Only Good Stickers: Panini Liga Este 2023

venerdì 29 settembre 2023

Panini Liga Este 2023

The official sticker collection of the Spanish Liga for the 2022/2023 season keeps the traditional features of early release (August) followed by new edition of stickers in the following months. Moreover, the presence in Spain of the Panini magazine "Jugòn" allows for extra stickers released almost monthly during the season. In addition to the usual "Conmemorativos" stickers showing the album cover, Jugòn released also six additional stickers from the section "Hombres GOL" and the update set "Mercado de Invierno", released in the spring with a short album and 42 stickers.

For what concerns the stickers that can be found in regular packets, the album includes two pages for each Liga club, with the golden club badge, the coach, and space for 18 player stickers. There is, however, sometimes more than one player sticker per spot in the album, with "B" or "bis" stickers. This is clearly not ideal, as the collector has to choose how to deal with the extra stickers.

After the Liga clubs, there are some special sections in the album. "Cuadro de Honour" is about the best teams and players of the previous season. There are 7 stickers with the clubs that qualified to the European cups and the stickers of the best keeper (Bounou) and top goalscorer (Benzema). "ADN Hombres Gol" are four pages including 28 special stickers of the best Liga strikers in action. Then, the "Segunda Division" is presented with the club badge stickers of the 22 competing clubs. Finally, the album ends with the traditional section of the latest transfers (Ultimos Fichajes), including 66 new players and three stickers of the top transfers: Cavani, Tchouameni and Lewandowski.

The album was released also in a special hardcover edition (to be purchased online) at the beginning of the season. In the following, we show the hardcover album and the set of loose stickers. There is also a South American version of the album that we do not consider in this post.