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From the reliable No.4 to the flashy No.7, your favourite football shirt number reveals more about your personality than you'd think. Here's what each one really says.

From the fixed-numbering days to Ryan Giggs and Mohamed Salah, we look at why No.11 became football's great winger's shirt.

From a No.0 that almost never exists to the No.13 shirts worn on purpose, we look at football's rarest and most unusual squad numbers.

The No.6 marshals a midfield, the No.8 drives it forward. From Makélélé to Gerrard, we look at the players who made these two shirts football's most important.

Numbers on football shirts used to mean a position, not a player. Here's how the game moved from a numbered starting XI to the fixed, personal 1–99 squad...

With the new NFL season kicking off, here's a straightforward guide to how American football shirt numbers map to positions, and how the rules have loosened up in...

Not every legendary shirt number sits between 1 and 11. We look at how 23, 44 and 99 became football's favourite outlier numbers, and the players who made...

No number promises goals quite like the No.9. We trace the legacy of the shirt through the centre-forwards who turned it into a byline for pure finishing.

Every outfield number has its glamour, but only one number gets a shirt all to itself. We look back at the legendary goalkeepers who made the No.1 shirt...

From George Best to Cristiano Ronaldo, the No.7 shirt has carried football's most glamorous wingers and match-winners. Here's how it earned that reputation.

No shirt carries more weight than the No.10. We count down the playmakers, dribblers and free-scoring geniuses who turned it into football's most glamorous number.

From the legendary No.10 to cult favourites like 7 and 23, here is what every football shirt number really means - and the players who turned them into...