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.
Pascal Gross
Brighton & Hove Albion · 2017-18Match Attax Extra 2017-18 - Magic MomentsYasin Ayari
Brighton & Hove Albion · 2025-26BaseYassine Meriah
Tunisia · 2018BaseVangelis Pavlidis
SL Benfica · 2025-26Match Attax 2025/26Morteza Pouraliganji
Iran · 2018BaseMark Flekken
Brentford · 2023-24Premier LeagueEdison Flores
Peru · 2018BaseJhon Duran
Aston Villa · 2023-24One To WatchBjörn Sigurdarson
Iceland · 2018BaseIgor Julio
Brighton & Hove Albion · 2023-24Premier LeagueAnice Badri
Tunisia · 2018BaseMilad Mohammadi
Iran · 2018BaseBashir Humphreys
Burnley · 2025-26BaseViktor Onopko
Russia · 2004BaseFilip Kostić
Serbia · 2018BaseIdrissa Gana Gueye
Everton · 2023-24Stat StarEnda Stevens
Sheffield United · 2020-21BaseHannes Delcroix
Burnley · 2023-24Premier LeagueAbdulmalek Al-Khaibri
Saudi Arabia · 2018BaseMartin Boyle
Australia · 2022BaseMiguel Román
RC Celta · 2025-26BaseIker Losada
Real Betis · 2024-25BaseIkechukwu Ezenwa
Nigeria · 2018BaseHow 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.