Panini World Cup Story

 

The World Cup Story sticker album appeared in Central America during the early 1990s. It serves as a retrospective of the World Cup editions from 1970 to 1994, focusing on the teams that reached the final in each tournament. The album was produced in partnership with the Mexican brand Sonric's.

The album opens with an introductory page featuring the Roll of Honour and stickers of both the Rimet Cup and the World Cup trophies. It then progresses into a six-page section that covers the World Cup editions from 1930 to 1990. In this section, you'll find stickers of the tournament posters and the winners of each edition. For the winners from the 1970 Mexico World Cup onwards, instead of the team photos, the album includes the federation logo stickers, as the album focuses on these more recent editions. The subsequent pages showcase the complete teams of the finalists.

The sticker designs are taken directly from the Panini albums of each respective World Cup, with the exception that the player rosters have been updated to include players who participated in the tournament but were not featured in the original Panini album.

Despite the cover stating "Tomo 1" (First Book), there was no follow-up with a second album. However, a few years later, an updated album with Romario on the cover was released in Colombia, which included the 1994 World Cup edition, featuring the teams of Brazil and Italy.

Back cover of the album

Album and complete set

Pelé sticker from Mexico '70 and Diego Maradona from Mexico '86

Italian symbols of two different editions: Luigi Riva (Mexico '70) and Paolo Rossi (Spain '82)

Johan Cruyff (World Cup '74) and Andy Brehme, who scored the goal in the 1990 final

Album details:

Full name: Historia de la Copa del Mundo - World Cup Story - Tomo 1

Publisher: Panini

Number of teams:12

Stickers per team: variable from 15 to 17

Other sections:

• Roll of Honour (2 stickers)
• Jules Rimet Cup story (16 stickers)
• World Cup story (10 stickers)

Extra/updates: No

Checklist: click here

Total number of stickers: 228

Panini Futebol 2023-24

 

Futebol 2023-24 is the official sticker collection of the Portuguese Liga Betclic, featuring all 18 competing clubs, the club badges of the second division, and several special sections, including a large update section, extra replacement stickers, and 10 exclusive Premium stickers.

The collection begins with an introductory page containing the contents and foreword, followed by a two-page section showcasing 18 shiny stickers of the Liga Betclic club badges. The teams are then presented in alphabetical order, with 19 stickers per team spread across two pages: one team photo sticker and 18 player portrait stickers.

The second part of the album includes several special sections. The first one, "Elite", features 27 special stickers of the league's best players, distributed over three pages. "Fresh" is a dedicated page highlighting nine stickers of rising stars like Francisco Conceição and João Neves. "Top Tandem" showcases nine stickers featuring the league’s best duos, such as Rafa-Di María and Paulinho-Gyökeres.

The Liga SabSeg is also represented with shiny club badge stickers of the 18 competing teams. The album then continues with the "World Series" section, which includes 18 stickers of Portuguese players starring abroad, such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Bernardo Silva, and Diogo Jota. Finally, the last section is the traditional winter transfer update (Mercado de Inverno), which this year consists of 36 stickers spread over four pages.

Additionally, this collection features 39 extra stickers, called "Cromos BIS", designed to replace specific players in the album with new entries. Moreover, 10 Premium stickers can be found in packs—these are high-quality shiny stickers of star players, including Cristiano Ronaldo, Pedro Gonçalves, Otamendi, Di María, Bruno Fernandes, Pepe, Coates, Rafa, Diogo Costa, and Rúben Dias.

In the 2023/24 Liga Betclic season, Sporting Lisbon claimed the title with 90 points, finishing ahead of Benfica (80 points) and Porto (72 points). The Swedish striker Viktor Gyökeres was the league’s top scorer, netting an impressive 29 goals.

The 10 "Fresh" stickers including the error sticker of Gonçalo Borges (nr. 390)

Back cover of the album

There are 39 extra stickers (BIS stickers) to replace players in the album

The 10 "Premium" extra stickers 

The legend Di Maria and the rising star Joao Neves

Regular and Elite stickers of Viktor Gyökeres, the top scorer of the Portuguese Liga 2023/24 with 29 goals

There are two stickers nr. 390 of Gonçalo Borges: the first one featured the wrong players (left) correctly replaced by the second one (right)

The World Series section features Portuguese international stars like Bernardo Silva and Ronaldo

Two rising stars from the transfer/update section: Prestianini (Benfica) and F.Conceiçao (Porto)

Cristiano Ronaldo and Bruno Fernandes from the 10 "Premium" stickers

Album details:

Full name: Futebol 2023-24

Publisher: Panini

Release: January 2024

League: Portuguese (Liga Betclic)

Season: 2023/2024

Number of clubs: 18

Stickers per club: 19

Other sections:

• Emblemas (Club badges, 18 stickers)
• Elite (27 stickers)
• Fresh (9 stickers)
• Top Tandem (9 stickers)
• Emblemas Liga Sabseg (Club badges, 18 stickers)
• World Series (18 stickers)
• Mercado de Inverno/ Atualizações (36 stickers)

Extra:

• "BIS" stickers (39 stickers)
• PREMIUM stickers (10 stickers)
• Error sticker nr. 390 (1 sticker)

Checklist: click here

Total number of stickers (album): 477 (+50 extra)