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This is the biggest section on the site, and it runs on real players, real clubs and real transfer values.

36 games

⏳ Soccer career and club manager sims

Sims you come back to. Soccer Career takes one player from a boyhood club to retirement and then into the dugout. Club Manager hands you any of hundreds of real clubs across twenty leagues, today or in a real past season, and lets the board decide how long you last.

Club Manager

Manage any of 454 real clubs across 27 leagues, today or in a real past season: negotiations, board objectives, trophies and the sack race

Soccer Career

Create your look, sign for your boyhood club, get rich, get shady, retire a legend.

⏱️ Five minute soccer trivia and puzzle games

Grids, guessers, transfer trivia and squad builders. Short enough for a queue, and the daily ones give everybody the same board so you can argue about it afterwards.

Manager Hot Seat

Take over a real club on a bad run. Five league games to hit the board's target or you are sacked

Deadline Day

Run recruitment at a real club on the last day of the window. Fill the board's needs before it shuts, without overpaying

Soccer Conquest

Imperialism across the top five leagues: 96 clubs on one map of Europe, winners annex whole empires until one club rules the continent

Contract Chaos

Be the agent: compare wages, role and release clauses, sign one deal, then live with five seasons

Sports Bingo

Open packs of real players on a timer, mark the squares they satisfy

Rarity Round

Name the answer nobody else would. Rarest wins

Missing XI

Name the missing player from a famous real lineup

Free Kick

Aim it, bend it, beat the wall and the keeper

Soccer Grid

3×3 grid puzzle with rarity scores

Transfer Path

Connect two players through shared clubs

Gauntlet Draft: Soccer

Pick your XI five cards at a time, then survive a five round cup

Player Stock Market

Open a past season, buy an XI on stats alone, then roll the years forward

$1B Budget Builder

One billion dollars, real values, eleven slots. Spend it well

Rebuild Challenge

Inherit a real club. Open the envelopes, spin for a shirt, keep him or sell him, answer to the board

Dart Draft

Throw timed darts at a real world map: hit a country, draft its players

Career Ladder

Guess the player, one career stop at a time

Who Am I?

Hunt the secret player with similarity scores

Stadium Tycoon

Idle empire: grow a tiny club through live toy matches, ten divisions, reputation stars and a legacy boardroom

Wonderkid Factory

Idle academy: scout generated kids, grow them toward hidden ceilings and sell at the perfect moment

World XI

Pick a formation, fill 11 random countries

Player Bingo

Complete a line on a 5x5 board before 3 strikes

Alphabet Sprint

Name a player per letter against the clock

Clue Auction

Buy clues, save points, name the secret player

Sign the Player

A blind auction: outbid two AI moguls, £1B each, then sim the showdown

Footle

Guess the soccer player from stats

Career Quiz

Guess from career history

Soccer Higher or Lower

Compare all-time career stats

Soccer Connections

Find groups of 4 connected players

Build Your XI

Create a lineup, get AI rated

Soccer Connect 4

Soccer trivia meets Connect 4

World Cup 2026 Bracket

Build the 2026 bracket and score it against how the World Cup really went

Fantasy Draft

Draft your ultimate XI against an AI opponent

Squad Deal

Build an XI out of mystery boxes

Search and Discard

The squad duel: keep one, bin two, settle it in a season

Every soccer game here, and how they differ

The thing worth sorting these by is the clock, because a soccer game here can be one guess or a whole career. Footle, Career Quiz and Missing XI are one answer puzzles: a stat line, a career history, a famous lineup with a gap in it. Soccer Grid puts every answer where two conditions meet, so one name has to satisfy both at once. Transfer Path is the one where the season matters, since two players only link through a club they actually shared at the same time, and Soccer Connections buries four groups of four in a pile of names. Then the money games: $1B Budget Builder hands you a billion and eleven slots, Sign the Player drops you into a blind auction against two rivals, Player Stock Market buys you in at real past valuations and then runs a real year at you, and Fantasy Draft, Gauntlet Draft and Dart Draft each build you a squad one pick at a time, with a different catch on how the pick gets made. Soccer Career and Club Manager are not puzzles at all, they are evenings, while Stadium Tycoon and Wonderkid Factory tick along on their own whether you are watching or not.

