Abridged Panini World Cup 2026 sticker album
I really enjoy collecting football stickers and have done on and off for major tournaments since Euro 96. Sometimes I complete the albums, sometimes I don't.
This time around, following the expansion of the World Cup to 48 teams, I decided trying to complete a 900+ sticker album was not feasible, so I thought I'd construct my own abridged version.
The result is a modest 14-page album containing 29 stickers - the generic 'introduction' stickers at the beginning of the Panini album and all England stickers.
It was constructed using a simple pamphlet binding of 7 sheets of 160gsm card (producing 14 pages for stickers), with book cloth along the spine to hide the stitching. A single sheet of black 160gsm card was stitched in also, to create the end papers. The covers are constructed of grey board and are covered with the original Panini album cover material. A small pocket was included inside the back cover to hold any notable stickers I wanted to keep, but not stick in the album.
My daughter and I opened a several packs for the enjoyment factor, but the "missing" stickers in this album were ordered from Panini directly.