​ChristianPulisicRookieCards.com is a website created by fans to guide new and existing collectors to the full universe of Christian Pulisic rookie cards – the man often referred to as “Captain America” in the soccer world.

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Though Christian Pulisic rookie cards have been popular among fans and collectors of the United States Men’s National Soccer Team (the “USMNT”) since first released ten years ago in 2016 given Christian Pulisic is considered by many to be the best American soccer player of all time despite still being in the prime of his career at only 27 years old at the time of the 2026 World Cup, most collectors do not understand how rare many of Christian’s rookie cards are relative to rookie cards from other sports or even more recent soccer rookie cards because print runs have to be calculated or estimated manually. 

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For instance, Christian Pulisic’s most popular base rookie cards range from base versions of 99 to an estimated base version of 4,324.  By contrast, one of Derek Jeter’s most popular rookie cards, the 1993 Stadium Club Murphy #117, had a print run of 128,000 cards (issued in factory sets, it had a production run of 8,000 cases with 16 sets per case).  More recently, some popular base rookie cards have graded populations (to say nothing of full print runs) that dwarf the size of these Pulisic rookie card print runs.  A review of GemRate.com’s Top 100 Most Graded Sports Cards Over the Past 10 Years, published in November 2025, makes this point clearly.  For example, GemRate.com notes that Zion Williamson and Ja Morant have both had Panini Prizm rookie base cards with graded populations that well exceed 50,000 graded copies each, and numerous other players have cards that exceed 40,000 graded copies per card.  The total population of popular Christan Pulisic base rookie cards, including ungraded copies, is roughly 90% smaller than the graded populations alone of these other recent base rookie cards.  Indeed, Christian Pulisic base rookie cards also are at least 90% scarcer than other USMNT rookie cards issued just two years later, such as the 2018-19 Donruss Soccer #199 Weston McKennie (this McKennie was released in hobby, blaster and jumbo products, and by our calculations the blaster and jumbo versions alone produce 47,833 copies of this McKennie rookie card, and the hobby product takes the number higher yet; there are even 19,104 copies of the Weston McKennie Red Press Proof alone by our calculations). 

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There are several reasons for this rarity: Two of Christian Pulisic’s most popular rookie cards, his 2016-17 Donruss and 2016-17 Panini Select Mezzanine Level rookie cards were short print cards (sometimes referred to as “SPs”) and his 2016-17 Panini Select Field Level was a super short print card (also known as a “SSP”).  His 2016-17 Panini Black Gold was a small, ultra-premium print run product that was made for soccer for only a one-year run and we calculate the print run of this base card at only 210 copies.  Panini Aficionado was similarly a product that only had a one-year soccer run in 2016-17, and though it has a higher print run than other cards the Aficionado base rookie card still only has a print of 6,220 copies by our calculations.  Underpinning all of these limited print runs was the fact that premium soccer cards were in their infancy when Pulisic’s professional and senior USMNT career began at 17 years old in 2016; Donruss Soccer and Panini Select Soccer were each only in their second year of production. 

Two other Pulisic rookie cards (both TCG cards from the same set) and two stickers (again, both from the same set) were released only in Germany, where Pulisic began his professional career, with this limited distribution leading to very low graded populations for these cards and stickers and a relative dearth of raw copies on platforms like eBay.com.  Though there are not serially numbered cards in these sets that allow us to calculate print runs, we believe the distribution of these cards only in Germany and the smaller demand for soccer products that existed in 2016 relative to today makes these scarcer than many appreciate.

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This website was created to catalogue all Christian Pulisic rookie cards and rookie stickers, and our known and estimated print runs of each where we have been able to calculate these.  The link to each card in the tables of base cards and inserts below includes a discussion of how we calculated these populations and the parallel versions of each card, where parallel versions were made, as well as other information.  In particularly the case of the 2016 U.S. National Team First Caps, 2016-17 Donruss, 2016-17 Panini Select Mezzanine and Field, and 2016-17 Panini Aficionado cards, the parallels discussed include estimated print runs for parallels without serial numbers that, as discussed for each card in the links below, are likely far, far rarer than most collectors realize.

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Base Cards