Futbolle (futbolle.com) is an independent project built around daily football guessing games. The idea is a simple one: most people accumulate a surprising amount of football knowledge without ever setting out to — who played where, how old someone is, what a transfer actually cost. Futbolle turns that into a few minutes of puzzle every day, and into a score you can compare with your friends.
Futbolle has 20 games. 17 of them are daily puzzles and 4 can be played live with friends — Squad Builder is both. In the daily games everybody on the same date solves the same puzzle — a deliberate choice, because a shared result only means something if the person reading it wrestled with the same question. A new puzzle arrives at midnight in your own time zone.
On the multiplayer side, Common Ground puts a whole group into one live race, Football Tic-Tac-Toe takes the same question onto a turn-based 3×3 board, and the Bingo Room deals everyone the same bingo card so the only difference is where you place each player. Squad Builder also has a head-to-head room against a friend. All four run on a shared room code, with nothing to install.
Playing Futbolle requires no account, no download and no payment. That is a design decision as much as a generous one: a sign-up screen turns away the person who only meant to have a quick look, and for a daily game that habit is the only capital there is.
One consequence follows directly: your progress, streaks and statistics live only on your own device, in your browser's localStorage. There is no account to lose. The details are in the privacy policy.
Squads, career tables, birth dates and trophy-winning squads are compiled from Wikipedia and refreshed as transfers happen. The pool holds more than 70,000 footballers, which is why even obscure answers are accepted.
In the multiplayer games, whether an answer is correct is decided by the server, not by your browser. Where there is competition, a claim that a player fits should never be taken at face value.
Because the data is compiled from open sources it can be incomplete or out of date: a player who has just moved may still be listed with his previous league, or a trophy squad may be missing names. The feedback button at the bottom of every page reaches us directly, and reports have already fixed real bugs. You can also use the contact page.
Futbolle is an independent fan project. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by FIFA, UEFA, any league or any club. Club badges and player images are used only to identify the subjects of the games; all rights remain with their respective owners.