How many cards are in 2025/26 Topps Chrome UEFA Club Competitions?

The base set is exactly 200 cards, released 7 May 2026. On top of that sit 15 short-printed 'Radiating Rookies' variations carrying a 'b' suffix on an existing base number (#5b, #29b, #57b and so on), so a genuinely complete base run is 215 cards, not 200. Above the base the catalogue records 63 parallel sets and 232 insert entries.

Which competitions are in Topps Chrome UEFA Club Competitions?

All three of UEFA's men's club tournaments — the Champions League, the Europa League and the Conference League (renamed from Europa Conference League in 2024-25). But the split is heavily one-sided. Counted card by card, 163 of the 200 base cards belong to 23 Champions League clubs, 32 to seven Europa League clubs, and just 5 to a single Conference League club, RC Strasbourg.

How many rookie cards are in 2025/26 Chrome UEFA Club Competitions?

The Trading Card Database flags 44 rookie cards in the 200-card base set — 22% — plus 10 separate Future Stars cards that are not rookie-flagged. Fourteen of the 44 rookies also have a short-printed Radiating Rookies variation. The rookies are clustered oddly: Genk's four cards are all four rookies, Bayer Leverkusen has four in seven, and Real Madrid has ten cards and no rookies at all.

What is the parallel print-run ladder in Chrome UEFA Club Competitions?

Counted from the catalogue: SuperFractor 1/1 and Club & Country Variation 1/1, First 11 Refractor /11, Red /5, Black /10, Orange /25, White /30, Gold /50, Purple /75, Green /99, Blue /150, Aqua /199, Pink /250, Yellow /275, Teal /299. Beneath the numbered rungs sit eight unnumbered parallels — plain Refractor, X-Fractor, Prism, Pulsar, RayWave, Negative, Geometric and Big Apple. Of the 63 parallel sets, 55 carry a serial number and 8 do not.

Can you pull every parallel from a hobby box?

No, and it is not close. The entire ten-strong X-Fractor colour rainbow is Mega-exclusive, the Geometric Refractor family is Breaker-exclusive, Orange Mini-Diamonds is Blaster-exclusive, First 11 Refractor /11 is FDI-exclusive, and the four Big Apple parallels were a Fanatics Fest exclusive. Twenty-one of the 63 parallel sets are locked to a configuration that is not the hobby box.

What are the autograph odds in Chrome UEFA Club Competitions?

The catalogue states per-pack odds, not per-box guarantees. Base Chrome Autographs are 1:271 hobby packs, 1:151 jumbo, 1:215 blaster, 1:107 mega, 1:133 hanger and 1:11 breaker. Above them: Future Stars Autographs 1:1,329 hobby, Superior Signatures Veterans & Rookies 1:13,378, Superior Signatures Legends 1:21,855, Chrome Triple Autographs 1:33,959, Chrome Dual Autographs 1:36,185, UCL Final Performers Autographs 1:36,788, Chrome Quad Autographs 1:275,910, and the Piece of Club History Autograph Book at 1:1,103,640.

Is the Chrome UEFA value box the same set as the hobby box?

Not if you buy the one most retailers still stock. The current hobby box is 2025/26 — 200 cards, released 7 May 2026, 44 rookies, 63 parallels. The widely available value box is 2024-25 — a separate 200-card set released 15 May 2025 with 55 rookies and 45 parallels, and a different colour ladder that used Magenta /75 and Violet /299 where the new set uses Purple /75 and Teal /299. Check the season on the box before you assume the two chase the same checklist.

Is 2025/26 Topps Chrome UEFA Club Competitions worth buying?

If you follow the European club game and like chromium, yes — it is the only mainstream Chrome release that puts Champions League, Europa League and Conference League clubs on one checklist, and its 22% rookie density is among the highest of the 2026 cycle. Understand what you are buying, though: 31 clubs out of 108 league-phase participants appear at all, 13 of the 36 Champions League clubs get no cards, and a third of the parallel rainbow cannot be pulled from a hobby box.