Where to start with the soccer games

  • Career Ladder. The gentlest way into the guess the player games. You get his clubs one at a time in order, so you can reason your way there instead of staring at a stat line. Pick Who Am I? instead if you would rather be told how warm you are, and Footle if numbers are how your brain works.
  • Club Manager. The full management job: a real club in a real league, today or in a real past season. Rebuild Challenge scratches the same itch in a fraction of the time, an inherited squad you pull apart and put back together on a budget, where the deals do not always go your way. Soccer Career is the other side of the touchline, where you are the player rather than the boss.
  • $1B Budget Builder. A billion, eleven slots, real market values, no opponent. Choose this over Squad Deal if you want the maths rather than the luck of mystery boxes, and over Fantasy Draft if you would rather not have an AI taking your first choice off the board.
  • Soccer Grid. The 3x3 board: nine cells, each one sitting where two conditions meet, so one name has to satisfy both. Every correct answer also comes back with a rarity score, the share of players who named the same man, so getting a cell right and getting under 5 percent of the room are two separate small wins. It rewards knowing the awkward overlaps rather than the obvious names, so it is the right pick once the single answer puzzles start feeling too easy.
  • Soccer, the background

    Almost everything in this section runs on the transfer market, so it is worth knowing how that actually works. European clubs register new signings during two windows, a long one across the summer and a short one in January, and the main exception is a player already out of contract, who can generally be signed and registered outside them. That exception traces back to the Bosman ruling in 1995, which established freedom of movement for out-of-contract players inside the EU, and the principle that an expired contract means a move without a fee was carried into the transfer regulations that followed. It is why a club would rather sell someone with a year left than lose him for nothing. The fee is also only half the cost: it goes to the selling club as a one-time cost rather than a recurring one, often spread across instalments over several years, while wages are paid every week for the length of the deal and often add up to more. And the published numbers are estimates. Fees frequently go undisclosed and add-ons sit inside the headline figure. Neymar's 222 million euro move from Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain in 2017 is the one everybody quotes, and as of August 2026 nobody had gone past it.

  • English football champions since 1889, year by year: every English league title winner in the table, year by year, checked against the record
  • Champions League format history, every change since 1955: every shape the competition has taken, with the sources for each, and what each Club Manager era actually plays
  • 2026 World Cup results: every knockout score with extra time and penalties spelled out, every group in finishing order and the award winners, from the same two source record the bracket game scores against
  • Soccer games: questions people ask

    Do I need to follow more than the Premier League?

    No, but the further you look the more of this opens up. The guessing games lean on players who moved around the big European leagues, so if the Premier League is your limit you will still recognise most of them. Club Manager is the one that rewards breadth, since it reaches a long way past the big five and you can sit in whichever league you actually watch. If a puzzle throws up a name you have never heard of, there is another one along in a second.

    How up to date are the players and the values?

    Squads and valuations come from real data that gets refreshed in batches rather than live, so in the days after a big move a player can still be sitting at his old club. The historical games are out of date on purpose: Club Manager lets you start in a real past season, and Player Stock Market buys you in at that year's real prices, which is the whole point of it.

    I have five minutes. Which one?

    Alphabet Sprint, one player per letter against the clock, is the fastest thing in here. Footle is a single player from a stat line. Rarity Round is the strange one: you still have to name a real, valid answer, it will not let you submit a name that does not fit the category, but you are scored on how famous that pick is inside the category's pool and famous is bad, so the obvious name is the one that hurts you. There is a Crowd Says mode that flips the whole thing and rewards the most famous answer you can find.

    Which of these is worth a whole evening?

    Soccer Career if you want to be the player, from a boyhood club through the money and the bad decisions to retirement. Club Manager if you want the dugout instead, with negotiations, board objectives and the sack race hanging over you. Stadium Tycoon and Wonderkid Factory are the idle ones, they keep ticking while you are doing something else, so they suit a second tab better than an hour of full attention.

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    The soccer section gathers every football game on the site into one page: 3x3 club grids, progressive-clue player guessers, connection puzzles, transfer market games built on real market values, squad builders, and the two long sims that most people come back for. Everything runs in a browser, free, with no account and no download. Real players and real clubs throughout, which is why a guess that feels right usually is.

    How to play

  • Short on time: start with the daily puzzles. Everyone gets the same board each day and a run takes a couple of minutes.
  • Want something that lasts: Soccer Career and Club Manager both run for as many seasons as you can survive.
  • Every game explains itself before you play, and the "?" button reopens the rules and a worked example at any point.
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