Topps Bundesliga 2021

 

For the Bundesliga season 2020/2021, Topps released a richer collection than the previous one, including a total of 410 stickers, including the first two German professional divisions. The album begins with the contents and an introductory page with Lars Ricken's foreword and three metallic stickers: the Bundesliga trophies and the official ball of the tournament.

Before showing the Bundesliga clubs, there is a focus on the previous season (Ein Ruckblick) and the TV broadcaster (Sky), with five regular stickers. In the season 2019/2020, Bayern Munchen won both the Bundesliga title and the German Cup (DFB Pokal).

The album continues with the Bundesliga clubs shown in alphabetical order. For each club there are 20 stickers over four pages. In the first two pages the squad is presented with 12 player portrait stickers and the metallic badge sticker, whereas in the other two pages we find the supporters choreography (three stickers), the star player (shiny sticker), the "duo" (metallic sticker), the home shirt, and the away shirt stickers. The star player does not have also a portrait sticker, but only the shiny action sticker. Therefore, for the best player of each team (i.d. Haaland, Lewandowski) there is only one sticker in this collection.

After the Bundesliga clubs, there is a two page section about the Virtual Bundesliga, which includes also six regular stickers of the virtual tournament. This section feels not needed, especially for the meaningless stickers that includes.  

In the last part of the album there is the usual section of the 2.Bundesliga, with two stickers per club (badge and best player in action). This is a compact but valuable section of the album, embellished by the metallic badge stickers of all the clubs. 

The album Topps Bundesliga 2020/2021 was released in September 2020, much earlier than the previous years when it was usually available in December/January. For this reason, the album is not completely updated to the season 2020/2021 and it includes players that were transferred at the beginning of the season, like Havertz who moved from Bayer Leverkusen to Chelsea. In the center of the album there is a poster with the Bundesliga table, to be filled with mini-stickers of club badges (included in the album) based on the standings at the end of the tournament.

Back cover of the album

The rising stars Jadon Sancho (Borussia D.) and Alphonso Davies (Bayern M.)

Erling Haaland and Lewandoski (top goalscorer of the Bundesliga 2020/2021) have only the shiny action sticker in this collection and not the classic portrait sticker

Borussia D. and Bayern M. home shirt stickers

Club badge stickers are shiny and metallic

Album details:

Full name: Bundesliga - Offizielle Sticker 2020/2021

Publisher: Topps

Release: September 2020

League: German (Bundesliga and 2.Bundesliga)

Season: 2020/2021

Number of clubs and stickers per club:

• Bundesliga 1 (18 clubs, 20 stickers)
• 2.Bundesliga (18 clubs, 2 stickers)

Other sections:

• Introduction (3 stickers)
• Ein Ruckblick (5 stickers)
• Virtual Bundesliga (6 stickers)

Extra: Poster "Bundesliga Tabelle" + 18 mini stickers

Updates: No

Checklist: click here

Total number of stickers: 410