Guess the Bundesliga shirt

The Bundesliga Jersey Quiz is a free football shirt game for fans who can recognise a German club from its home kit. Each round hides one real 2025–26 Bundesliga home shirt behind a sixteen-square grid. The image is revealed gradually, so you can use the colours, collar, sponsor position and fabric pattern before the whole shirt is visible. The goal is simple: name the club in six guesses.

This page is designed as a soccer jersey quiz as well as a football kit quiz. The wording changes by region, but the game is the same: reveal a square, inspect the evidence and make a careful call. The answer is tied to a club and season, not just a colour. That matters because several Bundesliga teams share red, white, black or blue, while the details around the crest and shirt manufacturer separate them.

Start in All seasons mode for the most demanding version of the Bundesliga shirt game. Sixteen squares begin hidden. The reveal system is weighted toward low-information areas, so the opening clue normally gives you texture or a broad colour instead of instantly exposing the crest or sponsor. The order is random enough that repeat rounds do not feel like a memorised sequence, but decisive details are still protected early.

You have six guesses. Choose the club from the selector and, in All seasons mode, choose the year worn as well. If a fixed season is selected, the year is already known and the year selector is removed from the active guess. This keeps the interaction fair: you spend your attention on identifying the club instead of repeating information the game has already supplied.

The 2025–26 catalog contains one home shirt for each of the eighteen Bundesliga clubs: FC Augsburg, Bayern Munich, 1. FC Köln, Borussia Dortmund, Eintracht Frankfurt, SC Freiburg, Borussia Mönchengladbach, 1. FC Heidenheim 1846, TSG Hoffenheim, Hamburger SV, RB Leipzig, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, 1. FSV Mainz 05, FC St. Pauli, VfB Stuttgart, 1. FC Union Berlin, Werder Bremen and VfL Wolfsburg.

Keeping the roster season-specific is important in a league with promotion and relegation. Hamburger SV, 1. FC Köln and FC St. Pauli are not interchangeable with clubs from an earlier roster, and the game should not quietly offer a club that was not in that season's competition. The catalog therefore stores the club list alongside the shirt record, so a later season can be added without rewriting today's answers.

A good guess usually begins with large shapes rather than tiny text. Borussia Dortmund's yellow and black identity, Freiburg's red-and-white structure, St. Pauli's brown-and-white stripes and Wolfsburg's green base can narrow the field quickly. That first impression is useful, but it is not enough on its own. Bayern Munich, Augsburg and several other clubs can use a light base, while red shirts appear in many parts of the league.

As more squares appear, compare the collar construction, shoulder panels, sleeve cuffs, sponsor block and crest location. A shirt can be identified from the relationship between those details even when the sponsor is blurred by the grid. In All seasons mode, the shirt year becomes a second layer of difficulty: the same club may keep its traditional colours while changing the trim, manufacturer treatment or sponsor design.

The quiz uses real shirt images rather than pixel art or a generated jersey. That is deliberate. A fan should be able to inspect real stitching, panels and printed details, while the reveal mechanic controls how much information is available at each stage. The source label under the image points to the official Bundesliga kit overview used for the catalog reference.

The strongest strategy is to keep a short candidate list. After the first reveal, write down the two or three clubs whose home colours fit. After the second or third reveal, eliminate candidates by checking the neckline and sleeve edge rather than guessing from the sponsor alone. This prevents a familiar brand or a bright colour from pulling you toward the wrong club.

Use guesses as information. If a club is wrong, do not simply choose another club with the same base colour; ask which visual assumption failed. Perhaps the shirt is an away-looking design presented in an editorial set, or perhaps the red shade belongs to the crest rather than the body. Every reveal should reduce uncertainty. When the game reaches the final squares, look for a decisive crest, sponsor or central pattern before using the last guess.

The 18 Bundesliga images in this first release are stored locally for reliable gameplay. They come from the official Bundesliga 2025–26 kit overview and were prepared as single-shirt crops from the league's real kit previews. The crop removes the surrounding multi-kit layout so the puzzle grid shows one front-facing shirt, not a collage of home, away and third shirts. The original reference page remains attached to every data record.

Only home shirts are included in this page's answer pool. That makes the rules easy to understand and keeps the club comparison consistent. If a future season has the same shirt across two seasons, it can be represented with two season records or a shared `seasons` value without pretending the league membership stayed the same. New seasons will be added only after their roster and image coverage are checked together.

Is the Bundesliga Jersey Quiz free? Yes. It is a free fan game that runs in a browser without an account, download or payment.

How many guesses do I get? You get six guesses. You can reveal up to all sixteen squares, but each reveal makes the answer easier.

Which season is available? This release covers the 2025–26 Bundesliga roster with one home shirt for each of its eighteen clubs. All seasons mode currently draws from that catalog, and more seasons can be added when a complete image set is verified.

Why does the year selector disappear? A fixed-season game already gives you the year, so only the club needs to be guessed. All seasons mode keeps the year selector because the shirt and season are both part of the answer.

Can I play more than once? Yes. The reveal order is weighted-random rather than a single fixed sequence, so the puzzle remains less predictable while low-information squares still tend to appear first.