2025/26 Topps Chrome UEFA Club Competitions: Checklist, Parallels & Rookies

If Panini Prizm is the flagship of club soccer, Topps Chrome is its refractor-shine rival, and UEFA Club Competitions is the release where Topps points that chrome finish at the biggest stage in the club game.

Here is what is actually in it, counted from the Trading Card Database catalogue on 14 August 2026 rather than described in adjectives: 200 base cards, released 7 May 2026, drawn from 31 clubs, with 44 rookie cards, 15 short-printed Radiating Rookies variations, 63 parallel sets and 232 insert entries.

What “UEFA Club Competitions” actually means — and the split nobody publishes

The name is a genuine point of confusion, and it is worth getting exactly right. This is not a Champions-League-only product: the checklist spans all three of UEFA’s men’s club tournaments — the Champions League, the Europa League and the Conference League. Note the third name. UEFA dropped “Europa” from the third-tier competition’s title from the 2024-25 season onwards; a 2025/26 product covers the UEFA Conference League, not the Europa Conference League, and anyone still writing the old name is describing a competition that no longer exists under that brand.

But “three competitions” oversells the balance. Counted club by club against the 2025-26 league-phase entry lists:

Competition	Clubs on the checklist	Base cards
UEFA Champions League	23	163
UEFA Europa League	7	32
UEFA Conference League	1	5

Eighty-two percent of the set is Champions League. The entire Conference League presence is one club — RC Strasbourg, five cards. The competition’s actual 2025-26 winner, Crystal Palace, has no cards at all.

The set also does not reach anything like the full continental field. Across the three league phases there were 108 participating clubs; 31 appear here. Even inside the Champions League, 13 of the 36 league-phase clubs get no cards whatsoever — Atalanta, Villarreal, Club Brugge, Olympiacos, Slavia Prague, Bodø/Glimt, Marseille, Copenhagen, Galatasaray, Union Saint-Gilloise, Qarabağ, Pafos and Kairat. If you collect a smaller club with continental football, check the club list below before assuming this product covers you; for most of them it does not.

The base set, club by club

Two structural facts matter before the table.

First, the checklist is interleaved, not blocked by club. This is the opposite of Panini’s approach on Prizm Premier League, where each club owns a contiguous run of card numbers. Here, not one of the 31 clubs has a contiguous number block — Real Madrid’s ten cards are #31, #39, #64, #65, #86, #102, #112, #115, #141 and #172, scattered across the whole set. You cannot buy a number range to build a club team set; you have to hunt the numbers individually.

Second, Paris Saint-Germain is the deepest club on the checklist, not Real Madrid. PSG take 13 cards; Barcelona, Liverpool and Manchester City take 11 each; Arsenal and Real Madrid take 10.

Club	Competition	Cards	RCs
Paris Saint-Germain	Champions League	13	1
FC Barcelona	Champions League	11	3
Liverpool	Champions League	11	2
Manchester City	Champions League	11	2
Arsenal	Champions League	10	1
Real Madrid	Champions League	10	0
Bayern München	Champions League	9	2
Chelsea	Champions League	8	3
Inter Milan	Champions League	8	1
Bayer Leverkusen	Champions League	7	4
Borussia Dortmund	Champions League	7	2
Tottenham Hotspur	Champions League	7	1
Juventus	Champions League	6	0
Napoli	Champions League	6	0
Newcastle United	Champions League	6	1
Porto	Europa League	6	1
Aston Villa	Europa League	5	1
Atlético Madrid	Champions League	5	1
Real Betis	Europa League	5	1
RC Strasbourg	Conference League	5	3
Ajax	Champions League	4	2
AS Monaco	Champions League	4	1
Athletic Bilbao	Champions League	4	0
Benfica	Champions League	4	3
Celtic	Europa League	4	0
Eintracht Frankfurt	Champions League	4	0
Genk	Europa League	4	4
Glasgow Rangers	Europa League	4	1
Nottingham Forest	Europa League	4	1
PSV Eindhoven	Champions League	4	1
Sporting CP	Champions League	4	1

Thirty-one clubs, summing to exactly 200.

