Lamine Yamal Cards: The Youngest Breakout in Hobby History
A Euro 2024 star at 16 and Barcelona's most exciting prospect in a generation. First cards already command premiums that signal generational upside.
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SLAM Scores & Marketplace
SLAM is a liquidity score from 0–100 that measures how easily a card can be bought or sold at a fair price. It combines recent sales data, trading volume, and market depth into a single number. Listings are aggregated from eBay and Fanatics Collect.
90–100 Cash
70–89 Liquid
40–69 Inventory
0–39 Collection
Liquid
High demand, easy to sell
Lamine Yamal - 2023 Panini Megacracks La Liga EA Sports Soccer
Avg Sale
$783
Sales
37
Grade
PSA 10
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Inventory
Sellable with patience
Lamine Yamal - 2023 Topps Chrome UEFA Club Competitions Soccer
Avg Sale
$147
Sales
98
Grade
PSA 10
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Inventory
Sellable with patience
Lamine Yamal - 2023 Topps Chrome UEFA Club Competitions Soccer
Avg Sale
$108
Sales
63
Grade
PSA 10
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Inventory
Sellable with patience
Lamine Yamal - 2023 Panini Donruss FIFA Soccer
Avg Sale
$103
Sales
50
Grade
PSA 10
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Collection
Buy it because you love it
Lamine Yamal - 2023 Panini Donruss FIFA Soccer
Avg Sale
$84
Sales
32
Grade
PSA 10
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Collection
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Lamine Yamal - 2023 Panini Donruss FIFA Soccer
Avg Sale
$204
Sales
16
Grade
PSA 10
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The Case for Getting In Early
At 16 years and 362 days, Lamine Yamal became the youngest player to ever score at a European Championship, delivering a stunning goal against France in the Euro 2024 semifinal that helped Spain lift the trophy. That single stat captures why his card market has moved faster than any prospect in hobby history. At Barcelona, he stepped into the first team as a regular starter in La Liga and the Champions League while still a teenager. The combination of verified elite production at the highest level and a decade-plus of prime years still ahead creates the exact profile that drives the biggest returns in card collecting.
Collectors are approaching Yamal like an early-stage Mbappe: high conviction, aggressive buying early, and a willingness to pay premiums for rookie-year cards before the supply picture becomes fully clear. Budget collectors grab base cards. Serious hobbyists target numbered refractors and autographs. High-end buyers pursue low-pop parallels. The demand curve is steep, and Yamal has barely started his career.
Key Cards at Every Price Point
2023-24 Topps Chrome UEFA Champions League
The flagship Yamal rookie card and the one the market has anointed as his defining issue. Refractors, numbered parallels, and autograph versions from this set carry the strongest premiums. A PSA 10 base card already trades meaningfully above comparable rookies from the same release.
Topps Merlin
Merlin has become a respected complement to Chrome in the soccer hobby, with a vintage-inspired design and a collector base that values it as a distinct product line. Yamal's Merlin rookie offers a different aesthetic and a tighter print run than Chrome base.
Bowman Chrome
The Bowman brand carries enormous weight with baseball crossover collectors, and its expansion into soccer gives Yamal cards access to a buyer pool that instinctively understands the Bowman rookie framework. Refractors and color parallels from this set are actively chased.
What Will Move the Needle
Watch for every new milestone -- a Champions League goal, a La Liga assist record, a new age-based achievement. Each one converts speculative demand into long-term collecting and reprices his cards upward. Because Yamal's total card supply is still relatively small compared to established stars, even moderate demand spikes produce outsized price movements. The time to buy is between milestones, not after them. Look for quieter La Liga stretches or Spain international breaks when the hype cycle cools.
The scarcity dynamic is real. Yamal's first cards entered a hobby that produces more product than ever, yet the specific numbered and refractor parallels that serious collectors target remain genuinely limited. First-year autograph cards carry additional weight because future signings will never replicate the rookie-year provenance that drives long-term value -- if you are targeting autographs, move now while the supply is still surfacing.
Mantel Tracks It All
Yamal's earliest cards are scarce, and when a numbered refractor or rookie autograph hits the market, it gets bought fast. Wish List alerts on Mantel notify you the moment a specific card appears at your target price, so you can act before other collectors even see the listing. For the youngest breakout star in hobby history, that speed matters more than for any established name because the supply of his rookie-year cards is still small and every new milestone pulls another copy into a long-term collection. Mantel also aggregates real-time listings from eBay and Fanatics Collect in one searchable feed, so you never have to worry about missing a new Yamal listing across platforms. SLAM scores measure actual sales velocity, price trends, and trading activity to separate fair listings from speculation-inflated prices. Comps show what cards are actually selling for rather than just asking prices, which is essential for a young player whose market moves on news cycles and social media highlights. And a community of Yamal collectors gathers daily to discuss how his La Liga breakout performances are repricing rookie cards and which numbered parallels offer the best upside before the next milestone.
Get in before the next milestone hits. Search Yamal on Mantel now, set Wish List alerts for the Chrome, Merlin, and Bowman parallels you want, and let the platform notify you the instant the right card appears at the right price.
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