Only Good Stickers: Panini Calciatori 2024

giovedì 27 giugno 2024

Panini Calciatori 2024

Calciatori 2023/2024 is another magnificent album of the famous series produced by Panini for the Italian football. The collection includes an album, which is available also in the hardcover version, to be completed with 861 stickers and extra material composed by 10 Goal Machine cards (to be found in starterpacks, 100-packets boxes, updgrades), 40 slogan stickers (one in each packet) and 20 gold variant stickers available in the Upgrade box. In addition, with the codes printed on the slogan stickers it is possible to complete virtual albums of the Serie C and Women's Serie A 2023/24 on the Panini Digital collections website.

The album features the Italian professional leagues (Serie A, Serie B, Serie C) and the Women's Serie A. The introductory page includes four shiny stickers of the trophies (Serie A, Coppa Italia, Supercup, Serie B) and one shiny sticker dedicated to Gianluigi Buffon, head of the Italian delegation, just retired from football and part of the Calciatori collection since the season 1995/96.

The Serie A clubs are then shown in alphabetical order with four pages per club. In the first two pages there are 22 stickers: the shiny club badge, the team photo, and 20 player portrait stickers. In the second two pages, there are three stickers to be found in packets (the coach, the new signing, and the Elite stickers) and two additional stickers of players from the Upgrade set.

After the Serie A, there are some special sections. The first one is dedicated to the eSerie A, with seven stickers showing the club badges of the 14 competing teams. Player of the month (9 stickers) and Coach of the month (10 stickers) are stickers of awarded players and managers during the season that are distributed with the Upgrade set (released in March 2024) and with four special sticker packets (Calciatori Reload) included with the newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport between February and June 2024. The Upgrade set features also 40 stickers with the winter transfers. The last two sections before the Serie B teams are "La Panini più amata", with 20 stickers featuring the most voted Serie A players (one per team), and the Women's Serie A (team photo stickers of the competing clubs).

The Serie B section features for each club the badge sticker (half sticker), the team photo and five stickers of players (three players on each sticker). The Serie C section includes this year the team photo (half sticker) and the club badge (1/4 sticker) of the 60 clubs divided in three groups.

The Calciatori 2024 was preceded by the Calciatori Anteprima collection released in October and followed by the Calciatori Celebration set (May 2024) with the highlights of the season. Inter won its 20th title, dominating the championship (94 points) with the top goalscorer of the tournament, Lautaro Martinez (24 goals).