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.
Duckens Nazon
Haiti · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Roberto López
Real Sociedad · 2020-212020-21 Topps Merlin Chrome UefaRobaina
CD Tenerife · 1998-99BaseÓscar Ribera
Bolivia · 2021BaseMatty Warhurst
Manchester City · 2024-25Chrome Autograph (1:126 Hobby, 1:38 Jumbo, 1:8 Breaker, 1:875 Value, 1:386 Hanger)Ryan Mmaee
Morocco · 2022Fifa World Cup Qatar 2022 PrizmMohamed Toure
Australia · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026UEFA Champions League Final 2004-05
Finals · 2015-16BaseDujon Sterling
Rangers F.C. · 2023-242023-24 Topps Chrome Uefa Club CompetitionsCoupet
Atlético de Madrid · 2008-09Nuevos FichajesFábio Carvalho
Liverpool · 2022-23AutographsMasaya Okugawa
FC Salzburg · 2019-20Base SetMario Yepes
Colombia · 2011BaseConrad Harder
Sporting CP · 2024-252024-25 Topps Chrome Uefa Club CompetitionsArda Gϋler
Real Madrid · 2023-24Chrome Autograph (1:62 Packets)Charalambous Kostoulas
Brighton & Hove Albion · 2025-26BaseKostas Fortounis
Olympiacos FC · 2015-16BaseJean-Claude Ntenda
2020-21Emerging StarsAbde Ezzalzouli
FC Barcelona · 2021-222021-22 Topps Merlin Chrome UefaMetzelder
Real Madrid · 2007-08BasePatrick Dorgu
Manchester United · 2025-26BasePierre Littbarski
Germany · 2026International InkSergio Fdez.
Real Murcia · 2009-10SuperstarHow 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.