About

Pub Football Trivia is nine football quiz games in one free mobile web app — built for the argument-settling end of a pub table. Name the top scorers, guess the player from their transfers, fill a real team sheet from a famous night, or count down from 501 using goal tallies instead of darts. No download, no sign-up: it runs in your browser and plays like an app.

The data

Every round is generated from a real football database — more than 27,000 players and 160,000+ season stat lines covering the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, the Bundesliga, the Scottish Premiership, the Brasileirão and the major European club competitions. That’s the point of the app: answers you can check, arguments you can actually settle.

Generated, not written, is the important part. Nobody sits down and authors a question list — the games are built to interrogate the database directly, which is why the same game gives you a different board every time and why you can narrow it to a competition and an era before you start. It also means the app can ask questions nobody would think to write down: the eleventh-highest scorer in a league you thought you knew inside out, or which forgettable mid-table side a well-travelled journeyman turned out for in 2011.

The trade-off is that football data is genuinely messy. Sources disagree about transfer dates, loan spells, which cup competitions count towards a total, and how to spell a name that has three legitimate spellings. We reconcile what we can and take the rest on the chin. Spot something wrong and it gets fixed for everyone — corrections are the single most useful thing you can send us.

How it’s meant to be played

Solo on the bus works fine, but the app was designed around a table. One person hosts on their phone, reads the prompt out, and everyone else shouts. Add the names before you start and the app keeps score, so the round ends with a standing that somebody will dispute. Nothing needs installing on anyone else’s phone, which is the whole reason it’s a website and not an app-store download — a pub table is exactly the worst place to ask five people to install something.

There’s a small pool of free hints each day, shared across the table in multiplayer, so a stuck round has a way out that still costs something. And there’s one daily challenge, identical for everyone playing your league, for the people who want a streak to protect.

Who makes it

It’s an independent project — one football fan building the quiz app their own pub table wanted, not a media company. The app is free with ads; a one-off purchase removes them. How we handle data is set out plainly in the privacy policy.

Contact

Questions, corrections, ideas, or a stat you’re sure we’ve got wrong: pubfootballtrivia@gmail.com. We read everything.