Topps Chrome® MLS 2025 Collector’s Guide

Everything You Need to Know About the Newest MLS Release

Topps Chrome® MLS 2025 is the premium brand’s most ambitious release of MLS cards yet, once again establishing North America’s top soccer league as a major player in the iconic brand’s landscape.

This year’s set features a brilliant blend of stars, legends and rookies, chock-full of autos, inserts, and parallels to chase. Topps Chrome® MLS 2025 captures the biggest and brightest of The Beautiful Game stateside.

Here’s everything collectors need to know.

Jump to Section:

• Base Set & Parallels
• Autographs
• Insert Sets
• Relic Cards
• Big City Strikers
• Pearlers
• Elimination
• Fast Lane
• Class of Their Own
• Helix
• MLS 30 Year Celebration Pack
• Collector’s Takeaway
• FAQs
• Key Facts

Base Set and Parallels

The Topps Chrome® MLS 2025 base set boasts 200 cards of MLS stars, legends, and rookies. Collectors can chase a bevy of colorful parallels, adding flavor to the hunt for a checklist with fantastic depth and breadth across MLS.

Base Parallels:

• Refractor Parallel 
• Blue Lava Refractor Parallel: 1:20 packs. HOBBY
• White Lava Refractor Parallel: 1:40 packs. HOBBY
• Red Lava Refractor Parallel: 1:60 packs. HOBBY
• Wave Parallel: 4 per Value Box. VALUE
• Magenta Pulsar Parallel: 3 per Hanger Pack. HANGER
• Prism Parallels: 4 per Hobby Box. HOBBY
• Mania Parallels: 6 per Mania Box. MANIA
• Pink Mini Diamonds Parallel: sequentially numbered to 250. VALUE/HANGER
• Aqua Refractor Parallel: sequentially numbered to 199. HOBBY
• Aqua Mini Diamonds Parallel: sequentially numbered to 199. VALUE/HANGER
• Blue Refractor Parallel: sequentially numbered to 150. HOBBY
• Blue Mini Diamonds Parallel: sequentially numbered to 150. VALUE/HANGER
• Green Refractor Parallel: sequentially numbered to 99. HOBBY
• Green Mini Diamonds Parallel: sequentially numbered to 99. VALUE/HANGER
• Purple Refractor Parallel: sequentially numbered to 75. HOBBY
• Purple Wave Parallel: sequentially numbered to 75. HOBBY 
• Purple Mini Diamonds Parallel: sequentially numbered to 75. VALUE/HANGER
• Gold Refractor Parallel: sequentially numbered to 50. HOBBY 
• Gold Wave Parallel: sequentially numbered to 50. HOBBY 
• Gold Mini Diamonds Parallel: sequentially numbered to 50. VALUE/HANGER
• NEW Pearl Refractor Parallel: sequentially numbered to 30. HOBBY
• Orange Refractor Parallel: sequentially numbered to 25. HOBBY
• Orange Wave Parallel: sequentially numbered to 25. HOBBY
• Orange Mini Diamonds Parallel: sequentially numbered to 25. VALUE/HANGER
• Black Refractor Parallel: sequentially numbered to 10. HOBBY
• Black Wave Parallel: sequentially numbered to 10. HOBBY
• Black Mini Diamonds Parallel: sequentially numbered to 10. VALUE/HANGER
• Red Refractor Parallel: sequentially numbered to 5. HOBBY
• Red Wave Parallel: sequentially numbered to 5. HOBBY
• Red Mini Diamonds Parallel: sequentially numbered to 5. VALUE/HANGER
• Frozenfractor Parallel: sequentially numbered to 0 
• Superfractor Parallel: numbered 1/1.

Autographs

Topps Chrome® MLS 2025 brings the ink. Whether you’re chasing global icon Lionel Messi, looking for new MLS superstars Son Heung-Min and Thomas Müller, or prodigies like Cavan Sullivan, Chrome has you covered.

MLS Debut Patch Autographs continues a new and wildly popular tradition across Topps products with its Rookie Debut Patch Autos, featuring the brightest new talents in MLS, including prodigy Cavan Sullivan. 

MLS Renaissance Autographs continues the on-card auto offerings in the set, showcasing a mix of the top current stars, including Lionel Messi, and retired legends like Wayne Rooney.

Each autographs build the collector’s connection to the the players who have built and continue to build the legacy of MLS.

Chrome Autograph Cards and Chrome Dual Autograph Cards bring quality ink to your favorite rainbows, featuring a blend of rookies, stars, and legends.

Insert Sets

If the base set is the foundation of Topps Chrome® MLS 2025, the inserts bring the storytelling and vibe, with stunning designs that add shine to the set.

Relic Cards

Topps Chrome® MLS 2025 offers a series of relic subsets for those who want an actual piece of the action on the pitch, which becomes a piece of history. Of course, there’s the aforementioned and highly coveted MLS Debut Patch Autographs, but wait, there’s more!

Say hello to Cavan Sullivan’s Rookie Arrival Patch Autograph Cards. These cards highlight Sullivan’s record-breaking MLS debut at only 14 years old. To celebrate his bright future ahead, these premium cards include a piece of his match-worn shorts from his MLS debut combined with stunning on-card autographs.

