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Rookie Report Spotlight: Bryan Mbeumo


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Bryan Mbeumo Rookie Report (2021–22)

Born: August 7, 1999
Birthplace: Avallon, France
Height: 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)

Bryan Mbeumo may not have entered the soccer card hobby carrying the same global hype as some of the Premier League’s flashier young names, but from a collector standpoint his 2021–22 licensed rookie season quietly became one of the deepest and most overlooked rookie runs Panini produced during the modern EPL era.

With official rookie appearances spread across Score, Chronicles, Prizm, Immaculate, Revolution, Impeccable, Obsidian, Mosaic, and Donruss Elite, Mbeumo ended up with an enormous amount of serial-numbered rookie material inserted into the market during a single rookie cycle. On the surface that creates bulk, but when broken down set by set it also reveals a surprisingly layered collector ecosystem filled with premium low-numbered cards, multiple true one-of-ones, and several underappreciated parallel families that many hobby buyers simply never track correctly.

Across all major licensed 2021–22 rookie releases, Bryan Mbeumo produced a documented total of 3,406 serial-numbered rookie cards, including 23 separate one-of-one rookie cards, four of which come in the form of printing plates.

This makes Bryan Mbeumo one of the larger licensed Premier League rookie serial runs of the Panini era.

SCORE

 

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  • Release Date: October 1, 2021
  • 2021-22 Score Premier League
  • #58 Bryan Mbeumo

Bryan Mbeumo makes his earliest licensed Premier League rookie appearance in 2021–22 Score Premier League with base rookie card #58. While Score is often considered a lower-tier entry release by many collectors, Panini loaded this product with an unexpectedly wide numbered parallel ladder that significantly contributes to Mbeumo’s total rookie population.

The numbered parallels for Score #58 include:

 

  • Blue Lasers /49
  • Blue Lava /49
  • Pink Lasers /25
  • Pink Lava /25
  • Purple Lasers /15
  • Purple Lava /15
  • Gold Lasers /10
  • Gold Lava /10
  • Green Lasers /5
  • Green Lava /5
  • Orange Lava /99
  • Black Lasers 1/1
  • Black Lava 1/1

 

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  • Release Date: October 1, 2021
  • 2021-22 Score Premier League — Hot Rookies
  • #7 Bryan Mbeumo

Numbered Parallels:

 

  • Gold Lasers /10
  • Gold Lava /10
  • Black Lasers 1/1
  • Black Lava 1/1

TOTAL NUMBERED COPIES (Hot Rookies #7): 10 + 10 + 1 + 1 = 22
SET TOTAL (Score #58 + Hot Rookies #7): 309 + 22 = 331

IMMACULATE

 

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  • Release Date: February 18, 2022

    Immaculate provides Bryan Mbeumo with one of his earliest premium rookie card appearances through card #131.

    Unlike the mass-distributed chromium sets, Immaculate’s value in this report comes from its concentrated low-numbered premium structure:

    Base /80
    Bronze /49
    Sapphire /25
    Gold /10
    Ruby /8
    Platinum 1/1

    Because every parallel in Immaculate is serial-numbered, the full documented rookie population from this release totals 173 copies.

    Although lower in overall quantity than products like Prizm or Score, Immaculate offers one of the cleaner luxury rookie card options for high-end collectors.

 

REVOLUTION

 

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  • Release Date: June 6, 2022

    Bryan Mbeumo’s Revolution rookie appears as RC #255.

    Revolution is a much smaller rookie parallel chase but remains attractive because of its lower print count and hobby-specific visual appeal.

    The serial-numbered parallels are:

    Cosmic /40
    Kaleido /30
    Cubic /20
    Lava /10

    This gives Revolution a total documented rookie production of exactly 100 numbered copies.

    While no one-of-one exists here, it remains one of the scarcer mainstream chromium rookie options within the report.

CHRONICLES

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Release Date: July 3, 2022

Chronicles gives Bryan Mbeumo two separate rookie card families in one release.

The first is Flux #271, which includes:

Blue /49
Orange Ice /23
Blue Mojo /16
Pink Wave FOTL /19
Gold /10
Green /5
Black 1/1

This Flux portion contributes 123 numbered copies.

The second is Panini Premier League #22, which includes:

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Blue /99
Cracked Ice /23
Blue Astro /16
Gold /10
Green /5
Platinum 1/1

Combined together, Chronicles contributes 277 serial-numbered rookie cards.

Chronicles is often dismissed because of its multi-brand packaging, but in terms of rookie volume it quietly becomes a major part of Mbeumo’s total supply.

PRIZM

 

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  • Release Date: July 14, 2022
  • 2021-22 Panini Prizm Premier League
  • RC #147 Bryan Mbeumo

Release Date: July 14, 2022

This is the centerpiece of the entire Bryan Mbeumo rookie report.

Bryan Mbeumo appears as RC #147 in Panini Prizm Premier League, and no release contributes more heavily to his collector profile than this one.

