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2025-26 TOPPS Inception UEFA Club Competitions Soccer Cards
As one of the most visually striking collections, the 2025-26 TOPPS Inception UEFA Club Competitions Soccer Cards return for the 2025/26 season, offering collectors 1 Autograph Card featuring stars and legends from the European club competitions in every Hobby Box.
Facts
Release Date
July 302026
Manufacturer
Brand
Inception
Category
⚽Soccer
Competition / Season
UCL, UEL, UECL, UWCLSeason 2025/26
Base Set
100Cards
Parallels (Base)
14Variants
Players
218Players
Teams
30Teams
Rookies
11Rookies
Hits
✓included: Autographs
✓included: Relics
✓included: Autograph Relics
Product Formats
Hobby Box
Checklist Status
✓Checklist complete
Card Gallery
Description
For the sixth consecutive year, Topps is releasing the highly popular Inception cards dedicated to the European club competitions UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, UEFA Conference League and UEFA Women’s Champions League.
With the release date of the 2025-26 TOPPS Inception UEFA Club Competitions Soccer Cards, Topps is still around 3 months behind the end of the 2025/26 season, but has moved forward by a good 5 months compared with the previous year, after collectors had to wait until late December for the Inception cards last year.
Base Cards
The BASE SET of the collection contains 100 cards, an increase of 4 cards compared with the previous year’s release. The 100 cards are divided across 7 subsets. FIRST XI, EMERGING STARS, SUCCESSION and STAR QUALITY are already familiar to Inception collectors from releases in previous seasons. The subset dedicated to players from the UEFA Women’s Champions League has been slightly modified in name and is now called SUPERIOR LEGENDS. New categories this year are SHOWMAN and WORLDWIDE.
Parallels
Collectors can look forward to 10 numbered parallel variations, one more than in the previous year. A new variation numbered to /125 has been added. The highest numbering of the parallel cards in the collection remains /199.
The parallel variations for each card are complemented by four Printing Plates in Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black that were used to print the cards.
Insert Cards
For the first time, Topps is also including insert cards in an Inception Soccer collection and has created the elegant DARK FLOW inserts for this purpose. As a case hit, these can only be found on average in every 8th box of the collection.
Autograph Cards
Alongside autograph versions in the respective designs of the Base Card subsets, Topps is relying on proven concepts from previous years and bringing collectors a mixture of different formats. A new category this year is DAWN OF GREATNESS AUTOGRAPHS, featuring stars and legends in the shirts of the clubs where they made their breakthrough on the European stage.
On the DUAL AUTOGRAPH cards, collectors can look forward to signatures from two stars of one team, while the SILVER SIGNINGS AUTOGRAPHS and the collection-spanning MARKS OF EXCELLENCE AUTOGRAPHS once again bring numerous on-card autograph cards to the collection.
Things become even more premium with the book cards, as the ROLE MODELS QUAD AUTOGRAPH BOOKS, UCL WINNERS QUAD AUTOGRAPH BOOKS and UWCL WINNERS QUAD AUTOGRAPH BOOKS each bring together the signatures of 4 stars.
Relic Cards
The INCEPTION PATCH RELICS and MATCHDAY MEMORIES RELICS combine pieces of shirts worn by the stars with the unmistakable look of the Inception collections. The UWCL FINAL CORNER FLAG RELICS and UWCL FINAL GOAL NET RELICS offer special memorabilia from the UEFA Women’s Champions League 2024/25 final, played in May 2025 at Lisbon’s Estádio José Alvalade XXI, and contain pieces of the corner flags and goal nets used on that day.
Autograph Relic Cards
A sought-after target for many collectors are the autograph relic cards, which combine the signatures of the stars with pieces of shirts. The INCEPTION AUTOGRAPH PATCH RELICS and MATCHDAY MEMORIES AUTOGRAPH RELICS do so in impressive fashion and are joined by the NUMBER 1 PATCH AUTOGRAPH RELICS featuring special pieces, such as parts of gloves belonging to the two goalkeepers Oliver Kahn and Thibaut Courtois.
The DUAL AUTOGRAPH PATCH BOOKS and AUTOGRAPH BRANDED PATCH BOOKS present the combination of a shirt piece and signature in the particularly premium form of a book card.
The CLUB CREST AUTOGRAPH PATCH RELICS are truly exclusive collectibles, with only one example of each produced as a 1/1 card.
Availability
Each UCC Inception Hobby Box contains 1 pack with 7 cards, including, according to information from Topps, 1 Autograph Card in every box.
The release date announced by Topps for 2025-26 TOPPS Inception UEFA Club Competitions Soccer Cards is Thursday, the 30th of July 2026.
From that date, the boxes will be available from retailers specialising in sportscards, according to Topps. It appears that the boxes will not be offered again through the company’s own online shop, after interested collectors were able to preorder boxes there during a presale phase on June 30 at a price of 260,00 € / $249.99 / £225.00.
