Panini Football 76 (Belgium)

Football 76 is the fourth album of the Belgian football published by Panini, since the first edition in 1973. In the season 1975/76, Belgian clubs were very competitive at the European level. Club Brugge reached the UEFA Cup final, when they lost against Liverpool (3-2, 1-1) and they won the Belgian I Division. Second place for Anderlecht, who won the Belgian Cup.

The sticker collection is in pure Panini 70's style, with long vertical full body player stickers. The album opens with the calendar of the season, the table of contents and six introductory stickers: the logos of the FIFA, UEFA and Belgian Federation, and their presidents (Havelange, Franchi and Wouters). Then the 19 clubs of I Division are shown in alphabetical order from Anderlecht to Waregem. Each club is displaced over two pages with 18 stickers: the club badge, the stadium, the team photo, the coach, and 14 stickers.

In the center of the album there are two pages with football rules explained by Prosdocimi. Here we find 20 cartoon stickers realized by the Italian artist Bruno Prosdocimi to complete a large drawing with funny caricatures of football rules. 

For the clubs of II Division there is only a small section of two pages that includes one sticker per club with the team photo and the badge. The last part of the album is a large section of 9 pages about football rules. There are 48 graphic stickers to explain 17 foundamental rules.

In the introductory page there are also the stickers with the UEFA and Belgian Federation logos

Stadium stickers of Football 76 include a photo of the stadium and the badge of the club 

The magnificent badge stickers of Football 76 (Anderlecht above and Brugge below). On the same sticker there are the club badge with team colours in the background and the city emblem

The Dutch players Koudijzer (Waregem) and Rensembrink (Anderlecht) were the third and second top goalscorers of the I Division 1975/76, with 22 and 23 goals respectively.

Great duo in Lierse: the Dutch Hans Posthumus was the top scorer of the league with 26 goals, and the young Jan Ceulemans (18 years old) scored 12 goals in his second professional season.

Album details

Full name: Football 76

Publisher: Panini

League: Belgian (I and II Division)

Season: 1975/1976

Number of clubs and stickers per club:

• I Division: 19 clubs, 18 stickers
• II Division: 16 clubs, 1 sticker

Other sections:

• Introduction (6 stickers)
• Lois du jeu vu par Prosdocimi (20 stickers)
• Lois du jeu de Football (48 stickers)

Checklist: click here

Total number of stickers: 432

Panini Football 76

In the season 1975/76, Panini published the first sticker album of the French league. Here we present this collection, which is the first of a long series that celebrates forty years of age with the current season 2015/16. This first album has a similar design of other Panini albums of that period released for other foreign leagues.

In the season 1975/76, Saint-Etienne won the third title in a row. In this album we find a young Michel Platini (21 years old with the shirt of Nancy), Carlos Bianchi (top scorer of the league with 34 goals for Stade de Reims), and Raymond Domenech (Lyon, future coach of the French National Team).

The album opens with the calendar of the season 1975/76 on the left page, while on the right page there is the foreword, table of contents and the first four stickers: the logos of the FIFA, UEFA, FFF (French National Federation), and UNEP (French Association of Professional Footballers). The 20 teams of Division 1 are then shown in alphabetical order, starting from Avignon and concluding with Valenciennes. Each team is displaced over two pages with a total of 17 stickers: the club badge, the coach, and 15 players. The team page includes also a brief description of the career and characteristics of coach and players. 

The second part of the album includes three special sections: Football trophies, best world players, and football comic strips by Prosdocimi. 

The section about football trophies includes table of honour and stickers of eight International competition: the World Cup, the Euro Cup, the Intercontinental Cup, the Champions Cup, the Cup of Cup Winners, the UEFA Cup, the Mitropa Cup, and the French Cup.

Quelques Grandes Figures du Football D'Aujourd'hui (Some big personalities of today football) includes 16 stickers of some of the best players of 1976 around the world. Among them we find Johan Cruyff, Franz Beckenbauer, Gerd Muller, Gianni Rivera, and Sandro Mazzola. 

Bruno Prosdocimi (born in 1936) is an Italian painter and cartoonist. In the section Le Football vu par Prosdocimi (Football seen by Prosdocimi), he presents 32 stickers to illustrate football. They are about characters (the referee, the president, etc...) and actions of the game (offside, penalty, etc...).

Club badges of Football 76

 Three big names of the first album of the French league: Carlos Bianchi, Raymond Domenech and Michel Platini

Album details

Full name: Football 76

Publisher: Panini

League: French (Division 1)

Season: 1975/1976

Number of teams: 20

Stickers per team: 17

Special sections: -Introduction (4 stickers)

                            -Trophies (8 stickers)

                            -International football stars (16 stickers)

                            -Football seen by Prosdocimi (32 stickers)

Total number of stickers: 400