FIFA 365 – The Golden World of Football (2018) is the third edition of Panini’s global FIFA 365 series and, in its Italian edition, one of the richest and most distinctive versions of the collection. Dedicated to the 2017/2018 season, this edition combines major club football with a broad range of FIFA competitions and youth tournaments, while also featuring an exclusive insert of three additional clubs specifically for the Italian market. With a total of 602 stickers, it stands as one of the largest early FIFA 365 albums and offers a particularly varied collecting experience.
The album opens with a contents page and an introductory spread featuring two fabric stickers: the FIFA 365 logo and the FIFA Fair Play sticker. The first major section is “Football Sticker Art”, spread over two pages. This visually ambitious opening includes holographic stickers of the Panini emblem and the official match ball, alongside two artistic compositions dedicated to Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. Each of these portraits is made up of four fabric stickers.
The album then moves to the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup section. This part includes team photo stickers of the participating national teams, highlights from the final, and two holographic stickers featuring the trophy and the official ball. It works as a compact retrospective of one of FIFA’s final major tournaments before the 2018 World Cup.
The core of the collection is dedicated to 25 club teams. The standard international version includes 22 clubs, but the Italian edition adds three exclusive teams: FC Schalke 04, FC Internazionale Milano, and AC Milan. These exclusive clubs appear in a dedicated insert section and are numbered E1 to E60.
The teams are presented following country order, beginning with Argentine giants Boca Juniors and River Plate. Each club is represented by 20 stickers: the home shirt, the shiny club badge, and 18 player portrait stickers. The layout is simple and effective, focusing more on the squads themselves than on action or thematic inserts, and giving the collection a classic club-oriented feel.
Interspersed among the club pages are several special sections dedicated to international youth football and FIFA events. One of these is the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup section, which includes holographic stickers of the four semifinalist teams, the celebration of champions England national under-20 football team, and the tournament awards. The “Next Generation” section follows, featuring four stickers, each showing three young talents, for a total of 12 promising players identified as future stars of world football.
The album also includes sections dedicated to the 2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup and the 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, underlining the broad international and developmental scope of the FIFA 365 concept.
Another notable insert is “Milestones”, a section of 14 stickers celebrating some of the greatest football achievements of the previous season. This part adds a commemorative dimension to the album, going beyond teams and tournaments to highlight memorable football moments.
In the later pages, the album includes “Top Performers”, a short but appealing one-page section, before moving into one of its largest final segments: the 2016 FIFA Club World Cup. This extensive section contains 36 stickers and presents the competing clubs and their players.
The album concludes with a final page featuring four holographic stickers dedicated to the trophies of other FIFA competitions: the 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup, the 2017 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, the Blue Stars/FIFA Youth Cup 2017, and the FIFA Interactive World Cup 2017. These closing stickers reinforce the global and all-encompassing nature of the FIFA 365 brand.
- Introduction (2 stickers)
- Football Sticker Art (10 stickers)
- FIFA Confederations Cup 2017 (11 stickers)
- FIFA U-20 World Cup 2017 (5 stickers)
- Next Generation (4 stickers)
- FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup 2016 (5 stickers)
- FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup 2016 (5 stickers)
- Milestones (14 stickers)
- Top Performers (6 stickers)
- FIFA Club World Cup 2016 (36 stickers)
- FIFA competitions (4 stickers)
- Italian edition: FC Schalke 04, FC Internazionale, AC Milan (E1-E60)
- South American edition: Universidad de Chile, Atletico Nacional, Tigres (L1-L60)
- Eastern Europe edition: FC Crvena Zvezda, FK Partizan, NK Maribor (S1-S60)
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