lunedì 4 novembre 2019

Panini Football 81 (Belgium)


The season 1980/81 of the Belgian league was contested by 18 clubs, with almost the totality of the club based in the Flanders, with the exception of Standard and FC Liégeois. After seven years, Anderlecht won the I Division championship (57 points), with a large gap on Lokeren (46 points) and Standard (42 points). The relegated teams were Berchem (last position in the league) and Beerschot (due to attempted corruption). Erwin Vandenbergh (Lierse) was the top scorer of the season with 24 goals. 
The Panini album Football 81 is the ninth of the Belgian series started with the Football 1972/73. The first page is about the unforgettable Red Devil's campaign at Euro 1980, when they reached the final of the tournament. In this page there are two stickers composing the team photo of Belgium during the Euro Cup. The album proposes then the I Division clubs in alphabetical order. For each clubs there are 18 stickers over two pages: the metallic badge, the team photo (two stickers), the coach, and 14 players. In correspondence of each coach and player sticker there is a brief career description both in French and Dutch. One of the two descriptions can be covered with the sticker, leaving only the chosen language under (Dutch) or above (French) the sticker. 












The section with the II Division shows first the team photo sticker and the metallic badge (half sticker) of the clubs. Then, 11 players and the coach are included with 6 stickers per club (two players per sticker).





Back cover of the album

Metallic club badges from Football 81

Iconic Belgian goalkeeper Jean-Marie Pfaff and the young Michel Preud'homme

Belgian "Red Devils" Jan Ceulemans (Club Brugge) and Eric Gerets (Standard)

Album details
Full name: Football 81
Publisher: Panini
League: Belgium (I and II Division)
Season: 1980/1981
Number of clubs and stickers:
  • Division I - 18 clubs, 18 stickers
  • Division II - 16 clubs, 7.5 stickers
Other sections: Introduction - Red Devils (2 stickers)

Checklist: click here

Total number of stickers: 446





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