How many can you recall?

One historic match, eleven hidden names. Find the starting line-up before you run out of guesses.

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Frequently asked questions

Answers to the most common questions about the games, the rules, the leaderboards and the widget.

What Football Games is

What is Football Games?

Football Games is a collection of free football mini games you play in your browser in a few minutes. You rebuild line-ups, take quizzes and guess players and seasons, with a leaderboard for every game. You can start right away, no account needed.

Who is behind Football Games?

Football Games is part of the RetroFC ecosystem, the site about football history. That is why the quiz is called Who Wants to Be RetroFC.

The games and their rules

Which games are on Football Games?

Fourteen games are live: Missing 11, Football Wordle, Which Year, The Ladder, Who Is It?, Manager Career, Odd One Out, Before or After, Whose Shirt?, Guess the Score, True or False, Links, the quiz Who Wants to Be RetroFC and Higher or Lower. Each has its own page with the rules explained and its own leaderboard.

How do you play Missing 11?

In Missing 11 you rebuild one team's line-up from a historic match: you see eleven shirts with no names and guess each player's surname, with six tries. A green letter is in the right spot, a yellow one is in the name but elsewhere, a grey one is not in the name.

How does Football Wordle work?

You guess the surname of a player who appeared in a big match in six tries, with as many letters as there are boxes. The colours work like in classic Wordle, and mistakes unlock hints: role, team, final and shirt number.

How do you play Which Year?

In Which Year we show you a team's line-up in a big match and you guess the year it was played, in six tries. After each guess we tell you whether it is later or earlier and how close you are. First try earns 6 points, one less for every mistake.

How does the quiz Who Wants to Be RetroFC work?

It is ten questions on big football of increasing difficulty, four answers each: harder questions are worth more points and answering within a minute earns one extra. One mistake ends the game, but you can retire any time and keep your points, and you have two lifelines: 50:50 and Ask the audience.

How does Higher or Lower work?

In Higher or Lower we show an item with its number, for example Klose's World Cup goals, and you say whether the second item's number is higher or lower. Each right answer keeps the streak going and the first mistake ends it: your score is the number of correct answers in a row.

Daily games

What is the daily challenge and when does it change?

The daily challenge is the same match or the same questions for every player, and it renews every day at midnight, Italian time. The homepage shows a countdown to the next one. Higher or Lower is an endless streak instead: it goes on until you get one wrong.

Leagues and competitions

Which leagues and competitions are available?

You can play on Serie A, the Premier League, La Liga, the Bundesliga, Ligue 1, the Champions League, the World Cup and the Euros. Some games also have a Global challenge that mixes matches from every competition.

Can I choose the competition I play?

Yes, you pick it with the selector at the top of the homepage and on each game's page. Every competition has its own matches and its own leaderboard, and the available competitions can differ from one game to another.

Leaderboards

Which leaderboards are there?

Every game has four leaderboards: daily, weekly, monthly and all-time. The daily one rewards the best result, the longer ones add up your points over the period.

How do I get on a leaderboard?

You need an account to appear on a leaderboard: play the challenge and your result is recorded under your username. Scores are calculated and checked by the server, so they can't be changed from the browser.

Guests and accounts

Do I need an account to play?

No, you can play straight away as a guest, without signing up. An account lets you join the leaderboards, have your own profile page with your latest games and records, and keep a daily streak.

How do I sign up, and what happens to games I played as a guest?

You sign up with email and password or with your Google account, in a few seconds. Results you played as a guest move to your account as soon as you sign in.

Partner sites and widget

Can I put the games on my own site?

Yes, some games can be embedded in any site with a free JavaScript widget: you paste two lines of code and the game appears on the page, isolated from your site's design. The widget always shows a visible link to Football Games.

How do I become a partner site?

You register your site from the panel on the For sites page, choose the games and the version, then copy the code. Every site is approved by hand, usually within a few days, and the code works once approved. People playing from your site play as guests.

Sharing, cost and devices

Can I share my result?

Yes, at the end of a game you can share your result as a link, which shows a card with your score, on WhatsApp, X, Telegram or with your phone's share menu, or just copy it. Anyone who opens the link can play too.

Is Football Games free?

Yes, all the games are free and you don't need to pay or sign up to play. The widget for websites is free too.

Which devices does it work on?

Football Games works in the browser on smartphones, tablets and computers, with nothing to download, and is designed phone-first. The site is available in Italian and English.

How do I report a wrong question or a fact that doesn't add up?

Every game has a Report an error button: describe the problem, for example a wrong answer or a player who wasn't in the line-up, and we check the report ourselves.

Free football games, a new challenge every day

Football Games is a collection of football mini games: rebuild the line-up of a historic match, answer quizzes, guess the player from clues or the season of a big game. Each game takes a few minutes and you can play right away, no account needed.

Pick your favourite competition, from Serie A to the Premier League, La Liga and the Bundesliga, up to the Champions League, World Cup and Euros. Every game has daily, weekly, monthly and all-time leaderboards: sign up to join them and share your result.

Some games can also be embedded in your own site with a simple widget.

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