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The Panini Fifa World Cup sticker book for Qatar 2022 is out, but how many stickers do you need and how much will it cost to complete it in full? Let HITC Sport offer you a rundown… For many
fans – young and old – completing the sticker book is part of the tradition of the quadannual Fifa event. But long gone are the days when a pack of four stickers would cost supporters just
5p, with the current sets of five stickers setting fans back a whopping 90p. Sticker books have been associated with World Cups for more than 50 years now, with the first launched with
Mexico 1970. That year’s album made ‘got, got, need’ one of the most-said phrases whenever a tournament rolls around, as fans traded their way to a full squad. Now, though, the price of
completing the Panini sticker book will see supporters dig very deep if they want to have a full album. Supporters will also have to work their way through possibly thousands of stickers
before they have every player from all 32 countries in Qatar. HOW MANY STICKERS DO YOU NEED TO COMPLETE 2022 QATAR WORLD CUP BOOK? Supporters of the Panini albums will need to find 670
stickers to complete the book for the 2022 Fifa World Cup in Qatar in full. But due to the amount of duplicates fans are likely to get, they face needing to buy 4,832 stickers on average
before they can say they are done. That is according to Paul Harper, a mathematician at Cardiff University, who found that the 2018 World Cup sticker book for the Russia tournament required
almost 5,000 stickers, or 967 packets. That worked out at almost £774 at the time, as packets rose from 50p to 80p. Without ever getting any duplicates, which is near enough impossible, it
would have taken 137 packets of five stickers to complete the 2018 book. That would have worked out at a cost of £110, when the album had 682 stickers – including coaches, stadiums and
legends. HOW MUCH WILL IT COST TO COMPLETE THE LATEST PANINI STICKER BOOK? Despite Panini reducing the number of stickers needed to complete the 2022 World Cup book, inflation has meant the
price of packets for the latest album has risen again to 90p. Now, football finance expert Kieran Maguire estimates it would cost £884 to complete it. If supporters get very, _very,_ lucky
and never pack a duplicate, they could – in theory – find all 670 stickers through buying and trading for the latest Fifa album at a cost of £121. But in order to complete the 2022 World Cup
sticker book without trading, it would cost £884. MORE QATAR WORLD CUP STORIES And the cost of completing the Panini sticker books looks set to rise again, as Maguire told Sky News he
estimates the price of the next World Cup album in 2026 could reach £1,500. “When the World Cup increases to 48 teams in 2026 from the current 32, the cost of filling an album will be at
least £1,500, unless you resort to swaps,” he explained. “Fortunately, there are many online swap websites around these days that help to reduce costs.”