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.
PEDRODSA
Sevilla FC · 2023-24Nuevos FichajesMarlon Gomes
FC Shakhtar Donetsk · 2024-252024-25 Topps Chrome Uefa Club CompetitionsKosta Nedeljković
FK Crvena Zvezda · 2023-242023-24 Topps Merlin Chrome UefaGustav Isaksen
SS Lazio · 2023-242023-24 Topps Chrome Uefa Club CompetitionsSivert Mannsverk
AFC Ajax · 2023-242023-24 Topps Merlin Chrome UefaAitor Ferández
CA Osasuna · 2023-24BaseKamaldeen Sulemana
Stade Rennais FC · 2021-222021-22 Topps Merlin Chrome UefaSaint Petersburg
Russia · 2018Fifa World Cup Russia 2018 Prizm - Host CitiesIlay Camara
Senegal · 2025-26Rated RookiesJamal Musiala
FC Bayern München · 2020-21Topps Finest Uefa Champions LeagueMichel Platini
France · 20262012 Prizm Throwback SignaturesLeo Sauer
Feyenoord · 2023-242023-24 Topps Merlin Chrome UefaNils Zatterstrom
Sweden · 2025-26Rated RookiesRyan Gravenberch
AFC Ajax · 2020-212020-21 Topps Merlin Chrome UefaJens Castrop
South Korea · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026300. LIAÑO
Sporting de Gijón · 1997-98Cengiz Ünder
AS Roma · 2018-19Speed King (21 Speed KingsRuben Providence
Haiti · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Liberato Cacace
New Zealand · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026De la Hoz
UD Almería · 2022-23BaseTani Oluwaseyi
Canada · 2026Panini Prizm Fifa World Cup 2026Andrew Moran
Ireland · 2025-26Rated RookiesCallum Marshall
Northern Ireland · 2025-262025-26 Donruss Road To Fifa World Cup 26How 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.