The marquee cards, for the record: Lamine Yamal is #10, Jude Bellingham #64, Kylian Mbappé #112, Vinícius Júnior #115 (catalogued as “Vini Jr.”), Mohamed Salah #136, Erling Haaland #181 and Harry Kane #182. Card #1 is not a superstar — it is Rayan Cherki. Neither Lionel Messi nor Cristiano Ronaldo is on the checklist, which is what a strictly current-season European club product looks like.

Rookies: 44 in 200, and they are not where you’d guess

The catalogue flags 44 of the 200 base cards as rookie cards — 22%, one of the densest first-year checklists of the 2026 cycle and roughly six times the rookie density of the year’s biggest release, 2026 Panini Prizm FIFA World Cup (17 in 500). A separate 10 cards carry a Future Stars (FS) designation — Ethan Nwaneri #21, Senny Mayulu #22, Myles Lewis-Skelly #52, Mikey Moore #56, Tyrique George #58, Rodrigo Mora #83, Endrick #86, Geovany Quenda #95, George Ilenikhena #129 and Ibrahim Mbaye #158. Future Stars is a separate subset, not a rookie flag; none of those ten is RC-flagged.

The club distribution is the part worth internalising. All four of Genk’s cards are rookies. Bayer Leverkusen has four in seven, Benfica three in four, Strasbourg three in five, Barcelona and Chelsea three each. Meanwhile Real Madrid has ten cards and not one rookie, and Juventus, Napoli, Athletic Bilbao, Celtic and Eintracht Frankfurt have none either. Rookie hunters and star hunters are buying two different products out of the same box.

Card #	Player	Club
5	Jobe Bellingham	Borussia Dortmund
8	Jamaldeen Jimoh-Aloba	Aston Villa
9	Axel Tapé	Bayer Leverkusen
16	Richard Ríos	Benfica
26	Robin Mirisola	Genk
27	Christian Kofane	Bayer Leverkusen
29	Kendry Páez	RC Strasbourg
32	Shumaira Mheuka	Chelsea
43	Sean Steur	Ajax
44	Alejo Sarco	Bayer Leverkusen
49	Divine Mukasa	Manchester City
57	Max Dowman	Arsenal
60	Eduardo Felicíssimo	Sporting CP
66	Estêvão Willian	Chelsea
70	Reggie Walsh	Chelsea
73	Giovanni Leoni	Liverpool
84	Claudio Echeverri	Bayer Leverkusen
88	Wisdom Mike	Bayern München
91	Victor Froholdt	Porto
93	Quim Junyent	FC Barcelona
94	Lucas Michal	AS Monaco
111	Dro	FC Barcelona
114	Abdoul Ouattara	RC Strasbourg
120	Ousmane Diallo	Borussia Dortmund
122	Noah Adedeji-Sternberg	Genk
125	Ben Parkinson	Newcastle United
126	Jarne Steuckers	Genk
134	Callum Olusesi	Tottenham Hotspur
137	Omar Janneh	Atlético Madrid
140	Nasser Djiga	Glasgow Rangers
142	Reigan Heskey	Manchester City
146	Michael Bresser	PSV Eindhoven
150	Konstantinos Karetsas	Genk
160	Leandro Santos	Benfica
161	Igor Jesus	Nottingham Forest
163	Pio Esposito	Inter Milan
166	Quentin Ndjantou	Paris Saint-Germain
168	João Rego	Benfica
173	Don-Angelo Konadu	Ajax
174	Pablo García	Real Betis
177	Mathis Amougou	RC Strasbourg
187	Lennart Karl	Bayern München
190	Guille Fernández	FC Barcelona
191	Rio Ngumoha	Liverpool

Estêvão Willian and Divine Mukasa are also flagged rookies in 2025-26 Topps Chrome Premier League — two chrome routes onto the same first-year card in the same season.

