General Forum

I really want to get into collecting soccer cards more.  I bought a 2016 Donruss Box of Euro teams and a Topps MLS box from 2013.  I like them, but I am so unfamiliar with the soccer offerings, I wanted to pick the brains of real soccer collectors.  I have two quesitons:

1.  What is the one set a soccer collector should be collecting.  Mind you, I am more into the Euro Leagues than MLS.

2.  Are there sets for each of the Euro Leagues (Serie A in particular, but other top leagues as well), or are the best sets the Champions League offerings.

Sorry if I sound like  rookie, but I am when it comes to this sport.  Before I toss money away, where do the soccer collectors play???

If you're looking for international cards, the 2007 Futera World Soccer set is a great place to start.  They are getting harder to find because a very limited number were made, but they are worth the money if you can find them.  If you can track down an unopened box, each box was guaranteed to have at least one 1/1 UNIQUE card of some sort (the 3 different types were Autograph/Film Cell, Autograph/Relic, and Relic/Film Cell).  I haven't checked lately, but when I got my box a few years ago, I found it on the e-bay site for Thailand and including shipping only paid $25 for it!

If your looking for recent sets, 2014 Panini Prizm World Cup set is one of the nicer ones out there. I tend to stay away from the newer Panini stuff ( from the last two years or so) because it doesn't look licensed. I say that because I'm not sure it is. The collections Panini puts out, that is licensed, is the Adrenalyn XL sets, however this is really a card game. It doesn't give you stats like normal cards do. The Adrenalyn sets do come out for almost every major European league. Topps has had the licensing on the Champion's league the last two years, before that it was Panini. These sets are the closest thing you'll find to trading cards as we know them here in the U.S. The other option you have is stickers. All leagues in Europe have sticker sets with albums. If you're looking for older stuff, I happen to like  1996 Panini Estrellas Europeas. There isn't a bad player in the set,it's licesed by the LFP, and it's not to expensive. I would browse around the sets you have here on this website to see what you like. It is prety extensive.

Any interest in 1990 Proset? I have singles and unopen packs for trade/sale. And a bunch of Misc Soccer cards. ~BOB~ - PM me

Great to see another soccer collector on the site. What to aim for is very hard to say since there are so many different things out there. My main collection is the Adrenalyn XL sets from Champions League, World Cup and Euro. Collecting these sets are quite big here in Europe. Main reason for collecting these are the availability for me.

I also collect the newer Panini sets (just the base sets, and usually I buy the complete sets since I think boxes are worth the money.)