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.
Daizen Maeda
Celtic FC · 2022-232022-23 Topps Finest Uefa Club CompetitionsArtem Kravets
FC Dynamo Kyiv · 2009-10BasePezzolano
RCD Mallorca · 2009-10BaseJordan Bos
Australia · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Ebenezer Annan
Ghana · 2025-26Rated RookiesAnthony rdon
England · 2025-26Kit KingsShurandy Sambo
PSV Eindhoven · 2023-242023-24 Topps Chrome Uefa Club CompetitionsBen Doak
Liverpool · 2023-242023-24 Topps Merlin Chrome UefaGavi
FC Barcelona · 2021-222021-22 Topps Finest Uefa Champions LeagueMarcel Schäfer
Vfl Wolfsburg · 2009-10BaseOdsonne Edouard
Celtic FC · 2020-212020-21 Topps Merlin Chrome UefaEvanilson
FC Porto · 2020-21AutographsAbbosbek Fayzullaev
Uzbekistan · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Charles De Ketelaere
Club Brugge KV · 2020-21Uefa Champions League Match Attax 2020/21 - Rising StarDiogo Fernandes
FC Porto · 2024-252024-25 Topps Chrome Uefa Club CompetitionsToby Collyer
Manchester United · 2024-25Chrome Autograph (1:126 Hobby, 1:38 Jumbo, 1:8 Breaker, 1:875 Value, 1:386 Hanger)Karim Adeyemi
FC Salzburg · 2020-21Topps Finest Uefa Champions LeagueJulián Luque
Sporting de Gijón · 2010-11BaseSidney Raebiger
RB Leipzig · 2021-222021-22 Topps Finest Uefa Champions LeagueMatthew O'Riley
Celtic FC · 2022-232022-23 Topps Finest Uefa Club CompetitionsCristóforo
Sevilla FC · 2013-14Nuevos FichajesRuben Providence
Haiti · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Jordan Bos
Australia · 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.