About Daily XI

Twelve football puzzles. New ones every day. Free, and made by one person.

Daily XI is a set of daily football puzzles. Every day at midnight the site generates a fresh set, the same for everyone, and you get one go at each. There are twelve games and they test different things — squads, transfers, careers, connections between players, and how well you remember when things actually happened.

The games

• Six Degrees — connect two players through shared teammates, in as few moves as possible.
• Career Path — name the player from the clubs he has played for, shown one crest at a time.
• Higher or Lower — one career stat, a chain of players, and a streak that ends the moment you call one wrong.
• Banker — assign multipliers to players before you are shown their numbers.
• Timeline — put eight moments from football history into the right order, with three lives.
• Matchday — work out the club and the season from the starting eleven.
• Regulars — name the ten players someone shared a pitch with most often.
• Rank Six — rank six players by a stat, first time if you can.
• Draft XI, What’s the Link, Passport and Guess the Player round out the set.

Where the facts come from

Player statistics, transfer fees and market values come from Transfermarkt. Career histories, appearance records and the events used in Timeline are checked against Wikipedia. Player photographs come from Wikimedia Commons under their respective licences — every one is credited on the photo credits page.

Data is refreshed after each transfer window. Mistakes happen, especially with squad lists and older career records. If you spot one, tell me — corrections from players who know their football are the main reason the data keeps getting better.

Who makes it

One person, in their spare time. There is no company behind Daily XI and no team. It is an unofficial fan project with no connection to any club, league or governing body, and all statistics are presented for entertainment.

If the puzzles have become part of your day, there is a tip jar. Entirely optional, and the games are free either way.