Sampdoria

UC Sampdoria are Italian football's most elegantly turned out club, famous for the blucerchiato (blue-ringed) home shirt that places them among the most visually distinctive teams in Serie A history. The white, red, and black hoop on a blue shirt gives Sampdoria a look unlike anything else in Italian football, and the Genoa-based club's golden era in the early 1990s, which produced a Serie A title and a European Cup final, makes that shirt one of the great collector pieces of the entire period.

Founded in 1946 through a merger of two Genoese clubs, Sampdoria are based in Genoa, Liguria, and play at the Stadio Luigi Ferraris. Their honours include 1 Serie A title (1991), 4 Coppa Italia wins, and a European Cup final appearance in 1992. Nicknamed Blucerchiati (The Blue-Ringed).

The blue shirt with white, red, and black hoops across the chest is one of Italian football's most recognisable designs and what makes Sampdoria immediately identifiable. The Adidas kits of the early 1990s, worn by Gianluca Vialli, Roberto Mancini, and Attilio Lombardo during the championship and European Cup campaigns, are among the most sought-after Italian football shirts of the entire era. The clean simplicity of the hoop design gives every Sampdoria shirt from any period an aesthetic quality that collectors genuinely prize.