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An exceptionally rare Cristiano Ronaldo trading card has reportedly fetched a record-shattering $1.35 million in a private transaction.
According to Fanatics Collect, which says it facilitated the deal, the sale obliterates the previous benchmark for a Ronaldo card—$312,000 paid for his 2002–03 Panini Mega Cracks rookie card in a Gem Mint PSA 10 grade at auction back in 2021.
The card at the center of the deal is Ronaldo's 2018 Panini Kaboom Green parallel, of which only a single copy was ever made.
BREAKING: We've officially brokered a $1,350,000 private sale for this 1-of-1 Cristiano Ronaldo trading card.
This sets the record for most expensive Ronaldo card of all-time.
It's also the second most expensive soccer trading card sale ever, only behind Lionel Messi's sale of… pic.twitter.com/8xQjzROsdb
Panini's Kaboom cards rank among the most coveted inserts in contemporary trading card collecting. The Kaboom design made its debut in 2013–14 Panini Innovation Basketball before being expanded to football, baseball, and soccer products.
Ronaldo's Kaboom card was part of a 50-player set issued in 2018, exclusively available through multi-sport packs tied to a Panini Rewards program, with only one Green parallel ever produced.
The landmark sale comes not long after Ronaldo helped Al Nassr clinch the Saudi Pro League title for the first time since his arrival in 2022.
Al Nassr wrapped up the championship with a 4–1 victory over Damac, a match in which Ronaldo netted twice, narrowly beating out rivals Al Hilal to claim their first league crown since 2019.
Cristiano Ronaldo Still Trails Lionel Messi Record
Few players in the history of the game have been so fundamentally linked as Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. The two defining players of the modern era have been relentlessly compared to one another for nearly two decades. "I was at Barcelona and he was at Real Madrid, playing Clásicos, and we were competing for everything both collectively and individually, so people were always comparing us," Messi recently recalled. "What both of us achieved made the rivalry even bigger.
"We didn't cross paths often except during matches or award ceremonies, where everyone was always watching to see whether he or I would come out on top. But we always maintained a good relationship. Now we're far apart and at different chapters of our lives, but what unfolded was a truly beautiful sporting rivalry."
That rivalry has even spilled over into the world of trading cards.
Just as Ronaldo trails Messi in most objective assessments of the greatest player of all time, he also holds the second-most valuable soccer trading card ever sold. Ronaldo's $1.35 million card sits just below the $1.5 million paid for Lionel Messi's 2004 Panini Mega Cracks rookie card (PSA 10 with MBA Gold Diamond distinction), which changed hands in a private deal in 2025.