Bundesliga Panini 2008-2009

Bundesliga Fussball 2008/2009 is the last Panini album of the Bundesliga series that began in 1979. Starting from the following season, Topps own the Bundesliga rights and they release the official sticker albums of the German football. 

The album begins with an introductory page including five stickers: the Bundesliga logo, the Meister trophy, Luca Toni with the best player award from the previous season, and two stickers of the Meister 2008 winners (Bayern Munchen). Bayern won again the Bundesliga title in 2008/2009 with 24 goals of the top goalscorer of the tournament, the Italian striker Luca Toni.

The album continues showing the 18 Bundesliga clubs in alphabetical order. For each club there are 27 stickers over six pages: the club badge (gold sticker), the team photo (composed by four stickers), the mascot (shiny sticker), 19 player portrait stickers, and the club stadium (two shiny sticker)

After the Bundesliga clubs, the album ends with a section dedicated to the 2007/2008 DFB Pokal winners (Bayern Munchen). This section includes five stickers.

Back cover of the album

Strong defenders: Jerome Boateng and Vincent Kompany

Fantastic midfielders: Arturo Vidal and Franck Ribéry

Super strikers: Luca Toni and Edin Dzeko

Album details:
Full name: Bundesliga Fussball 08/09
Publisher: Panini
League: German Bundesliga
Season: 2008/2009
Number of clubs: 18
Stickers per club: 27
Other sections:

• Introduction (5 stickers)
• DFB-Pokal 2007/2008 (6 stickers)

Checklist: click here

Total number of stickers: 496

Eredivisie 2008-2009

This is the official sticker album of Eredivisie for the season 2008/2009. It was released by the Dutch supermarket Albert Heijn in January 2009. This is the first Eredivisie album published by Albert Heijn, followed by two consecutive albums in 2010 and 2011.

The album of the season 2008/2009 presents all the 18 teams of the Eredivisie. For each team there are 15 stickers over four pages: in the first page there is the club badge sticker (aluminum foil), whereas in the second page two stickers with the team photo. In the other two pages the stickers of eleven players and the trainer are included. Player stickers are in action and they include the name, the role and two numbers identifying the defensive and offensive skills of the player.

This album does not include other sections with stickers. However, three update stickers were released with players that were not included in the original collection: Ben Sahar, Ola Toivonen and Lasse Nilsson. These stickers are numbered 271, 272 and 273, but there is not a specific space to stick them in the album.

Back cover of the album

Two great strikers included in this collection: Luis Suarez and Roy Makaay

Trainer stickers from this collection: Louis van Gaal and Marco van Basten

The three update stickers of this collection: Sahar, Toivonen and Nilsson

Album details:
Full name: Het verzamelalbum van de Eredivisie 2008/2009
Publisher: Ah (Albert Heijn)
Release: January 2009
League: Dutch Eredivisie
Season: 2008-2009
Number of teams: 18
Stickers per team: 15
Other sections: No
Extra/Updates: Yes (3 stickers)
Checklist: click here

Total number of stickers: 270 + 3 update

Introduction

Hello!

In this blog I show my sticker collection.

I collect complete albums and sealed packets of football collections around the world. In particular all the National leagues, with a special consideration for the Panini albums. 

Follow me through this journey, I will post one after the other the albums and sealed packets of my collection. 

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