THE FIRST CHAPTERS

Football rookie cards

Every story has a first card. Discover each player’s first year in our catalogue.

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#174Select Road to FIFA World Cup 2026First recorded year · 2026

Adam Gnezda Cerin

Slovenia · 2026Select Road To Fifa World Cup 2026 - Mezzanini
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#427Panini Prizm FIFA World Cup 2026First recorded year · 2026

Sebastian Tounekti

Tunisia · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026
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#WA-EF2023-24 Topps Chrome UEFA Club CompetitionsFirst recorded year · 2023

Evan Ferguson

Brighton & Hove Albion · 2023-24Wonderkids Autograph (1:834 Packets)
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#CA-AA2023-24 Topps Chrome UEFA Club Competitions Sapphire EditionFirst recorded year · 2023

Ángel Alarcón

FC Barcelona · 2023-24Chrome Sapphire Autograph (1:20 Packets)
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#287Topps Match Attax Premier League 2017-18First recorded year · 2017

Tammy Abraham

Swansea City · 2017-18Match Attax 2017/2018 - Super Striker (1:1.5 Packets)
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#MOTM11Topps Match Attax Extra UEFA Champions League 2021-22First recorded year · 2021

Cristian Romero

Tottenham Hotspur · 2021-22Topps Heritage Man Of The Match
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How 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.

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