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.
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Canada · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Lucas Noura
Tottenham Hotspur · 2021-22Uefa Champions League Match Attax 2021/22Okay Yokuslu
RC Celta · 2018-19BaseIru - Peralta
UD Almería · 1996-97BaseNehuén Pérez
Granada CF · 2020-212020-21 Topps Merlin Chrome UefaGerard Lopez
FC Barcelona · 2000-01BaseIsaac Price
Northern Ireland · 2025-26Rated RookiesSebastian Tounekti
Tunisia · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Jobe Bellingham
2025-26Rising StarEthan Wheatley
Manchester United · 2024-252024-25 Topps Chrome Uefa Club CompetitionsFerran Jutgla
Club Brugge KV · 2022-23Current StarMaximillian Mittelstadt
VfB Stuttgart · 2025-26WingmanTimothy Weah
Paris Saint-Germain · 2018-19Base SetMamadou Sarr
Senegal · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Moreira Jr.
SL Benfica · 2022-232022-23 Topps Finest Uefa Club Competitions AutographsSérgio Oliveira
FC Porto · 2018-19Topps Finest Uefa Champions League - AutographMicah Hamilton
Manchester City · 2023-242023-24 Topps Chrome Uefa Club CompetitionsFlag
Southampton · 2024-25FabricSteven Moreira
Cape Verde · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026João Simões
2024-25CanteranosJamie Bynoe-Gittens
Borussia Dortmund · 2022-23Uefa Club Competitions 2022/23 - Carnaval EditionJakub Kaminski
Poland · 2022Fifa World Cup Qatar 2022 PrizmLewis Miley
Newcastle United · 2023-242023-24 Topps Merlin Chrome UefaHow 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.