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.
Odion Ighalo
Watford · 2015-16Star PlayerManuel Lanzini
West Ham United · 2015-16BaseGabriel Gómez
Panama · 2018Team MatesKieran Trippier
Tottenham Hotspur · 2015-16BaseCraig Dawson
West Bromwich Albion · 2015-16BaseIllia Zabarnyi
Ukraine · 2022ContendersJean-Charles Castelletto
Cameroon · 2022BaseAli Mabkhout
United Arab Emirates · 2022ContendersKim Källström
Sweden · 2004BaseGabriel Agbonlahor
Aston Villa · 2015-16Star PlayerDuncan Watmore
Sunderland · 2015-16BaseMark Noble
West Ham United · 2015-16CaptainBen Foster
West Bromwich Albion · 2015-16BaseAshley Williams
Swansea City · 2015-16CaptainJames Chester
West Bromwich Albion · 2015-16BaseSaido Berahino
West Bromwich Albion · 2015-16BaseKevin Kurányi
Germany · 2004BaseYoussoufa Moukoko
Borussia Dortmund · 2020-212020-21 Topps Merlin Chrome UefaBoubacar Kamara
Olympique de Marseille · 2020-21Uefa Champions League Match Attax 2020/21 - Wildcards (Mega Tin Exclusive)Jason Puncheon
Crystal Palace · 2015-16BaseEtienne Capoue
Watford · 2015-16BaseManor Solomon
FC Shakhtar Donetsk · 2020-21Uefa Champions League Match Attax 2020/21 - Wildcards (Mega Tin Exclusive)Jordan Veretout
Aston Villa · 2015-16BaseHow 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.