Fila

Fila is an Italian sportswear brand founded in 1911 in Biella, a region with a long textile tradition. Best known for its presence in tennis and skiing, Fila also supplied football clubs across Europe over the decades, particularly in markets where the major kit manufacturers had less reach. In this archive, the brand appears through a single shirt belonging to FC Piberstein Lankowitz, a club from Austria's regional football pyramid. A modest entry, but a telling one — a reminder that generalist sportswear brands found their way into unlikely corners of the European game, and in this case into the green and white stripes that this archive sets out to document.