Panini Pro League 2017 (Belgium)

[Voldrinhos]

Panini Pro League 2017 album will be released 6th december. On the cover some sketches from Footballheroes who created the album artwork.



They mention collectorsedition and 45years anniversary so we can expect something special.

Update: Belgian 2nd Division will get a section as you can see on the cover

Album counts for the first time 26 teams. Divison 2 is back represent like the good old days
- 18 teams from Division 1
- 8 teams from Division 2 (1B)

Each team has 19 stickers. Every 4 teams there is a double page with the stadiums artwork and per team 5 key-players in action.

Totally: 536 stickers
Pages: 57 pages

Album: 2€
Packet (5 stickers): 0,70€
BOX (100 Packets): 65€ online promo

Watch Footballheroes Twitter (@footballheroes2): https://twitter.com/footballheroes2?s=09

We can see Refaelov (ISR - club brugge), Bailey (JAM - genk), Hanni (ALG - anderlecht)

 

[Sandstorm]

According to Panini Belgium, the album will be available on 6 december.

 

[Voldrinhos]

 

[Makhno]

Nice artwork. It seems Panini Belgium hired an art director able to introduce some creativity. Good news. Belgians always do it better !

 

[Dieter]

Monday (today) 5th of december there will be a free album with the HLN (Het Laatste Nieuws) newspaper.
And you can win boxes if you complete a 10 question quiz

 

[redwhite]

Today I ordered my boxes, looking forward to receive them. At the first sight it seems there are 5 different packets too.

I missed the free album yesterday, but I could find some pictures token from that quiz (mentioned by Dieter at the previous post).

 

[Voldrinhos]

Album counts for the first time 26 teams. Divison 2 is back represent like the good old days
- 18 teams from Division 1
- 8 teams from Division 2 (1B)

Each team has 19 stickers. Every 4 teams there is a double page with the stadiums artwork and per team 5 key-players in action.

Totally: 536 stickers
Pages: 57 pages

Pictures were taken from the free promotional album.

 

[JanVD]

I went to the press conference yesterday in Tubize, and met the CEO of Panini Belgium.
There are indeed 5 different types of packets.
The fans got the complete album with stickers (seperatly) as a present.
Grtz, Jan

 

[Makhno]

Some other pics of the album, and went to the press conference yesterday in Tubize. Met the CEO of Panini Belgium.

Thanks to our special agents, we are each time closer to the information !

 

[redwhite]

@JanVD Did they told if a Mercato will be released later?

Conceirning the 5 different packets. We can see 10 players from 10 different teams, but really strange to see there is no player of Anderlecht on it.
No Hanni or Tielemans. I see Sofiane Hanni is shown on the cover of the album, but not on the packets. I may not bad thinking but we can't deny that the designer/illustrator made a lot of commission work for Club Brugge (tifo, flags, ...)

 

[JanVD]

@JanVD Did they told if a Mercato will be released later?

Conceirning the 5 different packets. We can see 10 players from 10 different teams, but really strange to see there is no player of Anderlecht on it.
No Hanni or Tielemans. I see Sofiane Hanni is shown on the cover of the album, but not on the packets. I may not bad thinking but we can't deny that the designer/illustrator made a lot of commission work for Club Brugge (tifo, flags, ...)

No they didn't say.

You're absolutely right! Had my thoughts about it too...

 

[Philip]

Bought a box today
Found of 443 of 536 stickers (93 missing) and 82 doubles
Also found something strange in a packet, a 2 month subscribtion to a newspaper (view photo)

 

[JanVD]

Bought a box today
Found of 443 of 536 stickers (93 missing) and 82 doubles
Also found something strange in a packet, a 2 month subscribtion to a newspaper (view photo)View attachment 7194

Correct, was mentionned @ the press conference too (10.000 pieces divided with the stickers)

 

[Danju]

very very nice !
I really like this album.

 

[Only Good Stickers]

Nice album and nice artwork. I was hoping for an hardcover edition

 

[redwhite]

I just opened a few packets and my first impression is very good. The (empty) album is a pleasure to browse and I have to say that the quality of the stickers is excellent! The paper is thick again (!), not those crappy thin low quality stickers we know from the EC16 and FIFA356-2017 series.

Luckily no quiz-pages this time but a presentation of the 2nd division.
The 8 clubs of the second division (1B) are also presented on two full pages and has as many players as the first division-teams and also every player is presented on one sticker. Great!
The difference is that only the first divison has stickers of key players in action.

I could already find such a promo card. Probably for the most collectors just a collectors item. This promotion card is also only interesting for the Walloon (French speaking) collectors of Belgium. We already saw such type of promotion 3 editions ago (for a digital subscription of a football magazine, free ball and cards for some free pizza)

 

[Philip]

Error card. Panini used the same picture (of Lukas Lerager) twice. Of course for himself (sticker 376) but also for his teammate Henrik Dalsgaard (sticker 369)

 

[redwhite]

Thanks for sharing this error.

From the info I could find at Wikipedia the info seems also not 100% correct:
#369 Henrik Dalsgaard with wrong picture: (born the 27th of July 1989, length: 1,92m., weight, 81kg.)
#376 Lukas Lerager with correct picture: (born the 12th of July 1993, length: 1,80m., weight, 70kg.)

 

[redwhite]

I just noticed on the Facebook page of Panini Belgium that they reprinted two (!) stickers.

So not only the sticker of Henrik Dalsgaard. I was very surprised to read that they reprinted also a sticker of Papazoglou.
I had to take a look in my collection to see the fault and indeed there is a little fault with his number. They gave him #25 (which is the number of team mate Xavier Mercier) in stead of #9.

The joke is that Papazoglou played a terrible season and left the club (on loan) 10 days ago. Now he's playing for the Dutch team Roda JC.

Also apologized by Panini: two faults inside the album:
fault 1: Antwerp, the oldest club of Belgium is established in 1880 (and not as published in 1895)
fault 2: The registration number of Cercle Brugge is not 121, but 12

But there will be no reprints of the album, they will only correct it for the next season album which probably means there will be also again a second division.

 

[redwhite]

Today I received the 2 reprinted stickers (see attachment).

#369 Henrik Dalsgaard (Zulte Waregem) is now printed with the correct picture.
#172 Thanasis Papazoglou (Kv Kortrijk) is printed wrong again.

They changed #25 to #14.
He never played with that number. He always played with #9.
Anyway, all doesn't matter due the wintermercato Teddy Chevalier is currently playing with #9 and Hannes Van der Bruggen with #14.
As told in the previous post Papazoglou is now playing for Roda Jc and there he's playing with #25.