Panini World Cup France 1998 Stickers Checklist
The Panini FIFA World Cup France 1998 sticker collection captures one of football’s most memorable tournaments with a 561-sticker checklist. The album opens with the World Cup trophy, the official emblem and the mascot Footix, followed by the ten stadiums that hosted the matches, from the Stade de France and Parc des Princes to the Stade Vélodrome and Stade de la Beaujoire. It then covers all 32 competing nations. Most teams get 18 stickers: a team photo, a shiny emblem and the full squad. Brazil, France, Italy, Argentina, the Netherlands, Germany, Croatia and England sit beside first-time and surprise qualifiers such as Japan, Jamaica, South Africa and Iran.
The checklist is a who’s-who of 1990s football. Ronaldo, Zinedine Zidane, Thierry Henry, Dennis Bergkamp, Davor Šuker, Gabriel Batistuta, Paolo Maldini, Alessandro Del Piero, Michael Owen’s England teammates Paul Scholes and Tony Adams, and Hidetoshi Nakata all feature. USA, Iran and Jamaica use shared player stickers, which makes them fun to hunt down. Use the full checklist to track your collection, find the stickers you still need and plan your swaps with other collectors.