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.
Johny Placide
Haiti · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Eldor Shomurodov
Uzbekistan · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Konrad de la Fuente
FC Barcelona · 2020-212020-21 Topps Merlin Chrome UefaVitor Roque
FC Barcelona · 2023-242023-24 Topps Merlin Chrome UefaAndréas Hountondji
FC St. Pauli · 2025-26BaseDailon Livramento
Cape Verde · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Azzedine Ounahi
Morocco · 2022Actualización InternacionalEstêvão Willian
Chelsea · 2025-26Dark Flow 1/1Eldor Shomurodov
Uzbekistan · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026George Weah
AC Milan · 2024-25Star Quality AutographsPedri
FC Barcelona · 2020-212020-21 Topps Chrome Uefa Champions League Sapphire EditionModric
Real Madrid · 2012-13Nuevos FichajesShea Charles
Northern Ireland · 2025-26Rated RookiesMohammed Kudus
AFC Ajax · 2021-222021-22 Topps Finest Uefa Champions LeagueAarón Anselmino
Borussia Dortmund · 2025-26BaseYusuf Akcicek
Türkiye · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Alejandro Garnacho
Manchester United · 2022-23Golazo (1:18 Packs)Noa Lang
Club Brugge KV · 2020-212020-21 Topps Merlin Chrome UefaCisse Sandra
Club Brugge KV · 2021-222021-22 Topps Finest Uefa Champions LeagueMarouane Fellaini, Christian Benteke
Belgium · 2016International Double TroubleAbel R.
Levante UD · 2006-07BaseAngel Alarcon
2023-24Future StarsIbrahim Bayesh
Iraq · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026How 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.