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venerdì 18 settembre 2026

Topps Champions League 2026

The UEFA Champions League 2025/26 is the official sticker collection dedicated to the 2025/26 season of Europe's most prestigious club competition. Published by Topps, which has held the rights to the UEFA Champions League since the 2015/16 season, the collection was released in both a standard and a hardcover edition. With 574 stickers in the main album, 36 participating teams and a large number of special sections, it is one of the most extensive Champions League collections produced by Topps.

The album opens with a contents page and three introductory stickers: the Topps logo, the UEFA Champions League trophy and the UEFA Women's Champions League trophy. The collection then looks back at the previous season with two special pages dedicated to the 2024/25 UEFA Champions League and Women's Champions League Teams and Players of the Season. The men's section features 11 action stickers representing the Team of the Season, including a shiny sticker dedicated to the Player of the Season, Ousmane Dembélé. The following page has the equivalent section for the Women's Champions League, with Aitana Bonmatí receiving the special Player of the Season sticker.

Before the presentation of the 2025/26 clubs, there is another two-page section called Historic Hat-trick Heroes. It contains eight holographic stickers celebrating legendary players who scored a hat-trick in the Champions League. Among them is Lionel Messi, whose sticker is given the particularly prestigious Supreme Hero treatment.

The 36 teams participating in the 2025/26 Champions League are then presented in alphabetical order. The collection reflects the new 36-team league phase format, but not all clubs receive exactly the same amount of space. The first 29 teams have 14 stickers each, spread across two pages. Each team has a shiny club badge, 11 player portrait stickers and two additional shiny action stickers featuring players under the themes The Master and The Apprentice. The seven teams that qualified through the play-offs have a smaller section with 12 stickers on a single page: a shiny badge followed by 11 player portraits.

The album contains several further special sections which give the collection considerably more variety. In the centre is Leading Legacies, featuring 20 holographic action stickers dedicated to team leaders from the past. Among the players included are famous names such as Xavi, Javier Zanetti and Philipp Lahm. This is followed by 1st Stickers, a set of 12 shiny portrait stickers celebrating players making their Champions League debut.

The UEFA Youth League is also represented with a small three-sticker section containing the Youth League trophy, the 2025 winners Barcelona, and the tournament's Superstar, Quim Junyent. The album concludes with Energy Legends, another highly visual special section containing eight spectacular stickers dedicated to legendary Champions League players, including Lionel Messi, Zinedine Zidane and Gianluigi Buffon.

As well as the 574 stickers in the album, Topps has produced a substantial range of additional collectibles. All the player portrait stickers are available in several parallel versions, with blue, black, red and platinum variants offering different levels of rarity. There are also very rare jersey relic cards/stickers, numbered RS1 to RS10, for collectors interested in memorabilia.

Back cover of the album

Messi stickers from this collection: "Supreme Hero" and "Energy Legend"

"Leading Legacies" sticker of Javier Zanetti and 1st sticker of Jode Bellingham

French stars Désiré Doué and Kylian Mbappé

portrait stickers of Yamal (Barcelona) and Haaland (Manchester City)

Album details:

Full name: UEFA Champions League 2025/26

Publisher: Topps

Release: November 2025

Tournament: UEFA Champions League

Season: 2025/26

Number of teams: 36

Stickers per team:

14 stickers for 29 teams
12 stickers for 7 teams

Other sections:

Introduction (3 stickers)
2024/25 UCL Team and player of the season (11 stickers)
2024/25 UWCL Team and player of the season (11 stickers)
Historic hat-trick heroes (16 stickers)
Leading legacies (20 stickers)
1st Stickers (12 stickers)
UEFA Youth League (3 stickers)
Energy Legends (8 stickers)

Updates: No

Extra:

Parallel stickers (blue/black/red/platinum)
Jersey relic card/stickers (RS1-RS10)

Hardcover album: Yes

Checklist: click here

Total number of stickers (album): 574

mercoledì 29 luglio 2026

Panini Calciatori 2025/2026

Calciatori 2025-2026 is Panini’s flagship sticker collection dedicated to Italian football for the 2025/2026 season. Released in November 2025 and also available in a hardcover edition, the album contains 784 stickers and introduces several important innovations while maintaining the traditional structure that has made Calciatori one of the world's longest-running football collections. The main novelty is the launch of a separate album dedicated exclusively to Serie B, allowing the main collection to focus much more extensively on Serie A while still providing representation for the lower divisions.

The album opens with an introductory page featuring three shiny stickers depicting the trophies of Italian football. This is followed by a two-page spread presenting the 20 Serie A teams through their official team photos, before introducing the section “Nuove Firme in Città”, where one new signing from each Serie A club is highlighted with a dedicated sticker.

The core of the collection is devoted to the 20 Serie A clubs, presented in alphabetical order. Each club occupies two pages and is represented by 22 stickers: the shiny club badge, the manager, and 20 player portrait stickers.

One of the defining characteristics of Calciatori 2025-2026 is the introduction of artificial intelligence-generated artwork for several thematic sections. For the first time in the history of the Calciatori series, Panini uses AI to create stylised illustrations of Serie A stars, transforming them into comic-book-like heroes with distinctive visual effects.

The AI-based sections are spread throughout the album and include “Gem Squad”, “Turbofreccia”, “Color Up”, “Super Glovez”, “Trick Maestro”, “Boom d’Impatto”, “Power Bros”, and “Family Legacy”. Together, they celebrate the league’s most exciting players through imaginative graphic interpretations rather than conventional action photography.

In addition to the Serie A clubs, the album briefly expands its coverage to the lower divisions. Serie B is represented through a compact section in which each of the 20 clubs is featured with a team photograph and a club badge (half sticker), while Serie C receives a similar presentation for all 60 participating clubs, but with a half sticker for the team photo and a quarter of a sticker for each badge.

The final part of the collection is largely devoted to update and bonus content released after the initial publication. The most substantial addition is “Calciatori Upgrade”, a 100-sticker update set issued in March 2026. It introduces 80 new player stickers, four for each Serie A club, allowing collectors to incorporate the most important transfers and emerging players from the first half of the season. The same update also includes 20 shiny “Style on Pitch” stickers, each featuring the official shirt of a Serie A club.

At the end of the season, Panini released “Calciatori Celebration”, a further 60-sticker update set highlighting the most memorable moments of the 2025/2026 campaign. These stickers celebrate the key events, players, and achievements of the season, providing the album with a retrospective conclusion. An additional promotional section dedicated to the Supercoppa Italiana consists of six shiny stickers, distributed exclusively through the Kinder Happy Calza Christmas product.

Collectors could also chase a set of 20 Captain variants, parallel shiny stickers featuring the captains of the Serie A clubs that were included with the 120-packet box.

From a sporting perspective, the 2025/2026 Serie A season concluded with Inter winning the Italian championship, completing an outstanding campaign that also saw the Nerazzurri lift the Coppa Italia, achieving a domestic double. Napoli added another major trophy by winning the Supercoppa Italiana, a success reflected in the exclusive Kinder promotional section included in the album. Thanks to the Calciatori Celebration update, collectors can relive the decisive moments and protagonists of the season long after the championship has ended.