The sports landscape is red hot as the calendar rolls into August 2022. A calendar that includes the MLB schedule pushing on to the playoffs, the NBA and NHL drafts just completed, and the 2022 World Cup just around the corner. This exciting time also has the sports card hobby booming with the 2022 National Sports Collectors Convention just wrapping up. In addition, sports collectors are looking to an exciting 2022 August Sports Card New Release Calendar filled. A calendar loaded with products from some of top sports card trading companies including Topps, Panini, Upper Deck, Leaf, and Wild Card.
For sports card collectors, new opportunities to land some of the hottest player sports cards continue to present themselves. If you are looking for players to collect, read our Hot NBA Rookie Cards to collect and Hot Sports Cards Right Now to collect July pieces to help get you motivated. As you look at what baseball cards should I buy in 2022 or what football cards should I buy, the sports card release calendar in August has you covered.
Headlining the top sports cards to collect in August are multiple 2022 NFL Football trading card products allowing collectors a chance to land some of those hot new football rookie cards. Those products include 2022 Wild Card Matte Football Gold/Silver Mega, 2022 Panini Luminance Football, 2022 Panini Donruss Elite Football, and 2022 Panini Gold Standard Football. As NFL training camp heats up, keep an eye on some of those 2022 NFL draft picks to collect including Kenny Picketts, Drake London, Desmond Ridder and more.
In addition to new football trading cards coming out other top sports card products to buy in August include 2022 Panini Immaculate Baseball, 2022 Topps Clearly Authentic Baseball, 2021-22 Panini Recon Basketball, 2022 Topps Finest Bundesliga Soccer, 2021-22 Panini Donruss Optic Basketball, and 2021-22 Topps UEFA Champions League Stadium Club Chrome Soccer. Here is a look at a few of the top sports cards to collect in August 2022.
2022 August Sports Card New Release Calendar
2022 August Sports Card New Release – 2022 Topps Baseball Factory Set (release 08/03/2022)
The 2022 Topps Baseball Factory Set hits the market to kick off August while baseball fans can land the entire 660 card Topps Set. While this product doesn’t offer the thrill of opening packs, it does deliver some of MLB top rookie cards in addition to a five-card pack of numbered foilboard parallel cards. Land top MLB rookie cards of Gavin Sheets, Bryan De La Cruz, and Oneil Cruz.
Factory Set – 660 card base set with one five-card pack of numbered foilboard parallel cards.
2021-22 Panini Gold Standard Football
One of the first licensed NFL trading card products to hit the market for the upcoming 2022 NFL season is Panini Gold Standard Football that is set to release in late August. 2022 Gold Standard Football delivers a clean-cut 200-card base set design with a hint of gold to each card within the set. All cards are numbered within the product including all base cards numbered /99 or fewer. In addition, search for a wide range of parallels including platinum, white gold, citrine, and the black 1/1. Other inserts include the Rookie Jersey Autograph Prime Material, Aurum Autographs, Gold Jacket Signatures, Gold Strike Autographs, 24K Autographs, Gold Plated Relics, and Opulence Rookie cards.
Hobby Box – 1 pack per box, 7 cards per pack (5 Autos or Memorabilia, 2 Base or Base Parallels per box on average)
2021-22 Panini Recon Basketball
With all the off-season hype ending as the 2022 NBA Draft and 2022 NBA Summer League wrapped up, a chance to land some of the 2021 NBA top rookie cards is still there. With 2021-22 Panini Recon Basketball, basketball trading card collectors can look to land Scottie Barnes rookie cards or Cade Cunningham rookie cards or Josh Giddey rookie cards as well as other top NBA 2021-22 rookies. Other top NBA rookies in 2021-22 Panini Recon Basketball include Evan Mobley, Franz Wagner, Cameron Thomas, Jalen Green, and Jalen Suggs. 2021-22 Panini Recon Basketball offers a 250-card base set checklist in addition to 12 parallel cards.
In addition, the set offers a solid list of inserts including the Rock the Rim insert, Panini All-Pro Team insert as well as Rookie Recon Signatures, Draft Night Acetate Signatures and Rookie Jersey Autographs.
Hobby Box – 10 packs per box, 6 cards per pack (2 Autographs, 20 Inserts or Parallels per box on average)
2022 Panini Immaculate Baseball
One of the high-end baseball trading card products hits hobby shops and your local sports cards stores in late August. 2022 Panini Immaculate Baseball is sure to deliver baseball card collectors a beautiful, designed product that features a long list of top tier MLB stars and former MLB stars. Whether you are card collector looking for autographs or some of the top memorabilia cards, Immaculate has you covered while delivering nothing but hits. This year’s product delivers Shadowbox Signatures, Clearly Immaculate Signatures, Prospect Patch Autographs, Hall of Fame Materials, Jumbo Team Logo cards and Rookie Reserve Patch Relics. Look for baseball rookie cards of Wander Franco.
