Debut season
Which season did they arrive at the club? From Zarra to Lamine Yamal, ordered by the year they first wore the shirt.
FutLine
Put every player where they belong in history. Three mistakes and you are sent off.
Download it free on the App StoreHow to play
A timeline, a card in your hand and one question: does it go before or after? No timer, no rush.
- Pick your deck Your club, a competition, or the history of football. Then the challenge: debut season, goals or appearances.
- The game starts with three cards already down With a single card there would be just two gaps, and the first turns would be a coin toss.
- Drag the card into its gap With your finger, or by tapping the gap. The card shrinks as you carry it so you can see where you are dropping it.
- Ties count as correct Messi, Eto'o and Deco all arrived at Barça the same year. Any gap between them is valid.
- Miss, and the card is placed anyway In its real position, so you can see where it belonged. You lose a life. On the third one, red card.
The decks
Ten leagues, eleven national teams, the big competitions and the history of football. Every team with its own crest and colours, and its three challenges.
573decks
46,642cards
195crests
4challenges
Top scorers
Goals for that team, most to fewest. The deck reads like a leaderboard.
Appearances
Those who pulled on the shirt most often. Here the goalkeepers and centre-backs finally win.
History of football
A hundred moments since 1857, the deck that belongs to no club: the first written rules, the first World Cup, Iniesta's goal.
Where the data comes from
From open, verifiable sources, not made-up lists. And when a figure was not trustworthy, the deck was dropped rather than shipping a bad number.
Wikidata
Player and club records: arrival dates, goals and appearances per spell. CC0 licence.
Wikipedia
The hand-curated lists: all-time top scorers in the big leagues, the Champions League and the World Cup, plus caps by national team. CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
RSSSF y TheSportsDB
The scoring and appearance tables for the Argentine league come from the RSSSF archive. The crests come from TheSportsDB.
Reviewed by hand
Some figures come through wrong: goals from other competitions folded into the total, goalkeepers with goals conceded in the goals column, or a player with 5,000 appearances. All of that is filtered out, and the specific pages are credited inside the app.
Updated in June
Once the season is over. If you spot an outdated figure or a missing player, write to me and it goes into the next update.
Help
Questions I have already been asked. If yours is not here, write to me: you get me, not a bot.
Do I need an internet connection?
No. The decks ship inside the app and the game queries nothing. It plays the same on the underground or on a plane.
What languages is it in?
Spanish and English, including the hundred milestones in History mode. It follows your iPhone's language: there is no setting inside the app.
Are there ads or in-app purchases?
Neither. No ads, no subscription, no lives to buy.
Why isn't my favourite player in the deck?
Each deck has a cap and is ranked by how widely known a player is, not by their numbers. On top of that, the goals decks have a minimum, so recent academy graduates are not there yet.
I think a date or a figure is wrong
It happens, and I want to know. Tell me the player, the deck and what it should say, and I will check it against the source. One known caveat: the date is when they joined the club, which sometimes differs from their actual debut.
Can I play without knowing much about football?
Yes. The history deck asks nothing about squads, and in the club decks the tied years are forgiving. You learn by playing: every card you miss is placed where it truly belongs and stays there.
Do my records survive a new iPhone?
Records are stored on the device itself, one per deck. If you restore an iPhone backup, they come along with it.
I use Reduce Motion — do I miss anything?
No. The app honours the setting and swaps each animation for an equivalent: the shake on a miss, for instance, becomes a red flash. The cue is never removed, only reshaped.
Get in touch
thewhiteriggs@gmail.com
Privacy
It is a card game. It does not need to know anything about you, so it does not ask.
No account, no sign-up
No username, no email, no password. Open the app and play.
Nothing leaves the device
Your records and your chosen club are stored on your iPhone alone. There is no server to send them to.
No ads, no tracking
No advertising, no analytics, no identifiers, no selling data to third parties.
Deleting the app deletes it all
Since everything lives on the device, removing the app takes your records with it. No copy is left anywhere.
Player data comes from Wikidata (CC0), Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) and the RSSSF archive, with the specific pages credited inside the app. The crests, from TheSportsDB, are trademarks of their respective clubs and competitions and are used solely to identify the deck: FutLine is not affiliated with or endorsed by any club, league or federation.