Breakaway numbered parallels:

Blue /199
Violet /99
Teal /49
Bronze /25
Gold /10
Lime Green /5
Black 1/1

Breakaway total: 388

Hobby / Choice numbered parallels:

Blue /340
Red /199
Purple /99
Blue Ice /75
Purple Ice /49
Orange /25
Cracked Ice /23
Gold /10
Gold Mojo /10
Blue Shimmer /8
Green /5
Choice Green /9
Choice Red /29
Red Stars /28
Choice Nebula 1/1
Black 1/1
Black Gold 1/1
Gold Power 1/1

Hobby/Choice total: 913

Combined together, Bryan Mbeumo’s Prizm rookie family accounts for a massive 1,301 serial-numbered rookie cards, including four separate true one-of-ones.

This means more than one third of his entire rookie report comes from Prizm alone, making it the unquestioned flagship release for collectors.

IMPECCABLE + OBSIDIAN + MOSAIC

 

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  • Release Date: Jul 31, 2022
  • 2021-22 Panini Impeccable Premier League
  • #13 Bryan Mbeumo

Numbered Parallels + Plates + Metals:

 

  • Base /55
  • Silver /15
  • Sapphire /20
  • Gold /10
  • Emerald /5
  • Ruby /6
  • Ruby & Gold /2
  • Ruby & Silver /4
  • Platinum 1/1
  • Printing Plates (4x 1/1)
  • Rookie Metal /65
  • Rookie Metal Ruby /13
  • Rookie Metal Gold /10
  • Rookie Metal Black 1/1
  • Premier League Logo Silver /32
  • Premier League Logo Silver FOTL /4

ImpeccableTotal : 247

Obisidian Premier League

 

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  • Release Date: October 24, 2022
  • 2021-22 Panini Obsidian
  • #120 Bryan Mbeumo

Numbered Parallels:

 

  • Base-/150
  • Purple – /30
  • Red Pulsar – /26
  • Orange – /25
  • Blue – /20
  • Neon Blue Flood – /12
  • White Pulsar – /11
  • Red Flood – /10
  • Yellow – /10
  • Contra – /9
  • Green – /5
  • Neon Green Flood – /3
  • Blue Finite – 1/1

TOTAL NUMBERED COPIES (Obsidian #120): 267

Panini Mosaic Premier League

 

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  • Release Date: Oct 25, 2022
  • 2021-22 Panini Mosaic Premier League
  • RC #71 Bryan Mbeumo

Numbered Parallels:

 

  • Blue /99
  • Purple /49
  • Pink /25
  • Gold /10
  • Gold Fluorescent /10
  • Pink Fluorescent /10
  • Choice Black Gold /8
  • Choice Red & Gold /88
  • Choice Nebula 1/1
  • Black 1/1

Choice Red & Green (SN not listed — not counted)

TOTAL NUMBERED COPIES (Mosaic #71): = 301

DONRUSS ELITE

 

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  • Release Date: Dec 22, 2022
  • 2021-22 Donruss Elite Premier League
  • #178 Bryan Mbeumo

Elite is one of those sneaky sets where you can hit multiple numbered looks of the same rookie

Base parallels + Fireworks = real chase potential.

 

Base Parallels (Numbered)

 

  • /92
  • /80
  • Orange /75
  • Pink /49
  • Purple /25
  • Gold /10
  • Green /5
  • Black 1/1

Fireworks (Card #178)

 

  • Orange /49
  • Blue /25
  • Pink /20
  • Purple /15
  • Gold /10
  • Green /5
  • Black 1/1

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Primary Colors (Card #6)

 

  • Silver /10
  • Gold /10
  • Black 1/1
  • Platinum 1/1

TOTAL NUMBERED COPIES (Elite):Elite Total = 409

GRAND TOTAL 3406

  • Chronicles: 277
  • Prizm: 1,301
  • Impeccable: 247
  • Obsidian: 267
  • Mosaic: 301
  • Score: 331
  • Immaculate: 173
  • Revolution: 100
  • Elite: 409
  • 23 – 1/1s
  • 4/23 are printing plate

Collector Insight

Bryan Mbeumo’s rookie report is a textbook example of why collectors should never evaluate a player solely by whether he “has a Prizm rookie.”

Yes, Prizm is the hobby centerpiece here, but the true scale of his rookie market only becomes visible when all supporting licensed releases are added together. Elite, Score, Mosaic, Chronicles and Impeccable dramatically widen his numbered rookie footprint, while premium products like Immaculate, Obsidian and Revolution create lower-print specialty targets that many casual buyers overlook.

The result is a rookie ecosystem that is both larger and more layered than most Premier League collectors realize.

There is plenty of supply at the total population level, but true scarcity still exists once collectors begin isolating the highest-end one-of-ones, premium low-numbered chrome, and flagship Prizm black-tier parallels.

For collectors willing to dig deeper than the obvious, Bryan Mbeumo quietly owns one of the more complete and data-heavy licensed EPL rookie reports Panini ever produced.

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