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mercoledì 16 ottobre 2024

Panini Russian Premier League 2016

Panini published in January 2016 the fourth album of the Russian Premier League, after the previous editions released in 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2014-15. The collection features the 16 clubs of the Premier League with special sections dedicated to the stars of the league and the highlights of the previous season, for a total of 449 stickers. There are no updates or extra stickers for this collection.

The album begins with the contents, the calendar of the season and two introductory stickers: the Russian federation and the league logos (metallic stickers). The Premier League clubs are introduced with a badge and kits section. Here we find three metallic stickers for each team: the club badge, the home kit, and the away kit. This section features a total of 48 stickers displaced over eight pages. The teams are then shown following the classification order of the previous season, starting therefore with the title holder FC Zenit Saint Petersburg. For each team there are 22 stickers over two pages: the team photo (composed by two stickers) and 20 player portrait stickers.

After the presentation of the teams, there are still three section before the end of the album. The first one features the best stars of the league with 48 stickers of players in action. The second one shows the highlights of the season 2014/2015, and the last one includes the roll of honour and the metallic stickers of the three Russian throphies: Russian League, Cup, and Supercup. CSKA Moscow won the 2015/2016 Premier League with a total of 65 points, second place for Rostov (63 points) and third for Zenit (59 points); Fyodor Smolov (Krasnodar) was the top scorer of the league with 20 goals, while the Dutch forward Quincy Promes (Spartak) scored 18 goals and the Brazilian striker Hulk (Zenit) 16 goals.

Back cover of the album

Regular and action stickers of the Brazilian striker Hulk

International players in the Russian Premier League: the Belgian midfielder Axel Witsel and the Nigerian forward Ahmed Musa (who scored 12 goals in the tournament 2015/16)

The two best scorers of the Russian Premier League 2015/2016: Smolov (Krasnodar) scored 20 goals (1st) and Quincy Promes scored 18 goals (2nd)

Album details:

Full name: Russian Football Premier League 2015-2016

Publisher: Panini

Release: January 2016

League: Russian Premier League

Season: 2015/2016

Number of clubs: 16

Stickers per club: 22

Other sections:

Introduction (2 stickers)
Badges and kits (48 stickers)
Stars (32 stickers)
Season 2014-15 (12 stickers)
Russian football titles (3 stickers)

Update/Extra: No

Checklist: click here

Total number of stickers: 449

venerdì 11 ottobre 2024

Topps Bundesliga 2024

The official sticker collection of the German football for the 2023/2024 season released by Topps includes the clubs of the two main leagues (Bundesliga and 2.Bundesliga) and some special sections dedicated to the 60 years anniversary of the Bundesliga (1963-2023). The album begins with the table of contents and an introductory page with the firs two stickers: the Topps logo (shiny sticker) and the Bundesliga logo.

The collection celebrates 60 years of Bundesliga with two sections in the album. The first one features seven stickers: the 60 jahre Bundesliga logo, the sticker of Wolfgang Overath (who won the first Bundesliga edition in 1963/1964 with FC Köln) the official ball, the trophy of the Bundesliga (two shiny stickers) and the trophy of the 2.Bundesliga (two regular stickers). The second section is located later in the album between the Bundesliga and 2.Bundesliga and it includes six stickers of memorable moments and players: the first winners in 1963/1964 (FC Köln), the legend Gerd Müller, the crazy goal of Okocha vs. Kahn on August 31st 1993, Andreas Brehme celebrating the Bundesliga 1997/98, Borussia Dortmund winning the Bundesliga 2010/11 and 2011/12, and the top goalscorer Lewandowski.

The Bundesliga clubs are shown in alphabetical order with 20 stickers displaced over four pages. In the first two pages there are 16 stickers: the shiny club badge, the home kit, and 14 player portrait stickers. In the other two pages there are four additional sticker: the "Game changer" (shiny sticker), the "Wunderkind" (shiny sticker of the young star), the highlights of the season 2022/23, and the top duo (composed by two half-size player portrait stickers). The "Game changer" and the "Wunderkind" are stickers of players that are not included in the first two pages. Therefore, players like Musiala and Wirtz have only the shiny action sticker and not a regular player portrait sticker in this collection. The 2.Bundesliga features three stickers for each club: the shiny club badge and two stickers of players (two players per stickers for a total of four players). Each half-size sticker is numbered as one individual stickers, therefore the number of stickers written in the album (483 + 40 legend stickers) is higher than the actual number of stickers to complete the album (449). In addition, 20 regular stickers are available also in a parallel glitter version. Those stickers are the Bundesliga logo, the official ball and the 18 stickers with the highlights of the season.

Bayer Leverkusen won the 61th Bundesliga edition, being their first championship title. They finished the tournament unbeaten with 28 wins and 6 draws. Harry Kane (Bayern Munich) was the top goalscorer of the tournament with 36 goals.