1982 World Cup posters

1982 World Cup posters

For some editions of the World Cup, as well as a poster commemorating the host country, a poster for each host city was commissioned. I was recently lucky enough to share a house with the posters of some of the Spanish cities that hosted matches in 1982, but I have been unable to find an online resource displaying all of them. The posters are a fantastic piece of football art history so, for the sake of posterity, I am going to curate a collection of the works here (for ‘curate’ read ‘nick from other websites’).

Below are pictured the host country poster and the fourteen host city posters of the 1982 World Cup.


HOST COUNTRY

SpainJoan Miró
image via artistposter.com


HOST CITIES

AlicantePierre Alechinsky
via artistposter.com


BarcelonaAntoni Tàpies
via ebay’s carteles82


BilbaoEduardo Chillida
via Vintage European Posters


ElcheJiří Kolář
via artistposter.com


GijónGérard Titus-Carmel
via artistposter.com


La CoruñaErró
via artistposter.com


MadridEduardo Arroyo
via gal-123.com


MálagaRoland Topor
via carteles82


OviedoPol Bury
via artistposter.com


SevillaAntonio Saura
via artistposter.com


ValenciaValerio Adami
via carteles82


ValladolidVladimir Veličković
via artistposter.com


VigoJacques Monory
via artistposter.com


ZaragozaJean-Michel Folon
via artistposter.com



Adami’s Valencia is one of my favourites. The winged ball is begging to be made into a team crest:








How it would look on an Umbro shirt: