CGC Accepting 2026 Panini FIFA World Cup Sticker Card Submissions
Posted on 5/6/2026
Peel, sip, collect — and then submit! The 2026 FIFA World Cup is kicking off in a few weeks, with matches being played in the US, Canada, and Mexico. Ahead of this year's tournament in North America, Panini is rewriting a World Cup tradition through a first-of-its-kind partnership with Coca-Cola. Fans and collectors can now find the popular Panini FIFA World Cup sticker cards that feature 12 international soccer stars within Coca‑Cola packaging on select products, and CGC® is accepting World Cup sticker card submissions for authentication and encapsulation!
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Debuting at the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico, Panini's FIFA World Cup sticker cards have become a tradition among soccer fans and collectors during the global tournament that is hosted once every four years. Often paired with the quadrennial sticker albums that release prior to each tournament, the stickers are now a staple of World Cup collectibles, giving millions of fans worldwide an exciting way to collect, trade, and complete their sticker album set.
For the first time in their more-than-50-year history, Panini is teaming up with another brand to present these World Cup stickers through specially marked 20-ounce bottles of Coca‑Cola, Diet Coke, or Coca‑Cola Zero Sugar. Each sticker card is hidden on the bottles behind the attached peel-back label. Collectors have 12 sticker cards to chase, each featuring a different international soccer star to track down for a complete 2026 FIFA World Cup sticker album!
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For decades, Panini's World Cup sticker cards have been an affordable and easily accessible collectible across the globe, making the stickers some of the most popular sports cards in the world. The ultimate goal is to collect every sticker card, filling each blank spot in that year's World Cup album with the correct sticker.
Instead of buying packs of sticker cards, collectors and fans in North America will now find the collectibles on specially marked bottles of Coca-Cola soft drinks. It is an easy and fun way for fans of all ages to start collecting and to feel even more connected to the excitement of the 2026 FIFA World Cup!
The Coca-Cola x Panini sticker card promotion began on April 15, 2026, and will run throughout the 2026 FIFA World Cup, concluding on July 31, 2026.
IMPORTANT: All submitted World Cup stickers will be certified as CGC AU (Authentic). No grades will be given for these submissions. Customers are allowed to trim the Coke bottle labels to match the width of the label, but they should refrain from peeling the stickers. If the stickers are peeled, the adhesive component will prevent CGC from being able to encapsulate the stickers and they will NOT be eligible for certification.
2026 Panini FIFA World Cup Stickers Coca-Cola Special Set Checklist
- #CC1 Lamine Yamal (Spain)
- #CC2 Joshua Kimmich (Germany)
- #CC3 Harry Kane (England)
- #CC4 Santiago Gimenez (Mexico)
- #CC5 Antonee Robinson (USA)
- #CC6 Jefferson Lerma (Colombia)
- #CC7 Edson Alvarez (Mexico)
- #CC8 Virgil van Dijk (Netherlands)
- #CC9 Alphonso Davies (Canada)
- #CC10 Weston McKennie (USA)
- #CC11 Lautaro Martinez (Argentina)
- #CC12 Gabriel Magalhaes (Brazil)
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