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.
Hiroki Sekine
Japan · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Edouard Michut
Paris Saint-Germain · 2021-22Standard FinestPol Lozano
RCD Espanyol · 2022-23BaseMykhaylo Mudryk
FC Shakhtar Donetsk · 2022-23FilmstripYannick Semedo
Cape Verde · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Neco Williams
Liverpool · 2020-21Topps Finest Uefa Champions LeagueKhusniddin Alikulov
Uzbekistan · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Issahaku Fatawu
Sporting CP · 2022-23BaseMikael Anderson
FC Midtjylland · 2020-21BaseChadi Riad
2023-24The FutureCharly Alcaraz
Everton · 2025-26BaseBen Doak
Liverpool · 2023-242023-24 Topps Chrome Uefa Club CompetitionsMin-Hyuk Yang
South Korea · 2025-262025-26 Donruss Road To Fifa World Cup 26Matt Freese
United States · 2025-262025-26 Donruss Road To Fifa World Cup 26Aleksei Miranchuk
Russia · 2018BaseAlfredo Morelos
Rangers F.C. · 2020-212020-21 Topps Merlin Chrome UefaCharles De Ketelaere
Club Brugge KV · 2020-212020-21 Topps Chrome Uefa Champions League Sapphire EditionWilly Semedo
Cape Verde · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Cavan Sullivan
United States · 2025-26Beautiful Game AutographSolomon Kverkvelia
FC Lokomotiv Moskva · 2018-19Topps Finest Uefa Champions LeagueTarik Muharemovic
Bosnia & Herzegovina · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Youri Regeer
AFC Ajax · 2022-232022-23 Topps Chrome Uefa Club Competitions Sapphire EditionPortillo
Real Madrid · 2002-03BaseHow 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.