AFC Bournemouth 24 Days Of Football Advent Calendar

Under a streetlights meeting on Gladstone Road in the autumn of 1899, former players of Boscombe St. John’s Institute FC founded the Dorset club known today as AFC Bournemouth. The AFC Bournemouth 24 Days Of Football Advent Calendar honors that 1899 lineage and the club’s home beside the old King’s Park cherry orchards with a 24-piece hanging ornament collection built for December tree trimming and mantel displays.

Burgundy 4×6 Drawer Architecture and Vitality Stadium Night Artwork

Framed in antique-gold scrollwork beneath the header “COME ON YOU CHERRIES! CHRISTMAS ADVENT CALENDAR” and the lower banner “24 DAYS OF COLLECTIBLE ORNAMENTS,” the rigid paperboard collector sleeve depicts a snow-covered matchday evening outside Vitality Stadium (historically Dean Court since 1910). Supporters in cherry-red and black vertical stripes gather before the illuminated main stand beside a towering Christmas tree, wrapped gift boxes, and a fringed scarf, while the side spine carries the inscription “AFC BOURNEMOUTH CHRISTMAS ADVENT CALENDAR EST. 1899” beneath the diagonal Dickie Dowsett header shield crest.

Alongside the illustrated outer sleeve sits a freestanding burgundy paperboard cabinet organized into four columns and six rows of removable drawers numbered 01 through 24 in gold foil. Each drawer front includes snowflake corner detailing and a semi-circular top finger notch, paired with a crimson grosgrain ribbon pull loop on the right side of the housing.

Brass-Looped Vitality Stadium Replicas, Mascot Figures, and Matchday Ornaments

Every miniature inside this edition is fitted with a top brass eyelet ring so supporters can hang all 24 pieces directly on Christmas tree branches. Two architectural Vitality Stadium bowl ornaments anchor the set—one standard floodlit arena model and a winter variation paired with a miniature corner Christmas tree—accompanied by a white “VITALITY STADIUM MATCHDAY ADMIT ONE” ticket plaque, a red double-decker team bus, an antique-style gold mantel clock on an “AFC BOURNEMOUTH” plinth, and two gold field cannons.

Holiday and pitchside motifs fill the remaining compartments: a grinning cherry mascot wearing a Santa hat and red-and-black shirt (AFCS), Santa Claus ringing a golden handbell, a striped home jersey bearing the dafabet front sponsor, a crimson studded football boot, crest-stamped goalkeeper gloves, a fringed supporter scarf, a black-and-gold “COME ON YOU CHERRIES!” plaque, a goal net with football, a laurel-wreathed club shield, a corner flag, an “AFCB” Christmas tree, and five festive shapes (heart, bell, gift box, snowflake, and star). Families decorating multiple rooms for December can also pair this football tree set with the 2026 Heritage Christmas Ornament Advent Calendar for traditional seasonal branches.