270 tables. 3,000 tickets. One room. Pokémon, Magic, Yu-Gi-Oh! and sports cards under one roof — with grading, signings and artists on the floor.
Two dates, two venues, separate tickets. Pick the show you are going to.
170 TCG tables, 100 sports tables, a voice actor, a football guest, an on-site tattooist and grading. Kings Dock, Liverpool L3 4FP.
130 mixed tables at Leigh Leisure Centre, in Leigh Sports Village. Sale Way, Leigh WN7 4JY.
Three thousand two hundred people. That is not a queue of passers-by — it is a hall full of people who paid, travelled and came to buy.
The North West Card Show runs at Exhibition Centre Liverpool and Leigh Sports Village, and it has grown into the biggest trading card event in the North West. Two halls of trade: a TCG hall and a sports hall, side by side, with grading desks, guest signings and artists in between.
Photographs and film from the hall — the room, the hunt, the cards, and the makers who are not selling cards at all.
All of it shot at a North West Card Show. Nothing on this site is stock photography.
Hall 01 — TCG
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Singles, sealed, vintage and graded. The big four plus the niche and emerging games that never get floor space anywhere else.
Hall 02 — Sports
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Football leading the way, with the American majors and combat sports alongside it. Plus shirts, signed pieces and match-worn memorabilia.
Get Graded run a desk in the hall. Submissions taken for TAG, PSA, Beckett and CGC — including Black Label.
November brings a voice actor and a football guest. Past guests include Everton legend Duncan Ferguson, darts world champion Luke Littler, Still Ryan and Chazza.
Original artwork, 3D prints and custom pieces from independent makers — plus a tattoo artist working through the day.
Under-7s come in free and there is a family ticket. Mascots on the floor, and a lanyard on every ticket so you can step out and come back in.
270 tables is a lot of ground to cover in a few hours. Search what the traders have brought, see which tables have your card, and walk straight to it.
