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.
Daniel Davari
Iran · 2014BaseNico Paz
Real Madrid · 2023-242023-24 Topps Merlin Chrome UefaEtta Eyong
Levante UD · 2025-26DiamanteJoão Simões
Sporting CP · 2024-252024-25 Topps Chrome Sapphire Uefa Club CompetitionsRosier
CD Leganés · 2024-25BaseHancko
Atlético de Madrid · 2025-26New MasterJean-Claude Ntenda
Juventus · 2020-212020-21 Topps Chrome Uefa Champions League Sapphire EditionBarrenetxea
Real Sociedad · 2019-20Megacracks FuturoEduardo Camavinga
Stade Rennais FC · 2020-21BaseSiebe Schrijvers
Club Brugge KV · 2018-19Base SetNico Melamed
RCD Espanyol · 2021-22BaseLi Xiaopeng
China · 2002BaseMassamasso Tchangaï
Togo · 2006BaseCody Gakpo
Liverpool · 2022-23BaseKhedira
Real Madrid · 2010-11BaseKristian Thorstvedt
Norway · 2022Mosaic Road To Fifa World Cup Qatar 2022Victor Valdepenas
Real Madrid · 2025-26JoyasLandry Nguémo
Cameroon · 2014BaseFati
FC Barcelona · 2022-23Pro Elite (1:24 Packets)Daniel Munoz
Colombia · 2021-22Donruss Road To Fifa World Cup Qatar 2022Jesus Manuel Corona
Mexico · 2021-22Donruss Road To Fifa World Cup Qatar 2022Francisco Trincão
FC Barcelona · 2020-212020-21 Topps Chrome Uefa Champions League Sapphire EditionNelson David Vivas
Argentina · 2002BaseHow 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.