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.
Alfie Devine
Tottenham Hotspur · 2022-232022-23 Topps Chrome Uefa Club Competitions Sapphire EditionMichael Parkhurst
FC Nordsjælland · 2012-13BaseKhusniddin Alikulov
Uzbekistan · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Fran Vélez
UD Almería · 2014-15BaseArthur Vermeeren
Atlético de Madrid · 2023-24Merlin'S Chosen One (Hobby 1:9 Boxes; Value Box 1:10 Boxes)Toni Velamazán
CF Extremadura · 1998-99BaseWesley Franca
2025-26Rising StarIbrahim Mbaye
Paris Saint-Germain · 2024-252024-25 Topps Chrome Uefa Club CompetitionsFolarin Balogun
AS Monaco · 2024-252024-25 Topps Chrome Uefa Club Competitionscuña
RC Deportivo · 2002-03Últimos FichajesPedro Gonçalves
Sporting CP · 2021-22Standard FinestPedro Miguel
Qatar · 2022Fifa World Cup Qatar 2022 PrizmFrançois Kamano
FC Lokomotiv Moskva · 2020-21BaseArchie Gray
2024-25Rising Star264. JAVI LÓPEZ
Racing de Santander · 1997-98Enzo Fernández
Chelsea · 2022-23AutographsSaid El Mala
1. FC Köln · 2025-26BaseTeboho Mokoena
South Africa · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Stefanos Kapino
Olympiacos FC · 2017BaseRoberto Trashorras
Rayo Vallecano · 2014-15BasePavel Sulc
Czechia · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Alexis Saelemaekers
AC Milan · 2020-212020-21 Topps Merlin Chrome UefaLucas Bergvall
2024-25ImpactHow 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.