Panini SuperSport HNL (Croatia)

 

SuperSport HNL 23/24 is the first Panini album of the Croatian league. Panini explores a new market producing the official sticker collection of the 2023/2024 season. The album features the 10 clubs of the first division (Hrvatska Nogometna Liga - HNL) and also a section with the club badge stickers of the second division (Prva Nogometna Liga - PNL).

The album begins with the contents and an introductory page including four shiny stickers: the league logo, trophy, cup, and official ball. Before showing the HNL clubs, there are four special sections over six pages. The first section is dedicated to the club captains, with a total of ten shiny stickers of players in action, the second section features the best players (one per club) with 10 stickers in action, and the third includes the rising stars (one per club) with ten stickers of players in action. The last section shows the best moments of the previous season, with 10 stickers featuring the HNL champions 2022/2023 (Dinamo, two stickers), the second place (Hajduk) the third place (Osijek), and the fourth place (Rijeka), the cup winners (Hajduk, two stickers), the derby Dinamo-Hajduk 4-0, the top goalscorers of the HNL (Marko Livaja with 19 goals) and the topscorer of the Croatian Cup (Josip Drmic).

The 10 clubs of the HNL are then shown one after the other starting from the title owner GNK Dinamo. For each club there are 26 stickers displaced over two pages. In the first two pages the players of the squad are shown with 20 player portrait stickers, whereas in the following two pages there is a focus on the club with data, statistics, and six stickers: the shiny club badge, the home shirt, the team photo (two stickers) and two star players in action.

After the HNL, there is the section dedicated to the second division (PNL), with the shiny club badge stickers of the 12 competing clubs. The last page of the album is about the history of the tournament, with the shiny sticker of the Nogometne Ikone (Football icons). Here we find the information of the best top scorer in the history (Davor Vugrinec, 145 goals), and by season (Eduardo da Silva, 34 goals).

This collection includes some players that became famous in the Italian Serie A, Livaka (ex Inter), Trajkovski (ex Palermo), Pjaca (ex Juventus), and interesting young prospects, like Baturina and Pukstas. In the following, we show the pictures of the empty album with the complete set of loose stickers.

Back cover of the album

Shiny action stickers from the section "Best players": Marko Livaja (ex FC Inter) and Pjaca (ex Juventus)

From the section "Rising stars": Martin Baturina (16/2/2003) played regular for Dinamo in 2023/24 and he made his first appearances with the national team. 

Marko Livaja action and regular stickers. 

International players: Trajkovski (104 caps and 16 goals for Palermo in Italy) from Macedonia and the young American Rokas Pukstas (25/8/2004)

Album details:

Full name: SuperSport HNL 23/24

Publisher: Panini

League: Croatia (HNL and PNL)

Season: 2023/2024

Number of clubs and sticker per club:

• HNL (10 clubs, 26 stickers)
• PNL (12 clubs, 1 sticker)

Other sections:

• Introduction (4 stickers)
• Kapetani (Captains, 10 stickers)
• Najbolji igrači (Best players, 10 stickers)
• Nadolazeće zvijezde (Rising stars, 10 stickers)
• Trenuci za pamćenje 2022/2023 (Moments to remember, 10 stickers)
• Nogometne Ikone (Football icons, 1 sticker)

Checklist: click here

Total number of stickers: 317