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mercoledì 26 agosto 2026

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

mercoledì 29 luglio 2026

Panini Calciatori 2025/2026

Calciatori 2025-2026 is Panini’s flagship sticker collection dedicated to Italian football for the 2025/2026 season. Released in November 2025 and also available in a hardcover edition, the album contains 784 stickers and introduces several important innovations while maintaining the traditional structure that has made Calciatori one of the world's longest-running football collections. The main novelty is the launch of a separate album dedicated exclusively to Serie B, allowing the main collection to focus much more extensively on Serie A while still providing representation for the lower divisions.

The album opens with an introductory page featuring three shiny stickers depicting the trophies of Italian football. This is followed by a two-page spread presenting the 20 Serie A teams through their official team photos, before introducing the section “Nuove Firme in Città”, where one new signing from each Serie A club is highlighted with a dedicated sticker.

The core of the collection is devoted to the 20 Serie A clubs, presented in alphabetical order. Each club occupies two pages and is represented by 22 stickers: the shiny club badge, the manager, and 20 player portrait stickers.

One of the defining characteristics of Calciatori 2025-2026 is the introduction of artificial intelligence-generated artwork for several thematic sections. For the first time in the history of the Calciatori series, Panini uses AI to create stylised illustrations of Serie A stars, transforming them into comic-book-like heroes with distinctive visual effects.

The AI-based sections are spread throughout the album and include “Gem Squad”, “Turbofreccia”, “Color Up”, “Super Glovez”, “Trick Maestro”, “Boom d’Impatto”, “Power Bros”, and “Family Legacy”. Together, they celebrate the league’s most exciting players through imaginative graphic interpretations rather than conventional action photography.

In addition to the Serie A clubs, the album briefly expands its coverage to the lower divisions. Serie B is represented through a compact section in which each of the 20 clubs is featured with a team photograph and a club badge (half sticker), while Serie C receives a similar presentation for all 60 participating clubs, but with a half sticker for the team photo and a quarter of a sticker for each badge.

The final part of the collection is largely devoted to update and bonus content released after the initial publication. The most substantial addition is “Calciatori Upgrade”, a 100-sticker update set issued in March 2026. It introduces 80 new player stickers, four for each Serie A club, allowing collectors to incorporate the most important transfers and emerging players from the first half of the season. The same update also includes 20 shiny “Style on Pitch” stickers, each featuring the official shirt of a Serie A club.

At the end of the season, Panini released “Calciatori Celebration”, a further 60-sticker update set highlighting the most memorable moments of the 2025/2026 campaign. These stickers celebrate the key events, players, and achievements of the season, providing the album with a retrospective conclusion. An additional promotional section dedicated to the Supercoppa Italiana consists of six shiny stickers, distributed exclusively through the Kinder Happy Calza Christmas product.

Collectors could also chase a set of 20 Captain variants, parallel shiny stickers featuring the captains of the Serie A clubs that were included with the 120-packet box.

From a sporting perspective, the 2025/2026 Serie A season concluded with Inter winning the Italian championship, completing an outstanding campaign that also saw the Nerazzurri lift the Coppa Italia, achieving a domestic double. Napoli added another major trophy by winning the Supercoppa Italiana, a success reflected in the exclusive Kinder promotional section included in the album. Thanks to the Calciatori Celebration update, collectors can relive the decisive moments and protagonists of the season long after the championship has ended.