Products
2025-26 TOPPS Inception UEFA Club Competitions Soccer Cards Hobby Box
7 Cards per Pack 1 Pack per Box 8 Boxes per Case
What to expect in a box:*Average box content. Not all included base and insert cards are always listed separately. Individual boxes may vary due to production tolerances.
The contents of the 2025-26 TOPPS Inception UEFA Club Competitions Soccer Cards checklist are based on information provided by the manufacturer, supplemented by our own findings and community-verified contributions. The preview images provided by the manufacturers may differ from the final design.
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Base Set
100 Cards
Parallels
First XI · Emerging Stars · Succession · Showman · Star Quality · Superior Legends · Worldwide
NOPA-OK Oliver Kahn (FC Bayern München) NOPA-TC Thibaut Courtois (Real Madrid C.F.)
Looking for cards of a specific team or player? This overview lists all cards from the 2025-26 TOPPS Inception UEFA Club Competitions Soccer Cards collection, grouped by team, categorized by card type and sorted by player name.
Kelly Smith / Alex Scott / Leah Williamson / Alessia Russo (UWCL Winners Quad Autograph Books · UW-SSWR) Kim Little (Superior Legends Autographs · SL-KL)
RELICS
Alessia Russo (UWCL Final Corner Flag Relics · CF-AR) Alessia Russo (UWCL Final Goal Net Relics · GN-AR) Chloe Kelly (UWCL Final Corner Flag Relics · CF-CK) Chloe Kelly (UWCL Final Goal Net Relics · GN-CK) Leah Williamson (UWCL Final Corner Flag Relics · CF-LW) Leah Williamson (UWCL Final Goal Net Relics · GN-LW) Mariona Caldentey (UWCL Final Corner Flag Relics · CF-MC) Mariona Caldentey (UWCL Final Goal Net Relics · GN-MC) Stina Blackstenius (UWCL Final Corner Flag Relics · CF-SB) Stina Blackstenius (UWCL Final Goal Net Relics · GN-SB)
Harry Kane (Star Quality · 63) Jamal Musiala (Star Quality · 61) Lennart Karl (Emerging Stars · 15) Luis Díaz (Star Quality · 62) Michael Olise (Showman · 35)
INSERTS
Arjen Robben (Dark Flow · DF-19) Harry Kane (Dark Flow · DF-16) Lennart Karl (Dark Flow · DF-18) Michael Olise (Dark Flow · DF-17)
AUTOGRAPHS
Alphonso Davies (Star Quality Autographs · SQ-AD) Franck Ribéry (Silver Signings Autographs · SSAL-FR) Harry Kane (Star Quality Autographs · SQ-HK) Harry Kane (Silver Signings Autographs · SSAV-HK) Jamal Musiala (Silver Signings Autographs · SSAV-JM) Joshua Kimmich (Star Quality Autographs · SQ-JK) Lennart Karl (Emerging Stars Autographs · ES-LK) Lennart Karl (Silver Signings Autographs · SSAV-LK) Luis Díaz (Star Quality Autographs · SQ-LD) Miroslav Klose (Marks of Excellence Autographs · ME-MK1) Stefan Effenberg (Marks of Excellence Autographs · ME-SE3) Toni Kroos (Dawn of Greatness Autographs · DG-TK)
RELICS
Harry Kane (Inception Patch Relics · IP-HK) Lennart Karl (Inception Patch Relics · IP-LK)
AUTOGRAPHS + RELICS
Harry Kane (Autograph Branded Patch Books · ABP-HK) Harry Kane (Inception Autograph Patch Relics · IAP-HK) Lennart Karl (Inception Autograph Patch Relics · IAP-LK) Luis Díaz (Inception Autograph Patch Relics · IAP-LD) Oliver Kahn (Number 1 Patch Autograph Relics · NOPA-OK)
George Best (Dark Flow · DF-37) Wayne Rooney (Dark Flow · DF-36)
AUTOGRAPHS
David Beckham (Dawn of Greatness Autographs · DG-DB) Gabriel Heinze (Marks of Excellence Autographs · ME-HE1) Rio Ferdinand (Marks of Excellence Autographs · ME-RF3) Roy Keane (Marks of Excellence Autographs · ME-RK2) Wayne Rooney (Marks of Excellence Autographs · ME-WR2) Wayne Rooney (Silver Signings Autographs · SSAL-WR)
7 Cards per Pack
1 Pack per Box
8 Boxes per Case
ACF Fiorentina
AC Milan
AFC Ajax
Arsenal (Men)
AS Monaco
AS Roma
Atlético de Madrid
Borussia Dortmund
Celtic FC
Chelsea FC (Men)
FC Barcelona (Men)
FC Bayern München (Men)
FC Internazionale Milano
FC Porto
Juventus
KRC Genk
Liverpool FC
Manchester City
Manchester United
OL Lyonnes
Paris Saint-Germain
PSV Eindhoven
Real Madrid C.F.
SL Benfica
SSC Napoli
Tottenham Hotspur
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