A Wembley Flag Flying For The 1966 World Cup Final

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A Wembley Flag Flying For The 1966 World Cup Final

Club Historian John Hutchinson describes a truly unique and valuable memento from England’s FIFA World Cup triumph in 1966, which is now part of Leicester City’s Heritage Collection.

2026-06-18T14:20+01:00

by John Hutchinson

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18 Jun, 2026

A Wembley Flag Flying For The 1966 World Cup Final

Club Historian John Hutchinson describes a truly unique and valuable memento from England’s FIFA World Cup triumph in 1966, which is now part of Leicester City’s Heritage Collection.

John Hutchinson

2026-06-18T14:20+01:00

A Wembley Flag Flying For The 1966 World Cup Final

Club Historian John Hutchinson describes a truly unique and valuable memento from England’s FIFA World Cup triumph in 1966, which is now part of Leicester City’s Heritage Collection.

John Hutchinson

2026-06-18T14:20+01:00

A Wembley Flag Flying For The 1966 World Cup Final

Club Historian John Hutchinson describes a truly unique and valuable memento from England’s FIFA World Cup triumph in 1966, which is now part of Leicester City’s Heritage Collection.

John Hutchinson

2026-06-18T14:20+01:00

A Wembley Flag Flying For The 1966 World Cup Final

Club Historian John Hutchinson describes a truly unique and valuable memento from England’s FIFA World Cup triumph in 1966, which is now part of Leicester City’s Heritage Collection.

John Hutchinson

2026-06-18T14:20+01:00

It is a well-known fact that on 30 July, 1966, Leicester City’s Gordon Banks was a World Cup winner as a member of the England team which defeated West Germany 4-2 after extra-time in the final at Wembley.

Flying above Wembley Stadium on that historic occasion were 22 large cloth flags, each measuring 3.6 metres x 1.8 metres. The flag pictured above was one of them. A study of photographs confirms that it flew above one of the Wembley scoreboards.

It was donated to the Club in 2016 by lifelong Foxes fan Keith Phillips, who lived in Wangurai on New Zealand’s North Island. Born in Mountsorrel, Keith remembered, as a seven-year-old, watching Arthur Rowley play at Filbert Street in the 1950s before his family moved to New Zealand in 1964.

Keith returned to England for three years in 1967, during which time he watched most of Leicester’s matches, home and away. He bought the flag in 1969 for £2/10/0 (£2.50) in a Soho second-hand shop where it was on sale as a painter’s drop sheet! Its provenance has since been confirmed by flag specialists.

Keith turned down the National Football Museum’s interest in the flag, offering it to City instead. He made this decision because of Banks’ connection to Leicester and because of his desire for the flag to find a home at the Club he had always supported.

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