Football Chainle

Football Chainle is a teammate chain game from WordleCup, a fan-made site of daily sports puzzles that also runs a mystery player guessing game and chain editions for the NBA and the NFL. Each day it shows a start player and a finish player, for example Paul Pogba and Thiago Silva on 24 October 2026, and you build a path between them one teammate at a time.

You search for a player who appeared for the same club team as the last name on your chain, in the same match. When you pick one, the link shows the match record that proves it, with its date. As soon as a new player has a verified link to the target, the game closes the chain for you. National teams and youth sides do not count in this edition, only senior club appearances.

The board shows the best known chain length for the pair, so you can aim for the shortest route, but any verified route finishes the puzzle. You can undo a detour, ask for a hint or reveal the solution; picks that were not verified and hints used appear on your score, which you can share without spoilers.

The player pool is small and curated: the edition checked on 7 October 2026 lists 57 players from five clubs, drawn from the starting line-ups of six team records in four Champions League finals (2008, 2015, 2017 and 2020) with Barcelona, Real Madrid, Juventus, Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester United. A player who only came on as a substitute in those finals may have just one verified link. The daily pair changes at midnight UTC and pairs repeat once the schedule has cycled through every pair. It suits football fans who know the squads of the last two decades and like Six Degrees style puzzles. The site carries ads and needs no account; progress is saved in the browser.