Football Connections (Futbolle)

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Sort sixteen footballers into four hidden groups: clubs, nations, academies, trophies and records.

on futbolle.com

Football Connections #97 on a phone, Normal level: the purple group First name: Michael solved above twelve footballer photo cards

Football Connections is Futbolle's daily take on Connections: sixteen footballers with photos and four hidden groups of four to find. Groups share a club, two clubs, a nation, an academy, a trophy or a record, and you choose Easy, Normal or Hard before you start.

About Football Connections (Futbolle)

Each day Football Connections lays out sixteen player cards, each with a photo and a name. They belong to four hidden groups of four, and each group shares one real fact from their careers: a club, two clubs they both played for, a club and a nationality together, a youth academy, a trophy, a record, or sometimes just the same first name.

Before you start you pick a level, and you keep it for the day. Easy is a board of its own, built only from big clubs, big football nations, the World Cup and the Ballon d'Or, with the best-known names. Normal and Hard share today's main board with every kind of group; Normal has no mistake limit, and Hard allows five, with a One away guess counting as one of them.

You select four cards and press Submit. A correct group locks in as a coloured bar with its link named above the four faces; a wrong one counts as a mistake. If three of your four belong together, the game says One away. A Give up button shows the answer at any time, and the game counts as a loss.

The board is built so the obvious link is usually over-full: five players from one club, or six from one country, of whom only four are the group. Club groups tend to be the bait, and two-club or club and nation groups are the hardest to see.

When the game ends you can copy a spoiler-free grid of coloured squares showing the order you found the groups. The game can be played in English, Turkish, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Italian, and a new board arrives at midnight in your own time zone. It suits football fans who know careers beyond the current season.

How to play Football Connections (Futbolle)

Choose Easy, Normal or Hard; the level stays for the day.
Look over the sixteen player cards for links: clubs, countries, academies, trophies and records.
Select four players you think share one link and press Submit.
A correct group locks in with its link named; a wrong guess is a mistake, and three right shows One away.
Find all four groups, or press Give up to see them, then copy your result to share.

Screenshots

Football Connections #97 on desktop, Normal level: a grid of footballer photo cards including Luiz Gustavo, Dante, Rui Costa and Michael Owen

Futbolle's Football Connections card: Find the hidden links, beside a four by four grid with two solved rows in green and orange

Tips

If you can name more than four players for a link, it is probably not the group.
Club groups are often bait; look for the narrower link first, such as an academy or a trophy.
For a two-club group, check each player meets both clubs before you submit.
On Hard a One away guess costs a mistake, so be sure of all four before pressing Submit.

Questions

When does Football Connections reset?

At midnight in your local time zone, according to the site.

What kinds of groups are there?

One club, two clubs, club and nationality, a nation, a youth academy, a trophy or a record, and sometimes the same first name. Easy uses only big clubs, big nations, the World Cup and the Ballon d'Or.

How many mistakes can I make?

Easy and Normal have no limit. Hard allows five, and a One away guess counts as one.

Can I play in another language?

Yes: English, Turkish, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Italian, from the flag menu at the top of the page.