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.
Ngal’Ayel Mukau
2024-25RookiesTrey Nyoni
Liverpool · 2024-25Chrome Autograph (1:126 Hobby, 1:38 Jumbo, 1:8 Breaker, 1:875 Value, 1:386 Hanger)Lee Chun So
Real Sociedad · 2004-05BaseCurtis Jones
Liverpool · 2020-21Match Attax Chrome - Rising StarPaquito
Hércules CF · 1996-97BaseGareth Bale, Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema
Real Madrid · 2016Attacking TrioKonrad de la Fuente
FC Barcelona · 2020-212020-21 Topps Merlin Chrome UefaSamu Saiz
Getafe CF · 2018-19Nuevo FichajeMarc Guiu
FC Barcelona · 2023-242023-24 Topps Merlin Chrome UefaLucas Perrin
Olympique de Marseille · 2020-212020-21 Topps Chrome Uefa Champions League Sapphire EditionLeonidas Stergiou
Switzerland · 2025-26Rated RookiesIlsinho
FC Shakhtar Donetsk · 2007-08Base369. PABLO
CP Mérida · 1997-98Gabriel Paulista
Villarreal CF · 2013-14Últimos FichajesDervite
Villarreal CF B · 2010-11BaseAntonio Nusa
Club Brugge KV · 2022-232022-23 Topps Chrome Uefa Club Competitions Sapphire EditionJohan Bakayoko
PSV Eindhoven · 2022-23Wonderkids (1:4 Packets)Jakub Kaminski
Poland · 2022Fifa World Cup Qatar 2022 PrizmDanley Jean Jacques
Haiti · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Riverola
FC Barcelona B · 2011-12BaseVitorino Antunes
Málaga CF · 2014-15BaseIsaac Lihadji
LOSC Lille · 2021-222021-22 Topps Merlin Chrome UefaOgnjen Mimovic
Serbia · 2025-26Rated RookiesHow 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.