The Sammy Lee Collection. A treble winner from 1983/84
The Sammy Lee Collection will be offered in our Sporting Legends. Past & Present auction on 11 February 2026. It is a career told through medals, match shirts and the small details that stay with a player long after the final whistle.
A fixture in Liverpool’s great side
Sammy Lee became a fan favourite at Anfield, representing Liverpool at youth and senior level for more than a decade during one of the club’s most successful periods.
His medal record reflects the scale of that era: five Football League Division One titles, two European Cup winners’ medals, two European Cup runners-up medals, four League Cup winners’ medals, two European Super Cup runners-up medals, six Charity Shield appearances, and a wide range of commemorative awards.
Almost all of his major honours are included in this auction.
From debut goal to first-team regular
Lee signed professional terms with Liverpool in 1976 and made his First Division debut aged 19 against Leicester City on 8 April 1978, scoring the second goal in a 3-2 victory.
His breakthrough came in 1979/80 after an injury to Terry McDermott. Liverpool fell short in the FA Cup semi-finals, but Lee was on the pitch at Anfield when the league title was secured against Aston Villa.
Paris, Bill Shankly, and the season that set the tone
The 1980/81 season proved decisive.
After starting in the reserves, Lee displaced Jimmy Case on the right of midfield nine games in. Liverpool missed out on the league title but won the League Cup and the European Cup, defeating Real Madrid in Paris. Lee featured in both finals and was voted Liverpool FC Supporters Club Player of the Year, an award presented by Bill Shankly.
Over the following three seasons, he won three consecutive league titles, culminating in the remarkable 1983/84 campaign, when he played all 67 matches as Liverpool secured a historic treble.
England caps and a goalscoring debut
The collection also reflects Lee’s international career.
It includes three England caps from his senior appearances. One cap represents multiple Euro 1984 qualifying matches, including Lee’s senior international debut against Greece in Salonika on 17 November 1982, when England won 3 to 0 and Lee scored on debut.
Match-worn and swapped shirts across club and country
Alongside the medals, there is a strong selection of match-worn and swapped shirts.
Highlights include Lee’s England No.4 shirt from the 1982 European Championship final second leg against West Germany in Bremen, worn by Lee as captain during England’s first-ever Under-21 European title win on aggregate.
The collection also features swapped shirts from contemporaries including Ian Rush and Joey Jones, plus a notable group of youth-level match-worn and exchanged shirts from Lee’s early career.
Nearly 60 lots. One career, properly recorded
Running to nearly 60 lots, the Sammy Lee Collection offers a rare, well-documented view of a player trusted by Liverpool managers, team-mates and supporters in a period when medals were the expectation, not the surprise.