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.
Mike Sorber
United States · 20261994 Team Usa SignaturesYoram Zague
2024-25Rookie AutographsAlbert Sambi Lokonga
Belgium · 2022Mosaic Road To Fifa World Cup Qatar 2022Matej Mitrović
Club Brugge KV · 2018-19Base SetLuis C.
Rayo Vallecano · 2002-03BaseArthur Melo
ACF Fiorentina · 2023-242023-24 Topps Uefa Club Competitions - CarnavalCopa America
2015BaseDiogo Costa
Portugal · 2022Fifa World Cup Qatar 2022 PrizmFolarin Balogun
AS Monaco · 2024-252024-25 Topps Chrome Uefa Club CompetitionsAdam Lallana
2014-15Liverpool FcDennis Borkowski
RB Leipzig · 2020-21Topps Finest Uefa Champions LeagueYouri Regeer
AFC Ajax · 2022-232022-23 Topps Finest Uefa Club CompetitionsXherdan Shaqiri
FC Basel 1893 · 2010-11BaseEdouard Michut (1st Sticker)
Paris Saint-Germain · 2022-23BaseDotor
RC Celta · 2023-24BaseFacundo Pellistri
Uruguay · 2022Fifa World Cup Qatar 2022 PrizmErik Lira
Mexico · 2025-26Rated RookiesJobe Bellingham
Borussia Dortmund · 2025-26Autographs · RookiesNosa Igiebor
Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC · 2015-16BaseMiguelón
RCD Espanyol · 2021-22BaseAllison Becker
Liverpool · 2019-20Topps Finest Uefa Champions LeagueMarco Verratti
Paris Saint-Germain · 2012-13BaseRyan Mendes
Cape Verde · 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.