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.
Robbie Rogers
United States · 2010BaseBojan Jokić
Slovenia · 2010BaseVladimír Weiss
Slovakia · 2010BaseHameur Bouazza
Algeria · 2010BaseMarko Šuler
Slovenia · 2010BaseGoran Gavrančić
Serbia · 2006BaseRafik Halliche
Algeria · 2010BaseAlexandros Tzorvas
Greece · 2010BaseNeven Subotić
Serbia · 2010BaseImed Mhadhebi
Tunisia · 2006BaseArouna Koné
Côte d’Ivoire · 2006BaseSomen Tchoyi
Cameroon · 2010BaseHans Sarpei
Ghana · 2010BaseJoshua Kennedy
Australia · 2010BaseRichard Kingson
Ghana · 2010BaseJean-Paul Abalo
Togo · 2006BaseJán Novák
Slovakia · 2010BaseDragan Mladenović
Serbia · 2006BaseBrian Brobbey
RB Leipzig · 2021-222021-22 Topps Chrome Uefa Champions LeagueKarim Saidi
Tunisia · 2006BaseAndré Bikey
Cameroon · 2010BaseBoštjan Cesar
Slovenia · 2010BaseOmar Hawsawi
Saudi Arabia · 2018BaseHow 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.