About footbadle
footbadle is a free daily football guessing game and football content site for fans who love testing how well they really know the beautiful game. Every day brings a fresh set of puzzles across six different modes — and there is no "lose" screen. You keep guessing until you get it, and the goal is simply to solve each one in as few tries as you can. Alongside the games, we publish in-depth written guides about the players, clubs, stadiums and transfers behind the puzzles.
The idea
Most daily puzzle games give you one way to play. Football is far too big for that. A single player has a nationality, a club, a league, a position, an age, a transfer history, a home stadium and a place in a starting eleven — so we built a game around all of those angles. footbadle turns the things a real supporter notices into six distinct daily challenges.
The six modes
- Guess the Player — a Wordle-style attribute grid. Each guess compares nationality, league, club, position and age, with colour cues and arrows pointing you toward the answer.
- Immaculate Grid — a 3×3 grid where every square sits at the crossing of two clues. Name a player who satisfies both. Each player can only be used once.
- Transfer Trail — a player's career of club moves is revealed step by step. Read the clubs, years and fees to identify them.
- Stadium Spotter — study a photo of a ground and name the stadium or its club, with new hints after each miss.
- Flag XI — a starting eleven shown as country flags in formation. Work out the club from the nationalities and shape.
- Odd One Out — four players are shown; three share a hidden trait. Tap the one that does not belong.
Who makes footbadle
footbadle is an independent project built and maintained by a small team of lifelong football supporters and puzzle obsessives, led by Spud — the game's creator and the author of the guides you'll find on the blog. We are the same team behind f1dle, the daily Formula 1 guessing game, and footbadle applies the same idea to the sport we grew up with. We are not affiliated with any club, league or governing body — footbadle exists because we wanted a smarter daily football game, and a place to write about the game we love, and could not find one.
Everything you read on the blog — the strategy guides, player profiles, stadium features and transfer stories — is written by Spud and reviewed in-house before it is published. You can reach a real person any time at contact@footbadle.com.
How we research and write our content
We take accuracy seriously, because a guessing game only works if the facts behind it are right.
- Sourcing. The football facts behind every puzzle and article — nationalities, clubs, positions, ages, career transfer histories, shirt numbers and league information — are compiled from publicly available sources, including official club and league websites, established reference databases and reputable football media. We cross-check details against more than one source wherever we can.
- Original writing. Our articles are written from scratch by people who watch this football week in, week out. They are explainers and opinion built on widely reported facts, not copied or spun from other sites.
- Imagery. Stadium photography and the images that illustrate our articles are sourced from Wikimedia Commons under open Creative Commons or public-domain licences, and each photographer is credited on our Attributions page. Images may be cropped or resized for display.
- Corrections. Football moves fast and records sometimes disagree. When we get something wrong, we want to fix it: every article and puzzle has a clear route to tell us, and we act on corrections quickly.
How it works
The puzzles are the same for everyone on a given day, so you can compare your result with friends. Your streaks and stats are stored privately on your own device — there is no account to create and no personal data to hand over. We cover the top division of eight major leagues: the Premier League (England), La Liga (Spain), Serie A (Italy), Bundesliga (Germany), Ligue 1 (France), Primeira Liga (Portugal), Süper Lig (Turkey) and the Eredivisie (Netherlands).
How footbadle is funded
footbadle is free to play and funded by advertising, so we can keep it free for everyone. We use Google AdSense on the web and Google AdMob in our mobile apps, and we ask for your consent before showing personalised ads where the law requires it. How we handle data is set out in full in our Privacy Policy.
Get in touch
Found a mistake in the data, have a feature idea, or just want to say hello? We would genuinely love to hear from you — head to our Contact page or email contact@footbadle.com. And when you are ready, jump in and play today's puzzles.