Soccer Card Prices
HobbyCardIndex tracks 2,153,370 soccer cards, and the average raw (ungraded) card is worth about $30. Every price comes from real sold sales, raw and graded, and it's updated daily.
Source: HobbyCardIndex · Updated daily · https://hobbycardindex.com/categories/soccerMost valuable soccer cards right now
| # | Card | Raw price |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Erling Haaland [Orange Refractor] #72 | $73,200 |
| 2 | Lionel Messi [Black Optic] #154 | $68,178 |
| 3 | Cristiano Ronaldo [Gold] #7 | $39,000 |
| 4 | Lamine Yamal [Gold Vinyl] #PFA-LY | $35,000 |
| 5 | Kylian Mbappe [Gold] #39 | $30,000 |
| 6 | Lionel Messi [Superfractor] #IS-10 | $27,500 |
| 7 | Lamin Yamal [Gold] #S-YL | $25,000 |
| 8 | Lionel Messi #KCTR-LM | $24,400 |
| 9 | Jamal Musiala [Black Crumple] #GER15 | $20,500 |
| 10 | Lamine Yamal [Gold Refractor] #MC-1 | $20,006 |
Top Soccer Sets
Panini Prizm FIFA
Panini Prizm Premier League
Panini Calciatori Stickers
Mundicromo Las Fichas de la Liga
Topps Chrome Premier League
Topps Chrome UEFA
Panini FIFA World Cup Stickers
Topps Chrome MLS
Panini Foot Stickers
Panini Football Stickers (Belgium)
Topps UEFA
Panini Select Serie A
Topps Premier League
Panini Megacracks
Topps Match Attax Bundesliga
Soccer Cards 2020 Panini Prizm Premier League
Panini Donruss Road to FIFA
Panini Select Road to FIFA
Panini Select La Liga
Topps Flagship Premier League
How to find what your soccer card is worth
Scan it. Point your phone at the card with the card scanner and it pins the exact card, parallel included, to its real sold prices.
Or look it up. Type the player or character, year, set and card number into the price checker and read the raw and graded prices side by side.
Then check the set. Open the soccer set pages to see where your card sits next to the rest of the checklist, because the chase card and the base card from the same set can be a hundred dollars apart.
How soccer card prices work
Soccer is the one category in our index where you have to ask which hobby you're in before you can price anything. There are the American-style chase cards, Panini Prizm and Topps Chrome with parallels and serial numbers, and there's the sticker tradition that most of the world grew up on, Calciatori and World Cup albums and Megacracks. We track both, about 2.15 million cards in total, at an average raw price of about $30. The two halves don't price the same way at all. Chrome and Prizm move on player, parallel and serial number like a basketball card does; stickers move on the album, the year and whether the sticker was ever stuck.
The names doing the work right now are the ones you'd expect: Erling Haaland, Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Kylian Mbappe and Lamine Yamal fill most of our most valuable list, led by a Haaland Orange Refractor at about $73,200 raw. Raw and graded are separate markets, and across the soccer cards we track with both prices the median PSA 10 sells for about 5.5 times raw. Our prices come from real sold sales, raw and graded, and rebuild daily.
The sets that set the market
Panini Prizm FIFA is the biggest soccer set in our catalogue at about 59,300 cards, with Prizm Premier League second at 43,700, so Prizm is the Chrome-style standard here the way it is in basketball. Then the sticker world shows up: Panini Calciatori Stickers at roughly 39,600 entries, Mundicromo's Las Fichas de la Liga at 21,800, Panini's FIFA World Cup Stickers at 18,600 and the French Foot stickers at 17,900. On the Topps side, Topps Chrome Premier League at about 20,700 cards, Topps Chrome UEFA at 20,700 and Topps Chrome MLS at 18,300 carry a lot of the modern European money.
