Panini Russian Premier League 2016

 

Panini published in January 2016 the fourth album of the Russian Premier League, after the previous editions released in 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2014-15. The collection features the 16 clubs of the Premier League with special sections dedicated to the stars of the league and the highlights of the previous season, for a total of 449 stickers. There are no updates or extra stickers for this collection.

The album begins with the contents, the calendar of the season and two introductory stickers: the Russian federation and the league logos (metallic stickers). The Premier League clubs are introduced with a badge and kits section. Here we find three metallic stickers for each team: the club badge, the home kit, and the away kit. This section features a total of 48 stickers displaced over eight pages. The teams are then shown following the classification order of the previous season, starting therefore with the title holder FC Zenit Saint Petersburg. For each team there are 22 stickers over two pages: the team photo (composed by two stickers) and 20 player portrait stickers. 

After the presentation of the teams, there are still three section before the end of the album. The first one features the best stars of the league with 48 stickers of players in action. The second one shows the highlights of the season 2014/2015, and the last one includes the roll of honour and the metallic stickers of the three Russian throphies: Russian League, Cup, and Supercup. CSKA Moscow won the 2015/2016 Premier League with a total of 65 points, second place for Rostov (63 points) and third for Zenit (59 points); Fyodor Smolov (Krasnodar) was the top scorer of the league with 20 goals, while the Dutch forward Quincy Promes (Spartak) scored 18 goals and the Brazilian striker Hulk (Zenit) 16 goals. 

Back cover of the album

Regular and action stickers of the Brazilian striker Hulk

International players in the Russian Premier League: the Belgian midfielder Axel Witsel and the Nigerian forward Ahmed Musa (who scored 12 goals in the tournament 2015/16)

The two best scorers of the Russian Premier League 2015/2016: Smolov (Krasnodar) scored 20 goals (1st) and Quincy Promes scored 18 goals (2nd)

Album details:

Full name: Russian Football Premier League 2015-2016

Publisher: Panini

Release: January 2016

League: Russian Premier League

Season: 2015/2016

Number of clubs: 16

Stickers per club: 22

Other sections:

• Introduction (2 stickers)
• Badges and kits (48 stickers)
• Stars (32 stickers)
• Season 2014-15 (12 stickers)
• Russian football titles (3 stickers)

Update/Extra: No

Checklist: click here

Total number of stickers: 449

Topps Bundesliga 2016

Fussball Bundesliga 2015/2016 is the 7th album of the German Bundesliga published by Topps, after taking over the licence from Panini for the season 2009/2010. The album is similar in layout and graphics to the previous ones. The special additions for this collection are the limited edition stickers, which are special shiny stickers of 18 star players (one per team). The same stickers are released also in the regular version that can be found inside the sticker packets. 

The album starts with the contents and an introductory page with three special stickers: the metallic Bundesliga logo and trophies (Bundesliga and 2.Bundesliga). Then the 18 competing clubs are shown in alphabetical order with 22 stickers over four pages: the shiny badge, the team photo (two stickers), the home/away kit, 17 players, and the star striker in action (shiny sticker).

After the Bundesliga clubs, there is one page about the season 2015/2016 with the sticker of the official ball and one page with three stickers about the Super Cup 2015 won by Wolfsburg. In this page, one sticker is the trophy and the other two are celebrations for the Super Cup victory against Bayern Munchen at penalties. 

The collection includes also the second division (2.Bundesliga). For these 18 clubs there are two stickers: the club badge (regular sticker) and the home/away kit. The album ends with the schedule of the season, but no other section with stickers. In the following, we present photos of the album and all the 18 limited edition stickers released for this collection.

Back cover of the album

The 18 Limited Edition stickers of this collection

The top goalscorer of the Bundesliga 2015/2016 was Lewandowski (30 goals), followed by Aubameyang (25 goals). Bayern Munchen won the title easily, with 10 points more than Dortmund.

Leverkusen idols "Chicarito" Hernandez (17 goals in the Bundesliga 2015/2016) and Calhanoglu

German rising stars Timo Wener (19 years old) and Julian Draxler (22 years old)

Album details

Full name: Fussball Bundesliga 2015/2016

Publisher: Topps

Release: January 2016

League: German (Bundesliga and 2.Bundesliga)

Season: 2015/2016

Number of clubs and stickers per club:

• Bundesliga (18 clubs, 22 stickers)
• 2.Bundesglia (18 clubs, 2 stickers)

Other sections:

• Introduction (3 stickers)
• Bundesliga 2015/2016 (1 sticker)
• Super Cup 2015 (3 stickers)

Extra: Limited Edition star players (18 stickers)

Checklist: click here

Total number of stickers: 457