If you were sad without an international album from Panini, I think you can feel better now. After the unthinkable situation in which Panini lost a license for UEFA Champions League, plenty of collectors were baffled. “Is this the end of Panini” some were asking. And while many were scared, few people believed that its not the end, the battle for the market has just began.

Featuring clubs around the world with a record high number of stickers – 800+ to collect.

There were some rumors on our forums that Panini will bounce back, stronger than ever with a new collection. At first it was announced that new card collection is being prepared, but few weeks ago collectors communities around the world literary exploded – Famous knight created a new collection – Panini FIFA 365 2016 Official sticker album.

Panini 365 2016 sticker album is a collection that will be distributed in over 60 countries around the world and will include a record number of stickers for a FIFA album – over 800!

This is the proof. Panini is not dead. In this collection, you can find stickers from clubs of any part of the world, including Oceania, Africa and Asia. Album is official licensed by FIFA.

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Panini 365 stickers overview

Album: 72 page, softcover – 24 x 50 x 33 mm – priced around 2€

Stickers: 520 standard + 134 special

Box: 50 packets

Packet: 5 stickers – priced at around 0.60€ (varies from country to country)

Album

The 72 page softcover album is mainly in English. For now there is only a softcover version, though it is possible that some countries will have a hardcover, like we had for World Cup 2014 or Copa America 2015.

Panini FIFA 365 2016 is quite an interesting collection and also a Panini reply to Topps taking over UCL albums.

NOTE: If you want to buy this collection you can:

On the front cover we have top players from different clubs and countries, featuring stars like Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Neuer (like the ranking of the the last “golden foot” award.) Since the version depicted in the photo above is Italian, it has a red “Le Grandi Raccolte Per La Gioventu” headline. Below it is a 365 logo, featured players and on bottom, some of the sections in which album is separated, such as:

FIFA Club World Cup

FIFA U-20 World Cup

FIFA Women’s World Cup (Check Official Women’s World Cup 2015 album on this link)

Album is distributed worldwide but has different editions. I will talk about it in just a moment, but for now you should know that nearly every country will have few extra stickers which can be sticked on the middle page. So, depending on where you live, middle page and stickers might be different.

This article features images Italian version, but do not worry we’ll add more info on other versions as well. Make sure to check this amazing forum thread of ours, where information is added each and every day.

The quality of the laminated cardboard albums is quite good. Interesting enough, it is one of the first to feature stickers from clubs we never seen in a collection before. I really love that Panini cto gave the exactly the same number of stickers, same type and same space in the album for each and every featured club. No matter the clubs size, origin or a budget. Barcelona or Al Ahly – they all have same amount of stickers.

The other interesting idea is giving space to some competitions and tournaments that were not available in many countries ever before – Fifa Club World Cup, Fifa U-20 World Cup and Fifa Women’s World Cup.

I think they have done a great job not only about with amount, size and quality of the stickers, but also with presentation of every club and entire collection overall. This album has to be part of every passionate Paniniac collection.

Sections

Album is divided in 5 parts (more or less)

The Golden World of Football

FIFA competitions (Club, U-20, Women’s)

Clubs standard for every country

standard for every country Middle page with extra club different per country (or without mid page in some editions)

FIFA world ranking TOP 10 (but with only 6 stickers)

The Golden World of Football

The introductory page of the collection features pretty much standard symbol explanation cover page. This page clarifies each of the signs and simobls used inside the Panini Official 365 2016 album, which will help you understand it better.

Second page features two stickers numbered 1-2.

This a special part connected with a promotion launched by Panini. In every packet you find a sticker with a code which you can use to vote for your best player of the album.

It seems that a sticker numbered #13 of the album will be printed later or maybe there is a kind a trophy. For now we are not sure how, where and when it will be distributed, we can only wait and see what this mysterious sticker will be.

9/21/2015 UPDATE : Sticker #13 album is actually a normal sticker which comes inside a pack. Check it out here.

Voting can be done on Panini 365 website.

2 pages with 18 stickers:

for winners from 2000 to 2011 one sticker per team

for winners from 2012 to 2013 two stickers per team

for last edition in Morocco 4 sticker of semifinalist, ball stickers and double sticker of Real Madrid

FIFA U-20 WORLD CUP NEW ZEALAND 2015

This 2 sheet section features 20 stickers in total of the recently finished U-20 World Cup held in New Zealand, won by Serbian squad.

round of 16 (8 stickers, the teams that lost the game)

quarter-finals (4 stickers, the teams that lost the game)

one sticker for each semifinals plus double sticker for awinner

two double stickers for best players – possibly rookie stickers.

FIFA WOMEN’S WC CANADA 2015

Panini wanted to show that they care about female soccer. So one more time, after 2011, and recent 2015 collection, they decided to include ladies football players inside the collection, which is great and gives this album a whole new dimension.

2 pages with 18 stickers:

8 stickers about matches for final and 3/4 place

10 stickers about top team and players and Adidas Golden Foot winner

CLUBS

Clubs are in alphabetical order per country, so from Argentina to Uruguay. In the standard album we have:

Argentina: BOCA JUNIORS, RIVER PLATE

Belgium: ANDERLECHT

Brasil: CORINTHIANS, FLAMENGO

Chile: COLO-COLO

China: BEIJING GUOAN

Egypt: AL AHLY

England: MANCHESTER UTD

España: BARCELONA, REAL MADRID

France: MARSEILLE, PSG

Germany: BAYERN, BORUSSIA DORTMUND

Greece: OLYMPIAKOS

Italy: JUVENTUS, MILAN

Mexico: AMERICA

Nederland: AJAX

New Zealand: AUCKLAND CITY

Portugal: PORTO

Russia: ZENIT

Turkey: GALATASARAY

Uruguay: NACIONAL, PEÑAROL

For every country Panini has chosen the club with most fans worldwide, not just in country, though some choices make no sense to many, and will certainly cause few people to rise their eyebrows.

