{"id":96753,"date":"2026-07-17T11:01:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shipstation.com\/stories\/the-soccer-archive\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T11:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:10:17","slug":"the-soccer-archive","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/www.shipstation.com\/en-gb\/stories\/the-soccer-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"How The Soccer Archive Keeps Up With World Cup Demand, One Vintage Shirt at a Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fifa.com\/en\/tournaments\/mens\/worldcup\/canadamexicousa2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">World Cup<\/a> summer doesn&#8217;t creep up, it erupts. Flags show up in windows that never had them before. National colours flood the streets on strangers who couldn&#8217;t tell you the offside rule the rest of the year. Old songs get sung again, old rivalries reheat, and shirts that have sat quietly in a drawer for twenty years suddenly matter again. For a shop that sells nothing but vintage football shirts, that eruption isn&#8217;t background noise, it&#8217;s the entire season. Order volume can climb as much as 500% on the biggest match days, and the energy on the shop floor matches it\u2014loud, packed, and a little bit electric.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rob Armin has built <a href=\"http:\/\/thesoccerarchive.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Soccer Archive<\/a> to run on exactly that kind of energy. He&#8217;s spent 20 years in the vintage football shirt business, thirteen of them working for one of his biggest competitors before deciding to build something of his own. Five years ago, he and a former colleague launched the company. Today it runs a warehouse and store in Manchester, a store in Soho, London, and a store in Milan, shipping vintage shirts to fans across the UK, Italy, the US, South Korea, and beyond.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Armin, the business was never just a business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-shipstation-testimonial block not-prose\">\n    <div class=\"\">\n        <div class=\"container\">\n                        <div class=\"testimonial-contained-bg bg-green\">\n            \n                            <div class=\"testimonial-stack\">\n                                                    <div class=\"testimonial-item testimonial-item--align-left testimonial-item--pos-side testimonial-item--img-quote\">\n                            <div class=\"testimonial-item__quote-mark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span><\/span><\/div>\n            \n            <div class=\"testimonial-item__content\">\n                                    <div class=\"testimonial-item__quote\">\n                        <p>It just became a job from passion. It became a job, and now it&#8217;s a business.<\/p>\n                    <\/div>\n                \n                                    <div class=\"testimonial-item__attribution\">\n                                                    <div class=\"testimonial-item__person\">Rob Armin \u2014 Founder<\/div>\n                                                                            <div class=\"testimonial-item__business\">The Soccer Archive<\/div>\n                                            <\/div>\n                \n                            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                                            <\/div>\n            \n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That passion shows up in the smallest details, like the France 2011 shirt he still owns himself, or the loyal customer in Dubai who buys every Will Grigg shirt the shop can find, just because he&#8217;s decided to support a cult hero from Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"674\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shipstation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/the-soccer-archive-shipstation-1024x674.webp\" alt=\"the soccer archive shipstation\" class=\"wp-image-96733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shipstation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/the-soccer-archive-shipstation-1024x674.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.shipstation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/the-soccer-archive-shipstation-768x505.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.shipstation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/the-soccer-archive-shipstation.webp 1073w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"h-building-shipping-right-from-day-one\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Building shipping right from day one<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Armin already knew what good shipping software looked like. His former employer, where he spent 13 years before setting out on his own, ran on <a href=\"http:\/\/shipstation.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ShipStation<\/a>. So when he and a former colleague built The Soccer Archive&#8217;s website, they briefly pieced shipments together through individual courier sites, Royal Mail, DHL, FedEx, keying in the same details for every order. It didn&#8217;t last long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Knowing exactly what worked, the new company moved onto ShipStation almost as soon as the site went live, pulling orders straight from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shipstation.com\/partners\/shopify\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Shopify<\/a> instead of juggling separate carrier platforms. 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Before finalizing a shipment, Armin can compare carrier prices instantly, switching from one courier to another with a single dropdown change and catching savings of \u00a315 or more on a single package. Multiplied across dozens of orders a day, those small comparisons add up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"558\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shipstation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/the-soccer-archive-world-cup-1024x558.webp\" alt=\"the soccer archive world cup\" class=\"wp-image-96741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shipstation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/the-soccer-archive-world-cup-1024x558.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.shipstation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/the-soccer-archive-world-cup-768x419.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.shipstation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/the-soccer-archive-world-cup.webp 1073w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"h-when-the-world-cup-hits-the-numbers-move-fast\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">When the World Cup hits, the numbers move fast<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tournament summers test every part of Armin&#8217;s operation. Orders for competing nations start climbing months before kick-off and keep building as the tournament goes on. On a typical World Cup day, that&#8217;s a 100% jump in order volume. On the biggest match days, daily orders climb from a standard 80 to 90 towards 200.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shipping automation is what keeps that surge from turning into chaos. The same rules that route orders between UK and Italian carrier accounts on a quiet Tuesday still hold up when volume spikes overnight. Armin&#8217;s team can focus on getting shirts out the door, not on figuring out which carrier account each order should use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s a human side to that speed, too. Every shirt The Soccer Archive ships carries some kind of story: a shirt tied to a specific match or player a fan remembers, a national team shirt headed to a diaspora community abroad, or a vintage find that feels more meaningful than anything off a shelf today. Fans buying vintage are often chasing a memory attached to a particular shirt, or choosing a piece of history over something that will end up in landfill within the year. Getting that shirt into their hands quickly, especially during a tournament, is part of what makes the moment land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"h-built-to-grow-with-the-business\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Built to grow with the business<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Soccer Archive has grown from a two-person startup to a company with three retail locations and a customer base that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shipstation.com\/en-gb\/fulfillment\/shipping\/international\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">spans the globe<\/a>. Shipping automation has been part of that growth from the start rather than something bolted on later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-shipstation-testimonial block not-prose\">\n    <div class=\"\">\n        <div class=\"container\">\n                        <div class=\"testimonial-contained-bg bg-green\">\n            \n                            <div class=\"testimonial-stack\">\n                                                    <div class=\"testimonial-item testimonial-item--align-left testimonial-item--pos-side testimonial-item--img-quote\">\n                            <div class=\"testimonial-item__quote-mark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span><\/span><\/div>\n            \n            <div class=\"testimonial-item__content\">\n                                    <div class=\"testimonial-item__quote\">\n                        <p>ShipStation just takes care of that process, really. 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