Combining the nostalgia of card collecting with the passion surrounding football boots, Pro:Direct Soccer have revealed the BootBible Trading Card series, a beautifully creative tweak on the tradition that was the brand’s iconic BootBible series.
Pro:Direct Soccer has always had a thing for heritage. You feel it in the way they talk about boots, the way they curate product drops, the way they treat innovation like a living archive. And nothing captures that energy quite like the BootBible—a project that, since 1998, quietly became the definitive chronicle of football footwear. For years it lived on the printed page, a flickable timeline of every silo, every evolution, every pair that shaped a respective season.
But with time came less relevance for the printed page, and so the Boot Bible was retired. Like the adidas Predator though, retirement is only temporary, and time served as a period of evolution. As such, the BootBible is back in a new form; this is the Pro:Direct BootBible Trading Card series, a beautifully creative tweak on tradition, combining the nostalgia of card collecting with the passion surrounding football boots.
This is nostalgia with engineering. A fresh spin on the ritual of collecting, swapping, and hunting for the rare stuff—except now it centres around the boots that make the game go. The BootBible Trading Card Series takes the original mission of documenting performance and innovation and turns it into something tactile, playful, and properly collectible.
Season 25/26 — Series 1 lands in November ’25, dropping with a total of 50 cards to kick off the collection:
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Main Series: 25 boots from the 2025/26 season
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Special Series: A mix of the new and the legendary, including
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Player Edition & Signature
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BootBible Legends
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HYPE Drops
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The OGs
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Each special line arrives with its own tone and texture.
BootBible Legends salute the silhouettes that rewrote the rules—eras captured in laces and leather, complete with cover stars from BootBibles gone by.
HYPE Drops are for the boots that made timelines melt: the limited runs, colour-shock releases, and collabs that sent the reseller market into orbit.
Player Editions & Signatures tap into icon energy—the boots built for the names you can hear the stadium chanting.
And The OGs? They’re the starting point. The heritage staples. The DNA strands every modern boot still carries somewhere beneath the tech.
Every pack delivers nine cards: Seven from the Main Series, two from the Special Editions.
And to make the hunt feel even more personal, Pro:Direct's dropping a proper throwback, with a downloadable checklist poster. Print it out, pin it on your bedroom wall and fill it out as your collection grows.
The BootBible has always been a mirror held up to boot culture. Now, it’s something you can hold in your hands—piece by piece, pack by pack. A time capsule you can build over seasons, not pages.
Same spirit. New format. Boot history, reshuffled and ready for the next generation.
The BootBible is officially back. And it’s more collectible than ever.
Head to prodirectsport.com/soccer to build your collection and download your checklist.
