Football Shirt Authentication — Check If Your Jersey Is Real

How it works

Five photos, three minutes

You photograph the shirt. We compare what the camera sees against shirts we have handled and verified ourselves, and write up what the evidence supports.

Tell us what it is

Club, season, home or away, replica or player version — whatever you know. Only the club is required. Everything else just sharpens the comparison.

Upload five photos

Front, back, crest close-up, and the two internal labels at the neck and side seam. We check each photo is sharp enough before it uploads.

Read the report

An authenticity estimate, a separate confidence level for how strong the evidence actually was, and a plain-language explanation. Permanent link you can share with a seller.

Start your free check How we reach a verdict

Worked examples

Two shirts, examined in public

The same method, written out in full on real shirts — including one case we could not settle. This is what the reasoning behind a result looks like.

Manchester City 2021/22 Home — case study — Manchester City 2021/22 Home
A mismatched internal style number turned out to be the strongest evidence in the whole ten-photo review.
Owner-reported counterfeit

Olympique Lyonnais 2024/25 Home — case study — Olympique Lyonnais 2024/25 Home
Every code and label matched adidas' own record — and that is exactly what a counterfeiter copies first.
Contested, unresolved

Also here

Check a product code

If you already have the code from the neck or wash label, you can look it up against the batches we have verified in person. Our record is small and growing — 22 shirts so far — so a blank result means we haven’t handled that batch, not that your shirt is fake. The photo check is the thorough one.

Tag / hologram / product code

About to pay for a shirt?

Ask the seller for five clear photos before you send the money. The check is free, and it takes about as long as reading this page.

Check my shirt — free What you get back