventional football pitch and enjoy a 6v6 match, or – as encouraged by the instruction manual – split up the components for more innovative pitch designs.

Designed for kids to play on every surface, whether that's artificial grass or soft grounds, these sustainable junior boots will have your kid’s back no matter what. The outside of the stadium is fairly sparse in comparison – offering a few trees, banners and a miniature Barca bus. Football players in this range come with Coca-Cola branding on the front of their torsos, although there are no numbers on the reverse of most of them. The Soccer Player appeared in Series 4 back in 2011, while an American football player followed him in Series 8 a year later. Thanks to a lace-free design, kids don’t have to worry about tying the perfect bow or their laces undoing mid-game, because once they’re ready to set foot on the pitch, this pair is easy to slip on and off.The stadium’s construction was completed in 1947, and can hold up 80,000 football fans simultaneously. As this set released relatively soon after 10272 Old Trafford – Manchester United, the two share some design characteristics like a modular design and grille bricks to represent seating.

This means that an all-women’s football match is easily possible, further extending the set’s appeal to LEGO fans.These saved you having to apply stickers to your minifigures, although this particular set does include both generic and Adidas-branded footballs for minifigures to play with. However, these blind bags also came with other minifigures including a goalkeeper (complete with number 1 on the back), a doctor, a cameraman, a hotdog seller and a referee. In an effort to end their use of virgin materials and reduce their impact on the environment, adidas have built the Gamemode boot with recycled materials. A variant of the generic team bus – 3406 French Team Bus – appeared in the same year that Zidane’s minifigure did.

Join us as we delve into LEGO’s long association with football, and the ways in which LEGO football sets have evolved over more than two decades. The stadium has even been used for other sports (including rugby league and rugby union) and functioned as a concert venue for artists like Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen. Winner of the 1998 Ballon d’Or and named FIFA World Player of the Year on three separate occasions, he is even now recognised as one of the world’s greatest football players. But if you’re on the hunt for a budget-friendly option, the Kipsta Kids’ Dry Pitch Lace-up Football Boots are a reliable pair of starter boots. Exterior features of the set include tiny statues of George Best, Denis Law, Sir Bobby Charlton and Sir Matt Busby.Whether you're playing on firm ground or a hard indoor surface or even outdoors in mud, these ombre multi-ground boots will bring your kid’s game to the next level. Another important feature is memorials to the Munich air disaster – which took the lives of 23 football players, club staff and journalists in 1958. The stands of the stadium use grille bricks, as their subtle texture mimics seating at the right scale. In short, if you’re a fan of any of these teams, these LEGO stadiums are an offbeat way to show your dedication.