THE FIRST CHAPTERS
Football rookie cards
Every story has a first card. Discover each player’s first year in our catalogue.
Every card from their first recorded year, across all collections. Filters narrow the results without recalculating that year.
Ayase Ueda
Feyenoord · 2023-24Chrome Sapphire Autograph (1:20 Packets)Bradley Barcola
Paris Saint-Germain · 2023-24Merlin'S Chosen One (Hobby 1:9 Boxes; Value Box 1:10 Boxes)Caleb Yirenkyi
Ghana · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Vinícius Tobias
FC Shakhtar Donetsk · 2024-252024-25 Topps Chrome Uefa Club CompetitionsEmilio Butragueno
Spain · 2026International InkArmando González
Mexico · 2026Actualización InternacionalHannibal
Manchester United · 2021-222021-22 Topps Finest Uefa Champions LeagueMollo
Granada CF · 2011-12BaseMatthew Garbett
New Zealand · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Issahaku Fatawu
Sporting CP · 2022-23AutographsKevin Zeroli
AC Milan · 2024-252024-25 Topps Chrome Uefa Club CompetitionsAlexander Szymanowski
CD Leganés · 2016-17IdoloCyriel Dessers
Rangers F.C. · 2024-252024-25 Topps Chrome Uefa Club CompetitionsOmari Forson
Manchester United · 2023-242023-24 Topps Chrome Uefa Club CompetitionsOussama Haddadi
Tunisia · 2018Fifa World Cup Russia 2018 PrizmEdgard
Jaén · 2013-14BaseLoren I
Sevilla FC · 2001-02BaseMitchel Bakker
Paris Saint-Germain · 2020-21Topps Finest Uefa Champions LeagueEthan Wheatley
Manchester United · 2024-25Chrome Autograph (1:126 Hobby, 1:38 Jumbo, 1:8 Breaker, 1:875 Value, 1:386 Hanger)Sergio Vittor
MŠK Žilina · 2010-11BaseDuckens Nazon
Haiti · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Cody Gakpo
Netherlands · 2022Mosaic Road To Fifa World Cup Qatar 2022Randal Kolo Muani
Eintracht Frankfurt · 2022-23BaseHow to find a footballer’s first cards
Find a player and compare their first cards across collections. Filter by publisher, season, team, category and language, view photographs and save the cards you like to your wishlist.
Which cards appear here?
We show individual player cards with a known year. If a player’s first recorded year is 2010, all their 2010 cards and stickers appear, including variants and languages, across the available collections.
Is this the same as an RC logo?
No. Rookie here means the first year recorded in Trading Cards Tracker. We do not certify that this is their first published card or that it carries an official RC logo. Check the edition and its sources for each card.
Can the first year change?
Yes. Adding or correcting an earlier card updates the results. We use the card’s year, not the date it was added to the website or the end of a season. Cards without a year and multi-player cards are excluded from this calculation.
How is each player identified?
We group by the recorded name, normalising accents, spaces and letter case. We do not merge nicknames or different names based on similarity. Aliases and namesakes may need review: check the player, team and collection.