
Impeccable has a pretty clear high-end brand to perpetuate. It is heavy on autographs and includes those trademark silver and gold bar cards.
It is part of the high-end lineup that is, so far, superior to what Fanatics has to offer.
With so many sports leaving the Panini roster, soccer will be more critical in their products. Therefore, a lot is riding on this and other similar products. But does it deliver? Find out in our 2023-24 Panini Impeccable Soccer review.
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When Panini got exclusive rights to NFL cards in 2016, they planned to make cards more valuable and increase their profits. This involved creating a slate of high-end brands.
This effort included impeccable, along with National Treasures and Flawless.
A few things set the brand apart from the others. There were very few cards in each box, especially for the time. It came with 5 autos, 2 base cards, and a base parallel numbered /25 or less.
All cards in Impeccable were numbered 99 or below. They also had distinctive gold and silver bars meant to show how classy the release was. Impeccable Football also included some of the early Rookie Patch Autos.
Many of them were particularly attractive. It worked. Or at least enough to keep the brand going after all this time.
The brand has always been a natural part of the soccer space. The first set for the beautiful game was the 2019-20 Panini Impeccable Premier League Soccer set.
It was very early for the company to try Premier League cards, and it was the second brand they tried for the league after Prizm.
This release didn’t have as many autos as the original football releases. Now you would get 4 autos, 1 relic card or possibly a further autograph, a base card, a parallel, and an insert. That has been the lineup ever since.
Though the product is still Premier League-only, Panini has begun marketing it as Panini Impeccable Soccer instead of Panini Impeccable Premier League Soccer, perhaps to broaden its appeal.
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The product’s current release date is October 25, 2024, which is great since it coincides with the new Premier League season starting to heat up, right? Oh, what’s that? Is this for the previous season? I see.
Unfortunately, Panini is an entire year behind on this release. How does this measure up with previous years? Very badly. It has been two years since the last release. 2022-23 Panini Impeccable Premier League Soccer was released on July 19, 2022.
The relevant season started on August 5, 2022, two weeks later. That is an ideal timeline for a product.
Panini has many products and is in a lot of legal trouble right now, so this may be understandable. But hopefully, soccer will become a much higher priority now, and the dates will be more reasonable.
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Like most high-end products, this is a hobby box-only release.
Hobby Box
Panini is very good at designing high-end cards. Impeccable is generally one of their most attractive releases. These cards tend to look particularly good for soccer.
For many fans, these are the best-looking soccer cards, and they have proved to be one of the most popular sources for high-end singles of the sport.
Looking at the mock-ups, the autos are primarily on the card. The Immortal Ink, Impeccable Club History, and Canvas Creations are not stickers and look beautiful. Obviously, for a thousand bucks, they damn well should be on the card.
But you can’t take anything for granted anymore. Because of that fact and the excellent design, these could be some of the best autos for the 2023-24 vintage rookies.
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The prices are much too high for a Premier League release. We will look at the value of singles in greater detail below. But paying almost $1,000 for a box of high-end soccer cards is not tenable.
Panini Impeccable Premier League had a disproportionate number of redemption autos in the past. As we all know, Panini has difficulty fulfilling those, and people have waited an exceptionally long time for cards from this product.
While there are many on-card autos for this product, there have always been sets with stickers. If some sets will have sticker autos, which appears to be the case, it is unacceptable to continue doing so at the $1,000 mark.
The checklist doesn’t make sense. You have a 150-card base set—50 more than it used to be—for a product that only offers one base card per box.
Imagine how much money someone would put in to complete the base set here theoretically. It’s so ridiculous that there is no point in having such a large base card set.
As mentioned, this release has a 150-card checklist. These are paradoxically harder to hit than autos. After all, there are four autos per box and only one base card.
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One of the biggest problems with Premier League cards is that few rookie cards are worth much. The Prizms and others tend to fare worse on the market than expected. So you need a powerful rookie class to make a box worth ripping at these high prices.
Luckily, the 2023-24 Premier League rookie class is strong. It’s not strong enough to justify those ridiculous prices. But still damn good.
The standouts include Kobbie Mainoo from Manchester United. His creativity and soccer brain are beyond doubt. There are some doubts about whether United is the right place for proper development.
