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.
Axel Tuanzebe
Manchester United · 2020-21AutographsRiccardo Pagano
AS Roma · 2023-242023-24 Topps Chrome Uefa Club Competitions Sapphire EditionAyase Ueda
Feyenoord · 2023-24Chrome Autograph (1:62 Packets)Aingeru Olabarrieta
Athletic Club · 2024-252024-25 Topps Chrome Uefa Club CompetitionsMalik Tillman
FC Bayern München · 2020-21AutographsTrikots
Paris Saint-Germain · 2017-18BaseSarpreet Singh
New Zealand · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Aymen Hussein
Iraq · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Gonçalo Borges
FC Porto · 2022-23BaseMyles Lewis-Skelly
Arsenal · 2024-25Final Destination (1:20 Hobby, 1:6 Jumbo)Asmir Begovic
Bosnia & Herzegovina · 2014GuardiansRelebohile Mofokeng
South Africa · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Guilherme Siqueira
SL Benfica · 2013-14BaseDuje Caleta-Car
Olympique de Marseille · 2020-212020-21 Topps Chrome Uefa Champions League Sapphire EditionMartin G.
Rayo Vallecano · 1996-97BaseMousa Al-Tamari
Jordan · 2026Global ReachBibars Natcho
PFC CSKA Moskva · 2016BaseAron Dønnum
Toulouse FC · 2023-242023-24 Topps Merlin Chrome UefaTabares
CD Castellón · 2006-07BasePavel Bucha
FC Viktoria Plzeň · 2022-23BaseAndrew Robinson
Liverpool · 2020BaseLevante UD
2023-24Escudos de 2ª DivisiónMatheus Fernandes
Real Valladolid · 2019-20ActualizaciónHow 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.