Panini Football 94 (Switzerland)

 

Football 94 is Panini’s sticker collection dedicated to Swiss football for the 1993/1994 season, covering both the Ligue Nationale A and Ligue Nationale B. The album represents a welcome return for Panini after a six-year absence from Swiss league football, following the previous Football 88 collection. The cover features Swiss football star Stéphane Chapuisat.

The collection contains 272 stickers and follows a straightforward structure typical of Panini albums from the early 1990s. It opens with an introductory page featuring the contents and a four-sticker composition of the Swiss National Team. 

The main section is dedicated to the 12 clubs of Ligue A, presented in alphabetical order. Each club occupies two pages and contains 19 stickers. The layout includes the shiny club badge, the coach, a team photo divided into two stickers, and 15 player portrait stickers. An interesting feature of the album is that the players' career information is printed directly on the album, as typical for the Panini album of that time. 

After the top division, the album moves directly to Ligue B, which was divided into two groups, Group A and Group B, each containing 10 clubs. Each club receives only two stickers: a shiny club badge and a team photograph. The album concludes with a final page dedicated to the Medal of Honour of the Swiss League, with no stickers. Also, there are no update sets or extras in this collection. 

From a sporting perspective, the 1993/1994 Swiss championship was won by Servette, who claimed the national title after a successful campaign. The season’s top scorer was Giovane Élber, who finished with an impressive 21 goals. Interestingly, despite being the leading goalscorer of the tournament and later becoming a famous striker at clubs such as Bayern Munich, Élber is not included in the album. The collection nevertheless features several other talented young players, including Murat Yakin, Oliver Neuville, and Sonny Anderson.

Back cover of the album

The Swiss Murat Yakin (Grasshoppers), who played also for Stuttgart and Fenerbahce (49 caps for the National Team), and Endy Egli, who played also for Borussia Dortmund (80 caps for Switzerland)

Two young rising stars: Oliver Neuville (20 years old) who has 69 caps (10 goals) for Germany and Sonny Anderson da Silva, who played in his career for Ol. Marseille, Monaco, Barcelona, Ol. Lyon.

The German Herbert Waas (ex-player of Bayer Leverkuse, Bologna) and Haris Skoro (who played three season for Torino)

Album details:

Full name: Football 94

Publisher: Panini

League: Swiss (Ligue Nationale A and B)

Season: 1993/1994

Number of clubs and stickers per club:

• Ligue A (12 clubs, 19 stickers)
• Ligue B (20 clubs, 2 stickers)

Other sections:

• National Team (4 stickers)

Updates: No

Extra (poster, cards,...): No

Checklist: click here

Total number of stickers: 272

Panini Football 87 (Switzerland)

Football 87 is the eigth Panini album of the Swiss football. In includes the National leagues A and B. The series started with Football 79 and it was interrupted for the season 1985/1986. Thus Football 87 is a comeback that will last for another season, before being put on hold until 1994. The last Panini album of the Swiss league is dated 2001.

The cover of Football 87 is something unique: all the players of the 16 clubs of the Swiss league are standing in line on a football field. The album begins with the calendar of the season and the table of contents. The clubs of Nationalliga A are shown in alphabetical order from Aarau to Zurich. For each club there are 18 stickers: the gold shiny badge, the team photo (two stickers), the coach, and 14 players. The career of each player is printed on the album. 

Neuchatel Xamax won the title 1986/1987 ahead of Grasshoppers and Sion. The Danish John Eriksen (Servette, 28 goals) was the top goalscorer of the season.

The Nationalliga B section includes the calendar of the season and an overview of the 16 competing clubs with three stickers per club: the shiny badge and two stickers composing the team photo.

The last page of the album includes a section with the football superstars. Here there are 12 stickers of players in action representing 10 different countries: Altobelli (Italy), Amoros and Platini (France), Belanov (Russia), Berthold (Germany), Burruchaga and Maradona (Argentina), Butragueno (Spain), Careca (Brazil), Ceulemans (Belgium), Larsen (Denmark), Lineker (England).

Exactly the same section can be found on the album Football '87  of the Egyptian league. The only difference is that the yellow and white colours of the stickers are reversed. 

Back cover of the album

The German manager Ottmar Hitzfeld (future coach of Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munchen) and the forward Alain Sutter (28 caps and 5 goals with the National team, he played for Bayern Munchen in the season 1994/1995).

International players of the Swiss league 1986/87: the Moroccan Mustapha El Haddaoui (47 caps and 10 goals with the National team) and Aziz Bouderbala (mispelled "Azziz", 52 caps and 8 goals with Morocco)

The top goalscorers of the season are two Danish players: John Eriksen (1st with 28 goals) and Steen Thychosen (2nd with 23 goals)

The magnificent club badge stickers of this collection are printed on a shiny gold foil

Club badge stickers of the second league have a shiny silver background

Stickers of Platini and Maradona in the Superstars section

Action stickers of Jan Ceulemans (Belgium) and Alessandro Altobelli (Italy)

Album details:

Full name: Football 87

Publisher: Panini

League: Swiss National League A and B

Season: 1986/1987

Numbero clubs and stickers per club:

• National League A (16 clubs, 18 stickers)
• National League B (16 clubs, 3 stickers)

Other sections: Superstars (12 stickers)

Checklist: click here

Total number of stickers: 348