Collectors can also hunt for Match-Worn MLS x Apple TV Patch Cards. With a checklist featuring some of the league’s best talents, the unique Relic Patch card includes the 30 Years Apple TV Anniversary patch, individualized for every club and part of all MLS jerseys.

All MLS x Apple TV Patch Cards are Superfractor 1/1s.

Big City Strikers

The popular Big City Strikers insert returns in the newest Chrome MLS release, setting the league’s best scorers in the heart of the cities they represent.

• Green Refractor Parallel: #d to /99
• Purple Refractor Parallel: #d to /75
• Gold Refractor Parallel: #d to /50
• Orange Refractor Parallel: #d to /25
• Black Refractor Parallel: #d to /10
• Red Refractor Parallel: #d to /5
• Superfractor Parallel: 1/1

Look for chase-worthy case hit insert Big City Strikers Skylight Variations, reimagining the Big City Strikers insert with a night-time effect placing the logo in a bright skylight.

• Superfractor Parallel: 1/1

Pearlers

Topps Chrome® MLS 2025 brings back the popular Pearlers insert with a brand-new design approach. The 30^th Anniversary of MLS is also called the Pearl Wedding, so this category is a special one.

• Cherry Pearl Parallel: #’d to /10 
• White Pearl Parallel: #’d to /5
• Golden Pearl Parallel: 1/1

Elimination

Elimination is a captivating insert that highlights players with great performances in MLS Play-off games — those who shone brightest when the stage was biggest.

• Green Refractor Parallel: #’d to /99
• Purple Refractor Parallel: #’d to /75
• Gold Refractor Parallel: #’d to /50
• Orange Refractor Parallel: #d to /25
• Black Refractor Parallel: #d to /10
• Red RefractorParallel: #d to /5
• Superfractor Parallel: 1/1

Fast Lane

Fast Lane brings the buzz to the brightest rookies across MLS. Chase these rising stars as they continue to establish themselves in The Beautiful Game.

• Green Refractor Parallel: #’d to /99
• Purple Refractor Parallel: #’d to /75
• Gold Refractor Parallel: #’d to /50
• Orange Refractor Parallel: #’d to /25
• Black Refractor Parallel: #’d to /10
• Red Refractor Parallel: #’d to /5
• Superfractor Parallel: 1/1

Class of Their Own

Class of Their Own is an exciting new insert that showcases some of the best players in MLS, taking its design inspiration from the Underclassmen subset in 1997 Chrome Football.

• Green Refractor Parallel: #’d to /99
• Purple Refractor Parallel: #’d to /75
• Gold Refractor Parallel: #’d to /50
• Orange Refractor Parallel: #’d to /25
• Black Refractor Parallel: #’d to /10
• Red Refractor Parallel: #’d to /5
• Superfractor Parallel: 1/1

Helix

A hugely popular insert across the Topps sports card landscape, Helix makes a splash in Topps Chrome® MLS 2025. The mesmerizing design serves as a stunning backdrop for some of the spellbinding talent that calls MLS home.

• SuperFractor Parallel: 1/1

MLS 30 Year Celebration Pack

As a special addition to Topps Chrome® MLS 2025, each Hobby Box comes with a bonus MLS 30 Year Celebration Pack, as the league celebrates the milestone. Each pack contains four cards using the 1995 Topps design.

Be on the lookout for auto variations of the throwback design cards (2 per case).

Collector’s Takeaway

Topps Chrome® MLS 2025 is another leap forward for The Hobby & The Beautiful Game. From the GOAT Lionel Messi, to superstars like Son Heung-Min, Thomas Müller, and Chucky Lozano, to phenoms such as Cavan Sullivan, the game’s biggest names all get the Chrome shine.

This premium set celebrates a league milestone — 30 years of soccer excellence stateside — and a future on the field as bright as the league’s current moment in Chrome.

2025 Topps Chrome MLS Collector FAQs

• What is Topps Chrome® MLS 2025?
  • It’s a premium MLS release on Chrome stock featuring a 200-card base set plus Refractor parallels, autographs, relics, and multiple insert lines — built for both player collectors and set builders.
• How big is the base set in Topps Chrome® MLS 2025?
  • The base checklist contains 200 cards, mixing MLS stars, legends, and rookies.
• What are the main things collectors chase in Chrome MLS?
  • Most collectors chase numbered Refractor parallels, autographs (including on-card sets and duals), rookie patch autographs, and case-hit/variation-style inserts like Big City Strikers Skylight Variations.
• What’s the MLS 30 Year Celebration Pack?
  • A bonus pack included in each Hobby Box, featuring four cards using a Topps 1995-inspired design, with autograph variations noted as a tougher chase.
• What’s the best way to collect this set?
  • Start by choosing a lane — build the base set, chase a player rainbow, target rookies, or complete a favorite insert line — then add numbered parallels and autos as your “centerpiece” upgrades.

Key Facts

• 200-card base set featuring MLS stars, legends, and rookies
• Deep run of Refractor parallels, including low-numbered color and 1/1 Superfractors
• Multiple autograph families, including Debut Patch Autographs, Renaissance Autographs, and dual autos
• Insert lineup anchors the product with themes like Big City Strikers (and Skylight Variations), Pearlers, Elimination, Fast Lane, Class of Their Own, and Helix
• MLS 30 Year Celebration Pack included in every Hobby Box with a throwback design and tougher autograph variations

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