2022-23 SportZoo Fortuna:Liga Série 1

2022/23 SportZoo FORTUNA:LIGA – Série 1 is the flagship autumn release covering the Czech top flight, and it is one of the strongest SportZoo football products of its era. The checklist captures the season in which Sparta rebuilt around a young core, Plzeň and Slavia went toe-to-toe at the top, and a whole generation of players — Hancko, Jurásek, Čvančara, Karabec — were one transfer away from leaving the league. That timing is exactly why this release has aged so well.

Base Set

The base set runs to 198 cards covering all 16 FORTUNA:LIGA clubs. Viktoria Plzeň and Slavia Praha get 15 cards each, every other club gets 12 — from Sparta, Baník and Sigma down to Zbrojovka Brno, Zlín and Teplice.

Alongside it sits a 36-card Promo set, a promotional parallel of selected base cards.

Box Formats

• Retail box – 24 packs × 6 cards
• Blaster box – 6 packs × 8 cards
• Premium box – 10 packs × 8 cards
• Exclusive box – 9 cards, hits only

What to Chase in Each Format

Premium is the format built for hits: base cards plus inserts and parallels, with Signed Stars, the signed parallels of Bright Future, Klub legend, Elite Team and Triple Team Hopes, plus Game Jersey Auto x/25 and Kick the Ball x/25 in the pool. The Red x/49 base parallel is a Premium exclusive.

Exclusive is 9 cards of pure top end: Unique Mark patches (crest, number, nameplate letters), Nameplate Letters x/10 with an on-card signature, Game Jersey x/99 and Game Jersey Auto x/25, Triple Team Hopes Auto x/25, and base parallels Gold x/99 and Black x/19.

Retail and Blaster are the set-building formats, still packed with inserts and numbered parallels.

Parallels

Base set parallels form a clean three-step ladder:

• Gold x/99
• Red x/49 (Premium exclusive)
• Black x/19

Insert parallels: Bright Future Limited x/199 and Diecut Limited x/99; Klub legend Limited x/199; Welcome to my Office Limited x/65; Elite Team x/35, x/15 and x/5.

Inserts

• Bright Future – 9 of the league's brightest young talents
• Welcome to my Office – 18 cards, each club's key man shot against his home stadium from a bird's-eye view; one of the best-looking SportZoo designs full stop
• Super Heroes – 18 players in comic-book styling, complete with dressing-room nicknames
• Klub legend – 9 new club legends (KL19–KL27), including Horst Siegl, David Limberský and Tomáš Hořava
• Elite Team – 36 cards, the biggest names in the league
• Triple Team Hopes – 16 cards, three young hopefuls per club on a single card

Autographs & Memorabilia

Signed Stars is the standalone signature set: 54 players split across Level 1 x/199 (27 cards), Level 2 x/149 (18 cards) and Level 3 x/99 (9 cards).

Signed insert parallels: Bright Future Auto x/99, Klub legend Auto x/99, Welcome to my Office Auto x/45, Elite Team Auto x/25 and the triple-signed Triple Team Hopes Auto x/25.

Memorabilia:

• Game Jersey x/99 – match-worn shirt swatches (34 players)
• Game Jersey Auto x/25 – the same swatch plus a signature
• Kick the Ball x/25 – a piece of a ball used in a FORTUNA:LIGA match
• Nameplate Letters x/10 – manufactured nameplate letters, signed, 18 players
• Unique Mark – the true top end: oversized shirt pieces (crests, numbers, nameplates, league logos, manufacturer marks), many of them 1/1

Key Names to Chase

Dávid Hancko, David Jurásek, Tomáš Čvančara and Adam Karabec all appear here shortly before their moves abroad — the classic pre-transfer window that drives value. Add Kryštof Daněk, Václav Sejk, Christian Frýdek and Carlos Cadu among the young names, and Tomáš Chorý, Pavel Bucha, Ivan Schranz, Mojmír Chytil, Adam Vlkanova, Theo Gebre Selassie and Milan Petržela as the established draws. Klub legend puts Horst Siegl and David Limberský autographs into the mix.

Puzzle Quest

Collect all 9 Puzzle pieces from Série 1, register the codes on the SportZoo site and pick a card from the available pool — a nice extra reason to keep ripping.

Release: November 2022.