Match Worn Shirts

Ofcourse they are worth more, not only are the shirts the players actually wear higher quality than the ones they sell (even when bigger clubs give you two options of Replica and Player Authentic even the player Authentic's are different to what the players actually wear) but they have been worn by the player in a match which makes it more collectable.

The problem is it's the Wild West out there. There are two types of player shirts, player issued and match worn. Players even at this level get issued with a number of shirts and they might not wear them all in a match, they might actually never wear them at all but they have been in the players possession and then there are the match worn ones. Many supposedly match worn shirts are just player issued ones that might never have been worn or used in a photon shoot etc. And then you get the ones sold that weren't even issued to the player, they are ones bought from the club shop or worse fakes being sold.

You just have to look at the YouTube Ellis Plattens attempt to get a match worn Messi Shirt where he even had issues with well renowned shirt traders

If anyone is interested this Youtube playlist of his journey to get a Match Worn Messi shirt is an entertaining and enligntning watch