Only Good Stickers: Panini Foot 2023

venerdì 13 ottobre 2023

Panini Foot 2023

Foot 2023 is the official stickers collection of the French football for the 2022/2023 season. This year, the colection includes only the Ligue 1, while the Ligue 2 has a separate and dedicated digital sticker album that can be printed once completed.

The collection features again a special collector box, including the hardcover album and 80 packets. There is also the usual update set with the winter transfers and this time also the highlights of the season (Film de la saison), which were included last time in the album Foot 2012 (with two special sticker packets).

The album begins with an introductory page featuring the metallic sticker of the Ligue 1 trophy. The following four pages are dedicated to the new players of the league and the players that came back. Those two sections, called "Welcome" and "Welcome back" feature in total 20 shiny metallic stickers of players.

The Ligue 1 clubs are then shown in alphabetical order, with 20 stickers per club, displaced over four pages. In the first two pages, the clubs and the top players are introduced with four shiny stickers: the club badge, the home shirt, and two players (the stats and the expert). The entire squad is shown in the following two pages, with 16 player portrait stickers. There is also space for the usual update stickers, coming from the "Set transferts" released this time at the end of the season. Again this year, the update stickers are only half size, and there is space for up to a maximum of three update stickers for each club. The update set includes also 12 stickers with the highlights of the season, which can find space in two pages at the end of the album. Before, there are also the fixtures of the season, with the shiny stickers of the Ligue 1 champions 2021/2022 (PSG).

Along the presentation of the 20 Ligue 1 clubs, there are also special pages dedicated to the best stars and young talent of the tournament. "Parallel cracks" includes 10 stickers of the best players in action. For each sticker there are also two additional version (parallels) that are rarer stickers inserted in packets, but only one can be stuck in the album. In addition, there are four pages with the next-gen talents of Ligue 1, for a total of 20 shiny stickers.

In the season 2022/2023, PSG won the Ligue 1 title with one point more than Lens. Mbappé was the top goalscorer with 29 goals, second place for Lacazette (27 goals) and third for David (24 goals).