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.
Uğur Boral
Fenerbahçe SK · 2008-09BaseQuagliata
RC Deportivo · 2026-27LaLigaTchite
Racing de Santander · 2007-08BaseMohamed Daramy
AFC Ajax · 2021-22Base Card I38. GUARDIOLA
FC Barcelona · 1997-98Sasa Kalajozic
VfB Stuttgart · 2020-21BaseHákon Arnar Haraldsson
FC København · 2022-232022-23 Topps Chrome Uefa Club Competitions Sapphire EditionDeshorn Brown
Jamaica · 2015BaseNestor Ariel Fabbri
FC Nantes · 2001-02BaseNilson Angulo
Ecuador · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Jesper Lindstrom
Denmark · 2022Fifa World Cup Qatar 2022 PrizmLukas Klostermann
RB Leipzig · 2019-20Future Star - Autograph - (#/?) (1:2,144 Packets)Ísak Bergmann Jóhannesso
FC København · 2022-232022-23 Topps Chrome Uefa Club Competitions Sapphire EditionEl Hadji Malick Diouf
Senegal · 2025-26Rated RookiesElye Wahi
RC Lens · 2023-242023-24 Topps Merlin Chrome UefaVinícius Tobias
FC Shakhtar Donetsk · 2024-252024-25 Topps Chrome Uefa Club CompetitionsLluis
RCD Espanyol · 1994-95BaseNico Paz
2023-24Football DnaClprian
Getafe CF · 2013-14BaseMartin Boyle
Australia · 2022Fifa World Cup Qatar 2022 PrizmJorge Sáenz
RC Celta · 2019-20BaseImanol Etxeberria
Athletic Club · 1998-99BaseAnis Slimane
Tunisia · 2022Fifa World Cup Qatar 2022 PrizmHow 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.