Panini SPL 2008 (Scotland)

 

SPL 2008 is the official sticker collection of the Scottish Premier League for the 2007/2008 season. Celtic won the title and Scott McDonald was the top goalscorer with 25 goals. The sticker album produced by Panini features 448 stickers with all the Premier League clubs, special sections with kits, legends and international stars, and 12 extra "challenge cards".

The album begins with the table of contents and an introductory page including two shiny stickers: the  SPL logo and trophy. Before the club pages, the home and away kits are shown with a total of 24 stickers (two stickers per team). For each Premier League club there are then 33 stickers displaced over three pages. In the first two pages there are the club badge (metallic sticker), the stadium, the manager, the team photo (two stickers), and six player portrait stickers.In the next two pages there are six stickers of players in action and six player portrait stickers. In the last two pages we find one match action sticker, three players in actions, and six player portrait stickers. The 12 Premier League clubs are shown one after the other in alphabetical order, with one break dedicated to the SPL Legends of the Scottish Premier League. Here there are 10 stickers of players in action: Caniggia, Dodds, Lennon, Henrik Larsson, Sutton, Gordon, Ronald de Boer, Amoruso, Russell Anderson, Franck Sauzée.

In the last part of the album, after the presentation of the Premier League clubs, there are two special sections. The first one is dedicated to the International stars of the Scottish Premier League, with 12 stickers of players in action. Among them Nakamura, Niculae, Boruc, and Latapy. The second one, which is the last page of the album, is called "Fair play" and it includes four large stickers of fair play moments. Randomly placed in sticker packets there are also 12 extra cards to collect, which are part of a game ("One-on-One Challenge cards"). Each card is dedicated to one team and has a detector lens revealing a special features that is part of the game.

Back cover of the album

The 12 challenge cards (one per team) associated to this collection

Special stickers of Vennegoor of Hesselink (Star Striker) and Kris Boyd (Fan's Favourite)

SPL legends: Claudio Caniggia and Henrik Larsson

The striker Kris Boyd (G. Rangers) and the Italian midfielder Massimo Donati (Celtic)

Album details:

Full name: Scottish Premier League - SPL 2008

Publisher: Panini

League: Scottish Premier League

Season: 2007-2008

Number of clubs: 12

Stickers per club: 33

Other sections:

• Introduction (2 stickers)
• SPL Kits 2007/2008 (24 stickers)
• SPL Legends (10 stickers)
• SPL International All-Stars (12 stickers)
• Fair Play (4 stickers)

Extra: Challenge Cards (12 cards)

Poster: No

Updates: No

Checklist: click here

Total number of stickers: 448

 

Panini SPL 2004 (Scotland)

 

SPL 2004 is the official sticker collection of the 2003/2004 Scottish Premier League, published by Panini. The collection features the 12 clubs of the Premier League and three special sections with the stadiums, the international players and the best moments of the previous season. In addition, there are two introductory stickers with the trophy and the logo of the tournament.

The album dedicates six pages for each club, with a total of 31 stickers: the shiny club badge, the team photo (composed by two stickers), the home kit (shiny sticker), the away kit, celebration, "mystery player", "game time", four players in action, and 19 player portrait stickers (out of which the captain is a shiny sticker). The more special stickers are the "mystery player", in which the surface can be scratched to reveal the player underneath, and "game time", a transparent pvc sticker completing a photo from a football game, showing where the ball actually is. In this collection there are no extra items, like posters, cards or updates.

In the 2003/2004 season, Celtic dominated the Scottish Premier League, winning the title with a total of 98 points. The Swedish striker Henrik Larsson was the top goalscorer of the tournament with 30 goals. Other famous players of the league were Arteta, De Boer, Arveladze, Vanoli, and Mjallby.

In the following, we show photos of the empty album with the loose set of stickers.

Back cover of the album

The stickers of the top scorer of the Scottish Premier League 2003/2004 Henrik Larsson (30 goals)

Rangers international players: Mikel Arteta and Shota Arveladze

Album details:

Full name: Scottish Premier League 2004

Publisher: Panini

League: Scottish Premier League

Season: 2003/2004

Number of clubs:12

Stickers per club: 31

Other sections:

• Introduction (2 stickers)
• Stadiums (12 stickers)
• International players (12 stickers)
• 2002/03 best players (8 stickers)

Extra (poster, updates): No

Checklist: click here

Total number of stickers: 406