Panini Football 82 (France)

Panini Football 82 includes the French clubs of Division 1 and 2 for the season 1981-82. The album opens with the foreword and a two sticker photo of Michel Hidalgo, the coach of the French National Team.

The 20 clubs of Division 1 are shown in alphabetical order. Each club is displaced over two pages with a total of 16 stickers: the club badge (metallic), an action photo (two stickers) the coach, and 12 players. These pages include also details about the club and each player. 

After the Division 1 clubs, there are two pages with 14 stickers dedicated to the lions of Sochaux (Ces "lionceaux" qui venaient du froid). This club "that comes from the cold" was the best French club in Europe the previous season reaching the semifinal of the UEFA Cup. The stickers of these pages represent actions of the Sochaux games in the UEFA Cup.

Division 2 clubs are divided in two groups of 18 clubs each. Each group starts with a calendar and the stickers of club badges (total of 9 stickers with 18 badges per group). Then three clubs per page are displaced. There are three stickers per club, each sticker including four players.

The last section of the album is called "When the apprentices become pros" (Quand les apprentis deviennent des pros). These pages describe how football is becoming more and more professional, requiring more time and money for clubs and players. These three pages include 26 stickers of players in action (among them Giresse and Platini).

Club badge stickers of Football 82

Three personalities of Football 82: Roger Milla, Raymond Domenech and Michel Platini

Album details

Full name: Football 82 en images

Publisher: Panini

League: French (Division 1 and 2)

Season: 1981/1982

Number of clubs: 20 of Division 1 and 36 of Division 2

Stickers per club: 16 for D1 and 3.5 for Division 2

Other sections:

• Introduction (2 stickers)
• Ces lionceaux qui venaient du froid (14 stickers)
• Quand les apprentis deviennent pros (26 stickers)

Checklist: Click here

Total number of stickers: 488

Panini Cesky Fotbal 1998 (Czech Republic)

Three are the albums ever issued by Panini for the Czech Republican league: 1997, 1998, and 1999. We present here the middle one, which includes at the beginning also a section of three pages dedicated to the national team. The first page includes four stickers with the National team photo. Then, the following two pages include 16 stickers of the best Czech players and one shining sticker with the federation logo.

The 16 clubs of the Czech league are shown in alphabetical order. Each club includes 19 stickers over two pages: the team photo (two stickers), the club badge (shining sticker), and 16 players.

Sparta Praha won the league 1998 with 71 points and Slavia Praha got the second place far behind (59 points). Horst Siegl (Sparta Praha) was the top goalscorer with 13 goals

Stickers of Nedved and Poborsky with the National team 

Shining club badges of Panini Cesky Fotbal 1998

Album details

Full name: Cesky Fotbal 1998

Publisher: Panini

League: Czech First League

Season: 1997/98

Number of clubs: 16

Stickers per club: 19

Other section:

• National team (21 stickers)

Checklist: click here

Total number of stickers: 325

Panini Liga Bancomer (Mexico) 2017-2018

With Liga Bancomer 2017/18 the Panini series of the Mexican league continues uninterrupted since 2013/14, keeping the blue theme of the cover. Before the edition 2013/14, other five albums were published (1997, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011).

Unfortunately the latest collection shows an impoverishment of this series. The stickers of the mascots and the club badges have disappeared and the general quality of the album (for example the paper) has dropped. The only positive new feature of this collection are the stadium stickers, which show the beautiful and glorious stadiums of Mexico. 

The album starts with the calendar of the season, the foreword, and three shining stickers: the official ball, the trophy of the Liga and the trophy of the Ascenso league.

The clubs of Liga Bancomer are shown in alphabetical order (starting from the Aguilas of América) including 17 stickers each: the stadium, the team photo (two stickers), and 14 players.

After the Liga clubs, there is the section "GoLALAzo", with 12 shining stickers of the best goleador of the league. 

The clubs of the Ascenso league are also included, but with only two stickers each (team photo), missing the sticker of the club badge.

back cover of the album

 Stickers of the stadiums are back after the Mexican album of 2011 (Panini Primera Division Profesional 2011)

The two youngest rookies of this collection: Diego Lainez (born in 2000) of Club America and Tony Figueroa (born in 1999) of Pachuca

Three known faces in Europe: Renato Ibarra (ex Vitesse), the French Gignac and Nicolas Castillo (ex Club Brugge and Universidad Catolica)

Young players in this collection (born 1997 or younger)

Edson Alvarez and Diego Lainez (1997 and 2000, Club America), Erick Aguirre and Tony Figueroa (1997 and 1999, Club Pachuca), Cesar Montes (1997, Club Monterrey), Alexis Vega (1997, Deportivo Toluca)

Album details
Full name: Liga BBVA Bancomer - Apertura 2017 / Clausura 2018
Publisher: Panini
Release: August 2017
League: Mexican (Liga and Ascenso)
Season: 2017/2018
Number of clubs: 18 of Liga and 16 of Ascenso
Stickers per clubs:17 for Liga and 2 for Ascenso
Other sections:

• Introduction (3 stickers)
• GoLALAzo (12 stickers)

Update stickers: No

Total number of stickers: 353