CLUE XIGuess football players from their clubs, career history, appearances, goals, position and nationality. Play instantly in your browser or choose a daily, league, club, nationality or multiplayer challenge.
Play the football quiz →Clue XI is a free online football player guessing game. Guess the footballer from their clubs, career history, league appearances, goals, position and nationality. Play instantly in your browser, choose different difficulty levels, compete with friends or play the daily football quiz.
Every football career quiz begins with clubs and years. Follow the career path, then reveal league appearances and goals, position and nationality. The player-name pattern gradually reveals letters, so you can guess the player from their career without being given the answer immediately.
Start with Casual for the most recognisable names, choose Football Fan for a tougher test, then try Expert or Challenger for less familiar careers. Each difficulty draws from its own recognition range, not the entire catalogue. Guests get five Quick Play games per day; a free account unlocks the other modes. See the complete rules and scoring guide before your first round.
All six mini-games require a free account to play. Their rules and the football guides are available to everyone without signing in.
Name Five: club and nationality →Name XI daily word game →Guess the player from a picture →Transfer Trail →Football Higher or Lower →Guess the Club →Quick Play is designed for short solo rounds. Online rooms give both players the same ten questions, while Ranked pairs players inside divisions and uses harder player pools as the divisions rise.
Clue XI turns a player's career into a small research story. A club sequence places the footballer in time, league numbers show which spells mattered, and position and nationality provide a final check. The result is a football player guessing game that rewards remembering careers and making a defensible deduction—not tapping through a list of disconnected trivia. Read how we design fair football clues and how the underlying data is checked.
Clue XI uses a catalogue of more than 15,000 eligible footballers connected to Europe's Big Five leagues. That is the overall catalogue, not the number available in every mode. Imports and automated checks can miss errors, so our data methodology explains the scope and correction process. Try the worked football deduction examples, explore the other football career guides, or revisit previous answers in the ClueXI Daily archive.
Clue XI is a free online football guessing game built around player career data. Identify footballers from progressively revealed clubs, seasons, league appearances, goals, position, nationality and name letters.
Yes. Guests can play five free Quick Play games per day. Create a free account for unlimited Quick Play, all mini-games, Daily XI and 1v1.
The Clue XI catalogue contains more than 15,000 quiz-ready footballers whose careers connect to Europe's five major leagues from 1980 onwards.
Clue XI focuses on men's players connected to the Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A and Ligue 1 from 1980 onwards.
Yes. Clue XI runs directly in a web browser on desktop, mobile and tablet, so you can start a football quiz without installing anything.
Yes. Create a private room code or play online. Both players receive the same ten footballers, and correct answers then total points decide the winner.
Follow the player's career path in order, then use their league appearances, goals, position, nationality and gradually revealed name pattern to identify them.
Yes. ClueXI Daily gives every player the same recognisable footballer each day, so you can compare how quickly and from how few clues you found the answer.