How to play
Eleven games in one free web app that runs in any phone browser: hand the phone round the table and play. Each game draws on the same football database, so any answer can be looked up and any argument settled. The about page lists the leagues, seasons and cup finals it covers.
Each game takes seconds to learn: pick a competition and an era, then name players, fill boards and settle scores. Wrong guesses are free in most games, a small daily pool of hints keeps the stubborn answers honest, and every game works solo or with a table full of mates — one person hosts from their phone and the table competes. Pick a game below for the full rules and tips.
- Pour a Pint568 ml to the line. One over and it spills.
- Head to HeadPick whoever ranks higher. Keep the streak.
- Career PathGuess the player from their clubs.
- Top 10Guess the top ten by a chosen stat.
- Name the LeagueName every club against the clock.
- Higher or LowerIs the next player's number higher or lower?
- 501Count down from 501 to a checkout.
- Played for AllWho turned out for every club shown?
- Passport ControlOne club. One country. How many can you name?
- Starting 11Name a real match line-up.
- Stat XIBuild the XI ranked by a stat.
Which one should you start with?
Top 10 is the front door. Everyone understands a ranked list, everyone has an opinion about who’s on it, and wrong guesses cost nothing — so a table can talk its way through a board without anyone feeling examined. Career Path is the one that gets the biggest reaction in a group, because a career unrolling club by club turns into a race between whoever recognises the shape of it first. Name the League is the one to pick if you want the room loud: put it on a clock, and the last three clubs in any season are agony.
Head to Head and 501 are the two that work best one-on-one — both are built around a back-and-forth rather than a shared board. Stat XI, Starting 11 and Played for All reward the person at the table who reads squad lists for fun. Pour a Pint is the oddity: a band to land in rather than a name to get right, so being roughly correct is a skill in itself.
Things that apply to every game
You pick a competition and an era before you start, so a game is only ever as obscure as you asked for. Typing is forgiving — the search box copes with misspellings, common nicknames and the accents no phone keyboard offers. Hints come from a small daily pool, shared across the table in multiplayer, and buy you a clue rather than the answer: you still type the name. Finishing anything counts towards your streak, whatever you scored.
Ready to play? Open the app — or read about Pub Football Trivia.