Hobby Box – 1 pack per box, 6 cards per pack (4 Autographs, 2 Memorabilia Cards per box on average)
Sports Card New Release – 2022 Topps MLS Chrome Soccer
As the 2022 Major League Soccer schedule marches on through soccer, and the upcoming 2022 World Cup approaches, the demand for soccer trading cards will increase. One product that is sure to be on high demand in August is 2022 Topps MLS Chrome Soccer which is one of key products on the 2022 August Sports Card Release Calendar. The 2022 Topps MLS set delivers an exciting 200-card base set while also offering a wide range of color parallels and inserts to collect. The base set features 13 color parallels including the SuperFractor parallel numbered 1/1 as well as the Red Wave Refractor parallel numbered /5. The inserts include Future Stars, 1959 Topps Football, Field Tested, Big City Strikers, and base card autographs. Look for currently players form the 2022 Topps MLS Chrome Soccer set to be some of the hot soccer cards to collect World Cup 2022.
Hobby Box – 18 packs per box, 4 cards per box (1 Chrome Autograph per box on average)
2021-22 Upper Deck Black Diamond Hockey
The 2022 NHL Draft is in the books and the upcoming 2022-23 NHL schedule is fastly approaching, however the opportunity to hit some of the hot 2021 NHL draft picks are still present with the release of 2021-22 Upper Deck Black Diamond Hockey. The high-end NHL trading card product features a stellar 100-card base set of some of the games top veterans and legends. In addition, Black Diamond Hockey offers hockey card collectors a chance to land Rookie Gem autographs, Diamond Relic Rookies and Team Logo Jumbo Patches of some of their favorite stars.
Hobby Box – 1 pack per box, 6 cards per pack (1 Autograph or Diamond Relic Card, 1 Base Set or Base Set Pure Black Parallel Card, 1 Exquisite Collection Card, 3 Regular Inset, Tech, and/or Non-Auto/Diamond Relic Memorabilia Cards per box on average)
Sports Card New Release Calendar (Recently Released)
2021-22 Panini National Treasures Basketball
2021 Panini Chronicles Football
2022 Pro Set Multi Sports Multi-Sport Black Parallel Edition Box
Sports Card New Release Calendar (Upcoming Releases)
Sports Card New Releases August 1st – August 10th
August 3rd, 2022
2022 Topps Complete Baseball Factory Set
August 5th, 2022
2021-22 Upper Deck AHL Hockey
2021-22 Panini Recon Basketball
2022 Panini Legacy Football
August 10th, 2022
2022 Panini Immaculate Baseball
2022 Panini Luminance Football
2021 Panini Select Football
2022 Super Break SuperStar Slabs Series 1
2022 Topps Heritage High Number Baseball
2022 Topps Series 2 Baseball Vending
2021-22 Topps UEFA Champions League Merlin Chrome Soccer
2021-22 Upper Deck Credentials Hockey
2021-22 Upper Deck Black Diamond Hockey
2021-22 Upper Deck Clear Cut Hockey
Sports Card New Releases August 11th – August 20th
August 12th, 2022
2022 Wild Card Matte Football Gold/Silver Mega
2021-22 Topps Chrome Paris Saint-Germain Soccer Set
August 17th, 2022
2022 Panini Donruss Elite Football
2021-22 Topps Finest Bundesliga Soccer
2021-22 Topps Inception Overtime Elite Basketball
2021-22 Upper Deck Extended Series Hockey
August 19th, 2022
2022 Leaf Metal Draft Football Hobby & Jumbo
August 20th, 2022
2022 Tristar Hidden Treasures Basketball Autographed Jersey
Sports Card New Releases August 21st – August 31st
August 24th, 2022
2022 Panini Chronicles Baseball
2022 Panini Gold Standard Football
2021 Panini Select Football H2
2022 Topps Clearly Authentic Baseball
2022 Topps Chrome Road to UEFA Nations League Final Hobby & Lite
2022 Topps MLS Chrome Soccer
2022 Super Break Basketball Edition
August 26th, 2022
2022 Leaf Metal Soccer
2022 Panini Chronicles Racing
2022 Panini Chronicles UFC
August 31st, 2022
2022 Leaf Flash Football
2022 Panini Prizm Collegiate Draft Picks Football Hobby
2021-22 Topps UEFA Champions League Stadium Club Chrome Soccer
Undated August 2022 Releases (Some Products Will Be Delayed)
2022 Best of Benchwarmer
2022 Leaf Art of Hockey
2022 Leaf Autographed Jersey Multi-Sport
2022 Left Best of Sports
2022 Leaf Lumber Baseball
2021-22 Leaf Pearl Multi-Sport
2022 Leaf Signature Series Soccer
2021-22 Panini Prizm Basketball Fast Break
2022 Panini World Cup Soccer Stickers
2022 Topps Stadium Club Baseball
2022 Topps Tier One Bundesliga Soccer
2021-22 Topps Finest UEFA Champions League Soccer
2022 Wild Card Alumination NIL Football Collegiate Edition
2022 Panini Select Draft Picks Football
2021 Panini Donruss Optic Football H2
2021-22 Panini Obsidian Basketball
2022 Panini Select WWE
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