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.
100. PANTIC
Atlético de Madrid · 1997-98Aarón Anselmino
Borussia Dortmund · 2025-26BaseFrancesco D'alessio
AS Roma · 2023-242023-24 Topps Merlin Chrome UefaRaducanu
RCD Espanyol · 2003-04BasePhilipp Köhn
FC Salzburg · 2022-232022-23 Topps Chrome Uefa Club Competitions Sapphire EditionRoony Bardghji
FC København · 2022-232022-23 Topps Chrome Uefa Club Competitions Sapphire EditionMarco Asencio
2024-25Uefa Club Competitions Knockout 2024-252004-05 Liverpool FC
Winners · 2010-11BaseCaleb Yirenkyi
Ghana · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Zokora
Sevilla FC · 2009-10BaseJavi Venta
CD Tenerife · 2001-02BaseFábio Carvalho
Liverpool · 2022-23Prized Footballers (1:3 Packets)Jesus Ferreira
United States · 2022New EraViera
Villarreal CF · 2005-06Nuevos FichajesJon Pacheco
Real Sociedad · 2021-222021-22 Topps Merlin Chrome UefaMateusz Żukowski
1. FC Magdeburg · 2025-26BaseÁlex Alegría
CD Numancia · 2015-16BaseNikola Štulić
US Lecce · 2026-27Figurina BaseNoah Darvich
FC Barcelona · 2024-252024-25 Topps Chrome Uefa Club CompetitionsMykola Shaparenko
Ukraine · 2020Actualización InternacionalJorthy Mokio
Belgium · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Felix Nmecha
Vfl Wolfsburg · 2021-222021-22 Topps Merlin Chrome UefaLewis Miley
Newcastle United · 2023-24Wonderkids Sapphire (1:4 Packets)How 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.