2024-25 Topps Chrome UEFA Club Competitions Musiala Checklist: Card #42 & Its Refractor Rainbow

If you’re trying to buy the 2024-25 Topps Chrome UEFA Club Competitions Jamal Musiala, the first thing you need is the one fact every listing hinges on: it’s card #42. The second thing you need is the trap — a completely different Musiala card is also #42. This page is the per-set index for the Chrome card: the confirmed number, how to separate it from its namesake, the refractor rainbow tier by tier, and live eBay lanes for the base and its parallels.

This is the set-specific companion to the master Musiala card index (which lists every set and number) and the full parallels & refractors explainer (which walks the rainbow across all his chrome and Prizm issues). It’s the prime-years counterpart to the rookie-era club checklists — the #82 Topps Finest Bundesliga, #81 Topps Chrome Champions League, and #84 Topps Chrome Bundesliga. For the collecting context on the program itself, see the Topps UEFA Club Competitions set review.

We won’t invent print runs or colors we can’t verify. What’s confirmed is stated plainly; where the hobby varies release to release, we say so and point you to the actual card and current listings.

The one number that matters: #42

Musiala is card #42 in 2024-25 Topps Chrome UEFA Club Competitions, on the published 200-card base checklist — which also carries his autographs (Chrome Autographs CA-JM, Black Lazer BLA-JM, Global Attraction GLA-JM, and a Chrome Dual DA-MK with Harry Kane) and his Shadow Etch SE-4 and Soccer Brush SB-4 inserts. That number is printed on the back and is the same across the entire parallel rainbow — the plain base and every refractor built from it all carry #42. Search the set and the number together (Musiala 2024-25 Topps Chrome UEFA Club Competitions 42) and you cut through most of the noise, because the same player appears in a dozen other sets under completely different numbers (he’s #82 in Topps Finest, #81 in Chrome Champions League, #84 in Chrome Bundesliga, #50 in Panini Prizm World Cup, and so on — the master index has the full list).

This is a prime-years card, not a rookie. By the 2024-25 season Musiala was an established Bayern and Germany starter, so this sits in the “current star” half of his catalog rather than the rookie-chrome half. That distinction matters for what you pay: a rookie-year chrome and a 2024-25 chrome are not comparable cards, whatever a listing headline says.

The #42 problem: two Musiala cards share one number

Topps reuses base numbers across seasons of the same program, and Musiala is on the wrong end of it. There are two different Musiala #42s in the UEFA Club Competitions family:

Neither listing is “wrong” — both cards genuinely carry #42. But they are not the same card, they don’t trade at the same level, and a number-only search will mix them together. Three checks separate them, in order:

1. The season. 2024-25 versus 2022-23, printed on the card back and (usually) in the listing title. This alone settles it.
2. The word “Chrome.” The card on this page is from the Chrome release — reflective chromium stock. The 2022-23 1st Edition base is standard paper stock. Under light the difference is unmistakable.
3. The photo. If a listing shows no back and no season, ask before buying. A seller who can’t tell you which #42 they’re holding probably hasn’t checked the condition either.

Two of the six eBay lanes at the bottom of this page are built for exactly this: one opens the 2024-25 Chrome #42, the other opens the 2022-23 #42, so you can see both and buy the one you actually meant. This number-reuse quirk isn’t unique to #42 — the 2025-26 Chrome UEFA Club Competitions #130 checklist covers the harder variant, where a flagship base and its Chrome counterpart share a number in the same season so the year can’t separate them.

The refractor rainbow, tier by tier

Topps Chrome sets are built as a refractor rainbow: a base chrome card at the bottom, then a ladder of colored and numbered refractor parallels climbing above it, each scarcer than the last. Every rung is still card #42 — only the finish and any serial number change. The Topps Chrome UEFA program runs its own colored and numbered ladder that shifts release to release, so treat the rows below as the shape of the rainbow and how to identify each finish — not a fixed serial list we’re asserting for this set.

The reliably verifiable facts here are the finishes and how to identify them: a flat base, a full-rainbow Refractor, colored tints above it, serial-numbered scarce tiers, and a 1/1 SuperFractor at the top. The exact colored ladder and its print runs are where Topps Chrome configurations differ year to year, so we don’t pin those numbers for you. The parallels & refractors explainer walks the general ladder in full, and the eBay lanes below show which finishes are actually trading right now.

Autographs and signed cards

Topps Chrome UEFA Club Competitions products include autograph subsets in the right configurations, and a signed Musiala from this program is a far scarcer chase than any base parallel — verify the specific signed card and its authentication on the listing rather than assuming one exists at a given tier. The signed / autographs lane below surfaces whatever certified copies are live. Before paying a real price for any signed or high-tier chrome, read the authentication section of our collecting Musiala cards guide — chrome and autos are the two most-faked corners of the hobby.

Buying #42 without overpaying

• Confirm the season first. Everything else is wasted effort if you’re bidding on the 2022-23 card by mistake. Season, then “Chrome,” then condition.
• Base copies: raw from a reputable seller is fine at the low end. Check centering first — the most common grade-killer on chrome — then corners and surface. Our free centering tool helps you eyeball a copy before you commit.
• Colored, numbered, and autographed tiers: buy graded (PSA, SGC, or BGS) at any serious price point. A slab protects both condition and authenticity, and chromium is a common counterfeit target. The grading ROI calculator tells you whether grading a raw copy is worth the fee.
• Don’t pay rookie money for a 2024-25 card. This is a prime-years issue. If you want the rookie-era chrome, the rookie-card lane is the page you want instead.
• Always check recent solds for the exact season and finish before you pay.

The what is a Musiala card worth breakdown explains how type, season, and grade drive price, and the collecting Musiala cards guide covers grading and storage end to end.

Where to go next

• Master Musiala card index — every set and card number in one place, including the other reused-number cases
• 2020-21 Topps Finest Bundesliga #82 checklist · 2021 Topps Chrome Champions League #81 checklist · 2021-22 Topps Chrome Bundesliga #84 checklist — the rookie-era club-lane siblings
• 2025-26 Topps Chrome UEFA Club Competitions #130 checklist — the following season from this same program, and the same-season Chrome-vs-flagship number clash
• 2026 Panini Prizm World Cup #50 checklist — the Germany-lane per-set index
• Musiala parallels & refractors explained — the full rainbow across all his chrome and Prizm issues
• Topps UEFA Club Competitions set review — the program this card comes from
• Musiala cards year by year · the full Musiala hub · Bayern Munich collecting

Every version of #42 is a card people buy on eBay, not Amazon — the lanes below open live listings by tier, including a dedicated lane for the other #42 so you can compare the two side by side before you bid.