Go Behind the Building of the Newest Chrome Set
2024 Topps Stadium Club Chrome UEFA Champions League will be released tomorrow, marking the fourth year Stadium Club has brought its iconic brand and photo-forward designs to European soccer. This year’s offering features some of the boldest design and photography choices made in a soccer trading card set. At the intersection of innovative card design and world-class photography, 2024 Topps Stadium Club Chrome UCL continues discovering new ways to capture the people and the stories that make the UEFA Champions League so special.
Photo-First, Photo-Finish
2024 Topps Stadium Club Chrome UCL was built on a foundation of high-quality, engaging photography. “That’s the core of the Stadium Club brand,” said Product Director Dillon Stambaugh. “We wanted the designs in this set to be clean and full-bleed – that’s mission critical to helping the top-class photography shine through.” Through the emphasis on captivating images and engaging design, this set delivers on a desire to bring collectors closer to the action.
2024 Topps Stadium Club Chrome UCL Pays Homage With Returning Inserts
Glimpses of Gold returns as an insert this year, focusing on players who are front-runners for season-end awards. The regal and bold typeface and golden-haloed soccer ball backdrop are designed to give the cards an award ceremony feel.
Case hit Beam Team, with its dazzling laser-light design display, also makes a comeback. “We introduced a new design this year, one that pays homage to the famous 1992 Michael Jordan Beam Team card from Stadium Club,” said Stambaugh. Electric stars like Marcus Rashford and Jude Bellingham, as well as Yamal, are featured here.
Debut Inserts Bring The Heat in 2024 Topps Stadium Club Chrome UCL
Say Cheese makes its debut appearance in 2024 Topps Stadium Club Chrome UCL. It’s an insert designed to highlight the great personalities in European soccer. Said Stambaugh, “This insert’s a standout; it was fun to capture images of these players ‘cheesin’ – It’s in keeping with the overall design process for Stadium Club, where we aim to create themes that tie in photography while keeping things fresh.” The colorful, playfully youthful typeface and color scheme fit perfectly with an image set showing these great athletes having a laugh.
Main Stage is another exciting new edition to 2024 Topps Stadium Club Chrome UCL. The showtime design plays on UEFA’s premier competition’s scale, glitz, and glamour. It features a series of legends who helped build the modern Champions League into the world’s most popular annual sporting event. The heroes of the past are set against a backdrop of the floodlights that shone down on them during their famous European nights in the Champions League.
2024 Topps Stadium Club Chrome UCL Delivers Enticing Technology-Driven Design and Unique Relic Approach
Go Behind The Lens with a refreshed design for a popular insert series. The black-and-white, playing-with-light series blurs the line between polaroid and photo negative, highlighting the photographer’s moment of capturing these stars.
Instavision makes its soccer debut, along with the fascinating spinoff Rivalvision. Both of these inserts stand out through their innovative use of lenticular technology, with the Rivalvision lenticular piece facilitating a shift of focus from player to player, depending on the angle and light on the card. Featuring duos who dueled on the biggest stage, including GOATS Messi and Ronaldo, these new additions are a must-have for any soccer collector.
In keeping with the mission to bring fans and collectors closer to the action, 2024 Topps Stadium Club Chrome UCL goes above and beyond with the brand new Stadium Spirit Seat Relics and Auto Relics, which come with a relic piece of an original stadium seat. A truly unique relic set featuring Jude Bellingham and Real Madrid’s famous Bernabéu Stadium. The images have a heroic player set against the adoring crowds greeting the player’s success. Those special moments where the crowd and player feel more connected than ever, along with an authentic piece of the stadium where the magic happened.
2024 Topps Stadium Club Chrome UEFA Champions League is the next step forward in photo-centric soccer trading cards, expertly combining a fascinating number of enticing designs with exceptional imagery of the players who make the game go.
