LFA is a not for profit, independent Arts and Culture organization celebrating the worldwide social phenomena of football games through history. We strive to protect and preserve original material and to provide access to well researched information concerning the creation and meaning of all that surrounds these popular ball games. Specialist in-house research includes the development of footballs and football kit & equipment and the early origins of football games in Europe. The LFA on-loan & reference collection has around 30% of the original Association and Rugby Union HLC components, representing over 50 countries and with additional and complementary material. It includes a range of original fine artwork; such as oil and watercolour paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture and ceramics and examples of equipment. It holds many images (photographic and printed), mostly from 1830-2000. These include those representing football’s town and village, military, school and university contexts, women’s football, social & commercial history and elements of the FIFA-Langton collection. There and many other cultural topics such a sport injury, hooliganism, discrimination, drinking, gambling and smoking cultures. Partnership agreements and affiliations with other small private collections enables a wide reach to locate particular information and images.