Panini Calciatori 2018 (Hardcover album)

Panini Calciatori is certainly the most complete and detailed sticker collection released by Panini every year. For the second time, also hardcover version of the album was released. The large size album has thick cover and pages. Regular stickers of this collection are glossy, whereas special stickers are metallic or with a 3D effects (trophies and club badges).

The album begins with an introduction of four special stickers: the Serie A logo and the trophies of Serie A, Italian Cup and Supercup. Serie A clubs are shown as usual in alphabetical order. Each club is displaced over four pages. The first two pages include 24 stickers: the shining club badge (3D effect sticker), the home jersey (transparent sticker) and 22 players of the squad. On the third page there are two regular stickers (team photo and club stadium) and two metallic stickers (coach and players in action), whereas on the last page there are details and fact about the squad, but no stickers.

"Il Film del Campionato" is the usual section with the highlights of the current season 2017/2018. There are 25 stickers (numbered C1 to C25) out of which the first five can be found in the regular packets and the others were issued in four packets along the season with the newspaper "La Gazzetta dello Sport".

"Calciomercato" is the section with the winter transfers. The stickers of 48 new players and coaches were released in an update set together with the mini-stickers "Trasferito" and "Sostituito" to be stuck in correspondance of the transferred players and substituted coaches, according to the list included in the update set. Here we find for example the sticker of Rafinha (engaged by Inter) and Gattuso (new coach of Milan).

Serie B clubs are included with one page each. There are stickers of the club badge (half metallic sticker), the team photo and 18 players (three players per sticker). The total is thus 7.5 stickers per club.

Last section with stickers of this collection is the "Serie A Femminile" with 12 stickers of the Women's Serie A, numbered from F1 to F12.

The tin with the update set was released in March 2018

In the season 2017/2018, Juventus won its seventh title in a row. This time Napoli was second and top scorers with 29 goals were Icardi (Inter) and Immobile (Lazio). The relegated clubs were Crotone, Verona and Benevento. Among the rising stars, we can mention Federico Chiesa (Fiorentina) and Sergej Milinkovic-Savic (Lazio). The youngest rookie player of this album is Pietro Pellegri (2001, Genoa), who moved to Monaco in January. This was the last season and therefore the last sticker of Buffon in Serie A. The new rising keeper this season has been the Brazilian Alisson (Roma).

Young stars stickers: Chiesa and Milinkovic-Savic 

 Top-scorers 2017/2018 with 29 goals: Icardi and Immobile 

 Last sticker of Buffon in Serie A and one of the best new keepers: Alisson

Club badges stickers are made with a special 3D effect

In each packet it is possible to find a winning card that gives right to a free packet "Calciatori Gol". In this packet there is one club badge sticker for the album and one card "Uomini da Copertina" (=cover men). There are in total 20 extra cards with one player per club.

Young players included in this album (born 1997 or younger)

Serie A:

Atalanta: Riccardo Orsolini (1997) and Luca Vido (1997)

Cagliari: Senna Miangue (1997), Filippo Romagna (1997), and Nicolò Barella (1997)

Chievo: Fabio De Paoli (1997)

Crotone: Rolando Mandragora (1997) and Marco Tumminello (1998)

Fiorentina: Bartlomiej Dragowski (1997), Rafik Zekhnini (1998) and Federico Chiesa (1997)

Genoa: Pietro Pellegri (2001)

Verona: Lee Seung-Woo (1998) and Moise Kean (2000)

Inter: Zinho Vanhesusden (1999), Yann Karamoh (1998) and Andrea Pinamonti (1999)

Juventus: Rodrigo Bentancur (1997)

Lazio: Luiz Felipe (1997)

Milan: Gianluigi Donnarumma (1999), Manuel Locatelli (1998), Patrick Cutrone (1998)

Napoli: Amadou Diawara (1997)

Roma: Gerson (1997), Cengiz Under (1997)

Sampdoria: Dawid Kownacki (1997)

Sassuolo: Pol Lirola (1997), Claud Adjapong (1998), Francesco Cassata (1997)

Spal: Alex Meret (1997) and Federico Bonazzoli (1997)

Torino: Vanja Milinkovic-Savic (1997), Lyanco (1997) and Oumar Sadiq (1997)

Udinese: Giuseppe Pezzella (1997) and Andrija Balic (1997)

Calciomercato: Riccardo Orsolini (1997, Bologna). Han Kwang-Song (1998, Cagliari), Pedro Pereira (1998, Genoa)

Serie B: D'Urso, Clemenza and Favilli (all 1997, Ascoli), Raul and Asencio (97 and 98, Avellino), Coppolaro and Cortesi (both 97, Brescia), Saric (97, Bari), Panico (97, Cesena), Varner and Kouamé (98 and 97, Cittadella), Castrovilli (97, Cremonese), Bennacer (97, Empoli), Da Cruz (97, Novara), Colombatto and Kwang-Song (97 and 98, Perugia), Coulibaly, Kanouté, Capone and Del Sole (99, 98, 99, 98, Pescara), Ghiglione and Bifulco (both 97, Pro Vercelli), Adamonis and A.Rossi (both 97, Salernitana), Pessina and Maggiore (97 and 98, Spezia), Plizzari (2000, Ternana), Audero (97, Venezia), Baraye and Di Paola (both 97, Virtus Entella)

Album details

Full name: Calciatori 2017/2018

Publisher: Panini

Release: December 2017

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

Season: 2017/2018

Hardcover album: Yes

Number of clubs: 20 of Serie A and 22 of Serie B

Stickers per club: 28 for Serie A and 7.5 for Serie B

Other sections:

• Introduction (4 stickers)
• Film del Campionato (25 stickers)
• Calciomercato (48 stickers)
• Serie A Femminile (12 stickers)

Update set: Yes (48 stickers)

Extra: Uomini da Copertina (20 cards)

Checklist: click here

Total number of stickers: 814