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.
Harry Kane
Tottenham Hotspur · 2015-16Hat-Trick Hero (1:2 Packets)Castello Lukeba
RB Leipzig · 2023-24Black Lazer Autograph (1:23 Packets) (Jumbo Exclusive)Toby Collyer
Manchester United · 2024-252024-25 Topps Chrome Uefa Club CompetitionsJan Šimůnek
VfL Wolfsburg · 2009-10BaseWouter Burger
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim · 2025-26BaseLiberato Cacace
New Zealand · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Pablo Monroy
Mexico · 2025-26Rated RookiesNoa Lang
Club Brugge KV · 2020-212020-21 Topps Merlin Chrome UefaReece James
Chelsea · 2020-21Match Attax Chrome - Rising StarMaximilian Mittelstadt
Germany · 2025-262025-26 Donruss Road To Fifa World Cup 26Ilias Akhomach
FC Barcelona · 2021-222021-22 Topps Merlin Chrome UefaWisdom Mike
FC Bayern München · 2025-26Base Cards CommonGuus Til
PSV Eindhoven · 2023-242023-24 Topps Chrome Uefa Club CompetitionsOscar Gloukh
FC Salzburg · 2023-24Chrome Sapphire Autograph (1:20 Packets)Eliot Matazo
AS Monaco · 2021-222021-22 Topps Merlin Chrome Uefa Autographs (1:316 Packets)Caleb Yirenkyi
Ghana · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Matthew Garbett
New Zealand · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Dénes Dibusz
Hungary · 2016Actualización InternacionalKarlo Letica
Club Brugge KV · 2018-19Club BruggeHugo Ekitike
Paris Saint-Germain · 2022-23Prized Footballers (1:3 Packets)Pele
FC Porto · 2008-09BaseBenjamin Sesko
FC Salzburg · 2021-222021-22 Topps Merlin Chrome UefaJonathan David
LOSC Lille · 2021-222021-22 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.