Australian Football Collectables have been issued in many forms. A number of categories have been defined to group these items and allow for easier searching of the items that are of most interest to you. The categories are :
| Code | Category Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| A | Award Badges/Medallions | Club Awards, Brownlow Medals, Premiership Medals. |
| B | Badges | Pin back badges, plastic or metal badges, lapel badges, hatband badges. |
| C | Collector Cards | Includes cigarette cards, trade cards, advertising cards, bubble gum cards and all forms of modern collector cards including pogs/tazos and telephone cards. |
| D | Club Membership Medals/Medallions | Club membership, life membership, past players badges and medallions. |
| E | Greeting Cards | Fold over cards with a greeting or space to write a greeting inside |
| H | Photographic Studio Cards | Carte-de-visite, studio portraits, photographic material |
| K | Ticket/Fixture Card | Raffle tickets, movie tickets, entry tickets, game and finals tickets, Fixture Cards |
| L | Bottle Caps | Bottle caps with collectable images printed on either side |
| M | Membership Tickets | Club annual membership tickets |
| N | Magnet | Collectable items with a magnetic back |
| O | Other | Oddities that don’t fit in any defined category |
| P | Poster | Large paper or cardboard pictures, newspaper and magazine pages or inserts |
| S | Sticker/Stamp/Decal | Stickers, stamps, waterslide decals, stick down labels |
| T | Post Card | Cards designed to be written on and posted. |