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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.

Back cover of the hardcover album

Update sets: Calciatori Upgrade and Celebration

Rising stars of Serie A: Nico Paz (Como) and Kenan Yildiz (Juventus)

First Serie A stickers for De Bruyne (portrait) and Modric (AI generated)

Lautaro Martinez was the top scorer of the Serie A with 17 goals: regular and celebration stickers

Album details:

Full name: Calciatori 2025-2026

Publisher: Panini

Release: November 2025

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

Season: 2025/2026

Number of clubs and stickers per club:

Serie A (20 clubs, 22 sticker)
Serie B (20 clubs, 1.5 sticker)
Serie C (60 clubs, 0.75 sticker)

Other sections:

Introduction (3 stickers)
Le squadre della Serie A (20 stickers)
Nuove firme in città (20 stickers)
Gem Squad (12 stickers)
Turbofreccia (10 stickers)
Color Up (7 stickers)
Super Glovez (8 stickers)
Trick Maestro (9 stickers)
Boom d'Impatto (10 stickers)
Power Bros (2 stickers)
Family Legacy (2 stickers)
Calciatori Upgrade (60 stickers from upgrade set)
Supercup (6 stickers from Kinder Happy Calza)
Calciatori Celebration (60 stickers from update set)
Style on Pitch (20 stickers from upgrade set)

Updates:

Calciatori Upgrade (100 stickers)
Calciatori Celebration (60 stickers)
Kinder Happy Calza (6 stickers)

Extra: Captain variants (20 parallel stickers)

Hardcover album: Yes

Checkliskt: click here

Total number of stickers (album): 784

sabato 25 luglio 2026

Panini Este Liga 2021/2022

The 2021-22 edition of Colecciones Este celebrated an important milestone: fifty years of Este albums dedicated to the Spanish league. Released in August 2021, the collection followed the traditional early-season format, with the inevitable consequence that numerous transfers and squad changes had to be incorporated later through update releases. As in recent years, the album was available in both standard and hardcover editions.

The album opens with a contents page that also includes space for the two traditional Cromos Conmemorativos, promotional stickers distributed with Jugón magazine. This is followed by one of the highlights of the collection, the commemorative section 50 Temporadas con LaLiga, celebrating five decades of Este football albums.

This introductory section consists of 25 special stickers, each reproducing the covers of two historic Este albums. Unlike regular stickers, these are smaller in size and were only available inside a commemorative collector's tin box, making them one of the most distinctive additions to the collection.

The main album follows the familiar Colecciones Este format. Each of the 20 LaLiga clubs is allocated space for twenty stickers: the club badge, a star player shown in action, a shiny Rookie Impact sticker, and the remaining squad members presented with the classic Este design combining a portrait and an action photograph on the same sticker.

As has become customary in recent editions, some player positions could be completed with either sticker "A" or sticker "B", allowing collectors to choose between two different versions. Throughout the season Panini also released BIS stickers, replacing players who had left their clubs or had become unavailable, further extending the checklist for dedicated collectors.

After the club pages, the album concludes with three thematic sections. The first, ADN de LaLiga, contains 32 stickers celebrating some of the greatest players of the Spanish league during the previous fifty years. Football legends such as Diego Maradona, Johan Cruyff, Zinedine Zidane and Cristiano Ronaldo are featured. Interestingly, Lionel Messi does not appear in this section despite his historical importance, as he had only recently left Barcelona after the album's release. Panini later addressed this omission by issuing a special Messi ADN de LaLiga sticker, distributed with Jugón magazine.

The second section, Últimos Fichajes, is the traditional update area that has become essential due to the album's August release. It includes players who joined their clubs after publication and was gradually completed through new sticker releases during the season, eventually reaching 64 stickers plus two additional BIS stickers.

The album finishes with La Isla del Tesoro, a nine-sticker section dedicated to some of LaLiga's greatest historical records. Among those honoured are Andoni Zubizarreta for his record number of league appearances and Lionel Messi as the competition's all-time leading goalscorer.

Beyond the main album, collectors could expand the collection through several additional releases. The most important was Mercado de Invierno y Actualización, a 42-sticker update set covering the winter transfer window and other squad changes. This release was distributed with Jugón magazine during March, April and May 2022.

An additional release was the Equipos de LaLiga, also available through Jugón. This supplementary publication featured 20 team photo stickers, one for each LaLiga club, together with dedicated pages for mounting the stickers.

The 2021-22 season will be remembered for Real Madrid's comfortable march to the LaLiga title under Carlo Ancelotti. Los Blancos secured the championship with four matches to spare, while Karim Benzema enjoyed the best league campaign of his career, finishing as Pichichi with 27 goals and leading his team to the title.