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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Rupert Neate Wealth correspondent

Inflation pushes average cost of filling Panini 2022 World Cup sticker album to £870

The 2022 football World Cup sticker album, released by the publisher Panini
Because of duplicates, fans would, on average, need to buy 4,832 stickers to complete the album, according to a mathematics professor at Cardiff University. Photograph: Sipa US/Alamy

Inflation has come for the football sticker album. Collecting and completing the official Panini Fifa World Cup Qatar 2022 album will cost fans an average of about £870.

Panini, which first produced a World Cup sticker album for the 1970 tournament in Mexico, has priced five-sticker packs for the Qatar 2022 album at 90p each. That is a 12.5% increase on the 80p cost of a five-sticker pack for the Russia 2018 album. For Euro 2016 a pack cost 50p.

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