2025 Upper Deck World of Sports Details
2025 Upper Deck World of Sports brings back a brand from the past but with a different focus. Used a few times before, there’s still an all-encompassing approach to the checklist as far as the sports are concerned. However, World of Sports now shifts to a collegiate focus.
Hobby boxes promise one autograph as well as multiple inserts in every pack from a cross section of schools and programs from across the country.
2025 Upper Deck World of Sports Checklist Overview
The complete base set has 400 total cards. Subjects are athletes from more than 15 different colleges and universities, all fully licensed with logos and uniforms. Football, basketball, baseball, softball, gymnastics, volleyball, track and field are among the sports that players come from. This means that not only will these be some of the first sports cards for some athletes, but for some sports, it may end up being some of their only cards.
The final 100 cards of the base set fall under the Prospective Talent banner. Similar to Upper Deck flagship’s Young Guns, these are modest short prints, falling approximately every other hobby pack.
While the main player cards don’t have parallels, Prospective Talent does:
- Blue Foilboard – 1:6 packs
- Green Foilboard – 1:12 packs
- Outburst – 1:12 packs
- Gold Foilboard – /249
- Exclusives – /100
- High Gloss – /10
- Gold Spectrum Foilboard – 1/1
Select cards also have autograph versions, which are 1:12 packs.
When it comes to inserts, collectors will find multiple Around the Globe (1:4 packs), Athletic Artisans (1:4 packs) and Making the Grade (1:2 packs) cards in every pack. These have Blue, Green, Orange (/499), Purple (/299), Red (/99) and Gold (/10) parallels as well as low-numbered autographs.
Similarly, there’s Letterman Jackets, which land every third pack. The only parallels for these is Gold (/99).
Every hobby box has one acetate insert from Clear Competitors (1:30 packs), Lucidity (1:40 packs) or Pure Athletes (1:40 packs).
The 2025 Upper Deck World of Sports checklist has some scarce chase sets with Sizzle (1:144 packs) and the extremely scarce World of Ballers (1:432 packs).
2025 Upper Deck World of Sports at a glance:
Cards per pack: Hobby – 12
Packs per box: Hobby – 12
Boxes per case: Hobby – 12
Set size: 400 cards
Release date (subject to change): TBA
What to expect in a hobby box:
- Autographs – 1
- Around the Globe, Athletic Artisans or Making the Grade Parallels – 4
- Clear Competitors, Lucidity or Pure Athletes Acetate – 1
- Letterman Jackets – 5
- Prospective Talent Blue or Green Parallels – 3 Total
- Prospective Talent Outburst Parallels – 1
- Base Prospective Talents – 6
- Additional Serial-Numbered Cards – 3
The full 2025 Upper Deck World of Sports checklist will be up as soon as it’s available, likely shortly before the product’s release.
Any word if there will be retail blasters for this?