The 15 short prints most “complete set” listings ignore

Fifteen base numbers have a second, short-printed Radiating Rookies Variation carrying a b suffix: #5b Jobe Bellingham, #29b Kendry Páez, #57b Max Dowman, #66b Estêvão Willian, #88b Wisdom Mike, #91b Victor Froholdt, #111b Dro, #142b Reigan Heskey, #150b Konstantinos Karetsas, #163b Pio Esposito, #166b Quentin Ndjantou, #172b Franco Mastantuono, #174b Pablo García, #187b Lennart Karl and #191b Rio Ngumoha.

A “complete” 200-card base run is therefore 15 cards short of complete. And note the odd one out: #172b Franco Mastantuono is in the Radiating Rookies subset but his base card carries no RC flag — the subset name describes the design, not the catalogue designation, so do not read a rookie status off it.

The Refractor rainbow, counted: 63 parallels, 55 of them numbered

The old shorthand for this set — “Aqua, Purple, Gold /50, Orange /25, Red /5, then the SuperFractor” — leaves out most of the ladder, including Black /10, the second-scarcest colour in the set. Here is the whole thing, with every finish that exists at each print run.

Print run	Colour	Finishes catalogued at that run
1/1	—	SuperFractor · Club & Country Variation · Big Apple Rose Gold
/5	Red	Refractor · Lava · Mini-Diamonds · X-Fractor · Geometric · Big Apple Red
/10	Black	Refractor · Lava · Mini-Diamonds · X-Fractor · Geometric · Big Apple Black
/11	—	First 11 Refractor
/25	Orange	Refractor · Lava · Mini-Diamonds · X-Fractor · Geometric · Big Apple Orange
/30	White	Refractor only
/50	Gold	Refractor · Lava · Mini-Diamonds · X-Fractor · Geometric
/75	Purple	Refractor · Lava · Mini-Diamonds · X-Fractor · Geometric
/99	Green	Refractor · Lava · Mini-Diamonds · X-Fractor · Geometric
/150	Blue	Refractor · Lava · Mini-Diamonds · X-Fractor
/199	Aqua	Refractor · Lava · Mini-Diamonds · X-Fractor
/250	Pink	Refractor · Lava · Mini-Diamonds · X-Fractor
/275	Yellow	Mini-Diamonds only
/299	Teal	Refractor · Lava · Mini-Diamonds
unnumbered	—	Refractor · X-Fractor · Prism · Pulsar · RayWave · Negative · Geometric · Big Apple

The decoder that makes this readable: the colour sets the print run, and the finish family sets which configuration you can pull it from. Five finish families run across the colours — plain Refractor, Lava (10 colours), Mini-Diamonds (11), X-Fractor (10) and Geometric (7 including the unnumbered base) — and a Red Lava Refractor, a Red Mini-Diamonds Refractor and a Red X-Fractor are all numbered to 5. Unlike Panini, where the finish moves the number, here it does not.

Two rungs are deliberately thin: White /30 exists only as a plain Refractor, and Yellow /275 exists only as a Mini-Diamonds Refractor — there is no plain Yellow Refractor in this set at all.

A third of the rainbow is not in a hobby box

This is the buying fact the format debate usually misses. Twenty-one of the 63 parallel sets are locked to a configuration:

The entire X-Fractor colour rainbow — Red, Black, Orange, Gold, Purple, Green, Blue, Aqua, Pink plus the unnumbered base X-Fractor — is Mega-exclusive. You cannot pull any of it from a hobby box.
The Geometric Refractor family (Red /5 through Green /99, plus the unnumbered 3:1 base) is Breaker-exclusive.
Orange Mini-Diamonds /25 is Blaster-exclusive.
First 11 Refractor /11 is FDI-exclusive.
The four Big Apple parallels — Rose Gold 1/1, Red /5, Black /10, Orange /25 — were a Fanatics Fest exclusive.

