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.
Fabian Schleusener
Karlsruher SC · 2025-26BaseNoah Atubolu
SC Freiburg · 2024-25BaseSaïd El Mala
1. FC Köln · 2025-26BaseMiro Muheim
Hamburger SV · 2024-25BaseAlbert Grønbæk
Hamburger SV · 2025-26BaseAarón Anselmino
Borussia Dortmund · 2025-26BaseStefan Kutschke
SG Dynamo Dresden · 2025-26BaseLuka Vušković
Hamburger SV · 2025-26BaseChristian Kofane
Bayer 04 Leverkusen · 2025-26BaseRicky-Jade Jones
FC St. Pauli · 2025-26BaseJamie Leweling
VfB Stuttgart · 2024-25BaseFabian Reese
Hertha BSC · 2024-25BaseAlexander Bernhardsson
Holstein Kiel · 2024-25BaseSemih Şahin
1. FC Kaiserslautern · 2025-26BaseLuka Modrić
Croatia · 2008BaseAlessandro Zanoli
SSC Napoli · 2021-222021-22 Topps Merlin Chrome UefaJude Bellingham
Borussia Dortmund · 2020-212020-21 Topps Merlin Chrome UefaSamuel Eto’o
Cameroon · 2002BaseAlejandro Garnacho
Manchester United · 2022-23Wonderkids (1:4 Packets)Gabriel Sara
Galatasaray S.K. · 2025-26BaseOriol Riera
FC Barcelona · 2004-05BaseMOLEIRO
UD Las Palmas · 2023-24Master RookieKili
Real Zaragoza · 1996-97BaseHow 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.