Gone are days in football where shirt numbers are all about the 1-11 shirt numbering in numerical order for starting eleven in a team, majorly with the national team. The starting XI players wore numbers 1 to 11, starting with the goalkeeper as the #1 and moving from the back to the front and right to left.

However, things have changed drastically and they’ve been more liberty in terms of shirt numbering of the players when the European leagues and some other illustrious divisions abolished the notion that the starting eleven had to don the number 1-11 back in the early ’90s, but now clubs or players could do what they want in terms of the number they prefer.

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