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.
Lucas Chevalier
2025-26Uefa Club Competitions Summer SigningsBright Ede
RC Deportivo · 2026-27BaseQuilindschy Hartman
Feyenoord · 2023-242023-24 Topps Chrome Uefa Club CompetitionsSoro
Granada CF · 2020-21Nuevos FichajesSilvano Vos
AFC Ajax · 2023-242023-24 Topps Merlin Chrome Uefa Autographs (Hobby 1:47 Boxes; Value Box 1:278 Boxes)Cody Gakpo
Liverpool · 2022-23Current StarCengiz Ünder
AS Roma · 2018-19Future Star (1:6 Packets)Gustav Isaksen
SS Lazio · 2023-242023-24 Topps Chrome Uefa Club CompetitionsM. Flaño
CA Osasuna · 2007-08BaseCleber S.
Atlético de Madrid · 2007-08BaseLee Chun-Soo
Real Sociedad · 2003-04MegafichajesUnai Hernández
FC Barcelona · 2024-252024-25 Topps Chrome Uefa Club CompetitionsAbbosbek Fayzullaev
Uzbekistan · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Jamie Vardy
Leicester City · 2015-16Magic Moments (1:1 Packets)Aurele Amenda
Switzerland · 2025-26Rated RookiesDelos Santos
RCD Mallorca · 2004-05BaseIago Herrerin
Athletic Club · 2013-14BaseHyeon-gyu Oh
South Korea · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026225. CHIBA
S. D. Compostela · 1997-98Sereno
Real Valladolid · 2012-13BaseNicola Zalewski
AS Roma · 2022-23BaseTsuyoshi Watanabe
Japan · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Julian Chabot
VfB Stuttgart · 2024-25Added 01-10-2024 - Thanks To Martin HigginsHow 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.