Footalara is a free-to-play website of seven original, interactive football puzzle games. Play browser challenges about lineups, players, club careers, tournament records and statistics; the guides explain the rules with worked examples.
Test your football knowledge with ten daily trivia questions, from easy to hard. Use up to three attempts per question and build your Footalara Coach score.
Ten football questions, ordered from an opening warm-up to a tougher final question, make up each Madrid-day quiz.
Can you name the missing starters from an iconic football match? Use the date, team and pitch positions to solve Footalara's daily starting XI quiz.
Identify the hidden starters from a memorable match while using the competition, date and team context shown on the board.
Identify the hidden footballer from progressive clues. Test your knowledge of players, clubs and nationalities in Footalara's daily guess-the-player game.
Identify one daily footballer from a dossier that reveals more evidence after each incorrect guess.
Find the hidden footballer using similarity scores for clubs, nationality and teammates. Refine each guess in Footalara's daily player similarity game.
Use football similarity percentages to locate the hidden player: a higher score means stronger real-world connections.
Which footballer has the higher stat? Compare goals, appearances and other football records in Footalara's Higher or Lower game and extend your streak.
Choose which player has the higher value for the statistic on screen, then keep the winning side alive for the next duel.
Rebuild a historic football tournament, order its standings and complete the route to the title. Play a new Road to the Trophy challenge every day.
Rebuild one historic tournament's real route, from its standings to the later phases that decided the winner.
Connect football clubs through players who played for both. Solve the daily Club Connections puzzle using official senior careers, with a new board each day.
Choose one team from each column, then find a footballer with official senior appearances for both.
Lineup games use match starters, career games use official senior records, tournament games keep every phase tied to one edition, and statistics games compare the exact field and unit shown. Daily challenges are shared by Madrid date so the same record is used for every player that day.
Football data can still be incomplete or disputed. Each game page publishes its methodology, limitations and correction instructions, and the editorial policy explains how a supported report is reviewed.
Reconstruct Liverpool's 2005 final lineup, compare formations on the pitch, practise player clues or test yourself with questions about European finals. Each guide includes an exercise you can check.
Browse all eleven football guides
The example screen shows Spain against Portugal on 29 June 2010. Several starters are already visible and the blank shirts mark the seven players to find. The exact date and each empty position matter more than remembering a famous squad in general.
Each of the seven games has a detailed illustrated example beneath its playable board.
See the complete lineup example