Football Chainle
Connect two footballers through shared club teammates. One transfer can bring two distant dressing rooms together.
The target joins automatically when your new player has a verified link to it.
How to play Football Chainle
- Start with the player on the board. Search for someone who played on the same team at the same time.
- Select a name to add a link. The match record below the link shows a date when both players appeared for that team.
- Keep connecting teammates until you reach the target. When a new player connects to the target, the game completes the final link automatically.
Every verified route counts. Undo a detour or ask for a hint; neither prevents you from finishing. Unverified picks and hints appear on your score.
A worked example
This example is separate from the daily schedule. A chain in the current dataset:
1. Marc-André ter Stegen
2. Gerard Piqué — shared FC Barcelona appearance on 2015-06-06
Think about the moves between teams
Transfers are your bridges. A player who moved between clubs can connect two generations of teammates. National-team connections do not count in this edition.
A player who only shares a team name with someone from a different era is not enough. Each accepted link needs a shared-team game in our verified records. Start with a teammate you know, then follow a move to another team.
What's in this board?
A curated network of senior club appearances. This is soccer—the football played in the FIFA World Cup. National teams, youth sides, and unverified career overlaps are outside this board.
57 searchable players · 5 teams · 6 team-match records · 375 available pairs. Checked 2026-10-07.
Missing connections are possible. “No verified link” means our current records do not prove it; it does not mean the players were never teammates. “Shortest” always means shortest in this dataset, not all of sports history.
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Match sources and coverage
- UEFA Champions League final 2015-06-06: official full-time report, Juventus starting XI
- UEFA Champions League final 2017-06-03: official full-time report, Real Madrid starting XI
- UEFA Champions League final 2020-08-23: official full-time report, Paris Saint-Germain starting XI
- UEFA Champions League final 2008-05-21: official full-time report, Manchester United starting XI
Dates identify a verified match, not a player's complete contract or career interval.
When does the daily pair change?
At 00:00 UTC. Everyone using this data version gets the same pair. If midnight passes during your round, you can finish it before switching to today's board. Pairs repeat after the 375-pair schedule cycles.
Will my progress be saved?
Daily and practice progress are saved separately in this browser. Clearing site data, changing devices, private browsing, or a dataset update can remove your save. Practice draws from the same finite pair collection; it does not change your daily result.
Found a missing or incorrect connection? Send the two names and a match record.
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