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.
Matti Liberali
AC Milan · 2024-252024-25 Topps Chrome Uefa Club CompetitionsLamine Yamal
FC Barcelona · 2023-242023-24 Topps Merlin Chrome Uefa Autographs (Hobby 1:47 Boxes; Value Box 1:278 Boxes)Eldor Shomurodov
Uzbekistan · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026António Silva
SL Benfica · 2022-23Autograph CardsLuciano Valente
Netherlands · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Mousa Al-Tamari
Jordan · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Mathias Jensen
Denmark · 2020BaseOston Urunov
Uzbekistan · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Siovas
CD Leganés · 2017-18BasePresnel Kimpembe
Paris Saint-Germain · 2016-17Uefa Champions League Match Attax 2016/17 - Rising Star (1:3.2 Packets)205. CARIOCA
Valencia CF · 1997-98Gonçalo Borges
FC Porto · 2022-232022-23 Topps Finest Uefa Club CompetitionsDujon Sterling
Rangers F.C. · 2023-242023-24 Topps Chrome Uefa Club CompetitionsJoe Bell
New Zealand · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Bernardo Folha
FC Porto · 2023-242023-24 Topps Chrome Uefa Club CompetitionsAsp Jensen
RC Deportivo · 2026-27BaseThiago
FC Barcelona · 2010-11BaseLennon Miller
Scotland · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Geovany Quenda
Sporting CP · 2024-25Chrome Autograph (1:126 Hobby, 1:38 Jumbo, 1:8 Breaker, 1:875 Value, 1:386 Hanger)Erick Gutierrez
Mexico · 2022Fifa World Cup Qatar 2022 PrizmJulien Duranville
Borussia Dortmund · 2023-242023-24 Topps Merlin Chrome UefaJamie Bynoe-Gittens
Borussia Dortmund · 2022-23Prized Footballers (1:3 Packets)Ali Alipour
Iran · 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.