Panini Calciatori Celebration 2024

 

For the second consecutive year, Panini released a Calciatori Celebration set with the highlights of the Italian football season 2023/2024. The collection is composed by an album sold with a set of 144 stickers, to be completed with 16 update stickers released in two special packets in June 2024. 

Compared to the first edition, this 2023/2024 collection is a big downgrade. First of all, the album was early released, before the end of the season, and the section with the movie of the season does not cover the last 12 rounds of the tournament. To complete the album with the winners of the season it is necessary to get two special update packets (sold with newspapers in June 2024) for a total of 16 update stickers. Also, the section of the Serie A champions 2024 (Inter) at the beginning of the album is very small, with just a photo composed by three stickers. 

The main core of the album is made by Serie A club pages (one page for each club) including six stickers of players in action with stats of the season. The album shows then the "Top Moments" of the Serie A with 20 stickers displaced over four pages, covering from round 1 to 26 of the Serie A 2023/2024. The album continues with sections dedicated to the winners of the other trophies. The Supercup 2024 section features the stickers of the winners (Inter), the runners-up (Napoli) and the clubs that losts the semifinals (Lazio and Fiorentina). Inter won the Supercup defeating Napoli (1-0) in Ryiadh with a goal of Lautaro Martinez. In the Coppa Italia section there are three stickers, with the semifinals, the final and the winners (Juventus-Atalanta 1-0). The section dedicated to the Women's football includes three stickers with the Serie A winners (Roma) and runners-up (Juventus), and the Coppa Italia winners (Roma). In the Serie B and Serie C pages there are in total six stickers with the clubs promoted to the higher division: Parma, Como and Venezia from Serie B to Serie A and Mantova, Cesena and Juve Stabia from Serie C to Serie B. The last page of the album is dedicated to the Coach Experience award, with one sticker of the 2024 winner Simone Inzaghi (Inter).

Back cover of the album

The two update packets with 16 stickers that are necessary to complete the album

Two surprises of this season: the defender Calafiori (Bologna) and the forward Gudmundsson (Genoa)

Two young prospects: Yildiz (2005, Juventus) and Camarda (2008, AC Milan)

Lautaro Martinez (top scorer of the Serie A 2023/2024 with 24 goals) and Ademola Lookman (three goals in the Europa League final won by Atalanta)

Inter directors of the Scudetto 2023/2024: the midfielder Calhanoglou scored 13 goals, the manager Simone Inzaghe won the "Coach Experience" award.

Album details:

Full name: Calciatori Celebration 2023/2024

Publisher: Panini

League:  Italian Serie A

Season: 2023/2024

Type of album: Season highlights

Number of clubs: 20

Stickers per club: 6

Other sections:

• Campioni 2023/2024 (3 stickers)
• Top Moments Serie A 2023/2024 (20 stickers)
• Supercup 2023/2024 (4 stickers)
• Coppa Italia 2023/2024 (3 stickers)
• Coppa Italia Femminile (3 stickers)
• Serie B (3 stickers)
• Serie C (3 stickers)
• The Coach Experience 2024 (1 sticker)

Update: two sticker packets (16 stickers)

Total number of stickers: 160

Panini Calciatori 2024

Calciatori 2023/2024 is another magnificent album of the famous series produced by Panini for the Italian football. The collection includes an album, which is available also in the hardcover version, to be completed with 861 stickers and extra material composed by 10 Goal Machine cards (to be found in starterpacks, 100-packets boxes, updgrades), 40 slogan stickers (one in each packet) and 20 gold variant stickers available in the Upgrade box. In addition, with the codes printed on the slogan stickers it is possible to complete virtual albums of the Serie C and Women's Serie A 2023/24 on the Panini Digital collections website. 

The album features the Italian professional leagues (Serie A, Serie B, Serie C) and the Women's Serie A. The introductory page includes four shiny stickers of the trophies (Serie A, Coppa Italia, Supercup, Serie B) and one shiny sticker dedicated to Gianluigi Buffon, head of the Italian delegation, just retired from football and part of the Calciatori collection since the season 1995/96.

The Serie A clubs are then shown in alphabetical order with four pages per club. In the first two pages there are 22 stickers: the shiny club badge, the team photo, and 20 player portrait stickers. In the second two pages, there are three stickers to be found in packets (the coach, the new signing, and the Elite stickers) and two additional stickers of players from the Upgrade set. 

After the Serie A, there are some special sections. The first one is dedicated to the eSerie A, with seven stickers showing the club badges of the 14 competing teams. Player of the month (9 stickers) and Coach of the month (10 stickers) are stickers of awarded players and managers during the season that are distributed with the Upgrade set (released in March 2024) and with four special sticker packets (Calciatori Reload) included with the newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport between February and June 2024. The Upgrade set features also 40 stickers with the winter transfers. The last two sections before the Serie B teams are "La Panini più amata", with 20 stickers featuring the most voted Serie A players (one per team), and the Women's Serie A (team photo stickers of the competing clubs).

The Serie B section features for each club the badge sticker (half sticker), the team photo and five stickers of players (three players on each sticker). The Serie C section includes this year the team photo (half sticker) and the club badge (1/4 sticker) of the 60 clubs divided in three groups. 

The Calciatori 2024 was preceded by the Calciatori Anteprima collection released in October and followed by the Calciatori Celebration set (May 2024) with the highlights of the season. Inter won its 20th title, dominating the championship (94 points) with the top goalscorer of the tournament, Lautaro Martinez (24 goals).

Back cover of the album

Young Argentinian talents: Matias Soulé (11 goals for Frosinone) and Valentìn Carboni (2 goals for Monza). The latter is included in the Upgrade set.

Young prospects from the Upgrade set: Kenan Yildiz (2005, Juventus) and Francesco Camarda (2008, AC Milan)

Inter strikers Lautaro Martinez (24 goals in Serie A 2023/2024) and Marcus Thuram (13 goals)

Album details

Full name: Calciatori 2023/2024

Publisher: Panini

League: Italian (Serie A, Serie B, Serie C, Serie A Femminile)

Season: 2023/2024

Number of clubs and stickers for each club:

• Serie A (20 clubs, 25 stickers + 2 updgrade stickers)
• Serie B (20 clubs, 6.5 stickers)
• Serie C (60 clubs, 0.75 stickers)
• Serie A Femminile (10 clubs, 1 sticker)

Other sections:

• Introduction (5 stickers)
• eSerie A Tim (7 stickers)
• Player of the month (9 stickers, PM1-PM9)
• Coach of the month (10 stickers, CM1-CM10)
• Calciomercato (40 stickers, Upgrade set)
• La Panini più amata (20 stickers, P1-P20)

Updates:

• Upgrade set (91 upgrade stickers + 20  Gold variants + 3 Goal machines)
• Calciatori Reload (4 special packets with P, PM and CM stickers)

Extra:

• Slogan (40 stickers)
• Goal Machines (10 limited edition cards)
• Gold variants (20 stickers from the Upgrade set)

Checklist: click here

Total number of stickers (album): 816