But I have already seen some significant sales of his cards. A year ago, Lewis Miley looked like the more prominent name. However, while he continues to develop rapidly, observers realize he is more of a defensive player than initially believed.
That has lowered the value of his cards to beneath that of Mainoo’s cards.
There are other players on this list with a good chance of breaking out. They include Simon Adingra, Ben Doak, and Jhon Duran.
If you believe in this cohort, the Impeccable autos (especially the on-card ones) are the best way to invest.
We are discussing a release with four autos (and possibly picking up a fifth) per box. Therefore, the most important question is how good the autos are and what they sell for. Here are a few of the signed cards you can expect to pull in this product.
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These cards have the usual Impeccably white background but feature a beautiful modern art-type background in the middle. They are among the most familiar and beloved autos in this release.
The highest-value item here is a Cristiano Ronaldo /25 auto from 2021, which sold for $1,726.
When comparing the soccer versions to other sports, they do exceptionally well. It is definitely a stronger release for soccer than some other higher-profile sports.
One key to the early success of Impeccable cards was the RPAs they included. So, it’s great to see autographed memorabilia cards still play an important role in this release.
But the mock-ups for this card show clearly that we are dealing with a sticker auto. This auto first debuted last year as a sticker card, and these items are worth very little.
These cards examine the team’s origins for which the signing player plays. It shows the year it was formed on the front and has more information on the back.
It’s a nerdy idea, and collectors aren’t very enthusiastic about it. The highest sale I could find is a Heung-Min Son /82 that sold for $360.
Most of the Impeccable brand is based on autos, but that is not what truly sets it apart. Instead, it’s the use of valuable metal that is different from the other high-end releases. That theme can be seen in the best memorabilia cards in the set.
The NBA logo man and NFL shield cards are among the most valuable in the hobby. Impeccable tries something similar by including a metal logo of clubs in these memorabilia cards. They come in silver and gold editions.
The gold bar versions go for significantly more, with a Fabio Carvalho 32K bar gold card selling for $722.
The new design for Stainless Stars is completely made of steel. That is a great touch that really fits with the theme of Impeccable.
There have been some valuable cards from this set in basketball and football, but less so in soccer. I could not find one that went for over $400 recently. The attractive new design may help with that.
The new boxes are selling for a grand, which means the bar for this to be a worthwhile rip-and-hold is high. Still, Impeccable has its fans and a recognizable and appealing look. Does it meet that bar?
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Impeccable is one of the more veteran Panini soccer releases. That gives us a reasonable frame of reference to asses its market value. Let’s see how it has fared over the years.
2019-20 Panini Impeccable Soccer Hobby Box | $1,644.95 |
2020-21 Panini Impeccable Soccer Hobby Box | $809.95 |
2021-22 Panini Impeccable Soccer Hobby Box | $1099 |
2022-23 Panini Impeccable Soccer Hobby Box | $954.59 |
The price of the new box is set up so that you will come out about even if you stash this box. The rookie class may be marginally better than average for 2023-24.
But with a clear and massive rookie to carry it, the year will likely have similar value to previous years. In other words, there is little profit to be made by stashing this product. Honestly, I expected these boxes to fare worse. However, as expected, this is not a wax-oriented product.
Impeccable has some of the best-looking soccer singles around. The on-card autos are beautiful. Therefore, there will always be a market for them. But how big of one? Let’s take a look at some of the biggest recent sales to find out.
The Impeccable cards are very attractive. However, their value could be better. You only get very good prices for superstars like Ronaldo and Beckham. Other than that, plenty of autos are worth a few hundred dollars.
But very few that would repay the value of an entire box. We don’t see any of this rookie class turning into a star of that magnitude. Therefore, the chance of winning back the value of a box is negligible.
Soccer fans love Impeccable. I know because I am one of those folks. Somehow, the soccer images jump out on this design, and the on-card autos are gorgeous.
Therefore, we will continue to buy singles from it. No question about it.
However, value only sometimes follows popularity. The market is weird that way. Impeccable holds value as wax and does not produce singles that pay back the value of the box—at least not very often.
That means it is not a good investment, though you could certainly do worse. Fans will continue to pick up these cards, especially as singles. However, don’t expect to make a profit here. Just appreciate the aesthetics.
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