Rainbow builders buy across formats here out of necessity, not preference. Our parallels and print-run reference maps the Chrome ladder against Panini’s Prizm system side by side, and the box formats guide decodes what hobby, jumbo, breaker, blaster, mega and hanger each contain.

One honest gap: the catalogue lists FrozenFractor as “serial numbered to -5”, which is an impossible print run and clearly a data-entry error at source. Its real run is unknown to us, so we do not state one. The same malformed entry appears on Topps Chrome Premier League, so it is a catalogue-wide artefact rather than a fact about this set.

The ladder holds year to year — the colour names don’t

The 2024-25 set is still widely on shelves, so this comparison is practical rather than academic. The print runs are stable; two of the colour names attached to them are not.

Print run	2024-25 colour	2025-26 colour
/75	Magenta	Purple
/299	Violet	Teal
/30	— (does not exist)	White
/275	— (does not exist)	Yellow (Mini-Diamonds)

Red /5, Black /10, Orange /25, Gold /50, Green /99, Blue /150, Aqua /199, Pink /250 and the 1/1 SuperFractor are identical across both. The finish families changed wholesale, though: 2024-25 ran a Prism Refractor family across the colours where 2025-26 runs Mini-Diamonds and X-Fractor, and 2024-25’s oddities — ToppsFractor /52, XI Refractor /11, Hongbao Red /8, Neon Green RayWave /125, Neon Pink /175, Night Vision RayWave /225 — are all gone.

So check the season before you buy the value box. The current Topps Finest UEFA Club Competitions 2025/26 Hobby Box – 6… is the 2025/26 set described on this page. The widely stocked value box is 2024-25 — a separate 200-card set released 15 May 2025 with 55 rookie cards and 45 parallel sets. Both are good products; they are not the same checklist, and a card you are chasing in one may not exist in the other.

Within the current season, the ladder is shared across Topps’s two chrome soccer sets: 2025-26 Chrome Premier League (201 cards, released 5 February 2026, 46 rookies, 43 parallels) uses the identical Red /5 → Teal /299 rungs, so the decoder above transfers straight across.

Inserts and hits: 232 catalogue entries, 29 designs, and the odds Topps states

The 232 insert entries in the catalogue are mostly parallels of parallels. Behind them sit 29 distinct insert and autograph designs with stated pack odds. The ones you will actually see:

Insert	Hobby odds	Densest configuration
Power Players	1:6	1:2 hanger
Wonderkids	1:10	1:3 hanger
Last Dance	1:13	1:4 hanger
Bowman UEFA Youth League	1:17	1:5 hanger
Silenced	1:18	1:5 hanger
Ultra Violet	1:1,193	1:31 breaker
Shadow Etch	1:1,057	1:23 breaker
Helix	1:4,478	1:99 breaker
Budapest at Night	1:4,657	— (hobby/FDI only)
Chrome Anime	1:5,319	1:77 breaker
Veni Vidi Vici	1:7,358	1:161 breaker

Three designs never appear in hobby at all: Metaverse is mega-only at 1:140, Bionic is blaster-only at 1:19,730, and Youthquake is breaker-only at 1:1. The Grail is hobby-exclusive, at 1:63,066 for G-1 and 1:29,829 for G-3.