Below those, Panini Select Serie A at about 14,400 cards, Megacracks at 13,500 and Match Attax Bundesliga at 13,300 show how national the category still is. A World Cup year rearranges all of this for a season. If you're pricing a card, start with the set, because a Prizm FIFA Messi and a Calciatori Messi sticker are different objects with different buyers, and the set page shows the whole checklist.
What a grade is worth
From a sample of soccer cards that carry both a raw and a PSA 10 price, the median PSA 10 sells for about 5.5 times raw. That sits between football and hockey, which feels right: the Prizm and Chrome side of the hobby behaves like basketball, with a deep pool of gems and a steady premium, while the sticker and vintage side behaves like old baseball, where a clean copy is genuinely scarce and the slab premium can run far past the median.
Stickers are their own problem. Collectors argue about grading them at all, and the big grading companies will slab them, but the population reports are thin, so the price history on the card page tells you more than the ratio does. For Prizm and Chrome, the usual rules hold: the card needs to be worth enough raw that five times raw clears the fee and the chance of a 9, surface scratches are the killer, and a PSA 10 with thousands of copies in the census is doing less for you than one with twenty. We show raw next to PSA 10, PSA 9, PSA 8 and the BGS, CGC and SGC grades on every card page, plus the pop report.
How to use this price guide
Decide which hobby your card belongs to first, chrome or sticker, and then pin the exact version. Scan it with the phone scanner and it identifies the set and parallel, or search by player, year, set and number. The card page shows the raw price, every graded price we carry, the price history chart and the sold comps behind the number, and if a parallel has no sales of its own we show the comparable parallels of the same base card.
The most valuable list on this page is raw prices only, cleaned of obvious data glitches, so graded copies will run higher. The set grid takes you to full checklists with prices, and it's the fastest way to see whether your Prizm is the base or one of the colours. Soccer prices move with tournaments more than with league form, so check the price history before you buy into a World Cup run. A free account tracks 25 cards and runs 50 scans a month, and prices refresh daily.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find out what my soccer cards are worth?
Scan the card with our phone scanner or search it by player, year, set and card number. The card page shows the raw price, the graded prices, the price history chart and the recent sold sales behind the number. Work out whether you have a Prizm or Chrome card or a sticker first, since they price completely differently.
Are old soccer stickers worth anything?
Some are. Most loose stickers sit near the bottom of our price range, but complete albums, unstuck stickers of the stars and the early Calciatori and World Cup issues sell for real money, and condition decides almost everything. We index Panini Calciatori, FIFA World Cup, Foot and Mundicromo stickers, so check the card page before you assume.
Which soccer cards are worth money right now?
Low-numbered parallels of Haaland, Messi, Ronaldo, Mbappe and Lamine Yamal. Our most valuable list today is led by an Erling Haaland Orange Refractor at about $73,200 raw, a Lionel Messi Black Optic at about $68,200 and a Cristiano Ronaldo Gold at $39,000. Base cards of the same players cost a tiny fraction of that.
Is grading worth it for soccer cards?
For Prizm and Chrome cards already worth real money raw, usually. Across the soccer cards we track with both prices, the median PSA 10 sells for about 5.5 times the raw price. For a common card the fee eats the gain, and for stickers the population data is thin, so lean on the price history rather than the ratio.
How often are these soccer card prices updated?
Daily. Every card price on HobbyCardIndex is rebuilt from real sold sales on a rolling nightly cycle, and each card page carries a price history chart so you can see the move over a month, a year or longer. The card count and average price at the top of this page refresh from the same data.
Where do the prices come from?
Real sold prices from eBay and the major auction houses, raw and graded, updated daily. We pull completed sales, not asking prices, from across the market and combine them into one price per card and grade, so the number you see is what people actually paid. Graded prices cover PSA, BGS, SGC and CGC.
Do soccer card prices go up during the World Cup?
They move, and not always the way people expect. Attention and sales volume climb through a tournament, and the breakout players' cards jump, but a lot of established stars drift back afterward. Rather than guess, open the price history chart on the card page and look at what the same card did through the last tournament cycle.