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.
Matty Warhurst
Manchester City · 2024-25Golazo (1:10 Hobby, 1:3 Jumbo, 1:1 Hanger)Marcel Hartel
FC St. Pauli · 2022-23BaseRonwen Williams
South Africa · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Ibrahim Mbaye
Paris Saint-Germain · 2024-25Wonderkids (1:5 Hobby, 1:2 Jumbo, 1:4 Value, 1:1 Hanger)Ricardo Pereira
FC Porto · 2017-18BaseJuan Manuel Iturbe
AS Roma · 2015-16BaseAlun Armstrong
Ipswich Town · 2001-02BaseCifuentes
Real Sociedad · 2005-06BaseYusuf Demir
FC Barcelona · 2021-222021-22 Topps Finest Uefa Champions League384. SITO
UD Salamanca · 1997-98David Vila
FC Barcelona · 2022-23Uefa Club Competitions Inception Short Print Autograph - Red #/10Musha
Valencia CF · 2020-21BaseRodrigo Ribeiro
Sporting CP · 2022-23BaseMyles Lewis-Skelly
Arsenal · 2024-252024-25 Topps Chrome Uefa Club CompetitionsCarlens Arcus
Haiti · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Kjamie Gittens
Borussia Dortmund · 2024-25Squad UpdatePyry Soiri
Finland · 2020BaseLewis Miley
Newcastle United · 2023-242023-24 Topps Merlin Chrome Uefa Autographs (Hobby 1:47 Boxes; Value Box 1:278 Boxes)Billy Gilmour
Chelsea · 2020-21AutographsQuilindschy Hartman
Feyenoord · 2023-242023-24 Topps Merlin Chrome UefaTerry Butcher
England · 2026PenmanshipNilson Angulo
Ecuador · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Christ Inao Oulai
Côte d’Ivoire · 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.