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mercoledì 15 ottobre 2025

Topps Women's Euro 2025

 

The UEFA Women's Euro 2025, hosted in Switzerland, saw England crowned champions after a thrilling final against Spain, decided on penalties. For the third time, an official sticker album was released for the tournament, following the Panini editions of 2017 and 2022, this time produced by Topps, which had acquired the UEFA licensing rights.

The Topps Women's Euro 2025 album features a total of 308 stickers, covering all 16 participating teams, with an attractive mix of standard and shiny stickers for badges, stars, and legends.

The album opens with an introductory section presenting the tournament overview and group divisions. The first four stickers are all shiny: the Topps logo, the UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 logo, the trophy, and the official mascot. This is followed by a double-page spread displaying all the team badges. However, due to licensing restrictions, Italy, France, Germany, and England feature their national flags instead of federation logos.

Next comes a page dedicated to the eight host stadiums, each represented by a sticker and located in a different Swiss city. The team sections follow, organized by group. Each team is allocated 16 player stickers, including the captain (indicated with a “C”) and one “Hotshot” sticker featuring a key player in action.

At the center of the album is a standout “Shining Stars” section, a two-page spread with 16 spectacular shiny stickers, one per team, showcasing top players from across the tournament. The album then continues with the remaining teams and concludes with the “Legends” page, featuring eight shiny stickers of iconic players such as Alexandra Popp (Germany) and Ellen White (England).

There are no extras for this collection — no update sets, parallel versions, or cards. Despite its simplicity, the album feels coherent and well designed, with a stronger focus than Topps’ Euro 2024 collection.

The pros are the excellent shiny sticker quality (thick, bright, and eye-catching), while the cons concern the album paper, which is thin and prone to waviness.

Overall, the Topps Women’s Euro 2025 album is a simple yet elegant collection, celebrating the tournament and the players with a clean, modern design and great visual appeal.




















"Legend" and portrait sticker of the English captain Leah Williamson

The Italian Cristiana Girelli and the Swedish Stina Blackstenius both scored 3 goals in the tournament

Portrait and shiny stickers of the Spanish star Aitana Bonmatì


Album details:
Full name: UEFA Women's Euro Switzerland 2025
Publisher: Topps
Tournament: Women's Euro Cup
Year: 2025
Number of teams: 16
Stickers per team: 16
Other sections:
  • Introduction (4 stickers)
  • Badges (16 stickers)
  • Stadiums (8 stickers)
  • Shining Stars (16 stickers)
  • Legends (8 stickers)
Extra (cards, parallels, poster): No
Update: No
Checklist: click here

Total number of stickers: 308





giovedì 12 settembre 2024

Topps Euro 2024

 

The official sticker album of the Euro Cup 2024 was published by Topps, for the first time after they got the UEFA rights. Unfortunately this was not a positive event for sticker collectors, as Topps produced an almost embarassing sticker album, compared to the historical editions published by Panini. 

First of all, Topps had no rights for some of the main federations (Italy, England, France, Germany), therefore the player stickers of those teams show just the player face. Secondly, the sticker distribution in packets was awful, with rarity of SP stickers needed to complete the album and the presence of too many useless parallel stickers. Moreover, nonsense choices, like the sticker of Zinedine Zidane as French captain. In addition, the terrible customer service made this album complicated and a nightmare to complete, as the individual sticker service was open for only couple of weeks with many issues. Finally, many players that took part in the tournament are not included (just to say one name: Mbappé!) and there are no updates for this album.

In this review we show the blue International edition, composed by a base set of 707 stickers and a hardcover album. There is also a red Swiss edition, with the same stickers, but just a red border instead of blue and no hardcover album.

The album begins with an introduction of four regular sticker: the Topps logo, the Euro 2020 logo, the official ball and the mascot of the tournament. Before showing the competing teams, there is also a section with the trophy (shiny stickers) and the ten stadium stickers made with childish drawings instead of real photos. 

The teams are then shown by group order. Each group is introduced by two pages with the map overview (two stickers) and the country landmark of each team (two stickers), followed by other two pages with the main players: the "Player to watch (PTW)" (shiny sticker), the "Star Player (SP)" (golden sticker) and the "Top XI" (two stickers). The teams that took part in the play-offs have just the regular star player sticker (two players on one sticker) without PTW and Top XI stickers. The star player stickers of the directly qualified teams can be found with or without signature, with random distribution in packets.

The 21 teams that were directly qualified to the group stage have 21 stickers over two pages: the shiny badge, the shiny captain, the "artist" player in action (shiny), and 18 players. The play-off teams have just eight stickers on one page: the shiny badge, and seven stickers of players (two players on one sticker, for a total of 14 players included).

In the center of the album there is a "Dream Team" section of two pages where it is possible to stick spare stickers of the favourite players. In those pages there is also a sticker composed by the mascot of the tournament (half sticker) and the signature of the Topps official manager, José Mourinho (half sticker). The last section of the album features the stickers of ten Euro legends: Torres, Bale, Rooney (shiny), Nedved, Shevchenko, Seedorf, Figo, Zidane (shiny), Beckenbauer (shiny), and Ibrahimovic.


























Back cover of the album

The different parallel stickers that can be found in sticker packets

Musiala and Gakpo, top scorers of the tournament (3 goals) together with Kane, Mikautadze, Schranz and Dani Olmo.

Euro 2024 superstars: Lamine Yamal (PTW sticker) and Jude Bellingham (autographed SP sticker)

Yamal and Bellingham regular stickers

Shiny captain stickers: Cristiano Ronaldo and Kevin de Bruyne

Ibrahimovic and Shevchenko stickers from the Legends section

Album details:
Full name: UEFA Euro 2024 Germany
Publisher: Topps
Tournament: Euro 2024
Edition: Blue (International)
Hardcover album: Yes
Number of teams: 33
Stickers per team:
  • 21 directly qualified (25 stickers)
  • 12 play-off teams (8.5 stickers)
Other sections:
  • Introduction (4 stickers)
  • Host of the Euro 2024 (11 stickers)
  • Group introductions (54 stickers)
  • Legends (10 stickers)
  • Dream Team (1 sticker)
Extra: Parallel stickers
Updates: No
Checklist: click here

Total number of stickers (album): 707