MANCHESTER CITY
PREMIER LEAGUE WINNERS 2021/22
TEAM PACK

Manchester City emerged as Premier League Winners for the 2021/22 season, collating 93 points, 1 ahead of Liverpool on 92, with City scoring 99 goals in the process.

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To commemorate this success, SoccerStarz released the Manchester City Premier League Winners 2021/22 Team Pack, which consists of 16 figures all on a Gold base, with 1,000 packs being produced, each one coming issued with an individually numbered certificate of authenticity. The pack was released in October 2022 and had an initial RRP of around £59.99

The pack line up is as follows, manager Pep Guardiola, Ilkay Gundogan, Kevin De Bruyne, John Stones, Gabriel Jesus, Kyle Walker, Bernardo Silva, Ederson, Aymeric Laporte, Riyad Mahrez, Joao Cancelo, Rodri, Phil Foden, Raheem Sterling, Ruben Dias and Jack Grealish.

By this point SoccerStarz had the Manchester City figures in a Classic kit, however for the 2022/23 range the decision was taken to remove the squad numbers and player names from the kit, so although this pack is for the 2021/22 season it fell into the production schedule of the 2022/23 range, meaning the figures inside this team pack are in a Classic kit without names or numbers, which i am referring to as a 'Blank' kit.

Some of these figures were released in blister pack as part of the 2022/23 collection, with those blisters now no longer coming with a collectors leaflet, which i refer to as No Leaflet Blister (NLB) 

The figures included in this team pack which as yet have not been released in blister are Ilkay Gundogan, Gabriel Jesus, Kyle Walker, Aymeric Laporte, Rodri, Raheem Sterling and Jack Grealish. Those 7 are exclusive to this team pack, with Jesus and Sterling having left the club they won't be done as NLB, however there is still a chance that Gundogan, Walker, Rodri and Laporte will appear.

There has been an interesting development with regards Jack Grealish, he has been released as NLB however the figure actually has his name on the back of his shirt. The reason for this is that SoccerStarz announced that for the 2023/24 collection player names will again feature on the kit but squad numbers will not, so it is my assumption this Grealish is the first figure to be put into production as a Classic kit with name figure.