Only Good Stickers: 2001

mercoledì 8 maggio 2024

Panini Football 2001 (Malta)

Football 2000-2001 is the one and only sticker collection of the Maltese football produced by Panini (there is also a second album produced by a Maltese company in 2019, called "Malti Futbol"). The collection features not only the Premier Division, but also the First, the Second, and the Third Divisions. Moreover, it includes also the Gozo First Division, which is played in the island of Gozo. In addition, there is a poster with 26 stickers dedicated to the national team.

The album begins with a foreword by the President of the Malta Football Association, explaining that this collection comes from the initiative of Dominic Anastasi, which was the Malta representative for Panini, to celebrate 100 years of the football association. The clubs of the different divisions are then shown in alphabetical order, starting from the 10 clubs of Premier Division. Each club of Premier and First Division has 20 stickers displaced over two pages: the shiny badge, the team photo (two stickers), the manager, and 16 players. The clubs of Second and Third Division have only the club badge (half-size shiny sticker) and the team photo sticker. Also the eight clubs of the Gozo League have the badge and team photo stickers.

The album ends with no additional sections with stickers, but the collection features also a poster of the Malta National Team with 26 stickers (from A to Z) of the coach Josef Ilic and 25 players.

Back cover of the album

The best scorers of the Maltese Premier Division 2001: Michael Mifsud scored 30 goals (1st), Adrian Mifsud 23 goals (2nd).

From the poster "Malta National Team": Chucks Nwoko, who played for CSKA Sofia in 2001, and the Serbian coach Josef Ilic.

Album details:

Full name: Football 2000-2001

Publisher: Panini

Country: Malta

Season: 2000/2001

Number of clubs and stickers for each club:

Premier Division (10 clubs, 20 stickers)
First Division (10 clubs, 20 stickers)
Second Division (12 clubs, 1.5 stickers)
Third Division (16 clubs, 1.5 stickers)
Gozo First Division (8 clubs, 1.5 stickers)

Other sections: No

Updates: No

Poster: Malta National Team (26 stickers, A-Z)

Checklist: click here

Total number of stickers: 480

martedì 18 luglio 2023

Panini Scottish Premier League 2001

In 2001 Celtic Glasgow won the Scottish Premier with a wonderful season (97 points) counting on 35 goals of the top scorer Henrik Larsson. The league featured other famous international players like De Boer, Van Bronckhorst, Klos, Reyna, Petrov, and Mjallby.

The official collection of the tournament published by Panini is a fresh and colourful sticker album. It covers the 12 competing clubs with a large set of 37 stickers for each club, including the club badge, the team photo (two stickers), the stadium, the home and away shirts, the nickname, the superstar in action (large sticker), the supporters, the manager, the key player, the star defender, the star midfielder, the star forward, the fan's favourite, the skipper, the rising star, two supporter's mottos (half sticker each), and 18 player portrait stickers.

In addition, there are three introductory shiny stickers with the SPL logo, trophy and official ball. Moreover, in the center of the album there is a section (McDonald's - Ones to watch) with seven stickers: the McDonald's logo and six stickers of players in action (numbered A to F) that are attached to the empty album. Here we find also a poster to stick the double stickers. There are no update stickers for this collection, however Panini reserved two spots in each club page for transferred players. Those can be filled with regular stickers of players that changed club during the season, replacing the old shirt with special team transfer PVC stickers.

In the following, we show photos of the empty album with the complete set of loose stickers.