The autograph ladder, hobby odds, scarcest last:

Autograph line	Hobby odds
Chrome Autographs	1:271
Future Stars Autographs	1:1,329
Superior Signatures Veterans & Rookies	1:13,378
Superior Signatures Legends	1:21,855
Chrome Triple Autographs	1:33,959
Chrome Dual Autographs	1:36,185
UCL Final Performers Autographs	1:36,788
Chrome Quad Autographs	1:275,910
Piece of Club History Autograph Book	1:1,103,640

A note on how to read these, because the obvious reading is wrong. On a per-pack basis, hobby is not the densest autograph configuration for the base Chrome Autographs line — breaker is 1:11, mega 1:107, hanger 1:133 and jumbo 1:151, all ahead of hobby’s 1:271. That does not mean a hobby box yields fewer autographs than a hanger box: these are per-pack odds, and the configurations hold very different pack counts. The catalogue does not publish packs-per-box, so a like-for-like per-box comparison is not something we can state honestly. What the numbers do support: hobby’s advantage is the ceiling — the multi-signature and premium lines above are effectively hobby-and-breaker propositions, with blaster and mega odds on Chrome Quad Autographs running past 1-in-900,000.

If you want autograph density per box rather than per rip, the honest answer is a different product: the 2025/26 Panini Donruss Road to FIFA World Cup Soccer Hobby Box states its configuration outright on the listing — 6 packs, 10 cards a pack, 2 autographs per box.

Which format to buy

Topps Finest UEFA Club Competitions 2025/26 Hobby Box – 6… — the current-season set described on this page, and the format with the highest ceiling: the premium autograph lines, The Grail, and the numbered colour rainbow minus the X-Fractor and Geometric families.
2024-25 Chrome UEFA value box — cheaper, and a legitimate buy in its own right, but it is the previous season’s set: 200 different cards, 55 rookies, the Magenta/Violet ladder. Buy it because you want that checklist, not as a discount route into this one.
2025/26 Panini Donruss Road to FIFA World Cup Soccer Hobby Box or the 2024-25 Finest hobby box — the premium tier above Chrome. Finest is the hit-density answer; the 2024-25 Finest checklist carries 59 rookies in 160 base cards, the densest first-year set of the cycle.
Mega and breaker configurations — the only way to the X-Fractor and Geometric rainbows respectively. Relevant only if you are building a specific player’s full rainbow.

New to ripping chrome product? Start with the beginner’s guide to collecting soccer cards, then see the best soccer hobby boxes to buy for how Chrome UEFA stacks up against the year’s other releases, and the best soccer rookie cards to collect for the young names worth chasing off this checklist. Collecting the tournament side too? The 2026 Panini Prizm FIFA World Cup review covers the national-team companion to this club release, and Donruss Road to World Cup is the value route to the same rookie class.

Verdict

2025/26 Topps Chrome UEFA Club Competitions is a buy for collectors of the European club game, with the caveats the numbers make plain. 22% rookie density in a 200-card set is genuinely strong, the Red /5 → Teal /299 ladder is the most legible print-run system in soccer cards, and no other mainstream chrome release puts Champions League, Europa League and Conference League clubs on one checklist.

What it is not: comprehensive. Thirty-one clubs of 108, with 13 Champions League sides shut out entirely and the Conference League represented by one club and five cards. Nor is a hobby box a complete rainbow — a third of the parallel list lives in mega, breaker, blaster and FDI. Buy it for the chrome, the rookies and the ladder; check the season on the box before you buy the value configuration, because the 2024-25 set is a different 200 cards.

Sources. Base-set size, release dates, club allocations, rookie-card designations, short-print variations, parallel print runs and insert pack odds were counted from each set’s entry on the Trading Card Database on 14 August 2026 — 2025-26 Chrome UEFA Club Competitions (set 613906), 2024-25 Chrome UEFA Club Competitions (508327) and 2025-26 Chrome Premier League (585451). Competition membership for each club was checked against the 2025-26 Champions League, Europa League and Conference League league-phase entry lists. Pack-and-box configurations (packs per box, cards per pack, autographs per box) are taken from the sellers’ own product listings and attributed where stated. Catalogue counts move as contributors add cards, so treat them as accurate to the date given rather than permanent.