Another reason could be license rights, maybe some clubs are not featured because of the contracts, licenses, etc… or maybe Panini didn’t find a good deal. Of course it is impossible to have all clubs in this album (I can think of at least other 30 clubs that should be inside), but the chance to have a clubs album from 15 different countries is a pleasure anyway. Each club has 2 page spread.

Each club consists out of 30 stickers:

20 stickers of players

1 golden team logo

2 double sticker of team “in action”

1 golden sticker of Top Player

6 smaller-sized silver stickers of best players

Middle page

Besides being known as the page that everyone hates, because it falls out constantly (here is a trick how to fix it by the way), thanks to Panini 365 2016 stickers, middle page will be known for few more things. So lets start.

We already mentioned that nearly each country will have different middle page, which will feature stickers of most known team/teams in their country. Stickers will be distributed through different channels, depending on the distributor and the country where it is sold. So for instance, inside the Italian middle sheet, we have Lazio, Roma, etc. Slovenian have Maribor, Serbian has FK Partizan, etc.

You get the point now, right? – Each country – different middle stickers of a team. While this is good for local collectors, as it will allow them to have more stickers of local clubs, international collectors will have to spend a fortune (unless Panini decides to launch an update with all stickers, which is not impossible) in order to get all those international sets of different teams.



So far, we discovered these extra stickers that will appear in some countries:

Country Team Numeration Where? Bulgaria Levski Sofia H01 to H30 Buy 5 packs, get 4 stickers

(two stickers per team) Chile Universidad de Chile B01 to B30 Normal Packs Costa Rica Alajuelense

Saprissa A01 to A30

U01 to U30 Newspaper in

November Czech Republic

Slovakia Victoria Plzen

Slovan Bratislava E01 to E60 Buy 3 packs, get 4 stickers

(two stickers per team) France Lyon T01 to T30 Normal Packs Germany

Austria Schalke 04 P01 to P30 Normal Packs Greece Panathinaikos C01 to C30 Greece Starter Pack Italy AS Roma

Inter Milan

Lazio R01 to R90 Normal Packs Romania Steaua Bucaresti M01 to M30 Romania Starter Pack Russia Cska Moskva

Spartak Moskva Q01 to Q60 Normal Packs Serbia FK Partizan D01 to D30 Newspaper * Slovenia NK Maribor F01 to F30 Newspaper * Spain

Portugal Atletico Madrid

Valencia

Sporting CP S01 to S90 Normal Packs Switzerland Basel L01 to L30 Starter Pack Turkey Fenerbahce N01 to N30 Normal Packs

* In Serbia, Partizan stickers were given split in 4 Tuesday issues, between September 29th & October 20th.

* In Slovenia, Maribor stickers were given split in 4 straight issues, between September 21st & 24th.

We also leave a list of countries where the album is released, but with no exclusive teams in it:

Belgium Bosnia Brazil Croatia Cyprus Hungary Macedonia Malta Mauritius Mexico Peru Poland South Africa Tunisia United Kingdom

List will be updated, when more information and releases are available. Please if you have any sort of info that is not in the article, leave a comment, it is highly appreciated, as we will update the article regularly.

If you are wondering how on earth are you going to store all those extra stickers, even if you decide to get them all, here are 3 great ways to store them.

Extra stickers will be labeled differently than standard ones. For instance alphabetically R1-R90, A1-A30, etc.

Stickers

It is hard to find the exact number of the stickers in this album. Theoretically there are 856 stickers. However three smaller sized stickers come on 1 bigger one in the packet. Then there are extra stickers different for each country. Such a nightmare, right?

Correct number of printed stickers stickers printed is 488. This happens because double or triple stickers have different number for each player. So we don’t have 140a and 140b like it is for Calciatori, but 140 and 141. If one day they will do same in Italy, Calciatori will have more than 1200 stickers!

So at the end there are two ways to collect this album: complete the album issued with updates in your own country or complete an album issued in your country and try to get tons of updates arond the globe, which will be a fun ride for sure.

The point is, it all depends when you consider an album to be complete.

For me (and it’s same for Eurocup and World Cup different albums) I keep complete the Italian or international version, double, just in case there is hardcover version, and then for other editions with extra or different stickers I keep “only” empty album plus extra stickers not attached. Is am not suggestion you should do the same, its just the way I do it.

If you are variations fan, prepare for ultimate trading or buying. We always recommend trading, as it is the best way to connect with people who share the same interest and passion.

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Summary

Panini FIFA 365 Official 2016 sticker album is certainly a great refreshement to the sleepy sticker collectables market. Lets hope that it will be the one, that will change the market and push not only Panini, but also its competitors to innovate and improve.

In general, collection is decent quality, with lots of stats and information. Obviously voting system for a best player will be appealing to youngsters. Different size of stickers is awesome. By including some of the teams never seen before, this album will attract many new collectors from different nations, as well as already existing rookie collectors.

However, since nearly each country will have different middle stickers, it will be frustrating for those people who like to collect variations.

Overall, Panini managed to wake up the sleepy market and prove to collectors that they are everything but gone. Lets hope they will continue in this direction for many, many years.

Note: If you prefer trading cards, Panini launched 365 Adrenalyn XL Official Trading Card Game, you can check our full review here.

Your questions, ideas and updates

If you have any question about this album, feel free to leave a comment at the bottom. We try to reply to each and every sensible question. Also if you have an information that is not included, please let us know, and we will gladly update the article.

If you already bought few packs and want to swap your stickers, you can do it on our forum, here is a link.

Share the passion and happy collecting! If you prefer video overview, check our official channel video review below for more information.