Guess the Ligue 1 shirt

The Ligue 1 Jersey Quiz is a free football shirt game for identifying French club home kits. Each round places one real 2025–26 Ligue 1 shirt behind a sixteen-square reveal grid. You see only a controlled part of the image at first, then decide when another clue is worth spending. The challenge is to identify the club in six guesses, using the shirt rather than a list of fixtures or a player photograph.

Fans may search for this experience as a soccer jersey quiz, football jersey quiz, guess the shirt game or Ligue 1 kit quiz. All of those phrases describe the same core activity here: study a real shirt, recognise the visual identity and make a club call. A French league shirt can be deceptively difficult because red, white, blue and black appear across many rosters, so the smaller construction details matter.

All seasons mode is the hardest setting. It begins with every square hidden and gives you a weighted-random reveal order. Most early reveals favour areas with low information, such as a plain side panel or a section of fabric. Crest, sponsor and central design details are protected until later more often than not. The order is not a memorised fixed script, which makes repeated rounds feel less mechanical while keeping the difficulty curve fair.

You have six guesses in every round. In All seasons mode, choose the club and year worn. When you select a fixed season, the year is already fixed by the page and the year field disappears; you only need to choose the club. This avoids making the player submit a duplicate year and makes the difference between a focused season quiz and the harder catalog-wide mode obvious.

The 2025–26 catalog contains one home shirt for each of the eighteen Ligue 1 clubs: Angers SCO, AJ Auxerre, Stade Brestois 29, Le Havre AC, RC Lens, Lille OSC, FC Lorient, Olympique Lyonnais, Olympique de Marseille, FC Metz, AS Monaco, FC Nantes, OGC Nice, Paris FC, Paris Saint-Germain, Stade Rennais, RC Strasbourg Alsace and Toulouse FC.

The roster belongs to the season, not to a permanent list of famous French clubs. Promotion and relegation can change the teams from one year to the next, so a complete Ligue 1 jersey quiz needs the club membership and the home-shirt record to travel together. Paris FC, Metz or a promoted side should not appear in a different season unless that season's roster confirms it.

Start with the broad silhouette. Lens and Nice can reward an early look at strong colour blocking, Monaco is often recognisable from its diagonal sash, and several clubs use a clearly defined blue, red, white or yellow identity. That first read narrows the field, but it is only a hypothesis. A red shirt could be Brest, Lille, Rennes or another club; the shade and trim have to agree before you guess.

When the next squares appear, compare the neckline, sleeve edge, manufacturer logo, sponsor block and badge position. Look for the way a stripe reaches the shoulder, the contrast between the side panel and body, or a small colour repeated at the cuffs. These details remain useful even when the grid has not yet shown the central crest. In All seasons mode, compare the shirt era as well: a club can preserve its traditional colours while changing its collar, sponsor, pattern or technical partner.

The images are real shirt references, not pixel illustrations or generated artwork. Each local asset is a single front-facing crop from an official Ligue 1 kit preview or, for Auxerre, an official club shop product image. The source page is kept in the data record and displayed under the puzzle image. That gives the game a clear reference trail while keeping the reveal experience fast and stable.

Avoid guessing a club from one sponsor word. Sponsors can appear across several clubs or change from year to year, while the colour relationship between body, collar and sleeves is often more diagnostic. Make a short list after the first reveal, then use each later square to remove candidates. If the shirt is white with a blue detail, ask whether the accent appears on the collar, sleeve or central stripe before spending a guess.

The six-guess limit is part of the puzzle, not a reason to rush. A wrong guess is valuable when it tests a real theory, but it is wasted when it is only another famous club. The last few squares are deliberately more informative. Wait for a crest, sponsor, number area or central pattern when the candidate list is still wide. In fixed-season mode the year is already known, so use that extra certainty to compare the season's confirmed roster rather than reaching for an impossible club.

The first release stores all eighteen Ligue 1 images locally. The main reference is the official Ligue 1 2025–26 shirt overview, which supplies real product or kit-preview imagery for the league's clubs. For Auxerre, the official league image is a player presentation rather than a clean shirt view, so the catalog uses a clean front-facing product image from the club's official boutique instead. That keeps the visual standard consistent with the rest of the page.

Only home shirts are included. A multi-shirt editorial image is cropped to the home shirt before it enters the game, so the player sees one answer image rather than a collage that gives away away-kit information. The stored source link identifies the official reference page, while the local copy prevents a remote image change from breaking the daily game. Future seasons can be added after the same roster, image and visual-quality checks pass.

Is the Ligue 1 Jersey Quiz free? Yes. It is a free browser game for football fans and does not require an account, download or payment.

How many guesses do I have? You have six guesses and can reveal up to sixteen image squares before the round is complete.

Which clubs and season are included? This release covers the eighteen-club 2025–26 Ligue 1 roster, with one real home shirt per club. Additional seasons will be added only when the full roster and a suitable image for every club are verified.

Why does Year worn disappear in fixed-season mode? The selected season already supplies the year. The game therefore asks only for the club, while All seasons asks for both club and year.

Is the reveal sequence always the same? No. It is weighted-random. Low-information areas are more likely to appear first, while decisive details tend to be saved for later, so the game stays difficult without feeling arbitrary.